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The Article has been without a Infobox Flag template, so I added one to add to looks and to make the article look better.
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
Consensus for a merger. Choucas Bleu (T·C) 19:26, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
More improvements needed
Alright, so I performed the merger discussed above, and used the opportunity to do some cleaning-up and better linking. Something I did not touch though were the references, which are clearly lacking for some parts of the article. Another thing that I realized was that while the page has information about modern use of the flag, and some (alleged) details on the symbolism, there is no information on the actual origin of the design. It seems like it was already clearly established for Ossetians in 1990, so I think adding an "origins" subsection with the relevant info (if it can be found) would help the article a lot. I am afraid the relevant sources are going to be in Russian/Georgian though. Choucas Bleu (T·C) 20:16, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Violet Stripe
I was reading the entry for the flag of North Ossetia on Flags of the World and that website mentions that the variant with the violet stripe, which Wikipedia has been treating as a factual flag, was erroneous and never existed. The website claims that the violet stripe is the result of a mistranslation of the Russian word "purpurnyĭ", which English media at the time translated to violet, instead of it's more accurate meaning of "dark red" and that a variant with a violet stripe, despite being widely circulated in English media, never existed, and was never used in South or North Ossetia. Scu ba (talk) 17:04, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's interesting. When looking at the image file for the flag with the purple stripe, it does link to a Russian webpage that seems to insist that the flag was changed corresponding to actual governmental decisions at the time. I guess trying to find an actual photography of the flag being used between 1991 and 1994 would settle it, but that may prove difficult. Choucas Bleu (T·C) 09:37, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]