Talk:Non-Existent Flags

Necessity

Are there so many that they need a special page?
- unsigned edit by ATHSE

This is the solution we came up with, because an all or nothing approach leads to confusion.

If you give it its own page, then due to people's lacking reading comprehension, they will think it's a real flag - after all, it's in the INI, it's on ModEnc, it must be real, right?

If you don't give it a page, then people won't know it's not real (because there is no page that says so), and they will create pages for it - after all, it's in the INI and there is no ModEnc-page for it. That must be an error, right?

This is the middle ground. It does put the flag on ModEnc, but it doesn't treat it like a real flag.

~ Renegade (SysOp) 08:35, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Reorder and new column

Before the list grows too long, it's a good time to expand and adjusts its structure. I think there should be something like a "Found In..." column which specifies the game(s) or other context the "flag" was found in. In addition, the table should be reordered alphabetically or in some other apparent way; now it just looks like it's ordered randomly. Tables can also be made sortable. –Crimsonum 10:40, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

It is not yet known whether there is a need to do this, because this page is intended to allow people, after entering a non-existent flag name, to directly jump to the location of the corresponding flag’s description through internal links and anchors on this page. So currently, at most, there are some treatments arranged in adjacent positions according to their occurrence locations, for example, AntiNaval, AntiOrganic, AntiUnderwater.

However, I think having a clear arrangement is definitely a good thing for page information organization and other aspects. If you have any ideas, then just go ahead and start.

~ DeathFish (talk) 11:01, 13 November 2025 (UTC)