# Talk:Flag of Mozambique

It includes the image of an AK-47 and is the only national flag in the world to feature such a modern rifle. 
This seems like a strange thing to say, do any flags feature rifles other than Mozambique's, modern or antiquated? --NEMT 00:55, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

No other current national flags contain any sort of a firearm, as can be verified at the gallery of sovereign-state flags.  Several do have more old-fashioned types of weapons on them, which is perhaps what the "modern" was meaning to get at?  Those older weapons are a trident (flag of Barbados) and a sword (flag of Saudi Arabia and flag of Sri Lanka). --Delirium 16:15, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Not true. For instance Image:Flag of Guatemala.svg features a rifle. I think it was I who changed to the current sentence after the old one had incorrectly stated that it was the only flag featurnig a firearm. /Lokal Profil 17:43, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

the second section in the article was titled, "New Flag?"-- which i thought was very odd.  I changed it to, "2005 New Flag Proposal".  change back if you want, but... Skiendog (talk) 23:14, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

The first sentence states, that Mozambique and Guatemala are the only two states amongst UN members, that feature firearm in their flag, though Haiti includes two howitzers and six bayoneted rifle-like silhouettes in theirs (and in coat of arms). Haiti is a member of the UN since 24 October 1945, therefore this statement is not correct.
Voodookoop (talk) 12:52, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Western press often use "AK-47" to refer to any kind of AK pattern firearm.
Typically they are actually describing an AKM.
Can someone cite the Mozambique constitution or flag act or whatever, to show that it is definitely and specifically an AK-47?
203.7.155.119 (talk) 18:09, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

The constitution of Mozambique only states that it is a "gun"; it never specifies what model. 1.618033 goldensqᴉɹʇuoɔ 00:10, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

In the first sentence it states that Mozambique, Guatemala and Haiti are the only UN members with firearms in their flag, this is not true given that Bolivian flag features two cannns and four rifles in its national emblem Sarkel (talk) 19:55, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

@Largoplazo: If "Name of entity" in Template:Infobox flag is supposed to mean the name of the flag (as I had once thought myself) instead of the entity being represented, then you may want to make the same change to the infobox of nearly every other article on Wikipedia. Go to the article of any other flag of a country or subdivision and there's a very good chance it'll state the entity being represented. For this article, I only reverted to "Republic of Mozambique" and wrote it as such in my GA rewrite because my understanding of "entity" is not the flag but the thing being represented, based on the consistency of other articles. If the example with the flag of the United Nations in the template documentation is supposed to be the standard, then every similar article should do the same, rather than this article (Mozambique) being an outlier, which it now is. Yue💌 21:52, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

OK. See WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. I mean, how should I respond? Should I say that every article that has the same thing is right while the instructions themselves that those articles don't conform to are wrong? Perhaps someone else has insight into this. Largoplazo (talk) 21:57, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
@Largoplazo: I know of WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. My statement isn't your edit should be reverted, it's if the example in the documentation is the intended display, then nearly every other article needs fixing. Yue💌 22:07, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
Regardless, we're not even discussing a change based on another article's content; it fundamentally comes down to our (and the entire Heraldry and vexillology WikiProject's) reading of a template documentation. If your understanding (which again is how I understood it too initially) is what the template documentation intends, then this might be one of a handful or the only article that follows the correct display. Yue💌 22:15, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
I'm not used to people pointing at other articles without their meaning being that I must be wrong. I sincerely apologize for jumping to conclusions here. Largoplazo (talk) 22:33, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
@Largoplazo: That's fair and totally understandable. I didn't mean to come off as "you're wrong!" Yue💌 22:51, 10 February 2025 (UTC)