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Microlawyering out of the main picture

@John Maynard Friedman: [1]: please refrain from wikilawyering or definitionlawyering for this navigation box. WP:LEASTSURPRISE also pertains to missing, but expected stuff. " / / " is a symbol that belongs in here, bluelinked. Now take the Reader Seat and edit from what you'd expect to find. DePiep (talk) 07:07, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

To accuse me of wikilawyering is rather extreme. If you were arguing for retention of 円, I might have understood as it an edge case. But £sd is just a notation, the currency symbol was and still is £, it is not historic. The slashes in £a/b/c are just level breaks. If a currency ceased use of decimal subunits, would you consider it appropriate to include decimal point in the historic list? The UK used to use midpoint as a decimal separator: should that be included?

If you feel that strongly about it, I won't pursue the debate but from a UK perspective its inclusion looks rather odd and misinformed. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 09:06, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, the slash notation is still used in East Africa. See Shilling. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:27, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The slash notation is symbolic (unambiguously even, as slash is not a word), and used to write amounts (ie quantities: number × unit). As I wrote, a Reader (me) expected it to be in here, how else could a Reader find it? Buried in pound history? nondecimal pond history? (iow, requiring pre-knowledge to know where to search ... ouch). All this is Reader Minding When Editing, and I am disappointed that you keep finding non-intuitive outside reasonings to conclude that something does not belong in here.

In your 17:27 reply here you are doing the same: repeat your marginal reasons, without digesting the Readers Expectation. And then, concluding with "X is used in E. Africa" without immediately adding that one ... DePiep (talk) 03:17, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

But slash is still not a currency symbol, any more than a decimal point is. In £xx/yy/zz, it is just a vigesimal separator or a duodecimal separator, just as . (or , and ·) is a decimal separator. In East Africa, the slash is a decimal separator: for example, a price might be given as 2/50 (which means two shillings and 50 cents, with the local currency prefix understood), or even 250/= (which means two hundred and fifty shillings exactly). The slash is not a currency symbol, nor is the equal sign: both are merely the conventional notation. So short of adding a new line to the navbox for decimal separators, I can't see any home for it.

Coming back to your first question, I sympathise with the principle that navboxes exist to help people find stuff, which is why I restored the logogram for the Japanese yen. But for the life of me I can't see why anyone would expect to find £sd here. Maybe I'm too close to it: much as I've already said, from my UK perspective its inclusion looks confused or misinformed. If your perspective differs, go ahead and restore it. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 16:31, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

FYI: Saudi riyal

FYI: The Saudi riyal has been encoded in Unicode 17.0 as U+20C1 ⃁ SAUDI RIYAL SIGN. I didn't replace the image for the Saudi riyal in this template with the Unicode character because it's a new character and will just display as a rectangle on every device viewing this page. Eventually it will probably make sense to use the actual Unicode character. DRMcCreedy (talk) 03:22, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 15 January 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Bensci54 (talk) 17:37, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Navbox currency symbols → Template:Currency symbols – The standard naming convention for Category:Numismatic navigational boxes is to omit the "navbox" from the name of the template. Frietjes (talk) 16:49, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

No objection. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 22:22, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.