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Originally posted by Chris4
Uhhhh.. why does everyone have to go against having the English, Wales, etc. flags?
We don't have something against it. We have something against adding those and not others, or vice versa...
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Originally posted by Chris4
Like WDZ said, that's how the flags came, there's no point in changing it to someone's likeliness. Just leave it how it is.
ermm... "how those flags came"? Those flags are made and added by some people who feel nationalistic (no offense though). It is far from THE official list of flags.
EDIT: famfamfam.com is owned and created by someone living in the UK, so adding those Wales, Scotland, etc flags is understandable and makes sense. Though it is not according to the standard.
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Originally posted by Eljay
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Originally posted by Chris4
So, either you have the flags of Wales, etc, and the UK and Europe, etc... or either you don't and that would mean you also don't have a flag for the United Kingdom!!!.
Actually, if I understood correctly I think Cookie is suggesting removing the United Kingdom flag rather than the individual constituents.
yep and actually no...
What I mean is that there is currently no clear distinction as to what to add and what not, it has something (but not all) from both; a mismatch if you like.
Personally and to satisfy everybody, you could leave everything like it is, but that should also mean the Europian flag etc should be added.
The point is there should be a standard. Not let's put in 1, 2, 3 but not a, b and c. So you end up with half the alphabet together with half the numbers.
Either you have just the numbers, or either just the alphabet, or either both (which I prefer)... but not just a part of both.
eg:
use ISO 3166-1....
ps: the famfamfam.com list does NOT follow that standard, despite what their website says.
PS2: If it is just 'Netherlands' without the 'The' according to the ISO standard then so be it too, imho... didn't knew that btw, always thought it was with 'The'...
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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.
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