User talk:SolarKhan15
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Once again, welcome! R Prazeres (talk) 20:54, 18 June 2025 (UTC) R Prazeres (talk) 20:54, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
- An additional note, to further clarify on the reason your edits were reverted: please review two central policies in particular, Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:No original research. The addition or selection of "flags" for historical states (or maps, logos, or other images that convey information) must be in line with those principles, which means that flag images should only be accepted if they are sourced from reliable scholarly publications. On a less important note in terms of general practice, we also don't add flag icons to parameters in infoboxes unless they are actually useful for that topic/context. (You'll find that some articles still use them, but that's either because it's useful for that topic or simply because not everyone is aware of the guideline yet.) Feel free to ask questions if you need further clarification. Thanks, R Prazeres (talk) 21:30, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
- Okay Thank you! SolarKhan15 (talk) 21:32, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Again Brother, Listen, the flags you removed from the Buyid dynasty in the Battle of Baghdad (946) article weren’t some made-up nonsense — those were their actual historical flags. Next time, do your research properly before blindly deleting my work, And Also here is the link for the flag https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buyid_Dynasty_Flag.jpg SolarKhan15 (talk) 17:38, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
- Please keep in mind that anyone can upload anything on Commons, so the fact that an image called "Buyid Dynasty flag" exists there doesn't mean anything. In general, people upload fictional or speculative flags all the time: a few get deleted, some are tagged for problems (for example, the image you linked is already tagged as "fictitious"), and most are just forgotten and never used. In order for content to be used on Wikipedia, it must be supported directly and clearly by reliable sources (secondary sources, to be clear), as mentioned above. In practice, it's very rare for us to know any details about flags or banners of medieval states (in most of the Islamic world, at any rate), as there are rarely surviving examples and there is no tradition directly equivalent to modern "national" flags at this time. Hence why alleged flags of historical states are suspicious in most circumstances. R Prazeres (talk) 19:14, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
