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I couldn't find a source for this "representing peace and the ability to defend his rights" (refering to the gun on the shield]]. Please replace if there is a source - I was just afraid it might be OR. Best, MarkBuckles (talk) 07:16, 18 March 2007 (UTC) reply

Compare the Wikipedia vector version of the flag to some raster versions of the flag found on .gov websites. Many such flags on Wikipedia are just garbled, and lead to some really bad Wikipedia→source→Wikipedia circular sourcing of bad vector versions of flags. HueSurname ( talk) 11:08, 30 January 2022 (UTC) reply

I would appreciate if someone with more visual arts skill than me made a clean version by combining the my hastily-vectorized version with the text from the old version. HueSurname ( talk) 03:58, 4 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Yeah, that's kinda bad. I'd be willing, though I don't have time right now. - Jason A. Quest ( talk) 04:34, 4 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Video of a physical flag of Michigan. HueSurname ( talk) 14:32, 5 March 2022 (UTC) reply

@ Fry1989:... why? new version, reverted version. I honestly don't understand why you'd revert the change. HueSurname ( talk) 14:20, 5 March 2022 (UTC) reply

The old version is a cartoonishly traced over-simplification. HueSurname's version suffers from autotrace problems. (Open it in Illustrator or Inkscape and zoom in.) I'm a digital media artist who designs flags as a hobby. Give me some time, and I think I can do better than both. - Jason A. Quest ( talk) 15:27, 5 March 2022 (UTC) reply

HueSurname, I reverted your image because it is auto-traced and is heavily distorted. Letters blur into each other and are no longer legible, and formerly sharp lines became lesser defined. I'm sorry, but it was not a good vectorization. Fry1989 ^eh? 14:13, 6 March 2022 (UTC) reply

It certainly wasn't perfect but was the previous version actually better? Reverting an improvement just because it's not perfect is detrimental. HueSurname ( talk) 07:03, 7 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Somebody fixed it a few months ago! HueSurname ( talk) 07:07, 11 January 2023 (UTC) reply