Talk:Emoji/Archives/2016/October

Infobox

All other uses of the "Infobox Unicode block" template show when characters were added to the Unicode Standard. @JMyrleFuller: You've changed this one alone to indicate how many characters are DESIGNATED as emoji so I've reverted the change while we discuss it. I'm not necessarily opposed to presenting information about the growth of characters designated as emoji but I think it's problematic to re-purpose this infobox to do so. Even if the infobox note was changed to "These counts indicate how many characters were designated as emoji, not when the characters themselves were added to the Unicode Standard." there would be issues. The data for this infobox is based on emoji-data.txt (http://unicode.org/Public/emoji/3.0/emoji-data.txt) which only goes back to 2015. Where would I find how many characters were designated as emoji before last year? I guess I'm trying to say that the numbers left in that infobox are based on when the characters were added. You changed the meaning of the box but not the source for the numbers. DRMcCreedy (talk) 23:33, 17 October 2016 (UTC)