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O.P. Make a Scotland Flag in the user country list.
In the user country list, there only seems to be a British Flag. Since, I'm not British and I'm Scottish, I cannot display my country: Scotland.

Can you add a Scotland one, WDZ? (Y)

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Edit-- Makes sense for all the 4 countrys to have there own flag instead of just Britain. Also, it's more specific.

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RE: Make a Scotland Flag in the user country list.
Tbh I would quite like an England flag.  I consider myself to be English, not British.

National identity among "British" people tends to be quite strong.  I'm sure most people would identify themselves as English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh, not British
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RE: Make a Scotland Flag in the user country list.
You're British as Scotland is in Britain. Thus the flag is correct, although some users may prefer a more customisable choice :).
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O.P. RE: Make a Scotland Flag in the user country list.
I perceive myself as Scottish, not British (A)
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RE: Make a Scotland Flag in the user country list.
2 cents: I'm English and want an English Flag

Reality: Didn't happen when we complained before, so don't see why it would now.
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RE: Make a Scotland Flag in the user country list.
find your country in this list and i'm sure dz would add it. if it's not in there, you're out of luck :p

edit: changed above link to non-wiki link, just in case :tongue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1

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RE: Make a Scotland Flag in the user country list.
The flags are from famfamfam.com I believe and they originally had the separate countries, but the countries not in the "ISO standard" got removed.

Other people also started requesting changes, etc. and got a bit out of control (See: 25 pages of deciding the flag feature).

As much as we'd prefer to be recognised by our country and not our 'kingdom', it's what people recognise internationally.

Here's a summary from the previous thread:

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I don't care what the international standard ISO 3166 says. There are still four countries not being represented which have every right to be represented....

so basically, in order for scotland to be recognised, we'd have to be completely independant from everyone else?

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I know many people will roll their eyes reading all this. 'Cause why discussion something like this? And they probably are right... But still... This is the very same discussion as to why adding translation X but not translation Y to Plus!. With the major big difference that this flag feature is brand new and now it is the time to settle this, not after it is 3 years old... So I think a proper decision should be made now (and a proper standard should be followed instead of some loose random list), or such discussions like these will pop up later on again.

(it is 3 years old now :P)

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It's just broken down differently. If we are going to break down the UK, you might as well break down the US to the individual states which all have flags.

We'll just stick to the ISO standard for countries.

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RE: Make a Scotland Flag in the user country list.
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It's just broken down differently. If we are going to break down the UK, you might as well break down the US to the individual states which all have flags.

We'll just stick to the ISO standard for countries.


Hmm, well that's VERY wrong.  The issue isn't about a flag.....the issue is about England/Ireland/Scotland/Wales being nations in their own right.
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Hmm, well that's VERY wrong.
Complain to the UN :/.
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This was a contentious issue when I added the flags (read the thread), and I don't really want to revisit it. :-/


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