Talk:Five-pointed star

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Who wants to write article? --evrik

"A five pointed star is ..."

-evrik 16:51, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

"...a star with five points." —Centrx→talk • 02:22, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

It looks like a concave decagon to me, not a star. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.250.138.118 (talk) 06:55, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

I've created a Star (symbol) article, and changed this to redirect there. Fuzzypeg☻ 06:19, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Inserting a diagram

{helpme} To whoever can help me with this, I'd like the following diagram inserted into the section "Shield of Solomon," but when I put it in, it appears at the bottom of the article and indents the entire remainder of article. Preferably, I'd like it to appear on the right of the screen, as would an uploaded photo. Thanx! Dale 01:21, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I had to remove your table since it was breaking my example. The code you want is (I think) this (edit to see the code):

4	9	2
3	5	7
8	1	6

I'm not sure that you need that, though. A link to magic square would probably be more appropriate. --Sopoforic 01:30, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

If I can get it into the text, I will proceed to explain, using the diagram, how exactly the star is a key to solving the puzzle. If a reader needs to flip back between two pages, it won't be as evident how the puzzle can be solved by using the method I will describe. Dale 02:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I did something to the magic square to get it on the right. That is the best {{helpme}} will get you - post at the Help desk if you want more people to look at it.--Commander Keane 03:21, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Main article Lo Shu Square, not necessarily relevant here. AnonMoos (talk) 15:43, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Shield of Solomon

Can someone explain what the Shield of Solomon section is all about? I can't make any sense of it. For a start, the term "Shield of Solomon" is fairly uncommon, and like the Shield of David and the Seal of Solomon, of which it seems to be a conflation, it is more commonly shown as a hexagram, less commonly as a pentagram or a "five-pointed star". Furthermore, how is the five-pointed star a key to magic squares? I'm highly suspicious. Fuzzypeg☻ 23:57, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

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History of use in flags

Before the late 18th century, the pentagram was used as a decorative ornament or folkloric talisman, or as a heraldic "mullet" (spur-wheel), but it wasn't too commonly called a "star" or used on flags. It was the U.S. flag that seems to have set the precedent on these points. Probably most or all of the pentagrams on current national flags (except the flag of Morocco) are due to direct or indirect U.S. influence... AnonMoos (talk) 15:43, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

It is noticeable how many designs were quietly changed to five-pointed in the 19th century. This is an interesting trend. It may have something to do with the US flag, but e.g. the change in the star and crescent of the Ottoman Flag is hardly direclty emulating the US flag. Perhaps it is predominantly indirect influence, via military emblems of the Napoleonic period?

The article is completely unaware of chronology, it will need to focus on this development, and on early use of the emblem prior to 1777.

--dab (𒁳) 06:00, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Military emblems of the Napoleonic period probably took their pentagrams from the Buonaparte coat of arms, but I'm not sure they influenced national flags. AnonMoos (talk)

Pentagram

"If the collinear edges are joined together a pentagram is produced." Those aren't edges; they're vertices. Calling them collinear isn't useful unless you can say what line they're collinear with. --Rich (talk) 15:08, 8 August 2020 (UTC)