`   == Flag ==  Would anybody mind awfully if I took the flag down? I recently removed the Union Jack from The Clash and I think the same argument I used there applies here as well. Flags seem more appropriate on say national football teams and the like. U2 are a national symbol of Ireland, but I do not see them as being particularly nationalistic; indeed they are internationalists.   :good idea. 'lower' the flag please.   ::Done it.    Yes I actually DO mind and I'm putting the flag back up. It seems pretty ``dumb`` to say the least to take the flags off of the Clash's and U2's whilst leaving these high profile bands's infoboxes with their flag.                    Regards,    :Well done for listing all those examples, but there's the small matter that we don't use Wikipedia itself as a reference point. -     Snow patrol also has the flag , If you where truly interested you would take that flag off, seeing how its controversial in its own country and not even official, with half the population pretty much hating it.  , it is obviously some kind of wikipolicy to place flagicons in the infoboxes with famous bands. ATM I have seen no real/valid reasons as to why the flag should be removed. The reason why it should be up there is to illustrate the bands origins in an aesthetic way. That is why it is obviously done at ALL the other bands.    I cannot find any such policy and I don't find it aesthetic. On the other hand I did find WP:FLAG. Furthermore your edit seems to be against consensus.    So Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen, Jr. all can have flags on their pages but U2 cant? Are you going to remove all the flags of all the famous bands pages, or are you just going to keep doing it at U2?    You speak of consensus, yet on ALL the other prolific bands pages there is the obvious consensus of the flags being there. As to calling you dumb, that was not my intent and I apologise, it just struck me as a weird idea.    ``indeed they are internationalists.`` That doesn't say a whole lot, RHCP see themselves as Californians, yet you don't see the bear in their infobox right?    :I'm not talking about RHCP's flag here but about whether this article on U2 should have one. The state of one article should not influence the state of another, unless a policy or guideline exists to point in a particular direction. I'm not convinced that is the case here. Wikipedia shouldn't be self-referential or operate on precedent, but on consensus formed by discussion. See also this.   ::hear, hear - we are not talking about any other article. As i said in my removal, precedence the worst justification for anything. Yes, you are correct - people's support for removing something from this article, doesn't mean they are interested in removing it from others, nor is their any obligation to do so.    You honestly believe that is worthy of an encyclopædia? Do you know the term uniformity and what it means for Wikipedia?   :Believe what is 