Talk:Flag of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Vandalism
Why is this same as flag of the United Nations? File history shows it should be different. 195.197.190.231 (talk) 13:22, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Good question That's due to vandalism. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 18:41, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Right-hoisted?
According to FOTW the flag should be the other way around. Which would mean that the one mentioned here would be incorrect. Do they have a point or are they mistaken? --Hardscarf (talk) 23:04, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Ugh I have personally e-mailed FOTW a number of times to tell them about this. Every resource I have ever seen has the flag the way that it appears here (e.g.) The back of the flag looks like it does on FotW. The only thing I can figure is that maybe due to Arabic being a right-to-left language, it is customary to hang flags on the opposite side?

On FOTW it has the symbols


 * [[Image:IFIS Sinister.svg]] Obverse side meant to be hoisted with pole to the observer's right
 * [[Image:IFIS Two-sided.svg]] Flag has different designs on its obverse side and its reverse side

For which you could read more here: Vexillology

So I'm changing it with the other one, since it clearly states it should be hoisted with pole to the right.  guitardemon  (user talk)  22:55, 30 May 2009 (UTC)


 * As far as I can tell, the whole right-hoisted notion is the result of one person's unsubstantiated claim in 2000 on FOTW. He could've seen a flag made by anyone.  It would be neat if this flag was special and hoisted in a less conventional way, but that is simply not the case.  There is no evidence it's hoisted on the right, and has a different reverse side, and plenty of evidence to the contrary.


 * SADR president, with flag hoisted on left
 * SADR president, with flag hoisted on left
 * SADRy tanks, with flags hoisted on left


 * Short of a SADR or POLISARIO official coming out and saying all these photographs are nonsense, people need to stop with the right-hoisted fantasy. ¦ Reisio (talk) 13:45, 7 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Agreed.. although the emblem (seen here, and is on all their coins) has a right-hoisted as well as a left-hoisted flag (both of which have the same design, btw), one must notice the crescent moon at the top, which appears to imply the left-hoisted flag is preferred. case closed; FOTW fail. 137.82.175.12 (talk) 21:52, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

General update
Hello, can someone update the SADR flag file according to this officially sanctioned flag work? Thanks!--HCPUNXKID (talk) 17:22, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Like this? (I uploaded it as a separate file because it's not clear whether it is actually official, also most images show the 1:2 variant.) SiBr4  (talk) 21:41, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's it!. Of course, as you say, the 1:2 version is the most common displayed, but the 2:3 version seems to be the official sanctioned one, as it is declared on this link. Regards, --HCPUNXKID (talk) 18:31, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * At your same question at Commons, Zscout370 already questioned whether Ciudad Futura's construction sheet is in fact official. Putting the text on the page in Google Translate, it seems that the 2:3 version was designed by the SADR embassy in Madrid, not by the SADR government. SiBr4  (talk) 20:35, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I dont know whats the problem, its a work on behalf of the SADR delegation in Madrid, so as long as the Spanish SADR delegation is part of the official diplomatic SADR net, its an official SADR work. Regards, --HCPUNXKID (talk) 22:24, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Do you have a source that confirms that the SADR officially adopted the 2:3 version? The Ciudad Futura page seems to say that it's just a proposal by the writer of the page: "It has been a real honor working selflessly to graphically fix the flag of a people (...)". SiBr4  (talk) 22:27, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

SADR flag official status
Some user stated that according to a book source, the SADR flag has no official status. Although, the flag is used officially in the African Union and in SADR-other countries billateral meetings, and also in SADR embassies around the world.--HCPUNXKID (talk) 21:55, 25 December 2012 (UTC)