Talk:White flag

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A Winner of the March 2005 West Dakota Prize

This entry is one of only seventeen that have won the March 2005 West Dakota Prize for successfully employing the expression "legend states" in a complete sentence. --Wetman 08:18, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC) .

A Winner of the September 2005 West Dakota Prize

This entry, one of an unprecedented 52, has won the September 2005 West Dakota Prize, awarded for successfully employing the expression "legend states" in a complete sentence.

Am I the only one who thinks that a "prize" like this violates the Wikipedia spirit, which emphasizes goodwill and cooperation over snideness? HistoryBA 6 July 2005 01:19 (UTC)

Where is the "legend states" phrase anyway? -- CueZ 6 Jun 06 2:07PM GMT

Order

Anyone cares to arrange the historical examples of use of white flag in chronological order?--130.216.30.233 (talk) 12:00, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

White flag GIF

Should the article contain a GIF of a white flag ? It does look a bit silly. -- Ze miguel 08:41, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's stupid. -Willmcw 09:03, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Especially as you can't see the exquisite detail as in my high-resolution JPEG. Jeremy Nimmo 12:18, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

wtf? an image of whiteness? Talk about overkill. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.148.209.254 (talk • contribs) 10:32, 11 August 2007

Well now it is an svg, and what fantastic detail! No loss of quality whatever size you have it. Its so cool how can you get rid of it? Should be in an infobox maybe! But are the proportions correct?

You need this kind of visual representation though, you say white but to see white you might realise how white. For example if you are having a war in Antarctica, after seeing this it might occur to you how you would need to put a border around your white flag for it to be effective. - J Logan ^t: 21:23, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

... Would it be silly....

... To add the three white flags from Gallery_of_flags_by_design#Solid... I'd put a border and a note on them of course, but... --Aknorals 01:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Publicity Help

This page would get alot of help if it were out where everyone can see it, like on the Did You Know on the Main Page. Xlegiofalco 03:15, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalisim

Seems to me that there's a bit of vandalisim in the first few lines of this article. That probably should be addressed, but I'm not quite sure how to do that.

Imagine

Is there anywhere we can add the Nutopian national flag on here?

Geneva Convention

The introduction says "The use of the flag to surrender is included in the Geneva Conventions." Which Geneva convention? It is mentioned in Protocol I mentions a flag of truce under the section Perfidy, but is it mentioned anywhere else?

A flag of truce is mentioned in "CHAPTER III: Flags of Truce" Hage IV of the Hague Conventions (1907) but there does not seem to be a mention of the colour. --Philip Baird Shearer 10:23, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"A person is regarded as a parlementaire who has been authorized by one of the belligerents to enter into communication with the other, and who advances bearing a white flag." -- Hague IV (1907), annex, "Regulations respecting the laws and customs of war on land", section II "Hostilities", chapter III "Flags of truce", article 32 http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hague04.asp so I attempt to change the phrase mentioned from "Geneva" to "Hague". Hexmaster (talk) 06:07, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of surrender or truce.

Should be

Flag of temporary truce in order to negociate or parlé.

A white flag is NOT a flag of surrender. It is a flag signifying non-combatant status, dialoque (ambassadoral for example) which implies a temporary seize fire in order to parlé, a nurses uniform, red cross on a white surface. Where did the idea of a white flag signifying surrender come from, military movie magic? Comments would be appreciated.(Fractalhints (talk) 13:26, 9 February 2010 (UTC))[reply]

Use of withe tissue in car during emergency trip

What about this use? It is common in Italy e I guess in Europe. What about the rest of the world? --TheDRaKKaR (talk) 14:01, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tolkien's Gondor under the Stewards

The flag of the Stewards of Gondor from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien was white without charge as described in LotR/Appendix A/Gondor and the Heirs of Anarion/The Stewards. Could that information be placed in the article?