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Why do you refuse to discuss Suriname on the talk page?

Hi, I have tried to leave you helpful edit descriptions, asking you to bring the discussion on what type of government Suriname has to the talk page, where a discussion on what type of government the country has is ongoing, and you have refused and have continually kept making the edits you want to make to the article. Please, tell me, why can't you discuss this? Fuse809 (contribs · email · talk · uploads) 13:57, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

October 2019

Your recent edit to the page Finland contains an edit summary that appears to have triggered the edit filter. The summary may have contained inappropriate text such as a highly repetitive character sequence, profanity, gibberish, or all-caps. Please use appropriate edit summaries to tell other editors what you did, and feel free to use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do. If your summary did not contain such text, please report it to the false positives page and remove this message. Thank you. Moxy 🍁 02:18, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for persistent vandalism. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Drmies (talk) 02:18, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

• OK, what are you doing? Moxy, what's this about the edit summary? I looked but can't see anything. Flags, answer quickly or I am going to assume that either your account is hijacked (which I find unlikely) or you are simply a vandal whose true colors are finally showing. Take your pick. Drmies (talk) 02:22, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
  • Wrong warning.....was trying to fix but got 4 edit conflicts....now no point in fixing.--Moxy 🍁 02:23, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
    • OK, gotcha. Flags200, I was looking at this nonsense. And then I am seeing all these edits where you insert needless spaces. Drmies (talk) 02:40, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Is the sole reason I'm getting blocked because I don't have an edit summary with my Finland edit? Flags200 (talk) 02:42, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Any spaces I put into an edit are completely accidental and I probably overlooked them. Flags200 (talk) 02:44, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

• Huh. No. I am going to change the block to indefinitely until you can explain what happened in Congo, and what happened here, here, and [1]. In addition, you seem not to have read Moxy's remark, above, or even checked what your edits accomplished (including the ones that added hundreds of spaces). Drmies (talk) 02:50, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

• Flags200, the reason is because you added this text to the "GDP" field of the infobox for the Finland, Norway, and Venezuela articles: "Flag of Venezuela.svg Flag of Venezuela.svg Flag of Venezuela.svg Flag of Venezuela.svg Flag of Venezuela.svg Flag of Venezuela.svg Flag of Venezuela.svg Flag of Venezuela.svg Flag of Venezuela.svg Flag of Venezuela.svg Flag of Venezuela.svg Flag of Venezuela.svg Flag of Venezuela.svg Flag of Venezuela.svg" - what's that about? You did something similar in these edits too: [2] and as noted above where you added "010011 010011 010011 010011..." etc., also to the GDP field: [3], and I think maybe some others.

On the other hand, Drmies, I think that the needless spaces may be a side-effect of editing the infobox using the visual editor. I've seen it before... --IamNotU (talk) 03:02, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

I have too--what I am looking for is some self-awareness. Earlier this evening I saw an editor whose Drumpfinator had gone off the rails--but only once. Drmies (talk) 03:05, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

did a similar thing happen in Congo as happened in the examples linked above? Flags200 (talk) 03:17, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

I was using the visual editor Flags200 (talk) 03:18, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

That is kind of strange because I could've sworn that I selected the flag text field. I was trying to change the flag file for Venezuela to the civil flag. I had the file name in my clipboard. I am also editing this on my phone. I guess I accidentally pasted the same thing over and over again. Flags200 (talk) 03:26, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

As for the number sequence I copied a code for the use of a flag an article about a flag to my clipboard and accidentally pasted it.

Sorry for the inconvenience that this has caused. Flags200 (talk) 03:34, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

• If you can tell me that you will be more careful, much more careful, I will be happy to unblock you. Drmies (talk) 03:35, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Yes I will be much more careful next time.

