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Hi there! I saw you reverted my edit adding flags to the country list on Mains electricity by country. As I noted in my edit summary, every other listing of countries by some random statistic I could find uses the flag icons. They don't need to be super detailed to serve the intended purpose: to help quickly find a specific country. I think they're helpful, but I'm happy to discuss if you disagree. Thanks!! TheMrP (talk) 03:12, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
- Maybe it's my myopia, but I find flags to be uselessly ambiguous and hard to recognize. If I want to read about the statistics for Austria or Australia, I'm going to look for them by name, not by which pattern of colored blobs was agreed to by some bygone committee. Flags are for illiterates. --Wtshymanski (talk) 20:38, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
- If I'm looking for Australia, as I'm scrolling through the A's, I'll look for the blue with the red in the corner. That catches my eye a lot easier than the word 'Australia.' I'm not trying to figure out exactly what the flag of Australia looks like. I'd go to Flag of Australia if I wanted to know that. But maybe that's just because I'm more familiar with flags than the average Joe. I'm not looking to start an edit war, so I'll leave it as it was before, I just thought the article would be improved with this addition. Thanks! TheMrP (talk) 15:32, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
- Don't people routinely mix up the flags of Australia and New Zealand? Text is better than flags, though Austria and Australia are confusing. --Wtshymanski (talk) 20:00, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
- If I'm looking for Australia, as I'm scrolling through the A's, I'll look for the blue with the red in the corner. That catches my eye a lot easier than the word 'Australia.' I'm not trying to figure out exactly what the flag of Australia looks like. I'd go to Flag of Australia if I wanted to know that. But maybe that's just because I'm more familiar with flags than the average Joe. I'm not looking to start an edit war, so I'll leave it as it was before, I just thought the article would be improved with this addition. Thanks! TheMrP (talk) 15:32, 28 January 2021 (UTC)