Talk:Flag of Thailand

message: "The three colours red-white-blue stand for nation-religion-king". So, after the white/grey topic for Italy and Poland, will we discuss about the flag of Thailand? The current pic is red-white-BLACK, and it's wrong... Connacht 15:29, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  black instead of blue? 

message: The table contradicts with the text. In the text it says that in 1916 the flag was changed to be like the present flag, only the middle bar was red as well - i.e. :Image:Flag of Thailand (1916).svg. The table however shows a variation of the elephant flag for this period. I don't have it at hand right now, but IIRC the book listed in the references also has the red-and-white striped flag. What is the source for this different flag? andy (talk) 12:51, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Cross-referencing from the Thai Wikipedia, the flag in question was defined as the civil ensign in , which came into effect on 1 January 1917. Both should probably be worked into the text and table. --Paul_012 (talk) 15:00, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  1916-17 flag 

message: Neighboring Flag of Cambodia and Flag of Laos bear a family resemblance to that of Thailand; should that be mentioned? Those countries are right next door, while Costa Rica is on the other side of the world. --Pawyilee (talk) 13:21, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neighboring countries 

message: "The adopted specifications are Munsell value 5R4/12 for the red, and 7.5PB2/4 for the blue.[3]"
Does anyone know what these colors would be in Pantone values? I tried to find the answer but failed. There are Pantone values given at sites such as Vexilla Mundi, but those aren't necessarily the correct, official ones. So seeing as this flag has the rare luxury of having official standards for its color shades, I'd be glad to know what those are in Pantone values. Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.108.9.69 (talk • contribs) 09:58, 8 November 2013‎ (UTC)
:Those numbers are from a draft which so far hasn't appeared as an official standard. (Not sure what's happened there. Perhaps bureaucratic processes got in the way?) The colour codes have previously been discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology/Archive 2011#Question about flag colours, but since there appear to be so many conflicting sources of information, I'd say the official specifics are as yet unknown. --Paul_012 (talk) 11:40, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standard colors 

message: Illegitimate Barrister, I really don't think there's reason to regard the standard colours as "modern colours" taking effect only after 2017. Before the standard was announced, there was simply no standard and any shade of red could of course be used. From what I've read, the standard colour values were picked by comparing samples with actual historical cloth flags, so in all likelihood the new standard should actually be a better match for the historical flags. #ED1C24 was surely only a randomly chosen RGB value that didn't correspond to the actual dyes available centuries ago. It would be wholly inaccurate to claim that :File:Flag of Thailand (1917–2017).svg represents the flag from 1917–2017. The earliest date it can really be assigned would be 12 November 2011, when that version of the digital file was created, and that doesn't really need to be shown. --Paul_012 (talk) 13:48, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: If you've got better colors, you're free to suggest them and I can change the 1917-2017 SVG to use those colors. The 1946-2003 Italian flag is in a similar predicament as the colors weren't specified before 2003 (then modified again in 2006). – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 21:17, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Why shouldn't we just use the 2017 standard colours, period? As mentioned above (and shown in this video), the working commission actually went through old flags from the 1910s–1920s in order to arrive at those values, so they should be most reflective of actual historical colours. And since this would result in the "1917–2017" flag being identical to the "current" one, we could just go back to having a single file represent the current flag since 1917. --Paul_012 (talk) 21:29, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

text: I've nominated :File:Flag of Thailand (1917–2017).svg for deletion on Commons, seeing as it's quite impossible to identify a set of "correct" colours for that file, and as there's no real reason for maintaining a separate file version. Please see the discussion at :Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flag of Thailand (2011–2017).svg. --Paul_012 (talk) 02:47, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Historical" colours 

message: Flag act violations should be in the Flag Act (Thailand), and not here. At best it is trivia. Not every news piece should be included in an encyclopaedia. This article is already woeful and does not need a list of occurrence where Thai people are outrage/Prayut pronunciamentos about the national flag. --Sodacan (talk) 07:56, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Paragraph moved to Flag_desecration#Thailand. --Sodacan (talk) 08:51, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

text: Thailand has several flag acts, many of which include penalties and rules on the usage and treatment of the national flag, as an object and as a national symbol. I have nothing against writing the article, if I have the time. Description of the legislation would allow readers context on why the flag is protected and why the prime minister is involved in the enforcing of such a law. Social media is not a good judge of public opinion, or more importantly on what is trivial and what is serious. This is suppose to be an encyclopaedia, not a collection of new items. I have nothing against social media driving the agenda, but this is not the place to record every twitter controversy or Facebook shade, even if it does involve the prime minister. No action has been taken, the prime minister and ministry of foreign affairs made a comment, that is their job when the public requests it. No one have been arrested, no one have been moved to an inactive post. If you want to spend your time on this kind of thing then fine. But wouldn’t you rather help me expand a section on what the law actually says? You know encyclopaedic stuff. Stuff that will advance mankind’s knowledge, or whatever. Sodacan (talk) 11:48, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag Act violations 

message: -  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:DF52:3740:2C53:B99:4FCF:C452 (talk) 12:02, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Added by a throwaway account, removed. --Paul_012 (talk) 15:20, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The CMYK values are definitely incorrect