Talk:List of ISO 639-3 codes

message: It's nice to have the table of languages in the article. But could someone plesae supply it with the column headings? As it is, it seems a bit hard to interpret.... --Alvestrand 21:06, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I will attempt to do that - however adding any markup or turning it into a proper table will make this article nearly impossible to load and scroll Iancarter 22:04, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table headings? 

message: * add native name / translations to the list
* link to language articles
* discuss splitting into 5 subpages : A-Z (complete), A-G, H-N, O-U, V-Z
: I would like to see a complete table somewhere with translations in all major languages. Iancarter 22:04, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Table List Todo

message: *how about using redirects like ISO 639:deu? makes linking easier. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 17:37, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirects

message: Would one of you mind explaining to me why this is not listcruft and or a blatant violation of WP:NOT? This is going to take up an awful lot of space to have all these page on the servers.--Chaser T 04:20, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: it is not listcruft because there are various articles on languages already and many languages have own pages which will be linked from here. Wikipedia:Babel itself is concerned with migrating to ISO 693-3. Besides this is an international standard which deserves its own entry and is not indiscriminate information. Iancarter 04:48, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll trust you. If you're working with Babel, I assume you know what you're talking about. Sorry to have hassled you and thanks for the explanation.--Chaser T 05:41, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Listcruft

message: It'd be nice if there was an intro section explaining what ISO is, briefly, and what all those codes are. I got to this page by clicking Random article, and this was, in fact, pretty random. Cheers. --Fang Aili talk 15:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Fang, thx for your comment. I wikified the nav-header, hoping this helps at least a little  Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:00, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro section? 

message: Where there exists an article on a given language, it would be nice if the English translation linked to that article. -- Beland 06:10, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, actually it makes more sense for the English translation to link to the article rather than the three letter code. The code represents the language of course, but it also simply represents the code as an entity in itself. The language name in the eng section might be better for the links. You could even extend that to have the names in other languages link to the articles in other Wikipedias. That way the table could be copied to other Wikipedias for their use (with only the headers needing to be changed) - Parsa 22:29, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to articles 

message: Shouldn't this list also include Scanian (scy)? 
/Jiiimbooh 14:22, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scanian (scy) 

message: Can the pages of the list have a definition of the color coding? I get that they represent macrolanguages and such, but it's not really obvious. - Parsa 06:04, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of color codes 

message: The SIL pages don't specifically say fry represents the generic language group "Frisian". The ISO 639-3 page says Western Frisian is fry. However, the Ethnologue page for West Frisian has fri. SIL's list for "f" language codes does not have fri at all. - Parsa 01:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frisian 

message: Any objections if I remove the codes from this page? They just link to anchors in ISO 639:a etc., which is facilitated by the navigation bar at the top, and they are a nuisance to maintain. --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 20:17, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing the codes? 

message: http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/639-3_ChangeRequests_2011_Summary.pdf -- Evertype·✆ 23:09, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  New additions for 2011 

message: I would like to see a link that can show ALL of ISO 639-3 codes.
I just need the "3-letter code" and "full name" fields in the table, no need for local translations that make the table too complex and slow to load.
When I see "list" I'm expecting a FULL list - and not like this, which is separated/scattered to alphabetical groups, that would take lightyears to load and save them all for my documentation.
And thank you whoever you are good people for making this list, it just need a minor update that should be exist in the 1st place:
"The goddamn most-wanted FULL LIST of ISO 639-3 (sorted alphabetically by alphabet-grouping, in ascending order) and its link located in here."
--[Ois1974 @ 2014-03-29 Sat]--  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.111.51.92 (talk) 04:56, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add new link for FULL content 

message: I don't understand why there are columns for language names in French, Spanish, Chinese, etc. here.  I see above that editors thought it would "greatly improve the reference and resource character of the pages" and that if they were omitted, "some of the quality and usefulness would suffer", but I don't think that's true.  it seems to me that these translations are irrelevant to this English Wikipedia page, and increases the width of the table to an inconvenient degree.  this page isn't a list of languages; it's a list of ISO 639-3 codes.  translations of the names of the languages that correspond to those ISO 639-3 codes would better belong on the French Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, etc. versions of this page, or on a List of language names in major languages page.
:Agree. Most non-English language names are just one click away via the language links on the left. Or people can click on the code and then go to the, say, French article on that language.
:The endonyms should stay IMO, as mentioned above. --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 15:45, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggest removing translation languages