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Misinformation and a Misattribution

I would like to start off first by talking about this image's sources. http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/in-cochi.html - This source, FOTW, says the following about the flag:

Keralan nationalists resisted inclusion in India and attempted to declare the region independent in August 1947. Nations Without States calls a horizontal tricolor of red, yellow and turquoise "the Keralan national flag, the traditional flag of the state."

It clearly mentions Keralan, referencing Keralites, but this is a flag for... Cochin. If you read the last part, it talks about it being "the Keralan national flag, the traditional flag of the state", not Cochin's flag. I looked into it's source and found that it is mentioning Kerala's secessionist movement specifically, not Cochin's. I will be quoting what was written on the source below:

FLAG: The Keralan national flag, the traditional flag of the state, is a hori-zontal tricolor of red, yellow, and turquoise.

This can all be found in page 295 of the source "Nations Without States" by James Minhan, on a section specifically dedicated to Kerala, not Cochin.

I believe this flag to be quite dubious and misinformative, being a literal misattribution, I hope sufficient action can be taken on it. Thank you for considering my message. Ishatmypants123 (talk) 12:01, 25 April 2024 (UTC)