Talk:Flag of convenience

message: I have made the headings in the graph (showing which countries have not ratified which conventions) into wikilinks, as I found it quite difficult to find the links to the articles about the conventions mentioned in the header of this graph, and I would like to alleviate others of that problem. CybergothiChé (talk) 14:38, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re section: Ratification of maritime conventions 

message: Why is Charles Taylor called Americo-Liberian Warlord? 80.4.19.128 (talk) 20:14, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I wiki-linked Americo-Liberian in the article, so people can click on it to learn more about the term.  As far as the warlord part, that term seems to be widely used when referring to him, for example in the following article: .  Cheers. HausTalk 20:41, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Americo-Liberian? 

message: At least to me, the table is ambiguous.  Does "yes" mean that a convention was ratified or, as the caption suggests, not ratified?  How can this be made clearer?
2003:55:8C03:F383:401E:ADB4:A5C3:6394 (talk) 20:52, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a valid point.  Would this be less ambiguous? Davidships (talk) 21:20, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this is a good solution.  I updated the article.  217.239.23.103 (talk) 08:21, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks - deleting table from here now. Davidships (talk) 09:49, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table "Non-ratification of International Conventions" 

message: I have removed the following recent edit from the Lead, but bring it here for consideration.
Other flags of convenience include United Kingdom (through the Red Ensign group), Singapore and Netherlands.</br>
While recognising that it is cited to a RS (though incompletely), this material does not appear in the article itself.  The source was published in 1981, but the addition is written as if it is current, and it also lacks explanation or context. I have not been able to access the source, but would be surprised if Carlisle wrote that the UK did anything of this nature "through the UK Red Ensign Group" (actually, just "Red Ensign Group", of which the UK is one member).  Perhaps Notthebestusername could clarify? Davidships (talk) 14:38, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
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message: I would like to propose merging List of flags of convenience into this article. The list in question is very short, with just 35 entries and some associated statistics, and is very closely-associated with the topic of this article. It was previously split off when it was much lengthier and bloated, but after it was cleaned up last year it has been much shorter and would be more suitable as an embedded list rather than a standalone list. I am of the opinion that having the list as part of the article would be of benefit to the readers' convenience, rather than forcing them go through an additional step of clicking away just to see a short page. Also, as the only subarticle of this article, it feels slightly uneven that this article is able to comprehensively cover every aspect of this topic except for the list of the 35 flags of convenience. —Madrenergictalk 23:03, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: No objection, assuming the combined length of article is OK, provided it is made clear (as it does at present) that the list is the creation of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), as the current(?) basis for their 70-year campaign against FOCs. Davidships (talk) 01:15, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yup, I intend to include that as well. After all, it's pretty relevant to a significant portion of what this article is about as well. In fact, I think this article discusses it in far superior detail compared to the minimal prose on the list. —Madrenergictalk 19:01, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger with [[List of flags of convenience]] 

message: This section seem to be very un-noteworthy.  If the bill had passed, or even been voted on, maybe, but no.:
*"===Terrorism===
In 2002 in the United States, Democratic senator John Breaux of Louisiana proposed a bill to prevent U.S. shipowners from using foreign flags, ostensibly as a counter-terrorism measure.The Economist, 2002."
All sorts of bills get proposed in the US Congress, just being another one is not noteworthy. Carptrash (talk) 16:41, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree - it was a low-level political initiative that attracted little support and disappeared. Davidships (talk) 23:05, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed "Terrorism" scetion