Again I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Flags200 (talk) 03:38, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

I think that the visual editor needs to be much better than it is. Flags200 (talk) 03:39, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

• OK. You are unblocked. I cannot comment on the Visual Editor--I do not like using it. Now, please use preview, and please pay attention to warnings on your talk page and the comments by editors who revert you. Good luck. Drmies (talk) 03:40, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you Flags200 (talk) 03:43, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

• Flags200, I noticed that you just made another edit with erroneous content in the "GDP" field of the country infoboxes here: [4]. I think Drmies was pretty clear that your unblock was dependent on you being more careful and checking the effects of your edits. If you're not able to control it, I suggest you stop editing from your phone. Thanks... --IamNotU (talk) 01:29, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
• Flags200, what is going on? You may well end up getting blocked again, and maybe for longer. Yes, if this is a phone problem, stop using the phone. It is not worth it for other editors, the editors who have to clean up after you. And IamNotU's comment below is clear: it's not just some phone quirk--you seem to be purposely bypassing procedures, conventions, and consensus. Drmies (talk) 15:18, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Mass changes

Flags200, could I suggest that before you take up the project of changing the flag information in the infobox of every country article on Wikipedia, that you discuss it and get consensus first about what the best format is? You could try the talk page at WP:HERALD to start, and/or ask about the intended usage of the "flag_type" parameter etc. at Template talk:Infobox country, thanks. --IamNotU (talk) 06:19, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

• That sounds like good advice. Drmies (talk) 16:49, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
• Flags200, thanks for starting the thread at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology#Types of flags used on country articles. I hope there will be more feedback soon. I noticed that in the meantime though, you've made more of these types of edits to a number of articles, most of which have been reverted by other editors. While in general it's ok to be WP:BOLD and make edits, in many cases it's better to take some time to discuss things and get consensus when it appears there are questions about what you're trying to do, especially if it involves changes to multiple articles. Sometimes that can take time, but there's WP:NORUSH. If you feel discussion has stalled, there are other options available rather than just continuing to make the same edits, see WP:DISPUTERESOLUTION, thanks. --IamNotU (talk) 01:43, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

PS, just to be clear, I'm not saying your edits are wrong, necessarily. For example the change to Venezuela may turn out to be correct, but if you look at that article's history and talk page, it's been the subject of much debate and edit-warring for several years. I think there are a couple of general questions about flags in country infoboxes that need a consensus, before proceeding with making changes to multiple articles. --IamNotU (talk) 04:06, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

A question

Hi Flags200, I would like to ask you what do you think of this alternative version of Serbian flag? It's suppost to be more modern and original, while keeping all of the old symbols of Serbia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_flag_of_Serbia_(an_idea).png cheers Sadkσ (talk is cheap) 01:15, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

I like it. I have a question though. Why did you make the stripe in the middle slightly larger? Just wondering Flags200 (talk) 20:42, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

I like it. I just have one question. Why did you make the blue stripe in the middle of the flag slightly larger? Just wondering Flags200 (talk) 20:44, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Two reasons: "4C" symbol does not look so well when the three colours take up equal parts and secondly, this way the flag looks - unique. Sadkσ (talk is cheap) 21:35, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

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New Hampshire state song

Hi - I have reverted your edits on the New Hampshire page, because there are in fact ten official state songs. (Please see RSA 3:7.) Because the nh.gov website states that "Old New Hampshire" is the one official state song, while the others are honorary songs, we need to go with that. It would be undue weight to list all ten songs in the infobox. --Ken Gallager (talk) 15:08, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

The New Hampshire almanac doesn't account for the status of Live Free or Die because it isn't listed. The statute that it refers to does have it listed. When I took a look at the bill adopting Live Free or die it's stated that it would become an official state song so I assumed that meant that it was coequal with Old New Hampshire Flags200 (talk) 15:40, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

The fact that the wording of the bill says "an" official state song says to me that it is probably like the other honorary songs. The law as passed puts it and eight other songs all on equal footing with "Old New Hampshire". So then we use the nh.gov page, which was posted after 2007, which continues to state that "Old New Hampshire" is the sole official state song. What we need is an official source that explicitly says "Live Free or Die" is now the second official state song. Thanks, --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:40, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

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