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File:Flag of India.svg

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Wrong colour

2 Reasons:

1. The file uses wrong colour code of the flag of India and it does not matches the colour scheme used in the official website of PM of India [[1]]. There is already a file with "Government of India" as its Author as given below (which is the uppermost agency whose colour scheme decision is final and binding). Also the colour scheme used by ISRO, the Government of India space agency and Government established flag posts is also different from that used in this file.

Image up for deletion here
Image as per Government of India sources
Third largest Flag post within India
Flag used by space agency of Government of India
Flag on rocket of space agency of Government of India
Indian flag and the State Emblem atop Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru
Air Force flag

2. Retaining this file is blocking the flag introduced by the Government source being used across Wikipedia pages since this file with wrong colour scheme is encroaching that position.Editor8220 (talk) 13:19, 15 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

 Keep (at present)
We would need a reliable source for the definition of the colours. Colour picking from a website, even a government website, isn't good enough. Governments might be seen as authorities here, but their web designers and websites aren't implicitly so. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:21, 15 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
See also https://archive.org/details/gov.in.is.1.1968/page/n7/mode/2up for a 1968 standard (although unit conversion is often tricky) Andy Dingley (talk) 09:38, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

But that does not explain the colour difference this file has with all these sample images I provided (Including flag posts and rocket fairing), But all of it matches with the referance file I introduced in the top. Also the issue of colour and size of the wheel in the middle has been raised by several users in the talk page, but none has been addressed by the administrators nor they reduce protection to necessiate updating the file. COM:INUSE. does not apply since this is no ordinary image, its national flag of a nation. A change in colour cannot be superceded as not an issue just because too many pages uses it.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Editor8220 (talk • contribs) 05:52, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What is preventing you from editing or uploading a new version of the file? You should have started a discussion on the file's talk page. It's not too late for you to do so, but the main point is that someone should change the colors suitably. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:08, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
There already is another version of the, as desired (2nd image link). Andy Dingley (talk) 21:21, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
OK, so substitute that image everywhere where this image is used, and then let us know. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:16, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Editor8220: "COM:INUSE does not apply since this is no ordinary image, its [sic] national flag of a nation." Does COM:INUSE say that a flag of a nation or any non-ordinary images are somehow exempt from the policy. No it does not – the policy says "A media file that is in use on one of the other projects of the Wikimedia Foundation is considered automatically to be useful for an educational purpose, as is a file in use for some operational reason such as within a template or the like." This image is used across thousands of pages. I can guarantee that a vast majority of users and projects don't give a shit about such a minor trivial colour issue. Please read the policy first before making such spurious claims. SHB2000 (talk) 10:35, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]


@SHB2000: First of all its not used in thousands of pages, its only used in less than a 200 pages. All national flag files follow a common name format called "Flag of xxxx.svg". So for using India's flag, this file is the default file as it follows that format. Thats why all pages and projects are restricted to using this file. A change in colour of national flag is still a form of vandalism. If I change Red colour on chinese flag to pink, do you agree that It is still chinese flag? Editor8220 (talk) 12:32, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • It's used in many thousands of pages.
Also, please sign your posts Andy Dingley (talk) 11:19, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Editor8220: Yabbut a minor colour issue is still not a reason for deletion. And no, a slight change in colour is clearly not vandalism – I suggest you read COM:Vandalism and m:Vandalism to get an insight of what truly is vandalism, but making spurious vandalism claims isn't supporting your argument. SHB2000 (talk) 12:36, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I wish to close the deletion tag and keep the file. I moved to deletion because, the issue has been raised several times in talk page by multiple users, But no response or reduction in protection.Still the colour issue is not ignorable or considered as negligable, if you look at very older versions of the same file, colours had deviated very much from the default combination. Editor8220 (talk) 14:17, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: request was withdrawn. —howcheng {chat} 20:17, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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