In 2017, someone changed Wikipedia's Vatican flag SVG to look more like the Vatican Coat of Arms, which was an honest mistake. Now, you can tell which flag manufacturers and even emojis used the faulty Wikipedia file lol (thread)
noticed by Redditor horizontalhole! https://t.co/TVuwDSwXAz

tons of flags have red in the tiara... AKA they appear to have used that faulty file that was on Wikimedia Commons from 2017-2022 https://t.co/fQHtIdWVl3

and even some emojis have the error! (this is from emojipedia) https://t.co/dUFMSNULHH

encyclopedia brittanica uses the wrong flag lol https://t.co/FY2I1ftj6q

reminds me of old map-makers who'd add fake towns to see who copied their map. or the guy who put pics of himself being depressed at the beach onto wikimedia commons specifically so that the pics would spread around the internet
http://dismagazine.com/blog/76800/mood-disorder-david-horvitz/ https://t.co/AFTnykzc2S

(the "mood disorder at the beach" photos were eventually removed because the photographer, david horvitz, was kinda spamming pages with his photos and basically using wikipedia as a billboard) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_by_User:Albianmoonlight

citogenesis has been a thing for a long time. wikipedia even keeps a list of incidents! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_incidents https://t.co/rzK7URUqYd

anyway, thanks to redditor u/horizontalhole for noticing this! https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/11yw4z4/from_20172022_the_vatican_flag_svg_on_wikimedia/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf