Template talk:Country data Republic of the Congo

On the shortname alias

It says Congo, but that is the disambiguation tiltle. Please change into Republic of the Congo or Congo (Brazzaville). Otherwise uses of this (otherwise OK) template keeps asking for disambiguation. -DePiep (talk) 20:53, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you are suggesting. You can already use:

• {{flag|Republic of the Congo}} → Republic of the Congo
• {{flag|Congo-Brazzaville}} → Congo-Brazzaville

In both cases, the wikilink target is correct (Republic of the Congo) and the display name is the desired text as chosen by the editor who uses the corresponding wiki markup. What needs to be done? Are you objecting to the existence of {{flag|Congo}} for editors who want to see Congo? If so, then the instances that use the template need to be changed, not the template itself, I don't think. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 21:45, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

You're right, thus would solve it. But the Template is used in/by another template (Template:hbw) using a countrycode (CGO here). OK so far. What happens is that that wrapping template uses, without me able to influence, this templates setting:

| shortname alias = Congo

So finally the link 'Congo' is published in the article. And that is the link to the disambiguation page (where both Congo-countries are). Show: the final page is here: 1999_World_Women's_Handball_Championship#Group_D, with Congo ambiguous.
My suggestion here is to change the shortname alias = Congo into shortname alias = Republic of the Congo, what gives a non-ambiguous link. And that makes every body happy, especially the Congolese woman handbalteams (both Congo-Brazzaville and Congo-Kinshasa), me, the Disambiguation project, and I hope you too. ;-) Thanx, -DePiep (talk) 22:29, 8 April 2009 (UTC) WAIT for a minute please, maybe I am on the wrong track. I'll get back here.-DePiep (talk) 22:34, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

RE myself: it's OK, the output-problem is indeed elsewhere. The wikilinks here are always Republic of the Congo, etc, and that's the goal.

About your second remark: maybe it would be better if the editor-input "Congo" would not give a valid flag (like this one). Then the editor must specify the Congo-country, preventing unintended mixup. If I understand it well, that should be changed here: disallowing that input . Well, I would prefer it, but feel free to ignore it (could need a bot). Thanx for your time. -DePiep (talk) 23:05, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Well, the short name "Congo" is used in several contexts to refer to the nation's sports teams (in contrast with "DR Congo"). This is what you are observing with the output of {{hbw}} (although the article on the women's handball team doesn't exist). A more visible example would be {{fb|CGO}} or {{fb|Congo}} to produce Congo (and {{fb|COD}} or {{fb|Congo DR}} for DR Congo), which use the same names for the teams that FIFA uses, namely "Congo" [1] and "Congo DR" [2]. I took a look at the IHF website to see what they call the handball teams, but they seem to exclusively use the three letter codes, so that wasn't helpful. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 23:22, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

I close the question without any request, and will add some information to clarify my point.

RE: Indeed, the links were to national handbalteams (not the country), and were red at that (that was my mistake, see above). It's up to others to make them blue.

RE: I withdraw the proposal of changing the input-option here. Ground: very impractical, since the option is used in many pages. It would take a bot to fix these to-be-errors in the proces (i.e. changing input 'Congo' there into 'Republic of the Congo'). But I do maintain the idea that it is not a good situation: 'Congo' is used for the river and two countries (plus other uses). So it is a title to be disambiguated (currently via page Congo, mostly conform MOS:DAB). But here the use allows an editor to enter 'Congo' and unknowingly disambiguating it to the Rep of the Congo. For many Francophones (editing/reading here), Congo means RepCongo, mostly because of it being a formar French colony in Francophone Africa. But for others (Anglophones, Belgians including French speaking), Congo can refer primarily to the former Belgian colony (DR Congo), wich is very big and covers most of the Congo-River basin alone. Doing the disambioguation for this word, I see this very often (people write 'Congo' easily from their own viewpoint. All we can do is diccourage it). Well, as said, Il leave it here (unless questions are put here). Bye, -DePiep (talk)

interwiki

Please add a interwiki, ko:틀:나라자료 콩고 공화국 -- Min's (talk) 01:58, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

 Done By the way, in this template, like many, the interwikis are stored in a /doc subpage of the Template, which is often not protected, as was the case here. Glad to help, just wanted to give you the extra data for the future. Best, --joe decker^{talk to me} 00:04, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 18 September 2016

Please fix the link-alias-basketball line because it's not working.

• Congo
• Congo

These two links are red, although the articles exist. (Republic of the Congo national under-17 basketball team, Republic of the Congo national under-19 basketball team)
Thanks, Maiō T. (talk) 15:20, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

 Done. The link alias-basketball was ignored completely because of the lack of the altvar parameter. SiBr₄ (talk) 15:49, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 19 February 2023

Add alias "Congo Republic" to this template, please. --Lady3mlnm (talk) 10:23, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

 Completed – "Template:Country data Congo Republic" has been added to the redirect aliases. To confirm, click just below the "Redirect aliases" table on "See What links here for a full list of redirects." That table allows only up to five aliases to appear. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^{put'er there} 14:41, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Template talk:Country data Georgia (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 00:35, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 28 October 2023

You add missing this:

| link alias-military = Armed Forces of the Republic of the Congo

| link alias-air force = Congolese Air Force

VNW060222 (talk) 11:04, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

 Completed. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^{put'er there} 15:42, 28 October 2023 (UTC)