Talk:Western use of the swastika in the early 20th century

message: Support.  Great idea -- go for it!  JXM 01:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Why the hell aren't the countries on this page alphabetized?

message: Why should this be limited to a period of time in the West?  In the entire planet, the biggest controversy over swastika symbols is in the West.  The history of the symbol's use in the late 1800's and early 1900's is very much a present day issue.  Only in America are some buildings that contain swastika decoration named to the National Register of Historic Places while others are hacked up to remove architectural features because of the interpretation of a few.  This destruction of historic buildings and ignorance of the history of the swastika will benefit from burying this information in a page that will not likely be accessed.  Most people will stop at the main swastika page.  I don't disagree that the main page had grown too large and disorganized.  The lists of sites and controversies serve a purpose because each controversy has been up to now strictly a local issue.  Wikipedia provides a great service in providing perhaps the only comprehensive high level view of this debate.
:because people are obsessively collecting every instance of a swastika used in some heraldic device, emblem or building. The list is insanely detailed and tells us nothing beyond "the symbol was fashionable in Europe/North America ca. 1900-1930". If you are intrested in such a list, this page is for you, but beyond the general statement, it is simply not relevant to the swastika article. dab (𒁳) 14:03, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The title is guaranteed to bury this information

message: "Western use of the Swastika Prior to World War II"
:Nazi use started in the early 1920s, years before the outbreak of WWII. Non-Nazi use curbed around 1930, not 1939. dab (𒁳) 14:03, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
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message: "Poland was highly inspired by Hinduism in 10th century as can be seen in the image of the Denarius of Mieszko I of Poland, 970-992 (Please note a swastika as well as AUM ॐ on the top of left side image."
How true is that  ? I don't think so if this fragment is neutral at all. No proofs that Poland was highly inspired by Hinduism in 10th century and that "AUM ॐ" is on the Mieszko's denarius. Swastika was a Slavic symbol long before Slavs "touched" anythign related to Hinduistic culture...
--DumnyPolak (talk) 03:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poland 

message: Whatever German scholarship had with the swastika has nothing to do with Indo-European cultures including European, as well as others, which have used the swastika for millennia. It's a poor conflation of some sort of cultish popularity and millennia-old usage of the symbol. PetersV <SMALL><SMALL>     </SMALL> TALK</SMALL> 01:38, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background 

message: In northern Morocco -the Riffi War in the 1920s- some Spaniard war biplanes showed a swastika on the fuselage. It was just a good-luck badge, most likely. Basque Nationalists used the swastika -the "straight-armed lauburu"- more or less up to the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), although the badge was into decline since some time earlier (to avoid misunderstandings with  Nazism). In Iberian pottery the Swastika was a common motif.
:"http://www.ctv.es/USERS/jolle/news16c.htm"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.142.175.22 (talk) 10:16, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spain 

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message: Is there a reason why India is included on this page?   Bevo74 (talk) 15:39, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No, there isn't. I've removed the section since the comprehensive Swastika article includes that information, not to mention that India isn't even western, nor is the info regarding the early 20th century. - M0rphzone (talk) 06:15, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  India 

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message: I cannot find any source anywhere for this claim, which has had a "reference needed" tag for a while:
:Shortly after the beginning of World War II, several Native American tribes (the Navajo, Apache, Tohono O'odham, and Hopi) published a decree[citation needed] stating that they would no longer use the swastika in their artwork. 
There is a quote, allegedly from the decree, in the article but it has no source. Can anybody help? (Be careful: There are many references online to this decree that are based only on this article, not anything else.) - DavidWBrooks (talk) 20:49, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: If we can't find a source, I'm going to remove it in a few days. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 17:39, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I've removed it. Perhaps that will galvanize somebody to find a source that has eluded me. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 12:54, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Native American decree? 

message: This article is a real mess - especially the U.S. section, which has tons of poorly organized chunks of  material, of varying detail and importance, that makes it very hard for a reader to understand. I just trimmed four paragraphs of history about a single minor church and its architect (moving the material to the article about the church, in case it's needed there), but much more tightening and trimming is needed. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 17:52, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
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message: The Jefferson County Courthouse (Birmingham, Alabama), built around 1929, is adorned with swastikas.  Per Swastikas on the JeffCo Courthouse have more to do with prosperity than Hitler, May 25, 2012, at AL.com. 
From working on NRHP-listed Elephant Butte Historic District and Elephant Butte Dam topics in New Mexico, I came across interesting Peter E. Kern#Biography and Kern Place#The Kern Place Gate article sections, which include photo of a swastika-adorned, very unusual gateway to the Kern Place residential area, involving Toltec indians somehow, which was built in 1916 and survived to 1954.  Perhaps something about this could be added to Western use of the swastika in the early 20th century#As a Native American symbol?
Peter E. Kern#Biography includes sourced coverage of other swastika usage, including for the Castle Kern in Skagway(?), Alaska, built in 1907, burned in 1912, maybe the "good luck omen" nature of swastikas didn't work so well.
By the way, thank you to Montanabw who previously developed in this list-article about the swastika on the entryway of the Montana Club, and who advised me about the above. --Doncram (talk) 17:09, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alabama, Alaska, and New Mexico examples 

message: The other languages section leads to an article in Portuguese about a building in Portugal that has nothing to do with this article. 195.37.234.78 (talk) 17:53, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Weird - trying to edit those links, I can't find the Portuguese link at all, just the Turkish one. Yet it appears on the article. I am baffled. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 14:24, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The cross-language info is now stored on Wikidata.  When it was previously stored in individual Wikipedia articles, trying to make inter-language links mutually consistent was sometimes a nightmare... AnonMoos (talk) 15:33, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: P.S. There's actually a link to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q7988550 on the article, though it might not be easy to spot and make use of unless you already know about Wikidata. AnonMoos (talk) 15:37, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Languages