Talk:Aon

His/Her vs. Their

So, Joe made a couple alterations to the article, namely changing "his or her" to "their." Now I have always learned that this is incorrect, their is not singular. I discussed it with him over chat but he suggested that we get some outside input because neither one of us is going to agree the other. I think we should stick with more formal language for the wiki and as such use correct grammar.--WeiryWriter (talk) 16:35, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Where as I am taking wikipedia's stance as 'their' fits both and is just better reading. --Joe ST (talk) 17:29, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Grammar Girl recommends using "they," and I trust her judgment. Her rationalization is very good and she takes into account many style guides. I do not think we should use overly formal speech on the wiki. Since style guides cannot agree on a solution, I suggest we go with their. It is easier to write and easier to read. -- Chaos2651 (talk) 19:02, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Okay I read the Grammar Girl article and she mentions it is better to have a convention that people disagree with than to have no convention which I can agree with. I still totally disagree on using they/their but if that is the convention that is decided then so be it.--WeiryWriter (talk) 23:44, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Deleted Scenes

So I finally got around to reading the Elantris deleted scenes and found a couple facts that could be added to this article.

"A triangle with wing-like protrusions from the side: Aon Eto." from [1]

and

"An Ate Seon can make a room completely silent for a short time, an Iam Seon age an object or person by a few years." from [2]

I'm wondering how to handle the latter because Aon Iam is listed as meaning "Age" in the glossary on Brandon's Website but in the back of the book Glossary (and the article) Aon Ire has age as one of its meanings. How should this be handled?

Also, the coppermind stance on this sort of stuff is "use it unless it is contradicted by published canon" correct?--WeiryWriter (talk) 20:21, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

You could probably get away with adding it, as long as you make a footnote explaining that the material is from a deleted scene, and not necessarily canon. --Windrunner (talk) 05:16, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

I've added the information on Aon Eto and Aon Ate. I'm wary about Aon Iam because it does have the same meaning as a published Aon.--WeiryWriter (talk) 23:13, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Aon Gallery

I thought we had discussed this before, but I'm really not in favor of this. The way it was has some flaws but those will mostly be alleviated as more information comes to light. Although I do like how each symbol is in a square box even if the symbol itself isn't square. Is there anyway to do that with thumbnails? --WeiryWriter (talk) 17:11, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

It makes more sense to have all the symbols in a gallery with maybe the symbols next to the descriptions too, but the way it was previously is just not good. I don't think it's possible to use mediawiki's image formatting to make square boxes on thumbnails. You'd probably have to construct some html yourself which is not going to be very nice. --Joe ST (talk) 09:10, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Missing Aon images

There are images of several Aons in the tenth anniversary glossary that aren't on the wiki. Could somebody please create images for these Aons? (I don't know how to do it)

Aon Ake

Aon Are

Aon Dii

Aon Eda

Aon Ehe

Aon Eno

Aon Kae

Aon Toa

Thank you! TomPN (talk) 03:33, 23 March 2017 (MST)

Just adding that Aon Soo is missing Haelbarde (talk)