Talk:Lists of country subdivision flags

This article is too big, takes long time to load and difficult to get an overview of -- the sections that has sub-articles should IMO be cut. -- Himasaram 13:58, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Done! ;) -- Himasaram 11:00, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

U.S. County Flags
I know of at least one state (probably all) whose counties each have an official flag. Any chance of a mention of these? Mapsax 21:46, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

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Split this article?
This article is extremely large and takes a noticeable amount of time to load. How do people feel about turning this page into a spin-out article and splitting the content into two or more article. For now, I'm proposing a two-way split into Flags of country subdivisions (A - L) and Flags of country subdivisions (M - Z). NewYorkActuary (talk) 15:36, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
 * A split by continent is an alternative option, though that would require splitting into four or more articles, or using arbitrary combinations of continents. SiBr4 (talk ) 20:20, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * User:SiBr4. Although I have this article on my watchlist, I missed your posting amidst all of the revisions that have been taking place with the article itself.  Sorry about the delay in response.
 * I like your idea about splitting by continents much better than my idea. So, I now propose to split them by continents and, for consistency, will use the country listings that appear in the Wikipedia articles on each continent.  In cases where a "country" is listed under a certain continent, but is actually a possession of a country listed under another continent, then I'll have an entry in the location-continent that merely links to the substantive entry in the possession-continent.  Similar treatment will be given to Russia (i.e., it will appear under Europe, but also have an entry under Asia that links to it).
 * I expect to start the process this weekend, but I'll wait to hear if you have any objections or suggestions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 16:54, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * To be clear, I am now proposing spin-outs to separate articles on (i) North America, (ii) South America, (iii) Europe, (iv) Africa, (v) Asia, and (vi) Oceania. NewYorkActuary (talk) 16:56, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The number of currently included countries in each continent:
 * Africa: 10
 * Asia: 18
 * Europe: 37
 * North America: 11
 * Oceania: 6
 * South Africa: 10
 * I said "four or more" above because some combinations of continents are used often enough as to not be considered "arbitrary", particularly the Americas and possibly Asia and Oceania, and a separate Oceania article in particular would be rather small. I'm not opposing a six-way split, though.
 * As for transcontinental countries, I had wanted to suggest using the continent divisions from the UN geoscheme, which puts Russia in Europe and the remaining Asian-European countries (of which currently only Georgia is in the article) in Asia. AFAICT, French Polynesia is the only dependent territory whose subdivisions are currently listed, so would that be the only territory (other than transcontinental countries) requiring a cross-link? SiBr4 (talk ) 15:46, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
 * My purpose in specifying the listings used in Wikipedia's continent articles was simply to have something to point to in case anyone wanted to argue that a particular country should appear in a different spin-out article. Although the UN geoschemes would serve the same purpose, I'm having a tough time accepting that the entire Western Hemisphere should be viewed as a single "continent".  My first thought when reading your suggestion was that the defining rule for the spin-outs might be "UN geoscheme, but South America is separate".  But this isn't what the UN does -- they lump South America in with Central America and the Carribean.  So, in the absence of objection from you, I'll stick with the Wikipedia definitions.
 * As for cross-linking, I was thinking more about the territories themselves. For example, I intend to have an entry for Greenland in the spin-out article for North America.  However, no flag would appear there.  Instead, the entry would identify Greenland as an autonomous member of the Danish Realm, and would provide a link to the entry on Denmark (which would, of course, appear in the spin-out article for Europe).
 * I'll probably get started on this tomorrow, and will look to do one spin-out per day (but not necessarily every day). I expect the entire process to take no more than two weeks, and probably will be faster than that.  NewYorkActuary (talk) 22:29, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Although the UN has a single "macro-geographical" entry for the Americas and divides it into Northern and Latin America, it does describe North America (including Central America and the Caribbean) as a continent in a footnote. By implication, South America would be a continent too. I didn't suggest making a single page for the Americas just because the UN geoscheme does that, and, as I said, am perfectly fine with having six pages.
 * Minor issue, but trying to imagine what a reader would expect upon seeing a section called Flags of country subdivisions (North America), I would have flags of subdivisions of Greenland in mind, not the flag of Greenland itself, so I would be surprised (albeit mildly) to only find the latter after being soft-redirected to the Europe page. Alternatively, I would understand if there was Flags of country subdivisions (North America) linking to a section containing the flags of the North American subdivisions/territories of Denmark. That format would also avoid having many cross-links to the same section for countries with a lot of territories in a continent (e.g., the British Caribbean dependencies). SiBr4 (talk ) 00:06, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Those flags are fake
Hi,

All the flags below are fake flags only created and added on Wikimedia Commons by SiBr4 by combinations of old flags. Those regions don't even have their defenitives names. You really should have a look on Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Please remove those fake flags.

Thank you. --Mattho69 (talk) 23:16, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

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Recent IP edits
These have been reverted by myself, and. This article is called "Flags of country subdivisions", so sections with no information about flags and links to articles such as Counties of Albania and Municipalities of El Salvador do not belong in this article, since they are only talking about subdivisions not flags. FDW777 (talk) 10:27, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

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East Timor
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Semi-protected edit request on 18 April 2021
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Changing format
I think we should change the lists below the names to Galleries instead of bullet points. Ranamode (talk) 16:39, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Shortening of the article
Is it possible if the countries which have a separate article for subdivision flags (e.g. Japan has this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Japanese_municipal_flags) should have that as the only entry under their names? It would drastically shorten the page. Ranamode (talk) 20:43, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Flags of municipalities
Flags of municipalities (eg Liechtenstein, Malta, San Marino. Etc) need to be moved to this article (List of city flags) for the Municipal flags please refer to city flags — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexphangia (talk • contribs) 12:51, 15 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I don't agree, flags municiplates may be included in this list but only if theres a small amount of number of municipalities. 2A02:A453:D05E:1:7D56:CF99:A5F5:2859 (talk) 08:37, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

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National flags
Since this is Flags of country subdivisions, they have no place here. Especially when the page already loads slowly due to the number of images. Please stop adding off-topic flags. FDW777 (talk) 20:44, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

A thought based on the recent deletion nomination discussion
Most voters of the recent discussion were considering reverting the article back to this version.

I want to remind you all that the images were changed from templates to galleries, so that the article was easier to edit.

The site was further altered by adding links to other articles, so that the article loaded faster. This also made it easier to update flag information as editors would focus on flags of their own countries, therefore getting more contributors to the flag articles by "outsourcing" the work.

I would request fellow editors to not revert to the old version, but improve upon the current version. Flag Mechanic (talk) 12:20, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

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Requested move 22 November 2022

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Skarmory   (talk •   contribs)  23:22, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * Support. If anything, this is necessary to avoid example farming. Right now anyone can add a gallery of flags they believe to be the best gallery and it will technically be within the scope. CPORfan (talk) 02:54, 27 November 2022

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Split the article
Due to the size of the article, I would recommend to split it. For the nth time (talk) 10:27, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Change from lists to galleries?
One change I noticed in the subarticles was the addition of tables for flags, as the subarticles have been called as lists instead of galleries. Shall we rename the subarticles as galleries, to get rid of the tables? Also should we delete entries which we cannot cite? For the nth time (talk) 14:24, 9 July 2024 (UTC)