Talk:Emoji/Archives/2020/January

Split proposed for Unicode blocks section to Unicode emojis article

I have a couple of thoughts regarding the October 2019 proposal by Fgnievinski that the Unicode blocks section of this article be split to a new article at Unicode emojis:

1. The article name for a proposed split should be Unicode emoji rather than the plural to match the name used by the Unicode consortium's Technical Standard #51 (TR51) at https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/
2. Related to this is that there should be a proposal to move Template:Emoji (Unicode block) to Template:Unicode emoji. The Unicode emoji defined by TR51 are scattered among many Unicode blocks. (FWIW, see Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Emoji (Unicode_block) as this template is transcluded by articles other than this one.
3. At present the Unicode blocks section of this article is poorly sourced. For example it claims "637 of the 768 code points in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block are considered emoji." Rather than numerous {{whom}} and {{citation needed}} tags I'll just comment on that here.

--Marc Kupper|talk 20:34, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

The counts for emoji come from https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/12.1/emoji-data.txt which is cited in the preceeding sentence. Which other statements in this section need to be better sourced? DRMcCreedy (talk) 21:54, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

• Support Split:@Fgnievinski: regardless of the cited state of the emoji tables, they are really more of an appendix item and are cluttering up the article flow. I would move to a new article and transclude all of the emoji like blocks currently linked as main articles at the top of the section, rather than trying to duplicate if possible.Ethanpet113 (talk)