Template talk:User Great Britain

The red saltire does not represent NI. Please read the Flag of Northern Ireland article. The Union Flag is the flag of Great Britain - the old union flag is no longer appropriate. NI athletes can choose whether they represent Team GB or Team Ireland, but GB use the Union Flag. Because it is the flag of GB. I don't want a revert war but this must be addressed - clearly you are going to persist.

I should also point out that userboxes are POV, and as the creator of this userbox, it is MY POV that it should bear a Union Flag in its current form. If you don't like it, make a new one. Deano (Talk) 18:55, 16 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I am going to have to disagree with you there, the red satire does represent Northern Ireland, It was used to represent Ireland within the union. By default as the rest of the Island left the Union it has come to represent only Northern Ireland. Also Team GB is the team of "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" and that is the name used by the UK at the Olympics. - Keith Greer  [[Image:Flag of Northern Ireland2.svg|30px]] 13:57, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

People from Great Britain category
I changed the reference from 'Wikipedians in the United Kingdom' to 'Wikipedians from Great Britain' on the assumption that if people wanted to specify they were specifically from the island of Great Britain, there would be enough interest also to create a category listing only people from the island of Great Britain. The flag itself denotes that the creator of it excludes Northern Ireland in particular given that, as noted elsewhere on this talk page, the flag excludes the red saltire. On the other hand, the United Kingdom includes people from Northern Ireland. Therefore it is not logical to attach this userbox to a list of users from the United Kingdom. --Mal 17:42, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Content Change
There is a discussion and proposal regarding the changing of content and wording in United Kingdom location/nationality userbox templates located at Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Location/United Kingdom. - Hayter 20:23, 2 March 2006 (UTC)