Wikipedia talk:Inline templates linking country articles

Referencing templates for old countries

I think that there should be a referencing templates for countries that no longer exist. (like USSR, East Germany...), though they still be used like in 1980 Summer Olympics medal count.500LL 19:21, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

• Good idea. Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template and {{country}}. (SEWilco 07:00, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC))

• • One example is Russia while it was a part of the USSR. (SEWilco 05:42, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC))
    • Flag: {{flag|Russian-SFSR}} {{flagcountry|
    • ISO flag: {{ISO|flag|RUS-SFSR}}
    • IOC flag: {{country|flagIOC|RUS}} (Current Russia; If someone needs IOC-1980 a method is defined for referring to the countries as they were in 1980.)
    • Information available: {{countryedit|Russian-SFSR|RUS-SFSR|URS}}

Updated...

...to reflect changes to flag templates. These mechanisms have been replaced, as per discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Flag Template. Also, for Olympic articles, please see the revised {{flagIOC}} template, which works with all historic teams and historic flags. Andrwsc 22:54, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Mixed country codes

This list seems to mix ISO and IOC codes. Antigua and Barbuda is ATG (ISO) and ANT (IOC). The Bahamas is BHS (ISO) and BAH (IOC). Templates were already created using ISO codes, ie: United Nations member states. Conversion to {{country}} is under way and will take place when SEWilcoBot finishes initializing ISO data. (SEWilco 07:31, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC))

• Conversion of the ISO code templates involved changing the size of images slightly. The non-ISO templates in the w:Country referencing templates were of different size. The non-ISO templates have been converted also. (SEWilco 19:18, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC))

• • could there be made references to ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, not to ISO 3166-1 in general. but if and only if the column really is iso-alpha-3 (and maybe old alpha 3, state this too if so) Tobias Conradi (Talk) 11:45, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

BRN

Problem with {{BRN}}: BRN is Brunei for ISO but Bahrain for IOC. Which country should it take on? Chanheigeorge 23:34, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

ISO only please

Please focus on using ISO codes. It is a good idea to teach a standard, and it reduces new references to miscellaneous codes. (SEWilco 04:19, 31 August 2005 (UTC))

So I'll change {{BRN}} to Brunei instead of Bahrain. Chanheigeorge 06:34, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Smaller flags

In some list the flags (specially those from Belgium Belgium and Switserland Switzerland) turn out to be quit big. See e.g. winner list from Liège-Bastogne-Liège:

1935 : Alfons Schepers Belgium 1936 : Albert Beckaert Belgium 1937 : Eloi Meulenberg Belgium 1938 : Alphons Deloor Belgium 1939 : Albert Ritserveldt Belgium 1943 : Richard Depoorter Belgium 1945 : Jean Engels Belgium

1969 : Eddy Merckx Belgium 1970 : Roger De Vlaeminck Belgium 1971 : Eddy Merckx Belgium 1972 : Eddy Merckx Belgium 1973 : Eddy Merckx Belgium 1974 : Georges Pintens Belgium 1975 : Eddy Merckx Belgium

1976 : Joseph Bruyère Belgium 1999 : Frank Vandenbroucke Belgium 2000 : Paolo Bettini Italy 2001 : Oscar Camenzind Switzerland 2002 : Paolo Bettini Italy 2003 : Tyler Hamilton United States 2004 : Davide Rebellin Italy 2005 : Alexandre Vinokourov Kazakhstan

To mitigate this problem I've create a small template: {{sBEL}} ({{sBEL}) and {{sSUI}} ({{sSUI}). The table look like this then:

1935 : Alfons Schepers {{sBEL}} 1936 : Albert Beckaert {{sBEL}} 1937 : Eloi Meulenberg {{sBEL}} 1938 : Alphons Deloor {{sBEL}} 1939 : Albert Ritserveldt {{sBEL}} 1943 : Richard Depoorter {{sBEL}} 1945 : Jean Engels {{sBEL}}

1969 : Eddy Merckx {{sBEL}} 1970 : Roger De Vlaeminck {{sBEL}} 1971 : Eddy Merckx {{sBEL}} 1972 : Eddy Merckx {{sBEL}} 1973 : Eddy Merckx {{sBEL}} 1974 : Georges Pintens {{sBEL}} 1975 : Eddy Merckx {{sBEL}}

1999 : Frank Vandenbroucke {{sBEL}} 2000 : Paolo Bettini {{sITA}} 2001 : Oscar Camenzind {{sSUI}} 2002 : Paolo Bettini {{sITA}} 2003 : Tyler Hamilton {{sUSA}} 2004 : Davide Rebellin {{sITA}} 2005 : Alexandre Vinokourov {{sKAZ}}

Any comments and ideas how to proceed from here on? Bart l 06:43, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

File a Bugzilla request for enhancement which allows specification of the maximum vertical and horizontal size of an image, so the different height/width ratio of narrow images will not produce excessively tall images. Or request that countries use a standard flag size. (SEWilco 03:00, 8 September 2005 (UTC))

This can already be done. Simply do, for example, 200x100px to limit an image to 100 pixels high by 200 wide. dbenbenn | talk 20:20, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

OK, look great ! thx Bart l 09:56, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Excellent. (SEWilco 18:21, 11 September 2005 (UTC))

GBR2

GBR2 has been nominated for deletion.

