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Per MOS:INFOBOXFLAG, please don't put flags in infoboxes. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 21:47, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

While you are correct that that is the general rule for infoboxes, the rule also states that:

"Human geographic articles – for example, settlements and administrative subdivisions – may have flags of the country and first-level administrative subdivision in infoboxes. However, physical geographic articles – for example, continents, islands, mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, swamps, etc. – should not."

I am adding flags to the infoboxes of administrative subdivisions (most recently communities in Tennessee), which is consistent with this rule. It also conforms to the style of the infoboxes of numerous other similar settlements and administrative subdivisions. (See, e.g., New York City, Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Missouri, Little Rock, Arkansas, Birmingham, Alabama, Rapid City, South Dakota, and The Woodlands, Texas which all have flags in their infoboxes). ToxicOJ (talk) 21:58, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Also, to address your point about my formatting of "a known [D]emocrat" in the Knoxville, Tennessee page: I was quoting a newspaper article which formatted it as "democrat," so I put the D in brackets when I capitalized it to show an alteration from the original source, but I understand now why that looks confusing, so I will change the wording/formatting to be clearer. Thank you for pointing that out! ToxicOJ (talk) 22:19, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

I hadn't noticed the exception to the Infobox flag rule you note above; I was always under the general impression that we avoid using flags in infoboxes. However, I'm a bit wary of systematically adding these to city infoboxes when they are not already there; the policy says that infoboxes "...may have flags of the country and first-level administrative subdivision in infoboxes" - is there a consensus (e.g., in Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cities) to systematically add these to all existing settlement infoboxes? Usually when such consensus's are agreed upon, we can use bots or scripts to make those changes. I'm not going to revert any more of your changes, but I'm wondering why there is the need to make sweeping changes in a unilateral fashion.OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 23:47, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

That all definitely makes sense. After reviewing the page you linked, the topic doesn't appear to have been brought up on that page. However, considering the very large number of settlement articles that have flags in their infoboxes, (the communities I linked above are just a few of a wide swath of examples of varying population sizes, incorporation statuses, and locations), I would consider a consensus to have been reached. Thanks for taking the time to talk it over! ToxicOJ (talk) 23:58, 17 March 2026 (UTC)