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Hi, I noticed that you removed the branch and rank insignia from the infobox of Annukka Ylivaara. Any particular reason? Some articles on military people have them, some don't, but I'm not aware of a policy for or against. Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:13, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi DoubleGrazing, see MOS:INFOBOXFLAG (Avoid flag icons in infoboxes. Generally, flag icons should not be used in infoboxes, even when there is a "country", "nationality" or equivalent field. [..] Flag icons should only be inserted in infoboxes in those cases where they convey information in addition to the text.) and MOS:ICONDECORATION (Icons should serve an encyclopedic purpose and not merely be decorative. [..] An icon is purely decorative if it does not improve comprehension of the article subject and serves no navigational function. As far as I can see, the icons I removed did not provide any additional information not already available in a more digestible form from the associated text. Ljleppan (talk) 10:34, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Okay, thanks. I thought military people might have been an exception to this 'no icons in infobox' rule, because you do see them used quite often (then again, quite often you don't...), but perhaps not. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:56, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The rules are somewhat vague ("avoid", "generally", etc.), and a lot of military infoboxes fall into cases where flags are useful: for example in Battle of the Bulge the flags are useful for associating nationalities to entries in a larger list. There's also a ton of older military articles that are just filled with all kinds of flags and icons that are purely decorational, and nobody has just got around to them (or cared enough) to fix them. Ljleppan (talk) 11:02, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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