Talk:Flag of Paraguay

Symbolism

hello, I'm temporarily removing this text from the article, because I very closely paraphrased a website long ago, and I haven't found the source yet. The text hasn't been changed substantially since I added it in. (See my talk page for more details.) Once I find the website that I used, I'll cite it and use it more appropriately.

The Paraguayan flag has three bright stripes on it that are colored red, white, and blue. The colors were influenced by French Tricolore, which is a symbol of liberation. The color symbolism is very rich to Paraguayan people. The red stands for patriotism, courage, heroism, equality and justice; white for purity, firmness, union, and peace; and blue for tranquility, love, knowledge, verity, and liberty.

Originally, the flag had the distinctive feature of having different emblems on each side. The front side bore the national coat of arms, which is a yellow five pointed star within a green wreath capped by the words "Republica de Paraguay". The star of May represents the date of Independence, May 15, 1811. The back side was of the Treasury Seal of Paraguay, a lion with a red cap of liberty on a pole. The Treasury Seal is symbolic of defense of national liberty which is represented by the lion guarding the liberty cap. The current flag, however, bears the national coat of arms on both sides.

 – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 07:17, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Okay, so I've found a page from Flags of the World where someone claims to own a current version of the flag that has identical designs on both sides. [1] I don't think this is the site I used, though. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 07:27, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Ah, but the existence of such a flag isn't very strong evidence that that design has actually changed; more likely it's just the manufacturer cutting corners. Two-sided flags are expensive to manufacture properly! ScottMainwaring 07:53, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Right, but again, that's not the page I used. The page I used clearly said that it was modified to use the same design on both sides. That page would've been easier to find back then, but ironically this Wikipedia article and its numerous mirrors have made it quite hard to find. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 07:59, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

The CIA World Factbook [2] still says both sides are different (though they only show one of them). I've seen people post saying that they have a flag with the same emblems on each side, but I wonder if this is more a reflection of bad flagmaking than of a new flag design. I bet many of the flags for sale (search Ebay for "paraguay flag") are made with the emblem from one side on both sides out of laziness. Rjhatl (talk) 14:05, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

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Confederación que la Junte gouvernante d'Asunción

That looks like a bad translation from French. I guess it should read:

following the Tratado de Confederación que la Junte gouvernante d' signed by the governing Junta of Asunción

But that treaty apparently is from 1812, and marks when the flag appeared; not when it was adopted, which was 1842. So one of the two things are misplaced in the article. --Guillem^Talk 14:16, 10 December 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ArinArin (talk • contribs)

Reverse side

The historical version of the reverse side is captioned 1842 to 2013, but the image is [3]. The dates on one or the other are wrong; if it was different before 1957, could someone make the previous version and add it? If not, someone who knows which is right needs to rename the image. PaulGS (talk) 01:12, 28 March 2016 (UTC)