Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships/Ensigns

Including National Flags
I am not sure what the interest or value is served by including national flags that are not a distinct design for use an ensign? I reached this page wishing to view the countries and contexts where a distinct ensign design is applied. Where it is not, the assumption is that the National Flag is used. Dainamo (talk) 12:44, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

UK Government Service Ensign
I see that HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) is currently flying the Government Service Ensign. I do not see that flag listed on this list of ensigns. Is there a syntax for shipboxflag which would give this ensign? --David Biddulph (talk) 02:22, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
 * This:
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 02:41, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. I have corrected the article, where someone had added the plain blue ensign. --David Biddulph (talk) 03:15, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. I have corrected the article, where someone had added the plain blue ensign. --David Biddulph (talk) 03:15, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Indian Naval Ensign
With the selection of a new Indian Naval Ensign, we need separate parameters for the various Indian Naval Ensigns by time period, as with some of the other navies that have had different historical ensigns. I have no idea how to do it, or I would start on it. BilCat (talk) 23:31, 3 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Can you help? Thanks. BilCat (talk) 23:34, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
 * From the table of ensigns at Indian Naval Ensign:
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 00:49, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * At the time of this posting, there are about 220 articles that use some form of . These should be checked for the proper ensign variant.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 12:07, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this your prompt reply, and I'd totally forgot about the issue since then. I'm sorry I missed your response, but I do appreciate it. I'll start checking articles as I go along. Thanks again. BilCat (talk) 04:57, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 00:49, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * At the time of this posting, there are about 220 articles that use some form of . These should be checked for the proper ensign variant.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 12:07, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this your prompt reply, and I'd totally forgot about the issue since then. I'm sorry I missed your response, but I do appreciate it. I'll start checking articles as I go along. Thanks again. BilCat (talk) 04:57, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 00:49, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * At the time of this posting, there are about 220 articles that use some form of . These should be checked for the proper ensign variant.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 12:07, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this your prompt reply, and I'd totally forgot about the issue since then. I'm sorry I missed your response, but I do appreciate it. I'll start checking articles as I go along. Thanks again. BilCat (talk) 04:57, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 00:49, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * At the time of this posting, there are about 220 articles that use some form of . These should be checked for the proper ensign variant.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 12:07, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this your prompt reply, and I'd totally forgot about the issue since then. I'm sorry I missed your response, but I do appreciate it. I'll start checking articles as I go along. Thanks again. BilCat (talk) 04:57, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 00:49, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * At the time of this posting, there are about 220 articles that use some form of . These should be checked for the proper ensign variant.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 12:07, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this your prompt reply, and I'd totally forgot about the issue since then. I'm sorry I missed your response, but I do appreciate it. I'll start checking articles as I go along. Thanks again. BilCat (talk) 04:57, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 00:49, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * At the time of this posting, there are about 220 articles that use some form of . These should be checked for the proper ensign variant.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 12:07, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this your prompt reply, and I'd totally forgot about the issue since then. I'm sorry I missed your response, but I do appreciate it. I'll start checking articles as I go along. Thanks again. BilCat (talk) 04:57, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this your prompt reply, and I'd totally forgot about the issue since then. I'm sorry I missed your response, but I do appreciate it. I'll start checking articles as I go along. Thanks again. BilCat (talk) 04:57, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Chilean Naval Ensign
The Chilean naval ensign is wrong, the correct one is the country's national flag. Is there any way to correct it?—Muwatallis II (talk) 17:25, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
 * The flag variants for Chile are listed at . Those variants used in  look like this:
 * I guess I gotta wonder if it wouldn't be better to rename the variants as  and   across all of the country data templates to avoid just this sort of confusion...
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 13:05, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I guess I gotta wonder if it wouldn't be better to rename the variants as  and   across all of the country data templates to avoid just this sort of confusion...
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 13:05, 21 September 2022 (UTC)