[slacka]

Did you find sources and make the edit? Or just assume it would be rejected?

In my experience, the vast majority of my edits were accepted when properly sourced, especially on esoteric topics like this. Yes, there are exceptions and bad apples in the community. Those get a all the attention and media coverage but I've only encountered them on heavily edited and visited pages, not the more rare academic or historic pages. While it's anecdotal, I just checked and I've clocked nearly 800 edits in the past decade.

[wolverine876]

Your experience is much different than mine. It has been so often a waste of time that I've given up editing (or reading) Wikipedia.

[teddyh]

Links or it didn’t happen.

I would be more charitable if it wasn’t for the fact that 99% of all claims of misdeeds on Wikipedia never give any links, or even sufficient details to find the offending edits.

[wolverine876]

It happens regardless of whether you agree. I also saw it many times in situations I wasn't involved in.

I generally support the need for evidence, but I have only so much time. And I saw many, many instances of this behavior.

[teddyh]

Links or it didn’t happen.

[yongjik]

Who knows? Maybe the edit will stay, maybe it won't, but the very fact that the flag has been staying for years doesn't bode well for my effort. There are millions of Koreans who can write passable English: if it were that easy to remove the flag, someone would have done it.

[kemayo]

I suspect there's a much smaller number who affirmatively know that there's not a specific flag for a kingdom that ceased to exist 1,335 years ago. Particularly since the article presents both a pure red flag and the red/yellow flag and claims they were used at different times.

Thus I'd imagine that of the small number of people intimately familiar with Korean history who even noticed, very few could say with sufficient certainty that the flag was never used.

(For that matter, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Korean_flags has a third variant...)