Talk:Rainbow flag

Rainbow flag was one of the History good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
April 22, 2004	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 7, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
October 14, 2015	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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Reassessment[edit]

GA Reassessment[edit]

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Rainbow flag/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

This article has been expanded with a lot of unsourced content since passing GA in 2007. Therefore, it fails GA criteria 2. sst ✈ 12:27, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Since there has been no progress after more than 7 days of the start of the reassessment, and I have already notified relevant WikiProjects, I am delisting this article. sst ✈ 08:12, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Free Speech Flag[edit]

The Free Speech Flag from 2007 has been used similarly to other rainbow flags in large-scale mass opposition to authoritarian suppression, at cost to those who exhibit or promote it. The flag covertly encodes the illegal number visually and highlights consequences of criminalising numbers. When it was released, the third comment submitted to the designer's webpage says, "Ummm… the idea of a flag is nice, but yours looks a little too much like the gay rainbow." It seems like its inclusion in this article would be a good fit -- are there any criteria which disqualify it which I'm overlooking? The Free Speech Flag displays five bands of different hues, and I see this article lists several flags which only display three (red, yellow, blue, or red, brown and yellow). Natural rainbows produce the whole continuum of spectral frequencies so it seems to me the Free Speech Flag's hues would appear in a real rainbow at the appropriate places. I'd suggest something along the lines of:

The Free Speech Flag was created in 2007 to directly represent in red-green-blue levels parts of a number key to the digital rights management of DVDs. Escalating authoritarian censorship of the number sparked controversy, creativity, and the Streisand effect. Its creator, John Marcotte, said, "We want to start a movement [...] to reclaim personal liberties and decorporatize the laws of our nation. To that end we have made a flag, a symbol to show support for personal freedoms. Spread it as far and wide as you can."^[1]

Thanks! 37.60.86.4 (talk) 01:30, 14 June 2024 (UTC) 37.60.86.4 (talk) 01:30, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please read what is meant by "reliable, published sources" in Wikipedia and why self-published sources are not acceptable. Pyxis Solitary (yak yak). Ol' homo. 21:52, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Marcotte, John (May 1, 2007). "Free Speech Flag". Badmouth.net. Archived from the original on May 4, 2007. Retrieved September 25, 2015.

Brotherhood flag[edit]

@Pyxis Solitary and RootOfAllLight: regarding the Brotherhood flag which appears to be a clone of the Flag of the Races mentioned in the archive of that The American ref shown in the summary of this edit. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 22:13, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[marcotte-1] Marcotte, John (May 1, 2007). "Free Speech Flag". Badmouth.net. Archived from the original on May 4, 2007. Retrieved September 25, 2015.

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