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In the election yesterday, voters chose a new Mississippi flag. Can someone update the link? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi#/media/File:Flag_of_Mississippi_%22New_Magnolia_Flag%22.svg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.220.13.88 (talk) 17:12, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
This is a pretty trivial thing to make a talk page entry for, but I feel like correcting myself. My edit summary for [this edit] said that the big list should be semicolon-separated, but that is not true because the phrase "in addition to" makes "local, state, and federal" a whole new list. Semicolons would be necessary if that phrase were to be removed, in which case the proper punctuation would be:
Historically, the tasks of local law enforcement; public education; public health; intrastate commerce regulation; local transportation; infrastructure; and local, state, and federal elections have generally been considered primarily state responsibilities, although all of these now have significant federal funding and regulation as well.
NoNoEsImposible (talk) 04:14, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Station1 reverted my edit to remove the state flags on the basis that in this article they do not serve an encyclopedic purpose and there are too many of them in a small space. I am curious to know how these flags are serving a greater encyclopedic purpose over Flags of the U.S. states and territories, for example. The flags here are so small that you can't even tell what they are (Alaska's barely visible star specs, Virginia's seal, etc.), let alone differentiate all the seal-on-a-bedsheets from each other. Thrakkx (talk) 20:46, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
It's an alphabetical list of linked state names.—there is an argument to be made that this list is part of a sentence, which would mean it violates MOS:NOICONS, among all the other anti-flag guidelines. Thrakkx (talk) 00:29, 18 September 2022 (UTC)