Talk:List of flags by color combination

message: All these provincial stuff, terrorist organizations and other world organizations doesn't interest me. It clutters up what could have been a nice article. Does the alternative exist which I would prefer?OSB95 (talk) 02:05, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia doesn't exist based on what interests you. This article doesn't look cluttered and it's easy to scan for countries. Salopian (talk) 11:47, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does it exist a similar article but for countries only? 

message: Daesh (ISIL) could be added to the black - white section.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martijn Oei (talk • contribs) 20:29, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You can write 'ISIS', it will appear 90.68.41.54 (talk) 15:01, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

text: You can write 'ISIS', it will appear Nod3820 (talk) 15:08, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daesh missing 

message: No Kuwaiti flag
Atinzad (talk) 19:29, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Kuwait Missing

message: Is it really fair to put Qatar's flag under red and white?  Its maroon and white. Costley51 (talk) 20:48, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Qatar's Colors

message: Seriously?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.176.83.52 (talk) 00:47, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Antarctica

message: this article looks pretty  unsigned comment by User:189.166.120.184 21:40, 8 February 2007 189.166.120.184
:doesn't it? Jimp (cont)(talk)(wikt) 00:13, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This article looks pretty indeed. And I would be interested in the List of countries by prettiness of national flags. 80.123.210.172 (talk) 10:53, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Ohm

message: A discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries/Lists of countries which could affect the inclusion criteria and title of this and other lists of countries.  Editors are invited to participate. Pfainuk talk 12:06, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New Discussion

message: Countries such as Wales, Hong Kong ... Nice. But no Japan...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.229.244.7 (talk) 01:40, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Countries?  

message: How can you forget to list IRAN!!!! The first world empire and the regional power of the ME for 2500 years! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.80.113.143 (talk • contribs) 23:25, April 28, 2010 (UTC)
Algeria?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.202.169.63 (talk) 23:48, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing Iran

message: I think that since the article is overloaded, it should only include sovereign states. Subsections should also be sorted alphabetically. Feel free to comment. Maimai009 13:35, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewriting 

message: Just pointing out ;)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.97.74.147 (talk) 22:22, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Added it. Thanks! Huon (talk) 22:52, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Armenia Missing as well

message: Libyan flag was under red, black, green category while it is red, black, green, and white, so I removed it to the latter category.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.254.5.244 (talk) 15:35, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Libyan flag 

message: There was some confusion about the flag of Bhutan. 62.78.202.58 recently changed it from red, white and orange to red, white and yellow, but the flag article says it's actually orange, white and yellow. Part of the uncertainty may be due to a change in the flag's coloring in 1968 or 1969, changing the lower half from red to orange. Anyway, I renamed the section accordingly and put it under "yellow and white" to conform to the rest of the sorting scheme. It looks a little off-color compared to the other "yellow" flags, though - thoughts? Huon (talk) 15:47, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Sources describe it as yellow eg. World Factbook. We can't divide this article down into the minutiae of different shades of each colour, so I think it's perfectly fine in with other types of Yellow. CMD (talk) 16:33, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bhutan 

message: A country already a year old. I tried to do it myself, but the Edit page just scared me, it's clearly beyond my capabilities.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.2.127.96 (talk) 09:49, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added it; thanks for the note! Kiribati was only added last week or so; I wonder what else is missing. We should probably compare this list with one of all countries. Huon (talk) 11:28, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  South Sudan is missing 

message: Niue, Mexico, Vatican City, Spain,Guatemala, and a lot of others have "with other color symbol" attached. however there are counterexample:
*Swaziland has black and white only in its symbol, yet it is listed with these as "main colors"
*India is a tricolor with a blue symbol, yet it is listed as 4-colors
*Macau is a plain green flag with a yellow-and-white symbol
*cyprus is all white with a yellow-and-green-symbol
*...lots of others
*but definetly Flag_of_Dominica, which is multi-colored but with an even-more-so-multicolored symbol.
I don't really care which way you go, if you list all the colors, or go with the "other color symbol" legend, but please do it consistently. I'd do it, but i'd like feedback first.--Lommes (talk) 16:17, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the article is currently terribly inconsistent regarding whether colors in emblems are counted. Listing all colors in a flag is really not an option when there are flags like  with literally dozens of different colors/shades, though calling the  "yellow with other color symbol" isn't particularly helpful either. There should be a rule of thumb for how intricate an emblem must be in order to use the "other color symbol" tag. SiBr4 (talk) 17:10, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

text: In my sandbox I have categorized all sovereign state flags based on the number of additional colors on emblems. I'd say we should use the tag on flags in the last category only, though some exceptions should be made (it seems rather ridiculous to say Saint Lucia and South Korea have an "other color symbol" while listing all colors for Serbia). It's still a largely arbitrary threshold but at least somewhat more consistent. SiBr4 (talk) 14:10, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  inconsistency - "with other color symbol" 

message: Is the "Composition of average colors" section anything but original research? Has any reliable source ever discussed flags by "average" color? The best I could come up with were a couple of blog posts, and I don't see what that list of composition colors is supposed to tell readers. Unless someone can provide a good reason to keep this list, I'm going to remove it. Huon (talk) 16:55, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Composition of average colors 

message: Well, if you do list not recognised and partially regognised states, list also the DNR and LNR, espesially the DNR flag has a longer history.  .
By the way, what's with historic flags? Like Flag of the Qing dynasty and such.
:Donetsk People's Republic has only been an entity for six years. (Granted, there's a difference between how long a state entity has been around, and how long the state ha been around.
By contrast, the Qing flag lasted close to three decades.Dogru144 (talk) 20:56, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Donetsk 

