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Several military warships being discussed on Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Level/5/STEM

I have created a proposal on Vital Articles for Adding several classes of and specific Warships. I am posting on this Wikiproject because I think there might be some interested editors who can take a look and vote. Thank you. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 17:42, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Crab claw sail

May I draw your attention to the disputed tag now on Crab claw sail. It is discussed at [1].

Much of this subject matter is to do with the ethnography of sail types. What I am short of are RSs that use this term with respect to modern sailing craft.

Comment is sought, however, on all aspects of the article.
Thanks ThoughtIdRetired _TIR 10:18, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Most burgees standardized to unusual aspect ratio?

Hi editors! While I'm quite unfamiliar with the Wikipedia community culture and best practices for raising an issue like this, I think the discrepancy is prevalent enough to warrant me giving it a go. To preface, I'm very appreciative of the work @Banderas has done to vectorize the burgees of practically all US universities with sailing programs (among many others). That being said, his extensive contributions have amplified an issue which I noticed during the process of redesigning my own university's burgee: the vast majority of vectorized burgees on Wikipedia use the aspect ratio 5/3, a distant second to 3/2 in terms of physical examples and is, to the best of my knowledge, virtually nonexistent as the officially provided burgee of any yacht clubs or sailing programs.

While undoubtedly a bit of a nitpick, each of these occurrences does genuinely misrepresent the official burgee of their respective organizations and, speaking from experience, has the potential to cause quite a bit of confusion. Is there a reason this uncommon aspect ratio was chosen? If not, I would love to contribute to a project correcting these discrepancies. Stormslash (talk) 08:12, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Stormslash When any flag (including burgees) has no official ("de iure" or legislative description) of its proportions (width:length), "de facto" (what is mostly beig used) must be considered. That being said, when flags are being flown together or displayed together in charts or encyclopedias, they are also adapted to the same ratio. For example, at the Olympic Games, all national flags are adapted to the host country's national flag ratio (Examples: United Kingdom 1:2, France 2:3, Sweden 5:8, Germany 3:5, United States 10:19, etc) even though those are not their official proportinions, ot at the yearbooks of the Lloyd's Register of Yachts, where they used 2:3 proportions for all flags. Another example: To promote a unified look, all national flags for outdoor display at the UN are 4 by 6 feet, while flags used for indoor ceremonies are 3 by 5 feet.

Here at the wikipedia, my drawings of burgees have been done with proportions 3:5 because it's the most used ratio around the world, but if any burgee has any other "de iure" or "de facto" proportions, it can be uploaded with total freedom. Banderas (talk) 11:17, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]