Talk:Flag of Devon
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I heard that this flag was created by a student on a computor based on the cornish one? dunno if this is true, if so could be put in as tis interesting. Also does anyone know how it was 'deidicated to st petroc' ie how this was decided? another poll? 131.111.8.104
I think perhaps the 'conterversy' bit needs to be explained a bit more. The 'jealousy' bit isn't that well worded, it should probably be noted that the origninal conversation that this originated from did ( i think?) start with talking about the cornish flag, and that bbcs devon's articles made it fairly clear that the cornish flag was the spur to its creation (whatever tourism etc. benifits it has brung.) Haven't changed it cause im not too great at wording. Dunno about the phrase 'cornish nationalist' being used but can't think of a replacement,as in i think that 'claim' was pretty much common sense given the information rather than 'cornish nationalism'. Also I think it should be noted somehow that the 'need' for a flag or 'relavence' has been questioned by a number of people. I may not be wording this propally even here! I think the 'flap about the flag' to borrow a phrase is probably at least, if not more, important than the flag here, after all its not a real historical country or region flag so theres not much else to write about. After all it is a flag created VERY recently by a SMALL internet poll, and yet now a fair number of people (from what ive seen) have adopted it, indeed bbc devon seems to use it a fair amount, which suprises me to be honest as it seemed a pretty strange thing to support in the first place before it had been jumped on. 131.111.8.104
Can we get some citations for the criticism section? It has absolutely none at present and appears to be OR. Sourcing and avoiding "weasel words" is important here. --163.1.165.116 16:44, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Opening paragraph, POV and citations
MacRusgail, can you please give a reason for your reverting my edits? I have given my reasons in the edit summaries - to remove POV and redundancy from the initial section and to ask for citations for the criticism section. I would also appreciate it if you didn't just revert my contributions - if you believe they are wrong and feel the need to change them, please comment on the talk page rather than just reverting without meaningful summary. I was initially under the impression that you believed I was just a vandal, but it seems clear that you're more intent in just reinserting unsourced POV. Hopefully we can get this sorted out without recourse to further edit-warring. --163.1.165.116 16:59, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
