User talk:DaveMir

Flag icons
Hello, in response to your edit summary here I thought I would point out a couple of things. We did not make up this "rule", it has been around for a long time. Please read MOS:ICONS and specifically MOS:FLAG for the Wikipedia project-wide consensus on the subject. All we've done is, after a long discussion, agreed to follow Wikipedia consensus. However, if you disagree with this conclusion you are free to make your case at the MMA talk page here. If your arguments are sound and demonstrate why Wikipedia guidelines on flag usage should be ignored for MMA articles then consensus will change. In the meantime please respect the overall consensus view of Wikipedia and the consensus view established by the MMA project and do not add flags back into these articles. Thanks. SQGibbon (talk) 19:27, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Flags for nationality, not ethnicity
I see that you've been changing flags to show a fighter's ethnicity rather than their primary nationality after those pages were semi-protected specifically to prevent persistent anonymous users from doing the exact same thing. Even though there's already a debate over whether flags should even exist in MMA articles, they should be used for nationality instead of ethnicity while they do exist because flags for ethnicity are virtually never used on Wikipedia. — LOL T/C 19:58, 23 June 2011 (UTC)