File talk:Timurid.svg

Source?

I've found a second source which may prove this flag to NOT be fictous. Look at this letter from Timur to Charles VI:

. The red stamp seen at the side clearly shows the same 3 circle symbol as the flag in this file. Timur073767 (留言) 00:09, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

This is the red stamp of the French Royal archives. पाटलिपुत्र (留言) 11:03, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

OVERWRITING OF FALSE FLAG

Ongoing hoax about the flag of the Timurid Empire (14th-15th century). There is no historically known flag of the Timurid Empire, and none in the Catalan Atlas of 1375 contrary to what is sometimes claimed here. BUT, some users have been pushing a red pellets on black background version of the flag [1] for a long time (as you will see in the history of the file Flag of the Timurid Empire) but this is a hoax. The only known Timurid dynastic symbol are the "three annulets", as they appear on Timurid coinage: , hence the stylization that had been provided instead [2]. For reference: (2010). "On the Timurid flag". Beiträge zur islamischen Kunst und Archäologie 2: 144, 149..

The file of the actual grey flag from the Catalan Atlas was overwritten by the uploader over the previous green flag, a hoax that actually cannot be found in the Catalan Atlas. The original file claiming to be the "Flag of the Delhi Sultanate" being a hoax, it was quintessentially false and misled users, and therefore had to be updated with a proper and accurate image. This is following the spirit of the COM:OW rule about "Files with current data" which for example allows to modify the file of a map which has false national boundaries: "Files with current data: (...) However, files may be identified to reusers as ones where information may be updated – these files can and should be overwritten to reflect new information as necessary. (...) A file named "File:Germany location map.svg" is expected to indicate the current boundaries, and is expected to be updated if, for example, the boundaries changed or errors were observed." So a map with false boundaries can, and should be, overwriten: similarly a national flag with a false design can and should be overwritten.पाटलिपुत्र (留言) 05:34, 21 May 2023 (UTC)