Template talk:Country data China

"China" and POV

Two options There are two Chinese states: the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China. For this template to be named "China" and display the flag of one of those states is to choose sides in the Chinese Civil War. Note that "X of China" pages are either disambiguations to "X of the People's Republic of China" and "X of the Republic of China" or they are about Chinese civilization (e.g. President of China.) -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 14:50, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Note that this template does not link to China when used with the standard flag templates; it correctly links to People's Republic of China. The template is named "China" because it is also used for thousands of instances to articles that use "China" in the name, such as those found in Category:National sports teams of China. None of those are disambiguation pages. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:07, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

True But the display is still "China" and the name of the template is "China" as well. If not all, then virtually all instances of "China" referring solely to the PRC (except in the case of quotations or documentary sources) should be changed. If they refer to the geographic area, they should probably be "mainland China," or the state they should read "People's Republic of China." The Template:Country data China shouldn't be used or should be some kind of disambiguation itself. Can you point me to some articles that are entitled "X of China" that refer to the PRC exclusively? -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 17:38, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, no, I doubt I can. But I am certain of one thing — there are undoubtedly many thousands of instances where editors have linked to China instead of People's Republic of China, and these flag templates aren't to blame for that. (If anything, the flag templates help the situation because they generate a wikilink to the PRC article.) I've also seen the same thing where editors link to Ireland (the island) instead of Republic of Ireland (the nation) without bothering to see the difference. Changing the name of this template isn't going to fix that. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:06, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Dab I've no doubt that there are many instances of "[[China]]" where "(the) [[People's Republic of China]]" would be appropriate. I have personally disambiguated several hundred instances of "China" and it would in fact help if we changed the text of this template to read "People's Republic of China." I agree that changing the template's name or radically altering the text to some disambiguation would not be wise now as "{{flag|China}}" is so prevalent, and that is why I am using WP:AWB to change those (5,000+) instances now. Once that is done, though, I maintain that it would be wise to change this template. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 18:39, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Add People's Liberation Army

{{editprotected}} Following lines should be added on the template:

| flag alias-army = People's Liberation Army Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg
| link alias-army = People's Liberation Army

And this in the <noinclude> part of the page:

| var1 = army

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhattara (talk • contribs)

What are you trying to fix? The link alias-army line has no effect. There are no templates that automatically look for an "army" variant. As for the image, it is currently unused as an icon image anywhere on en.wiki, so why does it need to be added to this template? — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 23:28, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

The image is currently not used only because the same image is used with an (incorrect?) name Image:Peoples Liberation Army Flag of the Peoples Republic of China.svg. I was considering to replace all of these images with the more correctly named image, but then I thought that it could be added into the country data template first. --Jhattara ^{(Talk · Contrib)} 08:50, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

 Done. Ah, I see, thanks. I have added the variant, but the link alias-army line would still be useless. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:16, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Note

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PL Alvarez ^Talk, 18:45, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Football Team

• | link alias-football = China PR national football team

This has to be added to the template because the China is giving a redirect. This needs to be sorted ASAP. Mr Hall of England (talk) 21:31, 2 November 2011 (UTC) Mr Hall of England (talk) 21:31, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Not done: Redirects are not a problem. Anomie⚔ 15:19, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Request fix national football team name

| name alias-football = China PR → | name alias-football = China

China PR is wrong. china football team name is China national football team. no China PR.--Fetx2002 (talk) 15:30, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

edit protected

Please update the current template with this newer version User:Hanteng/Template:Country_data_China that contains history variants. With such a new update, the use of {{flag|CHN|1912}} and {{flag|CHN|1929}} can then be correctly shown, as shown in zhWP zh:Template:Country_data_China. Thanks.--_{(comparingChinese Wikipedia vs Baidu Baike by hanteng)} 14:28, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Done. Cheers, LittleMountain5 20:17, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 16 May 2014

