Incoming!

A new feature idea which her majesty related to me she would find VERY useful, and I also think would be quite useful to a number of other people:

Each person’s canonlore entry contains a listing of their title, or rather how they would be addressed. eg I would be addressed as “my lady” and Bat as “your excellency”.

Gratian already knows what level of award a person has - the level of award is programmed in so it can calculate the Order of Precedence. So, not being a programmer, I’m guessing it’s a relatively simple script that say [if highest award level is Armigerous, add text to webpage “The generic title for this rank is my lord/my lady”]. Dearest mortar, do I deduce correctly?

I can dream up fancier versions - but they would likely require extra database fields eg a gender field to decide if a person is a lord or a lady, or an override rank field where a user can specify they want “Yarl” instead of count. I think adding the simplest version may be best - there are plenty of other bits to work on, and immediacy is of more value than completeness if we want this to be of use while our dear soverign reigns. Besides we will get a chance to evaluate the user utility and acceptance of such a feature before upgrading it.

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