message: -City of Anchorage (Alaska)
-Honolulu County (Hawaii)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.36.15.132 (talk) 07:40, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the suggestions. I've added the flag of Anchorage, Alaska, but I can't make up my mind about how to classify the flag of Honolulu County. Does it have enough red to be filed under that color, or should I just put it under yellow with a "other color symbol" note? Concrete Cloverleaf (talk) 14:07, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: More flags in yelloW

message: I've been adding some US state flags, but I'm unsure about what to do with the flag of Illinois. Should I create a new subcategory - 1.1.1.1.2.1	Red, blue, green, yellow, white, and brown - or should I just put it under White with an "other color symbol" note? Concrete Cloverleaf (talk) 14:00, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illinois 

message: Looks like there have been a couple of discussions on this talkpage over the last few years about reorganizing this list and being more strict with inclusion criteria, but I can't tell if there's ever been a serious attempt to follow through with the suggestions mentioned because it's still a mess. I have my own ideas that are similar, but slightly different, to what previous editors have suggested, but I'm trying to figure out what went wrong with previous attempts so I don't make the same mistakes. I can imagine a few scenarios... maybe there were never enough editors interested at the same time and it turned into too big of a job for one person or maybe there were edit wars and people gave up. Any ideas? Anyone still following this talkpage? —PermStrump(talk) 00:32, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have the ideas and the willingness to reorganise the page, there's no reason you can't start the proposal here. I think previous discussion just died off. CMD (talk) 09:39, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorting and selection criteria redux 

message: So recently, all of the town, state, and province flags got removed from this page.  Why? Is it really necessary to delete all of them? Kbimbatti22 (talk) 12:55, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I recently removed around 7 or 8 flags that were all multi-colored seals emblazoned on blue fields and categorized inconsistently. I just ran , and I don't see many (any?) other removals, so I don't think there's a purge on flags based on size of territory, if that's what you're suggesting. —jameslucas ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ 18:28, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I looked into the edits more, and really all that was deleted were US State flags. Still, I find it pointless to remove state flags them from the list, unless there's something I'm missing. Kbimbatti22 (talk) 20:04, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: My feeling is that any flags that have full-color seals emblazoned on some field or pattern should be categorized without consideration of the colors included in the seal (or else they should be excluded from this article entirely). Between the poor grammar ("with other color symbol") and the inconsistency with which they are sorted, the current system is not successful. To be as useful as possible, this page should be about dominant colors, and the various insignificant colors of seals should be ignored. In short, the flag of Minnesota (and all the others I removed) should be sorted as Blue if they are to be restored. (I may be swayed to acknowledge the yellow text on the flag of Montana as a sortable color, but my instinct is to ignore that too.) —jameslucas ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ 04:03, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, flags that have a seal shouldn't be excluded from the list, that's silly. However, I feel that the seals should count for something. Maybe not all of the colors should be counted for, but the dominant color on the seals should be. Kbimbatti22 (talk) 15:54, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Towns/States/Provinces 

message: Why does the article use the term "gold" instead of yellow? --Oddeivind (talk) 06:41, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you read the lead?  Significantly: yellows, golds, and oranges are grouped together as "gold" due to the lack of discrete divisions within this spectrum and the differing standards of interpretation of "gold", which appears in the legally codified specifications of many flags. Hoof Hearted (talk) 18:40, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

text: Makes sense to me (as demonstrated at Tincture (heraldry)#Metals), but I don't know if you can get that idea to "stick".  I sense most users will not accept the US flag (for example) being filed under "silver, red, blue". Perhaps the key is the last part of that sentence and we should focus on how the flags are legally codified?  Hoof Hearted (talk) 19:55, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: As the editor largely responsible for this functional-but-not-strictly-logical division of the spectrum, I'll say that I opted to use 'white' for the reason suggested by Hoof Hearted and 'gold' because I thought that the word is easier to accept over a range of yellow and orange hues than either 'yellow' or 'orange' is. It's been too long since I was immersed in this matter to recall specific examples, but I know that on more than one occasion I came across a flag with a defined "yellow" that was closer to orange than another flag's defined "gold"—to say nothing of the majority of flags appearing on Wikipedia with no verifiable definition—and I decided that this part of the spectrum couldn't be untangled anytime soon. I don't think it's a perfect solution, but I've yet to find a better one. I'd be thrilled if we got the constitutional/legal language for all national flags as well as any official or semi-official RGB values where possible, but having spent a non-trivial amount of time trying to reconcile conflicting descriptions of the Haitian flag, I can say that this greater web of data-points will be challenging to codify and taxonomize. —jameslucas ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ 03:10, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

text: Sorry, I see that you have actually explained the latter point in the intro as well as here.  Fair enough, although it looks really, really strange. I think this is probably why someone had changed it to 'Red' in confusion as some of the oranges are so dark. Salopian (talk) 11:56, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gold? 

message: The flag of Hezbollah here seems to be like, gone or something, just a blank space which you can't click on. Could someone more experienced with wiki editing than me go & fix it? Anothracountiges (talk) 16:40, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hezbollah flag broken 

message: You have Imperial Japanese military flag and Southern Confederate flag here.  Why no Nazi flag?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.23.87.4 (talk) 06:59, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why not Nazi swastika flag? 

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message: There's plenty of non-geographical flags in this list. They should be removed or the lead section should be extended to comprehend those flags. 186.158.132.121 (talk) 17:17, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-geographical flags

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message: We need to put the pirate flag under the black flags 24.86.211.12 (talk) 01:13, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pirate flag 

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message: Melilla flag is missing, here is the Melilla flag Nod3820 (talk) 15:15, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Would you say it has six colors, or more? —Tamfang (talk) 05:12, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Melilla flag missing