Template talk:Country showdata

message: Could someone correct the year? It wasn't 1910, but 1905. --PaxEquilibrium 20:29, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Huh?  What are you referring to?  Andrwsc 20:30, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong year 

message: Is it possible to have the flag and nationality appear instead of the country name?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mistman123 (talk • contribs) 21:42, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think this template talk page is relevant for your request.  As it says quite clearly, this template is used to internally document the country data templates within the flag template system.  — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 21:56, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: False. Flag is a request for image, and country name is distinct from it. Do not mix Country name, and flag in the flag-format. Remember : don't think and dont do original research. Paul  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Special+Utilizator+$ (talk • contribs) 10:42, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Nationality

message: This automatically includes a protection template when it is used but there are atleast 50 cases where it is used and the template is not actually protected. Could we just remove the template and it could be added back to pages that actually are protected? -- maelgwn - talk 22:09, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, there are about a thousand templates that are protected, so it is significantly easier to make it the default case for now.  I am working on a system where each template can check it's own status and put up the protection template only if necessary, so if you don't mind waiting a week or two, that should be in place. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 01:46, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok great, i didnt know that was possible. The other possibility would be to make it an option, that defaults to yes and then I can get my bot to go through and change the unprotected ones. -- maelgwn - talk 04:02, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  protection templates 

message: Not a single person can work at this article since wikipedia does not document any wiki-code in it. It's like spelling each COMMA as "`"&"<inf>'<low>"`"@,. Is it policy approved the use of 5-consecutive start brackets in a wikipedia Format ?
:What are you trying to do?  — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 11:52, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  wikify 

message: Is there any particular reason why there is a limit of five on redirect aliases and related templates that can be mentioned in the documentation? McLerristarr | Mclay1 05:30, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: We haven't really needed more than five.  There should be (at most) a small handful of redirect aliases—typically just the one or two ISO/FIFA/IOC country codes, and perhaps one or two widely used aliases.  The name parameter of  is used for seldom-used display alternatives to the standard wikilink (specified by the alias value).  As for the "related" templates, the intent there is to list the directly related templates, not to attempt to document the historical timeline of a nation.  For example, we use this if a particular flag variant is available in two different country data templates because of different link targets, such as Template:Country data German Empire and the "empire" variant of Template:Country data Germany.  Basically, we want to make it easier for editors to find particular images, without cluttering the documentation with other templates that are really only tangentially related.  — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 06:09, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Limit on redirect aliases and related templates 

message: Is it an idea to add a parameter which puts the country data templates into a specified subcategory of :Category:Country data templates? For example, the U.S. state templates could be grouped under a category named "Country data templates of states of the United States". This would make it possible to browse through the templates using categories (which is not really possible with a single category containing 1,600 templates). SiBr4 (talk) 22:01, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll try to find a way to categorize the templates using their documentation pages, as most of the actual templates are protected. SiBr4 (talk) 15:25, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories 

message: I have added a  parameter that overrides the link to the flag article in the caption of the large flag, since there may be an article on the flag that is not located at "Flag of " (for example here). SiBr4 (talk) 11:00, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag link 

message: Would it be possible to have a "range" or "year range" variable which can be dynamically used to pick the right flag, based on the current year relevant to an article?
For example, if you write an article covering a certain year (for example an event, a battle), and use that year in the  template, would be great to get the correct flag from that year automatically. As in here:
* → 
* → 
* → 
* → 
Among many things, it would make it is possible to dynamically display the correct flags of the period, in articles like List of sovereign states in 1919.Codrin.B (talk) 14:02, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Shipbox flags do that. Though the year isn't arbitrary, it's usually the year that said flag was adopted or introduced. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 06:45, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Range and not arbitrary year 

message: Please replace the following:
===TemplateData===

<templatedata>
with this:
===TemplateData===

<templatedata>
This is simply to avoid using a redirect on this page and the many, many pages transcluding it.
(See WP:NOTBROKEN, which includes the following: "In other namespaces, particularly the template and portal namespaces in which subpages are common, any link or transclusion to a former page title that has become a redirect following a page move is to be updated to the new title for naming consistency.") Jdaloner (talk) 04:38, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Primefac (talk) 13:41, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

text: Done Primefac (talk) 16:21, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 13 August 2018 

message: Please replace the following:
===TemplateData===

<templatedata>
with this:
===TemplateData===

<templatedata>
My previous request (above) was correct, but it was not carried out correctly. ("Header" was left capitalized, when it should have been "header".) Jdaloner (talk) 16:16, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Primefac (talk) 16:21, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 13 August 2018 

message: added air force to variants 12 years ago, then someone (couldn't find who just by the edit summaries) commented it out. But not from the military section. Can't see why. It's confusing. If there's no good reason for it, please consider reverting it. Guarapiranga (talk) 22:18, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done S.A. Julio (talk) 23:56, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 21 November 2019 

message: I would like to link to a template's sandbox, if it exists. This is done by default by  but the functionality is missing in this template. Would there be any problem in adding this? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 04:31, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree this would be useful along with a link to the testcases, I've tried looking for such a link before. S.A. Julio (talk) 04:55, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to sandbox 

message: Please replace everything in the template with this. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 06:41, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Done S.A. Julio (talk) 07:05, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 09:17, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 17 May 2020 

message: Can someone please convert HTML to wikicode on this template because it looks much nicer, like in  on this template's sandbox page? -- PK2 (talk) 01:26, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: For use in articles I would generally agree. But for back-end code stuff like this, I have always found HTML to be more robust — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:31, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

text: .  let's go with editor  on this.  is a meta-template used on thousands of pages. It may be possible to garner consensus for this if you'd like to try, but I think that's what it would take to make such a change. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 11:56, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with . There are so many curly braces in template code already; it does not make sense to add more when they are not strictly needed. table/tr/td tags make the code much more readable. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:46, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 15 May 2023 

message: On Template:Country data Poland, under other information, related templates, change "Template:Country data Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" to "Template:Country data Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth" notadev (talk) 20:31, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done:  is usually not required for edits to the documentation or categories of templates using a documentation subpage. This edit should be made to Template:Country data Poland/doc, which is not a protected page. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 00:46, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 2 February 2024 

message: I recently made an edit on Template:Country data Vienne (department) to create a piped link using the "flag link=" parameter per the instructions in Template:Country showdata/doc#Flag article link, but it apparently did not work at all. I'm not sure what's going on with this template due to the intricacies of the coding, but there should not be something on the documentation page that does not work as stated. If someone knows how to fix this, feel free to; I'm unfortunately unfamiliar with how to edit modules. Steel1943 (talk) 22:34, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Flag link" parameter does not work