Template talk:Country data United Kingdom

message: Please add sl:Predloga:Podatki države Združeno kraljestvo. Thanks. --Eleassar my talk
: --Selket Talk 16:18, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Interwiki

message: Could you please add an alias for the naval ensign :Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg to be used for naval commanders in battleboxes. Thanks. --Himasaram 02:54, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Andrwsc 04:04, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naval Ensign 

message: Could someone please add an additional alias for the previous version of the naval ensign, :Image:British-White-Ensign-1707.svg used between 1707 and 1800, for use with ship class articles. Cheers. Martocticvs 10:26, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: .  Use  for  or  for .  Hope this helps, Andrwsc 03:32, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Earlier naval ensign

message: Can a variant be added for :Image:Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg to be used on commercial vesels (currently working on updating RMS Queen Mary 2 to use current ship info-box template per WP:SHIPS, to get the flag to display in the correct location needs an update of the "flag" template). --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 00:10, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Andrwsc (talk) 00:36, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Civil Ensign 

message: Can a variant be added for :Image:Government Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg?  This is the blue ensign used for some commercial ships, especially historic ships such as the RMS Titanic.  Currently, those articles are linking the svg directly, but using a template variant from here would simplify that usage. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 22:29, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 00:56, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Can it be done with an alternate call, for when it is used in a non-government setting, eg as a member of a yacht club. Technically not required, but could avoid confusion among later editors. GraemeLeggett (talk) 21:08, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Blue ensign requested

message: We need  creating. I've had to do a work around to get the  to link to the correct article. Also, many ships articles covering ships on the UK register up to 1922 currently link to United Kingdom instead of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, so the civil and government ensigns will need to be added. The naval ensign really should link to the Royal Navy article. To save a lot of typing, would it be possible to call the template UKGBI (is a redirect a possibility)? Mjroots (talk) 09:03, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:53, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

message: These icons are now only available from .  This is an improvement, since the previously used idiom of  linked to the United Kingdom article, whereas  links to the more appropriate Kingdom of Great Britain article.  I have verified that every instance of the old usage has been replaced before I removed the deprecated variants.  — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 23:01, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of 1606 and naval-1707 variants 

message: Please add
| flag alias-war = Flag of the United Kingdom (3-5).svg
| related4 = British Empire
as flag alias-army is non-ceremonial per British Army#Flags and ensigns.
Cheers, Pædia 08:09, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: by User:TheDJ — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:17, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If the 3-5 flag is the official flag of the British Army, then it should be used with the army variant. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:02, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

text: I think the real question to be answered is what is the intended use of these icons.  For example, there is consensus to use naval ensigns on ship articles, but the (mostly ornamental) air force and army flags are occasionally used within  instances, but not universally.  (Also note that the ornamental :File:USNavyFlag-Official.svg is only used as a decoration within  and two vexillology articles, and nowhere else.) I don't think those instances are compliant with WP:MOSFLAG either, as they are "purely decorational".  Perhaps a discussion should be started at WT:MILHIST...? — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 03:10, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this has been discussed before, at least for biographical articles.  I cannot really see why air force ensigns and army flags are ornamental but navy ones are not.  If a discussion is started at WT:MILHIST, I would welcome an invite. Greenshed (talk) 19:14, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Paedia, 1 November 2010 

message: Would it be possible to add the RNLI flag and have it linked to the article on the institution? Thus  would produce  Royal National Lifeboat Institution. N.B. The border is needed here. Mjroots (talk) 08:22, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: RNLI

message: Could the Royal Standard of the United Kingdom be added so it could be used at least as a flagicon?
  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ransewiki (talk • contribs) 10:11, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Royal Standard

message: They are incorrect and should be deleted not only from this template, but from Wikipedia. I'm sick of seeing them wherever this template is used. --Mikrobølgeovn (talk) 13:32, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone please remove those goddamn incorrect World Fact Book flags? 

message: Please replace :File:Naval ensign of the United Kingdom.svg with :File:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg. This file was renamed some time ago. Fry1989 eh? 18:01, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:39, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 5 October 2018 

message: flag alias-1801 = Flag of the United Kingdom (WFB 2000).svg
flag alias-2004 = Flag of the United Kingdom (WFB 2004).svg
flag alias-2009 = Flag of the United Kingdom (WFB 2009).svg
Remove these flags as they are just based on the shades used in pictures in different editions of the CIA World Factbook (you can see if you open the flag image) and not are official or even real changes to the flag used by UK, they should not be included and especially not linked to a specific year Havsjö (talk) 16:56, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. the flag list for the UK states that the current design has not changed since 1801. Removing all 3. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 09:49, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 7 January 2019 

message: var8 = 1801
var9 = 2004
var10 = 2009
These lines needs to be removed as well ! Havsjö (talk) 01:00, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done SiBr4 (talk) 18:20, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 9 January 2019 

message: Please add this:
 |flag alias-navy=Queen's Colour for the Royal Navy.svg
 |link alias-navy=Royal Navy
Below this:
 
 | link alias-coast guard = Her Majesty's Coastguard
– Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 01:14, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Question: we already have the alias "naval". Where do you propose to use this new alias and why is the existing flag not sufficient? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:41, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

text: Request disabled. No response from OP — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:41, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  TPER of 4 May 2019 

message: Requesting two additional flag and link aliases, for the Royal Naval Reserve and the Merchant Navy:
| flag alias-naval reserve = Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
| link alias-naval reserve = Royal Naval Reserve
| flag alias-merchant navy = Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
| link alias-merchant navy = Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)Merchant Navy
 Jay D. Easy (t • c) 17:48, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done S.A. Julio (talk) 18:45, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal Naval Reserve and Merchant Navy 

message: Could the flag of the British Armed Forces please be updated to: :Image:British Tri Services Logo.svg.png. Thank you. — TheArmchairSoldier (talk) 17:00, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  British Armed Forces 

message: To all it may concern, I just uploaded a file to Commons to supersede the Coast guard flag, so I recommend we change line  flag alias-coast guard = Flag of Her Majesty's Coastguard.png to  flag alias-coast guard = Flag of Her Majesty's Coastguard.svg Kingdom of Baustralia (talk) 18:03, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: with the grace of her majesty, this is  ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 19:42, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coast guard flag 

message: Request change from Corps of Royal Marines to Royal Marines to match the article title. Garuda28 (talk) 23:05, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Support request per nominator. Dormskirk (talk) 20:38, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

text: – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:22, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal Marines name 

message: Adding the following aliases for diplomatic missions: "embassy" and "consulate"
Lines to add:
| flag alias-embassy = British Ambassador Ensign.svg
| flag alias-consulate = UK-Consular.svg
 ChaseYUL99 (talk) 05:14, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: . P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'r there 07:37, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 30 October 2022 

message: Desb42 (talk) 14:47, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: . P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 16:21, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 30 June 2023