Template talk:Country data Czech Republic

Template-protected edit request on 8 January 2019

Remove:
flag alias-1993=Flag of the Czech Republic (WFB 2000).png
and
var1 = 1993
This flag are just based on the shades used in pictures of the CIA World Factbook and not are official or even real changes to the flag used by the Czech Republic, it should not be included and especially not linked to a specific year Havsjö (talk) 09:31, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

 Not done for now: Havsjö, It's still in use. Please fix that first, then reactivate. Special:WhatLinksHere/File:Flag of the Czech Republic (WFB 2000).png Cabayi (talk) 08:10, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Cabayi done--Havsjö (talk) 08:26, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

 Done Cabayi (talk) 08:32, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Please add shortname alias = Czechia

Please add shortname alias = Czechia, per Czechia. Guarapiranga (talk) 23:00, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit template-protected}} template. S.A. Julio (talk) 00:08, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

The edit request form doesn't say edit requests require consensus, S.A. Julio. In fact, it says the opposite:

If you have noticed an error or have a suggestion for a simple, non-controversial change, you can submit an edit request, by clicking the button below and following instructions.

I see it does say that on the information page you linked (i.e. not policy), so one of the two must be corrected.

I did check the talk page to see if had been discussed, and there was nothing about it here. Is it controversial? Not according to Wikipedia:

The Czech Republic, also known by its short-form name, Czechia, is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east, and Poland to the northeast.

Guarapiranga (talk) 00:24, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

This will change the name to "Czechia" in some flag templates, which I have not seen consensus for. Given the article resides at Czech Republic, which is the most common name of the country, it seems best to discuss first. S.A. Julio (talk) 00:34, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

What's to see, S.A. Julio? Consensus is absence of disagreement. The best we can see is absence of consensus, i.e. disagreement (except of course in those rare occasions disagreement is overcome, and consensus becomes apparent).

Regardless, editorial consensus doesn't decide what the shortname alias of the Czech Republic is, but what RSs say it is. Editorial consensus itself is not RS. So here are a couple:

• https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/countries/member-countries/czechia_en
• https://www.state.gov/countries-areas/czechia/

Now, if you yourself disagree that this is what RS say it is, then you have to say it yourself, not defer to some elusive consensus. Guarapiranga (talk) 02:01, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

But the article exists at Czech Republic currently, not Czechia, with a move request last year having failed. Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template#Changing the wikilink display text states the best results are obtained when the template name matches the article wikilink (as specified by the alias value). Template:Flagcountry, which uses the shortname alias when available, is used on over 32,000 articles. This clearly would need discussion before every instance of the template which uses Czech Republic is changed to Czechia. S.A. Julio (talk) 02:25, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Ok, I reopened the discussion at Talk:Czechia (where I do see it's matter of controversy, though it shouldn't be). Guarapiranga (talk) 02:32, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

The redirect is done, S.A._Julio; you can add the add the shortname now. Thanks. — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 (talk) 22:33, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

 Done Izno (talk) 04:14, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

I've  Reverted per concerns raised at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) § Edit to Template:Country data Czech Republic broke links. Elli (talk | contribs) 09:25, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

The solutiion forward to that is creating the article redirects for Czechia, Elli, not simply undoing Izno's edit. — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 10:11, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Guarapiranga It would be helpful if the requester made it so no one else needed to know about redirects. Please feel free to reactivate when someone has taken care of that. Izno (talk) 16:07, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

I didn't either, Izno; I just find it counterproductive simply paddling back in the face of difficulty, instead of forging ahead to fix them.
There's now considerable (even if not consensual) support for renaming the Czech Republic's main article to Czechia, let alone admitting it as shortname alias. When Prikryl raised this at the Village pump 3 months ago, he said the consensus is that the "Czechia" shall not be used on Wikipedia (yet), but that's not true. The controversy is whether to use Czechia as the main alias; there's little to no dispute whether it should be used as a shortname alias. — Guarapiranga ☎ 10:42, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 2 December 2019

