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I've never come across the terms lioned leopard and leoparded lion in English. Have you? —Tamfang 05:55, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
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Worth mentioning Normandy? Or Wales? or are these lions? --Henrygb 01:27, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
In English, leopard now refers to the natural animal, that is Panthera pardus. 71.194.44.209 (talk) 16:40, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
While I would agree that this article as it currently exists needs a complete rewrite, I don't think simply deleting it is the best approach. It duplicates (poorly) part of the content of Lion (heraldry) (see the section Lions vs. Leopards), and I can vouch that the term leopard does appear in Anglophonic heraldry, though its precise meaning was sometimes unclear and has changed over the years. I would like to see Wikipedia's coverage of this particular subject expanded and clarified, using high quality reliable sources, and I see two ways to accomplish this: 1) to merge this article into a section within the Lion (heraldry) article and leave a redirect from here to there; 2) to split the leopard information from that article to this one, leaving a "main article" hatnote in that section to lead readers to this article. The first approach may be the easiest and most appropriate at this time, but I think the latter would better serve the reader in the long term (imho). This would allow inclusion of actual examples from historical rolls, along with a full explanation of the term's evolution throughout heraldic history, without further bogging down the lion article. Wilhelm Meis (☎ Diskuss | ✍ Beiträge) 04:08, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
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