Talk:White flag

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Order[edit]

Anyone cares to arrange the historical examples of use of white flag in chronological order?--130.216.30.233 (talk) 12:00, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

White flag GIF[edit]

Should the article contain a GIF of a white flag ? It does look a bit silly. -- Ze miguel 08:41, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's stupid. -Willmcw 09:03, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Especially as you can't see the exquisite detail as in my high-resolution JPEG. Jeremy Nimmo 12:18, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

wtf? an image of whiteness? Talk about overkill. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.148.209.254 (talk • contribs) 10:32, 11 August 2007

Well now it is an svg, and what fantastic detail! No loss of quality whatever size you have it. Its so cool how can you get rid of it? Should be in an infobox maybe! But are the proportions correct?

You need this kind of visual representation though, you say white but to see white you might realise how white. For example if you are having a war in Antarctica, after seeing this it might occur to you how you would need to put a border around your white flag for it to be effective. - J Logan ^t: 21:23, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

... Would it be silly....[edit]

... To add the three white flags from Gallery_of_flags_by_design#Solid... I'd put a border and a note on them of course, but... --Aknorals 01:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Publicity Help[edit]

This page would get alot of help if it were out where everyone can see it, like on the Did You Know on the Main Page. Xlegiofalco 03:15, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalisim[edit]

Seems to me that there's a bit of vandalisim in the first few lines of this article. That probably should be addressed, but I'm not quite sure how to do that.

Imagine[edit]

Is there anywhere we can add the Nutopian national flag on here?

Geneva Convention[edit]

The introduction says "The use of the flag to surrender is included in the Geneva Conventions." Which Geneva convention? It is mentioned in Protocol I mentions a flag of truce under the section Perfidy, but is it mentioned anywhere else?

A flag of truce is mentioned in "CHAPTER III: Flags of Truce" Hage IV of the Hague Conventions (1907) but there does not seem to be a mention of the colour. --Philip Baird Shearer 10:23, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"A person is regarded as a parlementaire who has been authorized by one of the belligerents to enter into communication with the other, and who advances bearing a white flag." -- Hague IV (1907), annex, "Regulations respecting the laws and customs of war on land", section II "Hostilities", chapter III "Flags of truce", article 32 http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hague04.asp so I attempt to change the phrase mentioned from "Geneva" to "Hague". Hexmaster (talk) 06:07, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of surrender or truce.[edit]

Should be

Flag of temporary truce in order to negociate or parlé.

A white flag is NOT a flag of surrender. It is a flag signifying non-combatant status, dialoque (ambassadoral for example) which implies a temporary seize fire in order to parlé, a nurses uniform, red cross on a white surface. Where did the idea of a white flag signifying surrender come from, military movie magic? Comments would be appreciated.(Fractalhints (talk) 13:26, 9 February 2010 (UTC))[reply]

Use of withe tissue in car during emergency trip[edit]

What about this use? It is common in Italy e I guess in Europe. What about the rest of the world? --TheDRaKKaR (talk) 14:01, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tolkien's Gondor under the Stewards[edit]

The flag of the Stewards of Gondor from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien was white without charge as described in LotR/Appendix A/Gondor and the Heirs of Anarion/The Stewards. Could that information be placed in the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.94.192.149 (talk) 21:03, 22 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Half a year passed but nobody cares. Well I have no experience of editing Wiki pages so let it be.178.94.114.16 (talk) 12:36, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is already a note about it but with no sources and with a mistake, I believe ("black tree upon a white background" part). I still have no knowledge how to edit articles to the needed extent so I just state the source and a quote from it here.

"Nonetheless the Stewards never sat on the ancient throne; and they wore no crown, and held no sceptre. They bore a white rod only as the token of their office; and their banner was white without charge; but the royal banner had been sable, upon which was displayed a white tree in blossom beneath seven stars".

The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, (IV) Gondor and the Heirs Of Anárion, the Stewards.Adûnâi (talk) 21:24, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled posting[edit]

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This one never gets old.

Widgetdog (talk) 15:30, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Growing use of French tricolour flag being used as a stand-in surrender flag...[edit]

...so much so, that the French tricolour has been overnamed the French 'retreatcolour'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.37.22 (talk) 21:35, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

what was the point of this source-less and useless comment Esteban Outeiral Dias (talk) 19:35, 5 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nutopia[edit]

Would John Lennon's Nutopia merit mention here? PurpleChez (talk) 21:06, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I added a brief section about Nutopia. Please edit as needed. PurpleChez (talk) 21:21, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Coronavirus[edit]

The coronavirus section is unsourced, and i have never heard of that use. So, if there aren't any objections, I'm going to remove. Shrekxy 64. 23:22, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Some sources: Coronavirus: Belgium's Royal Palace hoists the white flag (image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETyc0OzX0AMHn82?format=jpg&name=900x900), See also https://www.monarchie.be/en#home "Together against Corona"" David dc (talk) 08:59, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Put flags into categories[edit]

Can we make categories to divide up the various uses of the white flag? For example: countries, fictional, sports, societal. Saying the white flag was used in Afghanistan and Gondor without pointing out the meaningful difference between these places is misleading. It would also make the page easier to read at a glance. --Ekvikiu (talk) 14:59, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Section name "The white flag" is not helpful, "Truce or surrender" would be better[edit]

Section name "The white flag" is not helpful, "Truce or surrender" would be better. And yes it was used extensively for surrender in WWII, e.g. Battle of Hamburg. Facts707 (talk) 20:44, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

French Flag[edit]

all i see here is the french flag. can anyone fix that? Chicken4War (talk) 01:00, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]