Please add:

|redir2=CZ
|redir3=Czech
|redir4=Czechia
|redir5=Česká republika

Guarapiranga (talk) 02:34, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

 Partly done: I've added the Czechia alias, though not the others. Very few country data templates have the redirect alias listed for the two letter code, and almost none have the native name. It's better to recommend more common aliases than obscure/foreign language redirects that could possibly confuse editors. S.A. Julio (talk) 03:04, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 21 January 2020

Please remove all those lines from "link alias-baseball" to "name alias-eurovision" (see Template:Country data Czech Republic/sandbox). They are unnecessary, because the shortname-alias line was removed last year. Moreover, the basketball line is wrong:
Code {{bku|18|Czech Republic}} creates a redlink Czech Republic.
Code {{bku|18|Czech Republic/sandbox}} creates Czech Republic.
Maiō T. (talk) 18:00, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

 Done S.A. Julio (talk) 23:36, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Someone has added the shortname-alias again. There are now many red links in the Eurovision Song Contest pages. August-54 (talk) 08:57, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 3 April 2020

Czechia Positive change 3,858 to 3,869 Source: https://onemocneni-aktualne.mzcr.cz/covid-19 90.182.205.100 (talk) 09:23, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. S.A. Julio (talk) 21:25, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 30 May 2022

The white-red flag without the triangle should be added as a 1990 alias as well (since it represented the Czech republic as a federated unit within the fifth Czechoslovak Republic) Glide08 (talk) 11:39, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^put'r there 14:09, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

To editor Glide08: can clarity be provided? P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^put'r there 04:54, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

was the State flag of Czechia in 1990-92 (just like is Califronia's state flag, or is Bavaria's state flag), while was the Federal Flag of Czechoslovakia. It is that I want to be made as the 1990 alias. Glide08 (talk) 13:04, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

That helps a lot; and  done. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^put'r there 18:57, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

"Czechia" as sports name aliases

Hello everyone, I'm gonna write something serious now.
Since every international sports federation has been using "Czechia" as the official country name for some time now, and also, since every new sports article on Wikipedia (also for some time now) explicitly uses "Czechia" as the name of the country (using an additional parameter "name=Czechia" in the code of the {{CZE}} sports mini-templates; often even ten times in an article - in match results and standings - for example:

• {{bk|CZE|name=Czechia}} → Czechia,
  

I propose adding the following text to the Template:Country data Czech Republic:

| name alias-bandy         = Czechia
| name alias-baseball      = Czechia
| name alias-basketball    = Czechia
| name alias-cricket       = Czechia
| name alias-eurovision    = Czechia
| name alias-field hockey  = Czechia
| name alias-football      = Czechia
| name alias-handball      = Czechia
| name alias-ice hockey    = Czechia
| name alias-inline hockey = Czechia
| name alias-korfball      = Czechia
| name alias-rugby sevens  = Czechia
| name alias-rugby union   = Czechia
| name alias-softball      = Czechia
| name alias-speedway      = Czechia
| name alias-squash        = Czechia
| name alias-tennis        = Czechia
| name alias-volleyball    = Czechia

This change wouldn't mean that a lot of articles would need to be renamed; this change would only eliminate the need to write the "name=Czechia" parameter again and again and again... I think my proposal is quite good; it sounds logical. Okay, now I'll give you a couple of days (or maybe weeks) to discuss this issue and then I would like to make the aforementioned edit. Thank you for your understanding. Maiō T. (talk) 22:11, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

As I mentioned at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Flag Template#Czechia, {{Country data Czechia}} is currently a redirect. It can easily be turned into a full flag template. Maiō T states that {{CZE}} is a redirect. It can be retargeted. If this is done, every link would need to be checked to make sure it is linking to the correct target. Mjroots (talk) 06:36, 12 December 2025 (UTC)