Talk:Flag of Ohio

Only two?
"one of only two non-rectangular flags in the world", the article read. Ohio. Nepal. The Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Norwegian governments. The Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian navies. The Ryukyu Islands. The flag of the Romanian uprising of 1980. Numerous historical war flags from north Africa and Asia.... I have removed thhe comment from the text. Grutness...  wha?  09:09, 3 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for helping with this article; I built this article using information from the Nepal flag and Ohio flag articles. My apologies; IanManka 04:23, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

I've added an image of the flag itself; it seems to be an appropriate illustration of the content. Z iggurat 02:21, 29 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Just to update the information supplied by Grutness, the use of "swallow-tailed" flags in the Nordic Countries applies to the following flags: State Flag / Naval Ensign in both Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The flags of Denmark and Iceland use two "tails"; Sweden, Norway and Finland use three. A number of official flags in all countries use the same form as well since they are basically modified versions of the local State flag. This applies e.g. to a large number of flags in Denmark, most notably the standards used by the royal family and by leading naval officers. The civil flags are square in all five countries. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 10:39, 15 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Btw, Danes also use rows of swallow-tailed paper flags for birthday party decorations and for decorating Christmas trees. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 11:09, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Why Flag Shape
Any explanation of why it's the only state flag of a pennant type?--Carl
 * This should be easy to find. I recently read it was supposed to resemble a cavalry flag.--208.102.210.163 (talk) 00:13, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Amusingly, I read the cavalry flag relation on this article. (see second paragraph)--208.102.210.163 (talk) 00:31, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Only 2 non-rectangular flags in the whole world?
Is there any proof of this fact? This is a bold claim as there are probably hundreds of thousands of flags in use by the world's governments (Think of all the county flags in the US alone). A proof would require a researcher investigating the flags of every country, territory, region, state, county, etc...

This sounds like the work of an over-zealous editor and I vote for this to be stricken from this article and Flag of Nepal.Asteron &#12494;&#12524;&#12484;&#12449; 05:23, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)


 * This criticism does not apply to Flag of Nepal: that page claims that Nepal's is the only non-rectangular national flag, and although it is uncertain exactly how many countries there are, and exactly what their flags are, it is pretty certain (and well established) that Nepal's is the only non-rectangular national flag. --Taejo 08:24, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * In addition, Flag of Nepal says that there are four non-rectangular flags including Flag of Switzerland and Flag of Vatican City. Some rewording is in order, at the very least.  Dismas|(talk) 14:31, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Squares are a type of rectangle, so the flags of Switzerland and the Vatican City are indeed rectangular. User:Angr 15:26, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

First 100 years of Ohio's Existence - State Flag?
Was there any semblance of a state flag from 1803 - 1902? It's strange to see a state exist for 100 years without any flag.
 * Yeah, I came here ready to pose the same question. Gold Stur 22:06, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Colors Wrong
The colors are definitely wrong. The shades of blue and red seem to correspond with those of the flag of the United States of America, a drastically darker shade. Consider the picture on the page as evidence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.102.210.163 (talk) 00:22, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello? Anyone?--189.33.38.206 (talk) 02:07, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Bob Grant Controversy
On his October 15th show, conservative talk show host Bob Grant mistook the Ohio flag for an "Obama" flag, saying, But really folks, did you notice Obama is not content with just having several American flags, plain old American flags with the 50 states represented by 50 stars? He has the "O" flag. And that's what that "O" is. That's what that "O" is. Just like he did with the plane he was using. He had the flag painted over, and the "O" for Obama. Now, these are symptom -- these things are symptomatic of a person who would like to be a potentate -- a dictator. And I really see this in this man. DarkAudit (talk) 01:41, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * not sure if it's relevent/notable enough to be mentioned in the article, but that's hilarious. Even I knew it was the Ohio flag, and I'm not even American. --86.138.30.7 (talk) 17:52, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It was mentioned in the Bob Grant article, and that's enough. DarkAudit (talk) 03:50, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Only two non-rectangular flags - again
"[The flag of Ohio is] one of only two non-rectangular official jurisdictional flags, at the state level or above, in the world (the other is the flag of Nepal)."

If "at the state level or above" means "countries and first-level subdivisions only", this text is false, as two of the Polish voivodeships have trapezoid-shaped flags. SiBr4 (talk) 19:35, 18 February 2014 (UTC)


 * The text now says "non-quadrilateral", which excludes trapezoids. Off to find more counterexamples!  – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 08:58, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I may have some more; I'm not sure whether "official jurisdictional flags" would include state flags and naval ensigns, but several Northern European countries have swallowtail-shaped ensigns . The word "current" would explicitly exclude flags like that of the . SiBr4 (talk) 19:05, 29 July 2014 (UTC)


 * I think "official jurisdictional flags" referred to "civil flags" (as opposed to naval flags and the like), but I decided to weasel the article out of this one. Ohio's flag is now a "rare example of a non-quadrilateral civil flag". Does "civil flag" necessarily imply that the government uses a distinct state flag? – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 12:34, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Earlier flags
This article describes one earlier state flag, but this Enquirer article quotes the Ohio Historical Society's spokesman pointing out the existence of "different, earlier versions of a flag" – plural. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 03:26, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

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Isn't Eisenmann's geometry wrong?
If the triangle is constructed according to the instructions, the distance OK is about 2.4721

But the dashed circle ("With OK as radius inscribe the circle I.J.K.L.M.N.") has a radius 2.5.

Anyone tried?