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 "🇨🇳 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
Following lines should be added on the template: And this in the &lt;noinclude&gt; part of the page: — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhattara (talk • contribs)
 * flag alias-army = People's Liberation Army Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg
 * link alias-army = People's Liberation Army
 * var1 = army


 * What are you trying to fix? The   line has no effect.  There are no templates that automatically look for an " " 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)
 * ✅. Ah, I see, thanks.  I have added the variant, but the   line would still be useless.  — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:16, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Note
This may be a stupid question but... what is this? Look

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)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg 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 🇨🇳 CHN and 🇨🇳 CHN 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)
 * Yes check.svg Done. Cheers,  Little Mountain  5  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)
 * Yes check.svg 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 { {flagg|xxd|Tibet Autonomous Region}} template using the Chinese flag could be created for the autonomous region.
 * FOTW says the flag currently used in the 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)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: 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
--Cirolchou (talk) 03:38, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Please add a flag variant of the flag of Qing dynasty between 1862 and 1889: Flag of the Qing Dynasty (1862-1889).svg, just as Template:Country data Qing dynasty.
 * This flag Flag of the Republic of China.svg was adopted as the flag of the whole China in late 1928, not 1929.
 * Yellow check.svg 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 yields, 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  to achieve the same effect as 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)

Duplicate flag with different shade
@User:Primefac: There are two different files of the flag of the Republic of China (1) and the (2)  and that makes the inconsistency of the flag on so many articles. I strongly recommend to change the (1) into the unified (2) in Template:Country data China and Template:Country data Republic of China (1912–1949) to avoid any confusion. Lmmnhn (talk) 11:18, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree, I just spotted it, I'm beginning to wonder why it was uploaded in the first place, unless there is reliable sourced documentation for the different shade, it should be the same. Please comment at commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flag of China (1928–1949).svg. Thanks. -  C HAMPION  (talk) (contributions) (logs) 01:14, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Before this gets changed, which one is the right one? Both of them say they're based on official documentation, so I'd rather see the "official" official colours before making either one the "right" flag. Primefac (talk) 22:52, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I just did a quick bit of searching and, while shading is mentioned according to the relevant law, the ROC Ministry of the Interior, provides recommended shading "for reference only", and the shading of that flag looks to be different to both of the files mentioned above, so I do not see any consistency here. -  C HAMPION  (talk) (contributions) (logs) 01:36, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Revisiting this after undoing some unexplained changes from one colour variant to another. I can find no indication anywhere that there are two flags, that it was ever changed or that there’s any variation. There does seem to be a lack of specificity in the sources though. E.g. this from Flag of the Republic of China looks both authoritative and comprehensive but just says 'red', One reason for the lack of a clear definition may be Taiwan’s status, which means outside of Taiwan the flag is little used and so there has been much less need for it.

The variants seem to arise from different processes, such as one is RGB red, others are Pantone or CMYK, for printing. But WP is an online not print publication so we should use RGB colours, in particular RGB red. That is best for us and also best for printing, if anyone chooses to print a WP article their printer should produce the best results from an RGB image. Others should be deleted as inappropriate for WP, and likely to confuse if used. Pinging, and .-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 01:29, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * The Pantone version isn't actually used anywhere at the moment; it looks like already took care of this little issue. Primefac (talk) 13:15, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

