Talk:Key:royal cypher

Wall boxes

Some older wall boxes have the cypher above the aperture and it looks a bit different, I found an Edward VII box wrongly tagged as EIIR recently. Is it worth adding examples of these to make it clearer? --Andrew (talk) 21:47, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

I think they are worth documenting, I got stuck with an EVIIR cypher the other day. 2602596, feel free to use that photo under CC0 or other Open license if it's useful. --CjMalone (talk) 08:49, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Tally

Just noting some usage stats:

• 2020-09-28 = 26863
• 2021-04-11 = 34048
• 2021-05-24 = 34960
• 2021-08-31 = 37557
• 2021-11-16 = 39599
• 2022-08-04 = 44780
• 2023-07-02 = 105874

Good work, evryone! Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 10:45, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

What is the point of royal cypher:wikidata?

For any value of royal_cypher=* all will have the same matching wikidata, right? Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 20:55, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

HM Charles III

Okay, it's probably a ways off in coming but with the amount of new housing estates going up in the UK at the moment, with postboxes being built into them, now HMQ has passed over it's likely that post-coronation new-build estates will get postboxes with the cypher of Charles III rather than Elizabeth II. And it's best to be prepared, after all.

Apparently, the official cypher will appear thus:-

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6331b2782300001b00a67f92.jpg

Although some are indicating that it will be thus:-

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.4119949377.2814/st,small,507x507-pad,600x600,f8f8f8.u1.jpg

How will this thus be rendered in the cypher tag? On the face of it it would logic out as CRIII for the first example but given the design, with the III in the centre of the letters, there's room - at a stretch - to realise it as CIIIR. Personally I'm inclined towards the CRIII for the first example and CIIIR if it's going to be the second example. --John Grubb (talk) 00:37, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

The R (for rex/regina) always comes last. Arlo James Barnes (talk) 02:47, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

I never knew that. Every day's a school day!! --John Grubb (talk) 17:14, 27 September 2022 (UTC)