Talk:Flag of Libya

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[edit] Symbolism

I'm a bit skeptical about the symbolism of the 4 regions of the flag. I'm not able to find any other sources for that corroborate that information; frankly it sounds like a joke, and a pretty good one actually. Can anybody provide any sources to support this? Ultranaut 01:06, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

It's currently under investigation by both User:Zscout370 and myself. Zscout contacted the Libya embassy in the US for more details, and also going through Google hits. For now, the hoax tag will suffice. Killfest2—Daniel.Bryant 01:37, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Google hits showed nothing of any four corners symbolism. It did show about the Green Revolution and Islam's colour. Hence, I removed the currently-questioned information, pending the response we get from the Lybian embassy in the US. Killfest2—Daniel.Bryant 01:44, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Note that the probable hoax about the 4 regions was added by User:66.178.22.82, whose edits have some blatant vandalism and also look like they may contain a lot of sneaky vandalism. Everything from him should be checked carefully. Redquark 01:53, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
From the books that I own, none of them said anything about the four regions, so I will assume it is a hoax now. We are still working on the ratio, but I should get a reply back by the end of the week. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 01:56, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Agree. It's most likely a hoax. – Adhemar 20:57, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Nevertheless, for future reference of this discussion, I'm going to copy the concerned sentences hereunder, so I don't need to look them up in the history just in case I find some source backing this up.
The top right corner of the flag represents peace, the top left represents life, the bottom right represents faithfulness to the country and the bottom left represents unity.
Ok. I'll look more later, but I had to fill out a spam-filter notice with the embassy, so my response is probably delayed. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 23:08, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Nothing from the Libya Embassy in the US, so I will try the embassy that is in Canada. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 04:34, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with Libya?

This flag is currently the 2nd world's greatest idea( next to snakes on a plane of cource). I don't think this needs it's own article to explain a brief history of Libya's flag and symbolism of the color green--Scott3 02:42, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Nah, most other African nations have a seperate article for their flag (see the template). Just leave it for now. Killfest2—Daniel.Bryant 02:57, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Keep. Every nation state has an article on their flag and a good portion are stubby, like this. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 03:19, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New sentence in the opening paragraph

I added it, feel free to reword/remove it if you don't like it, but I felt the article should reflect the degree of notice the flag has received because of its odd design.Isaac Benaron 18:37, 3 September 2007 (UTC)