Template talk:Country data Confederate States of America

1861 Flags


There were a few more flags in 1861. Can they be added as variants please? Foofighter20x (talk) 22:10, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:43, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

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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)
 * Added. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 02:02, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Edit request from Paedia, 28 October 2010
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Please add/change: Please remove:
 * 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
 * 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)
 * When requesting changes, please can you provide a rationale. I cannot swap images without an explanatory edit summary. Regards &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:41, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

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. Cheers, Pædia 16:45, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 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. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 11:28, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

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. for reasons at Template talk:Country data Switzerland. 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: Cheers, Pædia 06:58, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * redir2 = C.S.A.
 * redir3 = Confederate States
 * 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. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 16:27, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I have verified that the  and   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)