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Is there perhaps a possibility to create an extra field under the watermark field? In this new field you can then indicate whether the watermark is horizontal, vertical, falling or rising. There will be a few more options, but they can also be added to the list.

This way you can immediately see how the watermark has been rotated on a seal. There is also no need (of course) to always go to the background page. And it is also easier for the importer, you do not have to keep adding so much extra information, in four languages.
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Perhaps Helv has another opinion on this?.
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Charles1971 the idea is good and has been suggested many times. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any programming capability for it at the moment and the only option is to add the orientation to the watermark description (making the list longer).
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Unfortunately then Helv , this option was too simple and too easy. But yes, if there is no programming capacity, it ends.
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It is best to add the description provisionally to the comments.
You can also add your own 2nd image to the item with the watermark in the direction described.

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January 16, 2023 16:51
Charles1971 With those single stamps it is better to just add an image of the watermark, lying or upside down, then you don't have to add any text.
look differently at Great Britain, that's where most of the work has been done.
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aartinge I seem to remember that in an earlier discussion it was concluded that we no longer want to introduce an image per stamp.
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Helv Okay, I missed that then. sorry for the interruption.
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January 17, 2023 15:36
Helv Why was this conclusion actually reached, every stamp needs its own characteristics!
I read something about a background page? When I click on a watermark on an item, I see all the stamps all over the world that apparently all contain the same watermarks.
However, this does not take into account that each stamp's watermarks have been changed by administrators and collectors, which means that these stamps do not belong in this list.
What a mess
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A limited list of watermarks, applicable to a specific country, would solve this problem a bit, aartinge . But as already indicated, no more programming capacity. So this all has to wait a bit.
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Charles1971 a limited list applicable for a country? what does this have to do with an item specifically? collector find out which watermark from this country fits or belongs to this item!
is this the solution so that the problem solves something?
it doesn't solve anything per item.
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For example aartinge , Berlin has 3 known watermarks. Wz 1 Deutsche Post, Wz 2 Kreuze und Ringe and Wz 3 DPB und Kreuzblätter. Rev 1 is there 2 x , falling and rising, can be solved via the extra field above. So there are only 3 watermarks in the overview at Berlin, quite clear for the collector. The background page is therefore specific to these watermarks, not to a watermark, for example from Spain (fictitious). Then you don't have all those watermarks with the same name mixed up.
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As an example:
According to LastDodo, Hungary has about 26 different watermarks. According to my catalogs (and what I've looked at myself) there are about 12. Cause: a huge selection list with similar descriptions (and no pictures). In any case, that doesn't work. Aartinge's proposal is not that bad.
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Raoul62 can you easily find the discussion from last time?

Collectioneur By the way, I agree with the above gentlemen that if you want to enter a stamp in a certain country, it would be very nice if the number of options is limited in the dropdown list. This applies not only to watermark, but also to paper and perhaps even to printing companies.
I am aware that this again requires some programming work. I think it's good to make the wish known (one more time).

Furthermore, there were also several discussions to immediately clarify whether a stamp (or each item) has already been reviewed.
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Helv
If you're on the forum's page, you can search for Watermark at the top.

There are several wishes for a "dependent" dropdown, that will come sometime, but not in the short term. The wish of an indicator whether there are still open reviews for an item is also known.
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Charles1971 Helv Coming back to your first request to add an extra field regarding the inclusion of deviating watermarks.
How many do you think there are?
over the entire catalog no more than 100 items I think, OK 200 then.
I think it's best to present this directly with an image.
Why? with only a text, people also first have to see how the watermark normally looks, and therefore first to another item, and then look for the background page there. and for a lot of people this is "what are you talking about"
And to think that a lot of stamps are completely wrong with other watermarks.
but there is one example that is good.
and how do you solve it with the background page of the deviating watermarks, do you place multiple examples there or even just 1
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different watermarks.
Rather, orientation of the watermark, aartinge . It is not a different watermark, but a rotated watermark. And yes, I'm an ant....so you don't need to mention this again especially.
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In this new field you can then indicate whether the watermark is horizontal, vertical, falling or rising. There will be a few more options, but they can also be added to the list.
In this field you can indicate whether it is Rising, is that not a deviation from falling?
or is lying down no deviation from upright or head-on.?
and is it falling to the right or left, or is it rising to the left, or vice versa?
how difficult can you make it for people,
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Apparently difficult aartinge .
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And a last rant for today:
The listing of the watermarks on  L.D. could be worse,
but only just.
A listing of watermarks without illustrations is as much useful
as a stamp-catalogue without images of the stamps.
There are a few watermarks,where illustrations are added.
But even there is a problem:
the maunal says nothing about,how a watermark-illustration
should be.
There are two different possibilities:
1.) as seen from the front of a stamp.
Sounds somewhat silly,but this is the way S.G. shows them.
2.) as seen from the backside of the stamp.
Sounds evident,because usually watermarks are looked at
from the back-side of the stamp.
I have seen an illustration on L.D.,likely nicked from S.G.,
what is seen from the front side.
Anyway,this should be regulated by the manual.

Beside a overall listing of the watermarks,it would be most
helpful,if at the beginning of the stamp-catalogue of each country,
there would be a listing of the watermarks of this one country.
I tried to do so with Korea-South,but was immediately "corrected",
as I had not followed the rules.
Having said that,no useful alternative was offered,but my
try (I simply had listed the watermarks as stamps) was just
only blocked. 
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Besides an overall listing of the watermarks, it would be most helpful, if at the beginning of the stamp-catalogue of each country, there would be a listing of the watermarks of this one country.
This point has been discussed several times. A conclusion (let alone implementation) has never been reached. But the desire for a clear overview of watermarks per country keeps coming back.
I'm still going by Dick's idea, as shown with the Country Description of India . I think some modification would be desirable, such as:
- A clear image of each watermark of that country.*
- A not too long description of each watermark, including the most important (difference) characteristics.
- An unambiguous name for each watermark, which recurs in the list of names of watermarks.
- For each watermark, the period in which the printer used the paper with that watermark, or rather the period in which stamps on paper with that watermark appeared.
- Other additions/wishes.
The disadvantage is that we must have clear images. Everything else can be done without programming.
* Lyonesse (?), Helv (?), I think you could add more images? If that is correct, then it would be useful to me to make a short, separate manual for this. Now it's somewhere obscure on the forum.
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The country's watermarks have been added to the Hungary background page. A trial balloon. In terms of layout it needs to be a lot more professional, in terms of content some things can be improved and the watermark list certainly needs to be a lot better. But it's a wiki, so correct it.
There are all kinds of advantages. You can now (basically) get an idea of Hungary's watermarks. You can read what the difference features are, you can read what a watermark is called on the list, you can see whether the watermark corresponds to the date of issue. An administrator can now more easily check watermark input. The information is now reasonably available. However, there is only 1 disadvantage and that is that Raoul did not come up with it :-)
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az60 : I'm far from a watermark specialist, but I think this looks great.
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September 19, 2023 17:55
az60 this is a very nice start.
Is it useful to also immediately post the link to the watermark itself?
E.g. Stephen's crown with rings
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Just looked at the background page of Hungary az60, and especially at the watermarks. Clear, concise and quick to look up in this way. Well thought about.
If these watermarks were linked again, as Helv indicates, it would be a real party.

And all this is a simple solution, which requires little effort.
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