[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14622) Policy on banned flags

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14622 >

Daniel Markstedt wrote on Nov 21, 03:58 (-0800):
> 2005-11-18 kl. 11.41 skrev Christian Knoke:
> > Jason Short wrote on Nov 17, 22:43 (-0800):
> >> Daniel Markstedt wrote:

> > Yes, I see no reason to shorten the text, too.
> >
> 
> Instead, I expanded the Tibetan legend. The Uyghur legend is left  
> untouched.
> 
> >>> • Dalai Lama made a title and personal names of Dalai Lamas added to
> >>> leader list, plus other improvements.
> >>
> >> I think that's not right...Dalai Lama is a name not a title, since all
> >> Dalai Lamas are believed to be reincarnations of the same person.
> >
> > But isn't this a more formal aspect? I'd even like to see Tenzin Gyatso
> > here.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama

> A theological question... But I still think Dalai Lama should be  
> treated as a title.

Yes :) I misunderstood. Dalai Lama as a title is correct, but we can still
have different leader names from that.

> I'd rather avoid adding Tenzin: Let's not add leaders that are current  
> office-holders. The two Dalai Lamas on the list are the ones that have  
> recieved the epithet "the Great"  
> (http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/200105/ 
> 07_newsroom_dalai/bios.shtml)

Good. Great.

> Also added the "Three Dharma Kings of Tibet"  
> (http://www.tibet.com/Status/3kings.html)
> 
> I commited the flag changes already, so here's a diff for the Tibetan  
> ruleset.

Ah, I think the use of "'" collides with gettext and needs to be removed.

Christian

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