A recent discussion here ended with the decision to lower-case 'dynasty' in article titles for Chinese dynasties. I therefore request the corresponding change to this template ("related1 = Qing Dynasty" --> "related1 = Qing dynasty"). Colonies Chris (talk) 18:56, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Done TDL (talk) 20:01, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Colonies Chris (talk) 21:29, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Flag of Tibet and Inner Mongolia

The flags shown here are pro independence flags and not used by the autonomous region, is it proper to shown the flags unter the country data of china, can someone do a alternative with the name of the region and a chinese national flag and guangxi. Jiangyu911 (talk) 19:23, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

That part is contained in the documentation subpage. The page is kind of misleading, because it claims to list templates for the autonomous regions of China even though Template:Country data Tibet creates a link to Tibet (the article on the geographic and ethno-cultural region) rather than Tibet Autonomous Region (the article on the Chinese administrative division). A separate Tibet Autonomous Region template using the Chinese flag could be created for the autonomous region.

FOTW says the flag currently used in the Inner Mongolia template was a flag of Mengjiang within Inner Mongolia in the 1930s (WP has a separate article on its flags). I can find no mention anywhere of it being used to represent the whole of Inner Mongolia, even unofficially. I've changed the flag in the template back to the PRC flag, though I think File:Flag of Inner Mongolia.PNG should just be deleted from Commons (it has made its way into several other WPs as a "flag of Inner Mongolia", with even an article on the flag at arWP); an SVG version of the Mengjiang flag exists anyway, with a less misleading filename. SiBr₄ (talk) 20:38, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

I've edited the documentation to not imply the Tibet template refers to the autonomous region. (I also found I actually added the misleading part myself more than a year ago!) SiBr₄ (talk) 11:14, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 20 September 2015

Hello, It is said here "Country data templates are also available for four of the five autonomous regions" but show a template of Tibet with the "snow lion flag", which is banned in Tibet autonomous region and can therefore not represent the autonomous region. So i would like to change the template showed here to template of Tibet Autonomous Region with a Chinese national flag, so it can represent the region and make it clear that the autonomous region do not use this flag. thanks

Jiangyu911 (talk) 08:15, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Not done for now: @Jiangyu911: I think we need to allow some more time for others to comment before carrying this out, so I've left notifications at WikiProject China and WikiProject Tibet. Also, the page that would need to be edited is Template:Country data Tibet, not Template:Country data China, so I've altered the edit protected template accordingly. Please reopen the request when a consensus emerges, or if there are no responses after a few days. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 08:49, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

See my response in the section above this one. SiBr₄ (talk) 09:28, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 27 December 2016

• Please add a flag variant of the flag of Qing dynasty between 1862 and 1889: , just as Template:Country data Qing dynasty.
• This flag was adopted as the flag of the whole China in late 1928, not 1929.

--Cirolchou (talk) 03:38, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Partly done: I have added the Qing flag, but I'm holding off on the ROC flag for the moment. It was adopted in October 1928 (source), and my first instinct is to say that since it was in use for less than half of 1928 it should not be displayed until 1929. Please verify with WP:FTP and/or WP:VEX what their policies are regarding this matter. Primefac (talk) 16:52, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Flag change

Can you change the 1929 flag from the existing one to the new one on the top? Thanks. Wrestlingring (talk) 23:21, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Why is name forced to be "China"?

At United Nations Security Council the list of permanent members should have "People's Republic of China" in the "Current state representation" column. All other entries have the country's official name, for example "French Fifth Republic". Unfortunately this template detects the specific name "People's Republic of China" and forces it to be simply "China", so {{flag|China|name=People's Republic of China}} yields People's Republic of China, not (as expected, and as documented) People's Republic of China. Why? Hairy Dude (talk) 17:36, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

I've reverted the change that forced this. The idea is that you can use {{flag|People's Republic of China}} to achieve the same effect as [[China|People's Republic of China]]. There was no explanation by User:Illegitimate Barrister why that behavior was removed. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 01:16, 14 December 2017 (UTC)