Talk:Comparison of IOC, FIFA, and ISO 3166 country codes
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SER is definitely not yet an official ISO code. Likewise, I consider a number of the codes in this table highly doubtful. Unless sources, I'll have to delete it for factual inaccuracy. —Nightstallion (?) 22:14, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- Some of the codes have been changed since I have put them up, but not by me. My sources are from the IOC, FIFA, and ISO 3166-1 pages found in Wikipedia. If those pages are incorrect, it is not my fault. I will fix this page to match them again, but I cannot constantly monitor this page hour to hour. --Paploo 18:58, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands participate in the Paralympic Games as "FRO" but not yet as an independent team in the Olympic Games. - fchd 19:31, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Why the difference in Gibraltar's codes?
Just a quick question -
Whilst I accept that Gibraltar's code (IOC and ISO3166) is normally GIB, this article states that the FIFA code is GBZ. Why the difference?
GBZ is the international license plate code for Gibraltar, but I cannot find anywhere confirmation that FIFA regards its national code for Gibraltar as GBZ and not GIB.
It would make more sense for FIFA to duplicate the IOC and ISO3166 country codes, which are both stated as GIB in the article, and not a code associated purely with vehicle identification.
[edit] Not a real list but author's fantasy
It looks like author tries to guess some codes. Assigning non-existing codes to countries is pure nonsense. Several non-FIFA members are listed here with dubious "FIFA codes" (NCY for Northern Cyprus while TNC is used by themselsves) while FIFA assigns trigrammes to its members only. Therefore, the codes of Vatican, N.Cyprus and couple other countries are pure fantasy and desinforamtion.
- Those codes are from List of FIFA country codes#Non-FIFA members, though I don't know where the information there comes from. - MTC 06:03, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Montenegro...
The IOC code here does not exist on their web site, Wiki's IOC code page, or anywhere else for that matter. I take it this is speculation and can be removed...? doktorb wordsdeeds 16:38, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] IOC Code list
When I originally set up this page, I had included the codes from the Commonwealth Games, which has additional codes for territories and constituent nations (i.e., England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), since this is the next largest (nationwise) international competition, and stated that these codes were included. I feel this is significant, since there are already FIFA codes for said territories. So I'm changing the list to include them. Paploo 22:16, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- I took them out because they are not IOC codes. If you insist on putting them back in, then please change the column heading (or add another column for CG codes), and also change the article name. The previous edit of the article was confusing and inaccurate as stated, as many non-existant codes were added and the presence of that "disclaimer" sentence was insufficient. Grouping non-IOC codes under that column is misleading. Andrwsc 22:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- I looked at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games website for the codes, and saw that some codes are identical to IOC codes for other countries (i.e., ANG=Anguilla (CG) and Angola (IOC)). So that would get confusing. I will hold off on that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Paploo (talk • contribs) 22:55, 1 March 2007 (UTC). Paploo 22:56, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- Well, that's why I suggest an extra column might help. I would support a change to show 4 country codes for each row, and a change in article name to something like Comparison of country codes. But I insist that we not merge the CG and IOC codes into the same column, and the ANG conflict is one very good reason why. Andrwsc 22:58, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- I looked at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games website for the codes, and saw that some codes are identical to IOC codes for other countries (i.e., ANG=Anguilla (CG) and Angola (IOC)). So that would get confusing. I will hold off on that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Paploo (talk • contribs) 22:55, 1 March 2007 (UTC). Paploo 22:56, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Flags
Which flag should be displayed here for territories that have their own flag? For example, when I go to the St.-Pierre and Miquelon article, the flag of the territory is at the top of the nation data table. Shouldn't this be the flag listed? I am changing the similarly-statused territories to show those flags. Paploo 22:16, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- That's a question that has spurred revert-wars on pages like List of countries etc. I would say that they should be consistent, but I don't have a solid opinion as to which one (local, or flag of France). Andrwsc 22:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Highlights
I don't see them or my monitor is too bright. --Howard the Duck 11:11, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
- I haven't ever been able to see them clearly either, I can see them vaguely if I look closly... Yes they should be a more visible color. - MTC 12:10, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Shortenly
I object to the use of the apparently very rare word, "shortenly". Using Google to search for it, many hits refer to this very article and most others link to examples of poor English usage. None refer to dictionary articles.
D021317c 21:59, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
