Template talk:obsolete typography of

Initial creation and wording

I created this for use on entries like vp and pvblic, so that, if/as more are added, we have a way of finding all of them (namely Whatlinkshere and, optionally, categorisation). - -sche (discuss) 18:19, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

• The use of "typography" seems a bit weird to me, since it's being used for words which may well appear in handwritten manuscripts... Ƿidsiþ 06:27, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

• I copied the phrase from [[vp]], but it seems a bit odd to me, too. Maybe it should be {{obsolete orthographical form of}} or {{obsolete orthography of}}? - -sche (discuss) 06:38, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

• I agree that's better, although it does kind of go to show that this isn't really fundamentally different from {{alternative spelling of}} or {{alternative form of}}. Ƿidsiþ 06:55, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Relevant discussions

Talk:vp, Talk:vpon, Talk:euery, Talk:dies Iouis, Talk:uacuus, Talk:auec, Talk:giuen.; see also Talk:cõtempt (cf. cōtempt), and also note that this template has come to be used on æ and œ spellings. - -sche (discuss) 04:41, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

2020 discussion of use and wording

See Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2020/January#Standardize_obsolete_English_æ_and_œ_spellings_on_one_template. - -sche (discuss) 04:41, 24 January 2020 (UTC)