Template talk:Country data Japan

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[edit] Japanese flag

  • There is never that a Japanese national flag became the Kyokujitsuki (旭日旗). At first the person whom I want to display please give the source. If there is a person expecting display without the source being posted, I must think about a request of protection. Please try to refer to Flag of Japan page. If it is replaced a national flag secretly by a flag of the armed forces, even people of any country will feel it unpleasantly. --saburny 15:25, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
    • What are you requesitng a source for? The fact that the military flag is a variant of japanese flags? The article (while not an appropriate source) substantiates that. Wikipedia is not for hiding one flag that you disagree with. In article on the Japanese military during the time of the flags usage, it would appear that use of the flag is appropriate. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 12:04, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
  • I request the source of the fact that a Kyokujitsuki was used for a Japanese national flag. For example, is a flag of the armed forces used in the United States of America and a UK template? It is not to be so. If somebody cannot prove a fact, such a parameter is unnecessary. The reason is because there is a person feeling that it is unpleasant like me. It and this are the history or national problems not a problem of a aircraft. It is lacking in understanding of a problem to demand talks by a project of aircraft. --saburny 12:41, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
  • If a source is not submitted by May 18 2007 (UTC), I delete indication of a Kyokujitsuki. --saburny 13:42, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Look at this: Image:Chitose_light_carrier_configuration.jpg What kind of flag do you see ?!? Or here: Image:Chitose1.jpg ? --Denniss 19:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Did you look at Flag of Japan? This problem is unrelated to a naval flag being used for a warship. I do not change a time limit for the reason.--saburny 23:41, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
    • A time limit is not an acceptable ultimatum. This is a template, not the article. If there is no reference of it in the article, it might be a valid claim. Face it, the flag existed and trying to get rid of it does not do any good. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 13:20, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
  • In any case it causes confusion to continue displaying the wrong flag without evidence.--saburny 18:22, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Japan's Naval Ensign

As is discussed (quite confusingly) above, Flag of Japan - the Kyokujitsuki - is Japan's historical and current Naval Ensign. As such, the labeling "{{flag|Japan|ww2}}" is IMO incorrect. I suggest "{{flag|Japan|naval}}" or similar instead. --Himasaram 00:55, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Have now created an alias naval and will start using this throughout articles featuring the Japan Naval Ensign flagicon. When migration is complete, I will remove the ww2 alias. --Himasaram 23:04, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Migration is complete. Please use "{{flag|Japan|naval}}" to get the Kyokujitsuki. --Himasaram 02:39, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Himasaram, migration was not complete and your careless edit made dozens of WP:AIR related articles broken. I'll fix all of them but next time try to be more careful. Regards, Piotr Mikołajski 11:04, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Huh? Where exactly? I just looked through all the articles in List of aircraft of the Japanese Navy but couldn't spot anything "broken" there. --Himasaram 11:35, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Probably not all aircraft are listed in List of aircraft of the Japanese Navy article. Yesterday someone edited Tachikawa Ki-55, today I've found Aichi E16A or Nakajima E8N to name that three. I have no idea how many were changed after 22 July by other editors and how many were not found yet. Piotr Mikołajski 14:27, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Hm, I googled for "flag alias-ww2" and got another two (except talk pages) - Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Goudkov LaGG-3 & Douglas DC-5. I think it should be all right now. --Himasaram 00:25, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
It seems that those two were the last ones because yesterday some people cleared such entries. Piotr Mikołajski 10:31, 29 July 2007 (UTC)