2004 flag
Looking at the flags used in this template, the 2004 flag stands out as oddly coloured for no obvious reason. And looking at the claimed source, it does not match, and looks more like the others before and after it. There probably is no need for four different versions of the same flag, all with varying degrees of unexplained colour variations. They all seem to be sourced to the CIA factbook, so probably should be the same. Variations may have arisen as they were viewed and downloaded, on e.g. PCs with different colour settings.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 04:48, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Ping to . Primefac (talk) 13:46, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Duplicate parameters
The parameters "link alias-coast guard", "flag alias-marines" and "link alias-marines" are now all duplicated in the template, could this be fixed? Thanks, S.A. Julio (talk) 16:56, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 7 January 2019
Add: Extra link to "Qing" for Qing dynasty flag flag alias-1889 = Flag of the Qing Dynasty (1889-1912).svg flag alias-Qing = Flag of the Qing Dynasty (1889-1912).svg Change:Maybe change the year from 1929 to 1927 or 1928 based on based on when the KMT "took control" of China (See: Republic of China (1912–1949)), but regardless of that, also use the normal version of the ROC flag instead of unsourced variant with changed colours currently used. from flag alias-1929 = Flag of China (1928–1949).svg to flag alias-1927 = Flag of the Republic of China.svg Remove:These flags are just based on the shades used in pictures in different editions of the CIA World Factbook (you can see if you open the flag image) and not are official or even real changes to the flag used by China, they should not be included and especially not linked to a specific year! flag alias-1949 = Flag of China (WFB 2000).png flag alias-2000 = Flag of China (WFB 2000).svg flag alias-2004 = Flag of China (WFB 2004).svg flag alias-2009 = Flag of China (WFB 2009).svg Also remove duplicate Military and Navy flags?

Code for this change is on the template page sandbox

Havsjö (talk) 16:50, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done -- / Alex /21  07:41, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 17 January 2019
Revert the undiscussed change on 16 January 2019 by, there should be a consensus first with WikiProject Football to remove the prefix. Currently "China PR" is the term officially used by FIFA. S.A. Julio (talk) 17:11, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Primefac (talk) 17:45, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 23 January 2019
Editor Alex 21's edit of 23 January 2019 broke the navy parameter that is used by this template on countless articles (example of broken one here). Please fix this ASAP by adding this code:

| flag alias-naval = Naval ensign of China.svg | link alias-naval = People's Liberation Army Navy

above this code:

| flag alias-air force = Air Force Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg | link alias-air force = People's Liberation Army Air Force

– Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 23:46, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Any comment to the above, ? This was your requested edit that resulted in the above reported issue. -- / Alex /21  23:57, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the fix; much appreciated. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 23:58, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * No problems, apologies for any inconvenience caused. Also, please preview your edit request before submitting. I had three separate edit conflicts attempting to mark this as answered. -- / Alex /21  23:59, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry so much! I was actually going to just fix the historical flags but thought i should "fix" the many "accidental doubles" I thought I saw! The page preview showed both the "navy" variant and working "naval" example usage, so I thought it was fine. Turns out they didnt... big apologies! anyway, luckily there is no such situations on the other pages I have made requests on--Havsjö (talk) 00:06, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request of 26 June 2019
Change:

| name alias-football = China PR

to:

| name alias-football = China

Reason being is that there's no other team that competes in international soccer as "China" so the "PR" part is redundant and superfluous. Also, both Koreas' soccer team names were recently changed on Wikipedia from their FIFA ones, so consistency also. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 12:59, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Primefac (talk) 23:38, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Danke. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 09:16, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Bitte. Primefac (talk) 12:29, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Edit request
Please change 🇨🇳 china to display "China", rather than "China PR". 🇮🇷 iran doesn't show IR Iran and 🇰🇷 south korea doesn't show Korea Republic, for example. Either we display the FIFA name for all nations, or we display the common name (where the country Wikipedia page is loacated, i.e. China). Nehme<b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 11:37, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 13:40, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
 * per consensus here, could you restore the edit? <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 10:19, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅, sorry for the delay. * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 19:23, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 6 September 2023
Adding information for People's Liberation Army Rocket Force to enable the use of Template:Strategic force. Belarus101 (talk) 19:10, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg 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. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:46, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Edit request 8 July 2024
Please add these new aliases for the flags of the ground force, marines, navy, and air force shown in the code below. The flags for the separate branches didn't exist until 1992 and they are appearing in articles about events that took place before this date so adding these new aliases would help fix that.


 * flag alias-army-1949 = Flag of the People's Liberation Army.svg
 * flag alias-marines-1949 = Flag of the People's Liberation Army.svg
 * flag alias-navy-1949 = Flag of the People's Liberation Army.svg
 * flag alias-naval-1949 = Flag of the People's Liberation Army.svg
 * flag alias-air force-1949 = Flag of the People's Liberation Army.svg

Colohisto (talk) 21:27, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 02:19, 9 July 2024 (UTC)