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in the website Nationstates.net, this flag is shown as the default flag, should we mention this somewhere in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.188.33 (talk) 17:45, 7 November 2007 (UTC) This NationStates website is run by; Aborigines? Australians?Some fringe political group? Who? Web geeks? Who and what relevance does a website have to this flag? Has life in Australia become subservient to any website that people create?Ern Malleyscrub (talk) 08:31, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
A lot of people have suggested replacing the Union Jack with the Aboriginal flag in the canton of the Australian flag. I don't have the time to research it myself, but if I recall correctly the designer of the flag (who has copyright over it, by the way) does not approve such use. If anyone can find anything, that might be worth noting somehow. El T 13:16, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
It's a very sad thing, but I really, really don't think this flag is PD. Please see Image talk:Australian aboriginal flag.png for discussion.
Would be interesting to see if it survives a copyright-infringement claim by the Belgish or Germans though ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.94.74.212 (talk) 04:24, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
--pfctdayelise 18:27, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
The copyright status of the Australian Aboriginal Flag was discussed extensively in November 2015 and the result was keep. For use in Australia, see the Australian Government website reference in the present article. Wikiain (talk) 21:54, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
I know its popularly said to represent "the people's skin" but I think black on this flag is more likely to represent the night sky. People dont often put their skin colour on a flag? and even if they did it would be brown rather than black. It would be like white people thinking the white parts of the Australian flag also represent the peoples skin. Astrokey44 22:03, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
There are a couple of featued flag articles, like Flag of Hong Kong and Flag of South Africa which could be used to help structure this article. There should probably also be a mention that despite suggestion- Thomas does not want a hybrid of this flag to replace the current Aus Flag.--nixie 10:59, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Enough reverting! I think I removed this from the article myself at one stage: [[Condom]]s in the colours of the Aboriginal flag won a health award in 2005. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1502307.htm] I don't support this being in the article. Maybe if it was explained, as per the article, that it was to encourage Aboriginal people to have safe sex, familiarity etc... or maybe we should put that in some article on indigeneous health. They weren't even in the design of the flag - just the colours.
I also don't support a random news story about the flag being desecrated, as was at one stage being added. To my mind they're similarly irrelevant.
User:Pharoz - careful with your Wikipedia:Minor edits. Adding or removing information should rarely if ever be marked "minor". pfctdayelise 16:16, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I would second the comment above by JPD, placing this issue in a broader context of how the colours of the flag are used in many contexts. I thought the first draft of this comment was inconguent with the rest of the article, and with an entry on a flag; but the current draft is an improvement. How people from outside Australia would read the page might also be considered. My apologies for incorrectly marking my edit as "minor". Pharoz 14:35, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved. Orderinchaos 18:38, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
I propose that the name of this article be changed from "Australian Aboriginal flag" (official in the 1995 proclamation) to "Australian Aboriginal Flag" (official in the 2008 proclamation - and to be similar to Torres Strait Islander Flag, also official from 2008). "Australian Aboriginal flag" would then redirect to "Australian Aboriginal Flag". Any views? --Wikiain (talk) 00:17, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Australian Aboriginal flag → Australian Aboriginal Flag – There being no reactions, I have tried "Move". But it is reported that the page already exists, apparently because "Flag" is counted as the same as "flag". Simple renaming would be better, but move appears to be required. Grateful for assistance. --Wikiain (talk) 00:50, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
There was a stubborn redirect in the way. Deleted that and effected the move. Orderinchaos 18:38, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
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The article has stated for some time that Harold Thomas "is descended from the Luritja people of Central Australia". Let's leave that statement alone just now and have some discussion about its importance. My perspective is that it is important to state which Aboriginal people Mr Thomas belongs to - that he is, in Aboriginal phrasing, a Luritja man. Partly because each Aboriginal people is a sub-nation within Australia. And partly because ownership of the design may belong to that people within its own law - albeit that this traditional property interest may be necessarily represented through Mr Thomas individually in terms of Australian copyright law. --Wikiain (talk) 05:06, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
