Talk:Flag (disambiguation)

Wikipedia Flags

What about "flag" in the wikipedia sense? As in: Flagged as inaccurate, flagged as needing improvement, etc... I can't seem to find help on how to do this anywhere!! Would this be in a different wiki? There are so many...! --Yuletide 21:13, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah-hah here we are: Wikipedia:Template_messages --Yuletide 21:25, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I just added a link for these... would have saved me some time, too. :-) Nightsmaiden (talk) 07:10, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages are primarily for disambiguating articles, and links to Wikipedia space should be kept separate, so I have changed the entry to a selfref hatnote.--ShelfSkewed Talk 04:38, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Poker chips

Disambiguation pages disambiguate Wikipedia articles, or topics within Wikipedia articles. The use of flag as a slang term for a type of poker chip or casino token is not supported by that article, and the disambiguation page is not the place to assert the usage. Add it to the appropriate article--preferably with a reference to a reliable source, and then it may be added to the dab page.--ShelfSkewed Talk 05:28, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

The term is in common usage -- it's a rather important one where it comes to smuggling, if you must know; an encyclopedia should clarify this as a possible meaning of the term. -- 209.6.238.158 (talk) 01:50, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm not arguing that it's not a real use or that Wikipedia shouldn't cover it. What I'm saying, if you will re-read my comment above, is that the disambiguation page is not the place for the usage to be established. Disambiguation pages are not actual articles, and they do not carry the burdens of notability and referencing that articles do. Dab pages are instead meta-articles that serve as navigation pages that lead users to relevant articles that discuss the listed topics. In this case there is no article that mentions flags as casino tokens and sending users to the casino token article will offer them no further information or context related the usage. If this is a notable piece of information, then it should be included in the casino token article, perhaps along with related information (For example, What are the slang terms for other chips?). But putting this unreferenced and otherwise unsupported piece of info on a dab page is not the right way to go about things.--ShelfSkewed Talk 03:17, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Visual Novel flags

In recent years, "flags" have been used more and more often in the area of anime and manga, to the point that a light novel series has even been made centered on the concept. The term "flag" in this case is derived from visual novels, and basically refers to a decision, event or situation that alters and defines the current and/or future relationships or destinies of specific characters. One good example of the use of the term is the Shibo(Death) Flag, which refers to any number of actions or statements that seem to guarantee the imminent death of a character, such as a character saying he means to propose if he succeeds at a task. Since it's come to be used often in this particular genre/medium, should there not be some mention of this use somewhere on the disambiguation page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.30.50.240 (talk) 18:05, 7 June 2014 (UTC)