Template talk:Country data Confederate States of America

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1861 Flags[edit]

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There were a few more flags in 1861. Can they be added as variants please? Foofighter20x (talk) 22:10, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:43, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

request[edit]

Image:Jack of the CSA Navy 1861 1863.svg should be added as Jack1 Image:Conf Navy Jack (light blue).svg should be added as Jack2 (Or similar names, as they were the two official Confederate naval jacks. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 08:01, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Added. — Carl (CBM · talk) 02:02, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request from Paedia, 28 October 2010[edit]

{{edit protected}} Please add/change:

| shortname alias = Confederacy
| flag alias-1863 = Second national flag of the Confederate States of America.svg
| flag alias-army = Battle flag of the US Confederacy.svg
| link alias-army = Confederate States Army

Please remove:

| flag alias-jack1 = Jack of the CSA Navy 1861 1863.svg
| flag alias-jack2 = Conf Navy Jack (light blue).svg
| var6 = jack1
| var7 = jack2

Cheers, Pædia 22:36, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

When requesting changes, please can you provide a rationale. I cannot swap images without an explanatory edit summary. Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:41, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly. File:Confederate National Flag since Mai 1 1863 to Mar 4 1865.svg is just a redirect to File:Second national flag of the Confederate States of America.svg, and there is no need for jacks per WP:SHIPFLAGS#Naval ensigns. Cheers, Pædia 16:45, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I understand how jacks are not supposed to be used in articles on those topics, but that is not a valid argument in removing jacks from country data templates, I think. It's a country specific flag, so I see no reason why it should not be accessible trough this template. Addition and changes done. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:28, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I have no problem with extra flags, etc., as long as they are accurate. However, User:Andrwsc will change anything deemed "unused", "excessive", "extraneous", "malformed", "not endorsed", "not useful", "unlikely", "not preferred", etc.[1] for reasons at Template talk:Country data Switzerland#CHpantone variant. Ironically, Andrwsc has no problem with Template:Country data US having over 30 flag variants, most of which the number of stars are nearly indistinct at 22px. Also, please add:

| redir2 = C.S.A.
| redir3 = Confederate States

Cheers, Pædia 06:58, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Added. Removing stuff that is not used is no problem, but I have not seen that this flag is currently unused from this template. As such I'm not removing it until someone verifies that. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 16:27, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have verified that the jack1 and jack2 variants are unused from this template, and have deleted them accordingly. Also, to respond to Paedia's misinformed comment about the variants of Template:Country data United States, these images are not shown exclusively at 22x20px by {{flagicon}} et. al.; they are also used by {{shipboxflag}} on thousands of ship articles, and the number of stars is distinguishable at 100x35px. Hope this helps — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 20:26, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]