Talk:IBA World Boxing Championships

Date for 2012 World Championship

Not sure where an April for the 2013 competition comes from. This article says otherwise.

http://www.aiba.org/en-US/news/ozqsp/newsId/4657/headlines.aspx — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.94.91.102 (talk) 23:53, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Use of a flag for Northern Ireland on this article

The Ulster Banner should not be used in this article. 1. The games were awarded to a IABA sanctioned city. The IABA do not use the Ulster Banner or the Union Flag.--Vintagekits 22:27, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Resolved

Neither the Ulster Banner, nor any other flag, is used on this page. Andrwsc 22:28, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Its not resolved. I dont see why all flags should be removed because Northern Ireland doesnt have a flag! Why dont you use the flag that the boxing associations in Ireland use?--Vintagekits 21:44, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

The flags on this page were not used to represent boxing associations. There was never a single word about any boxing association. Clearly, the flags were used to represent the location of each host city.

Since Belfast, Northern Ireland is clearly objectionable to many, I made the change to Belfast, United Kingdom. This is consistent with the ongoing debate elsewhere on Wikipedia that the Union Flag is the only legal flag that represents Northern Ireland. It also makes this list of host cities consistent — in every case, the flag and nation name were of the "top level" sovereign nation in which the city was located. For example, the flag of Nevada wasn't used for 1986 Reno, nor was the flag of New South Wales used for 1991 Sydney. Also, the notion of putting Belfast, Northern Ireland on that list because of the IABA association would be equally objectionable to another set of people.

I feel that it is political point of view to say that "Northern Ireland doesn't have a flag". Your comments elsewhere about the "occupied six" reveal your motives. It seems to me that you want to represent Northern Ireland as some sort of "stateless territory" occupied by a foreign nation, and that is clearly out of order for an article like this.

The only solutions for this article is to use the UK flag for Belfast, or to remove all flags. Singling out Belfast as a special case is political POV. Andrwsc 22:02, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

It was singled out for special treatment because it is a special case, the ongoing mediation shows that. The Ulster Banner is used for Northern Ireland for football because FIFA and UEFA use it. The same should apply to boxing - if not why not? You cant have it both ways.--Vintagekits 22:21, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

It's not applied to boxing on this article. It's applied to the city of Belfast, as a host city for an international boxing tournament. There is a huge distinction. As an unexplained, upcaptioned flag icon, the UB should only appear next to individual athlete names or team names when they represent Northern Ireland in international competition, such as next to Wayne McCullough's name on Boxing at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.

That flag should never be used as a flag icon to represent cities or towns in Northern Ireland, such as what used to be shown at Gibraltar#Twin_towns, for example. The table column on this page reads "host", and lists cities, not boxing associations, so my initial edit to this page was with this geographic interpretation of the partial consensus we have on the flag issue. Andrwsc 22:43, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

They don't use the hated Ulster Banner or the Butcher's Apron so it is right Belfast doesnt have a flag. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.111.255.241 (talk) 08:17, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

why not use the flag of st patrick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick's_Flag —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.144.34.176 (talk) 21:35, 7 June 2009 (UTC)