{{GBR2}}

doktorb _words^deeds 11:25, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Abbriviation templates

Are there currently templates that return a countries abbreviated form and personification. For example, an England template that returns "Eng" and another one that returns "English". josh (talk) 18:45, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Pakistan template does not work properly

The Pakistan template does not work. Has something to do with it's alias Islamic Pakistan. So the link leads to a page that does not yet exist. I made a temp fix for this by redirecting the Islamic Pakistan page to the Pakistan page. As I don't know how to edit templates :) Sorry for the stupid solution.

Discussion at MoS on flag icons

Please contribute to the discussion on flag icons at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Flag icons - manual of style entry?. (SEWilco 14:57, 15 January 2007 (UTC))

Problem

That seems to be a problem when all of the template use in result template, they are unable to display it, is that have any problem?

Example (view edit this page to oriented):

	Semi-finals				Final
	July 4
	Malaysia	4
	South Korea	1

--Aleenf1 07:55, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Some edits were made to Template:country flag2 that seemed to break instances where these templates were used inside other templates — perhaps just those that are table-based, such as Template:Round4. I have reverted those edits, so things should be back to normal again. Andrwsc 17:21, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Transnistria

Is it possible to add a template for Transnistrian Moldova? I know it's a disputed territory, but Wikipedia exists to document rather than judge notable controversy and dispute, and Transnistria (Pridnestrovie) does show up in some lists.Sjeng 06:38, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Just use {{flag|Transnistria}} for Transnistria. Andrwsc 16:10, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

kosovo has a short code so this and Abkhazia and South Ossetia must have one too.Lihaas (talk) 18:09, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Why "must"? We don't invent three-letter country codes here, just use those in existing practice. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:21, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Union of South Africa template ?

Do we have a template for the 1910-1961 entity and flag ? If not, we need one, because it is incorrect to display the present-day flag and "Republic" in an article dealing with e.g. 1944. I.e. The Republic was the successor state to the Union, but can be treated as a different political entity. In addition, we also need a mechanism for displaying the old Republic flag when we're dealing with events up to the "New South Africa" era, and the current flag from then on. So we really need 3 templates e.g. ZAF for the old Union, ZAR for the apartheid Republic, RSA for the new Republic. Or have I missed something here ? Rcbutcher 11:49, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

These "shortcut" templates are only a subset of all the flag templates available with the standard Template:Flag. Please see Template:Country data South Africa for the historical flags. You would use {{flag|South Africa|1910}} for South Africa and {{flag|South Africa|1928}} for South Africa. As for creating new "shortcut" templates with three-letter names, I strongly advise against that. ZAF is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for South Africa and RSA is the code used by IOC, and FIFA, so that's why there are two options available for editors. ZAR was never a standard country code for anything. If you really want the wikilink to point to the article at Union of South Africa, the preferred way is to create a new Template:Country data Union of South Africa. (This is a similar method to what was done for previous states of Germany, Japan, etc.) Hope this helps, Andrwsc 16:08, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Problems with Flag Templates

Something seems to be broken with this - the flags seem to have disappeared for many of these templates.Nigel Ish 15:55, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

I noticed this as well, it must have been broken in the last few days and it seems it's specific to short codes that aren't on the ISO list (like ENG and RSA), but these codes are used by many templates and they are either on the IOC (Olympic) or FIFA (Football) lists. Can someone please restore or correct this? --Deon Steyn 07:14, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

There is nothing wrong with these templates. The problem lies with the image server cache. Andrwsc 15:52, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Y Yep, everything is working once more... server issues. --Deon Steyn 06:13, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Zanzibar

Please could somebody add "ZNZ" to Zanzibar as a three letter shortcut?

That is not a standard country code. Just use the existing {{flag|Zanzibar}}. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 00:11, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Special cases

Related to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Flag_Template#Special_cases. I tried to implement XOM and SMOM, but only XOM works. Could somebody correct Template:SMOM? Alinor (talk) 14:51, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Redirects

Using some country codes that are not listed in the table I have seen these different displays.

XXX : {{XXX}} {{flagicon|XXX}}

• TAI : {{TAI}}
• SWI : Switzerland
• MOR : Morocco Template:Country data MOR

That note about Morocco is useful. Perhaps it can be implemented elsewhere, for Switzerland if Taiwan is too complicated. For flagicon TAI and SWI, am I seeing the operation of redirects?

• LIT : Lithuania

Does this mean LIT should be listed in the table? --P64 (talk) 22:37, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Republic of Kosovo

Does the Republic of Kosovo not have a template? It's recognized by 86 UN members, has a membership in the IMF, World Bank, etc. -- Khazar (talk) 15:56, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Never mind, figured out how to do this from the Transnitria answer above. Cheers, -- Khazar (talk) 15:57, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Iceland

Why is Iceland shortened to ISL instead of ICE? This list uses English names. ICE is unique and easy to relate to, while ISL, although correct based on Icelandic, is generic and similar to Israel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mango från yttre rymden (talk • contribs) 03:56, 5 December 2019 (UTC)