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A fact from Rubric appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 February 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,822 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that rubrics were originally anything written in red letters in a manuscript, but now most often mean instructions, especially for officiating clergy, or scoring tools for tests in education?

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Example of a Rubric?[edit]

Does anyone have an actual example of a rubric (preferrably online)? Might be worth adding to the article. -- Felix Wiemann 20:05, 16 January 2006 (UTC) Done Johnbod (talk) 00:13, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge[edit]

I'm proposing that both this badly misnamed article and Rubric (ecclesiastical) should be merged to Rubric - I have moved the disam contents out to Rubric (disambiguation). Issues:

The little text content at Rubric (ecclesiastical) has been merged here. There is really little difference between the concepts, & where there is, both senses are covered here.
The "typographical" name makes little sense; rubrics were a manuscript invention whose use declined when printing came in.
The only other uses are a tiny record label and a modern (US only?) use in education, whose content & titling are disputed at that article. So this article should have the plain rubric title.

Johnbod (talk) 21:18, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support[edit]

As nom Johnbod (talk) 00:14, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Absolutely, makes sense. - PKM (talk) 18:49, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose[edit]

Information[edit]

I merged Rubric (disambiguation) to Rubric, as both were disambigs. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:49, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Page Rubric started about teacher's 5-column rubrics, then people added sections about other sorts of rubrics, until someone pulled the text of each section out as separate pages, leaving the remaining skeleton as a disambig page.
- Page Rubric (disambiguation) was started on 15 Feb 2009 and only has been edited 3 times, so I merged it into page Rubric to get rid of content forking.
- The discussion may be: of the pages that page Rubric points to, is any one of them dominant enough to be moved to Rubric, and the present page Rubric to Rubric (disambiguation)? Or what?
- Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:41, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that is what was polled on , and requested at move requests. This page should go to "Rubric". The "ecclesiasticaL" one is now just a redirect to here. Johnbod (talk) 13:41, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Currently, Rubric (ecclesiastical) redirects to Rubric (typography). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 17:55, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you telling me this??? I know. Please reread the request. Johnbod (talk) 17:57, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, OK, I made the move Rubric (typography) -> Rubric -> Rubric (disambiguation). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 18:02, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

THanks! Johnbod (talk) 18:04, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Morris[edit]

I've added a Kelmscott Press image, but I would like to replace it with a non-ecclesiastical example (probably from The Wood Beyond the World) to show the breadth of usage. - PKM (talk) 20:03, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For now I have added an external link to some representative Kelmscott pages, also links to Roycroft Press examples and a derivative work. - PKM (talk) 20:45, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Further, there are more examples of rubrics in art typography at Ashendene Press and Doves Press. Note to self: make a category for rubrics in the Commons and collect these... - PKM (talk) 21:33, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rubricism[edit]

It would be interesting if we could have a stub on the topic of rubricism, the name given to the liturgical obsession with rubrics. ADM (talk) 04:00, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Red letter day[edit]

I was under the impression that rubric, in the ecclesiastical sense, was also applied to liturgical calendars to indicate saint's days. The saints so added were then said to have been rubricated and this is the origin of the expression Red letter day, from the days so rubricated. Would be nice if we could find a source for that and include it in the article. Cottonshirt τ 09:08, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism removed IainWallace (talk) 18:01, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]