Template talk:Country data Chinese Taipei

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[edit] Missing at least two flags

This sporting flag is broadly used outside the Olympics, but there need to be "|soccer" ("|football" may be too amibiguous; I'll leave that to others to sort out) and "|Paralympics" parameters for C.T. that display the correct flags. See Chinese Taipei for the flags. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 20:27, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Done. These are trivial to add - just look at some other flag templates for examples to copy from. Andrwsc 22:01, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Confusion

This makes no sense to me:

• {{flag|Chinese Taipei|ROC}} =  Chinese Taipei (Use this only for "historical" references to Chinese Taipei national sports teams before the "Chinese Taipei" flag and name were first used in 1979)

(Emphasis added.)

It violates its own instructions; rather, there should simply be a note that for pre-'79 usage, it should be {{flag|Republic of China}} =  Republic of China (or perhaps {{flag|Taiwan}}; I'm not really sure which).

— SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 09:02, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

I added this variant because we're starting to expand the usage of the Country data templates beyond the {{flag}} etc. templates. Specifically, I am starting to roll out templates for national sports teams, such as {{fb}} for football and {{bk}} for basketball (with more sports to come). My motivation is to replace over a thousand redundant flag templates (e.g. check out Category:National football team templates). In the case of Chinese Taipei, articles such as Chinese Taipei national football team include the history of the team prior to the "Chinese Taipei" naming. Therefore, if I want to refer to results prior to 1979, I can now use {{fb|TPE|ROC|name=Republic of China}} for [[Image:{{{flag alias-ROC}}}|22x20px|border |Flag of Chinese Taipei]] Republic of China. Without this flag variant in this template, we would get {{fb|ROC}} for  Republic of China, which produces a wikilink of Republic of China national football team, which is a redirect. We want to avoid the redirects. Hope this makes sense. Andrwsc 09:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I get that. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 09:39, 4 June 2007 (UTC)