User talk:TheWhiteRussian

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Your flags
Hi! Aren't you afraid that some unwary person will enter your invented "flags" as real by error, on various pages of Wikipedia? Wetman 05:22, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

It's nice that you're illustrating the articles with flags, but please leave a fuller caption than simply "flag" (e.g. "Flag of Kiribati"). Better yet, make it complete sentence as outlined at WikiProject Writing Captions. Cheers, Jiang 07:06, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Re: Image:FlagofHmongPeople.png: who has adopted this flag? I live in a city with a lot of Hmong, and I've never seen it. Simply asserting it as their flag at Hmong seems to me to be confusing.

At the very least, it would sure be nice if you could cite sources for these presumably controversial flags of non-sovereign entities. I'm glad to have them, and probably each of them deserves an article, but just the picture without an explanation seems to me to be problematic. -- Jmabel 07:26, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

I'd like info on the Bulgarian-Hungarian and the Bulgarian-Turkish people that you mention on flags of non-sovereign nations. There's no article on them, nor have I been able to google any info. I'm afraid that we may have to start deleting en masse listings in that page that have no articles with references behind them. Anyway could you tell me where you found those flags?Aris Katsaris 18:31, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Image:FlagofWestPapua.png

 * Hi, I'm pretty sure that image qualifies as PD-Flag so I changed it... I didn't see it listed on Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images anyway. Zcrayfish 09:49, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Whatever page I found with the PUI instructions only seemed to state the templates were needed, so I thought the WP:PUI process had been changed. Thanks for clarification.  (SEWilco 15:55, 11 July 2005 (UTC))

Image Tagging Image:FlagofAndalusia.png
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Image Tagging Image:FlagofLadakh.png
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Flags of the World
Almost all of the flags uploaded by this user have been downloaded from the Flags of the World website. He claims to have created them by himself, but they are pixel-to-pixel copies, just converted to PNG. I've tagged all of them accordingly and added the original URL to the description page. –Mysid 11:22, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging for Image:FlagofAjaria.png
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Image Tagging for Image:FlagofKerala.png
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Image Tagging Image:FlagofEgyptian-Balkans.png
Thanks for uploading Image:FlagofEgyptian-Balkans.png. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then there needs to be an argument why we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then it needs to be specified where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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Image Tagging for Image:FlagofAfricanAmericans.png
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Copyright problems with Image:FlagofBulgarianHungarians.png
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FlagofGermanBelgium.png
Hi, I replaced this with Image:BE DG Fahne randlos.png, which in on commons. Thanks, Tom Harrison Talk 17:39, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

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