Talk:Newfoundland Tricolour
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A fact from Newfoundland Tricolour appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 5 July 2006. The text of the entry was as follows: "Did you know
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[edit] DYK
Flag Ratio: 1:2...that the Newfoundland Tricolour, a popular but unofficial flag of Newfoundland and Labrador is one of the oldest flags of North America and the oldest flag in the world to use the color pink.
To get top billing in DYK, it will require a picture and a statement that is covered in the article. I would suggest something that will certainly pique the interest of many. How does the foregoing look for a DYK headliner? It doesn't state North America in the article, but it does in Paul O'Neil's book... HJKeats 15:57, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
WOW, that was a quick ride; the article was placed up there for what seemed like a brief stint. HJKeats 15:23, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Irish ancestry/support for the tricolour
"This is roughly reflective of the proportion of the province claiming Irish ancestry." Recommend this sentence for deletion. It attempts to connect the percentage of Newfoundlanders claiming Irish ancestry and the percentage supporting the use of the tricolour as the provincial flag, purely on the basis of numerical similarity arising from unrelated questions in two unrelated surveys (an opinion poll and a census). As such, it's subjective/speculative and a spurious correlation. Otherwise, if you want to take the anecdotal route, you may be better off characterizing it as a townie/bay divide, more than anything else. 69.46.127.7 (talk) 21:25, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Pink/Rose as Catholic
The article identifies "rose" as a liturgical colour of the Catholic Church apparently as evidence it would not represent the Protestant population, but rose is also a liturgical colour of many Protestant traditions including Church of England.Delaneysteve (talk) 18:25, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