It's my understanding Harold Thomas holds the intellectual property rights to the flag exclusively as an invidual, not as part of a group. The only criticism I have with this inclusion is that it seems to focus too heavily on the semantics of the flag's designer when this is intended as an article on the flag itself. Again, granted it is relevant he is Aboriginal, maybe not so much which tribe(what is the correct vernacular here?) he is descended from. This information would make sense within Harold Thomas' own article. (Sir Harry Nessbit 06:14, 31 January 2013 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harry Nessbit (talk • contribs)
I still feel the article in question is not the place for such information, however you appear to be better educated in this area than I so will defer to your suggestion and leave it as is. (Sir Harry Nessbit 04:57, 1 February 2013 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harry Nessbit (talk • contribs)
On 5 August 2012, 84user added the Aboriginal flag as displayed in the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo. On one level this might seen as just over-zealous. On another, it may suggest that Aborigines belong in a zoo. No doubt that is not why the flag is displayed in the zoo, but when it is taken out of that context and selected here rather than any other display of the flag, it seems to me to take on a different significance. So, remove? --Wikiain (talk) 21:46, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I would suggest that the opening sentence of the article be changed to say that the flag represents Aboriginal Australians, not Indigenous Australians. Given that Indigenous Australians is a broad term meant to refer to Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people collectively, the current statement in the article is incorrect. Anyone think this change shouldn't be made? LizLou (talk) 23:23, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
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"|image has rationale=yes" has been added. Wikiain (talk) 22:55, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
This page was making contadictory claims of both a proportion of 3:5 (infobox) and the "width is 1.5 times its height" (introduction).
However flags for sale are all 1:2 (the same as the Flag of Australia)
This is also backed up by the World Flag Db.
I have taken the liberty of changing the text of the article but someone with a bit more experience may like to update the images. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kelly F Thomas (talk • contribs) 12:41, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
This suggestion to resolve copyright issues could be worked into the article.[1] The report also provides useful background. HTH. RobbieIanMorrison (talk) 07:22, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
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@Bahudhara: Hello, when I removed the link, I wasn't referring to this Wikipedia article, but about the news report on Birubi Art having breached Australian consumer law. However, the news report does not mention anything about the art studio having produced the flag illegally, nor was the creator Thomas involved in ligitation against the studio itself either on behalf of his flag, or Aboriginal communities. I have reread the news article but I am still failing to find its relevance to the article about the flag here.
May I understand the point of your revert? Seloloving (talk) 17:27, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
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– Per usage statistics in sources, these are not proper names. The first two appear in book stats only with lowercase flag. The red ensign used to be more capitalized, but never consistently so, and only about half the time in 21st century. See n-gram stats. Dicklyon (talk) 23:46, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.(and this is not [1][2][3] – lower-case "flag" overwhelmingly dominates except in title-case headings), and per WP:OFFICIALNAME:
There are several places in which editors are urged to read the article title policy before proposing or supporting name changes, but for one reason or another, proposals based entirely on official or legal names just keep coming. Article titles should be ... consistent with usage in reliable English-language sources. ... the article title policy says Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title ... only usage in reliable sources is to be used to decide on an article title ... An official English name ... should be used only if it is actually the name most commonly used.Finally, "Australian Aboriginal flag" is a descriptive applellation, not a proper name in the usual sense, even if some primary sources choose to capitalise it in a promotional manner, and quite a minority of secondary sources choose to "obey" that capitalization-for-signification style (WP does not; see MOS:SIGCAPS). PS: When a name of a flag is not simply a descriptive "flag of X" or "Y flag" phrase, but something more evocative, then it may be proper name and remain capitalized (not because some editor thinks it should, but because it will be found capitalized in nearly all independent reliable sources); examples are Union Jack, Ulster Banner, Star-Spangled Banner (flag), Golden Arrowhead, Blood-Stained Banner, Broken Trident, etc., etc., though many of appellations of this sort are not the primary names but are nicknames. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 05:29, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
@Errantios and ScottDavis: It's not clear why you guys are objecting, citing MOS:INSTITUTIONS. See above where this notion appears to have been thoroughly rebutted. Do you still object, and if so can you state a reason? Dicklyon (talk) 10:38, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
It looks like the move will happen. Then I suggest that the opening sentence should read: "The Australian Aboriginal flag (officially Australian Aboriginal Flag) ...". The later reference to legislation can be tweaked accordingly. Perhaps we should invite parallel discussion of "Torres Strait Islander Flag" and "Australian National Flag". Errantios (talk) 12:11, 20 February 2024 (UTC)