Template talk:Country data Democratic Republic of the Congo

Basketball
Request the addition of | link alias-basketball = DR Congo national basketball team

for the basketball templates Mk32 (talk) 21:11, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Republic of the Congo
I suggest someone adds to the Related templates: Template:Country data Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville). This is the other existing Congo state now, and very confusing. Needs disambiguation constantly. Bye -DePiep (talk) 21:00, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

DR Congo redirect
There is also the Template:Country data DR Congo redirection. It needs to be added. --Moyogo/ (talk) 04:36, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Flag variant 2003-2006
Could somebody add the flag as used between 2003-2006, please.CroesJ (talk) 15:22, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
 * The 2003-2006 flag is currently available as flag alias-1960. The 1960 variant should be changed to File:Flag of Congo-Léopoldville (1960-1963).svg, and a new variant 2003 should be added with the file Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2003-2006).svg. SiBr4 ("CyberFour") (talk) 16:06, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:21, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Unnecessary redirect of DR Congo national football team
Please, edit these two lines in the protected Template:Country data Democratic Republic of the Congo:

Replace Congo DR with DR Congo in both lines, because Congo DR national football team is currently redirected back to the DR Congo national football team. Also, the "youth" templates such as
 * → or
 * → do not work. Thanks, Maiō T. (talk) 23:22, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Done. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 00:47, 8 April 2014 (UTC)


 * No !!! It's even worse. I wanted it this way:
 * Maiō T. (talk) 16:36, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done. It's fixed now. Cheers,  Little Mountain  5  04:42, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Almost done. This template is still not working with DR Congo youth teams, e.g. : code  creates  – result: DR Congo national football team (instead of DR Congo national under-20 football team). I think the line ...  must be edited to something like ...  Am I right? Maiō T. (talk) 13:59, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 06:22, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Almost done. This template is still not working with DR Congo youth teams, e.g. : code  creates  – result: DR Congo national football team (instead of DR Congo national under-20 football team). I think the line ...  must be edited to something like ...  Am I right? Maiō T. (talk) 13:59, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 06:22, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Please add these two lines
following the football, basketball & volleyball aliases. Maiō T. (talk) 16:30, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ –  Paine Ellsworth  C LIMAX ! 15:08, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 3 July 2015
Please add one common line for all sports:

instead of plenty of link- & name aliases. I think it should work. (By Template:Country data F.S. Micronesia it works)

Thanks, Maiō T. (talk) 15:02, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: The  parameter is not only used by sports flag templates; the general-purpose flagcountry also uses it, as do the military flag templates (Army, Navy and Air force). With this change those would also display "DR Congo" and, worse, the military templates would use it to construct the link, leading to redlinks like DR Congo Army. SiBr4 (talk) 17:35, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

OK SiBr4, so it's necessary to edit link- & name aliases. Here's the code:

| link alias-football = DR Congo national  football team | name alias-football = DR Congo | link alias-basketball = DR Congo national  basketball team | name alias-basketball = DR Congo | link alias-volleyball = DR Congo national volleyball team | name alias-volleyball = DR Congo | link alias-handball = DR Congo national handball team | name alias-handball = DR Congo | link alias-rugby union = DR Congo national rugby union team | name alias-rugby union = DR Congo Maiō T. (talk) 22:29, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done. The volleyball link is broken, though it appears it was already, and I can't find an existing page for the DRC volleyball team. SiBr4 (talk) 08:23, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * . Maiō T. (talk) 14:23, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 10 August 2017
Please add  parameter into the handball alias, because wikilinks of DRC national youth handball teams don't work correctly. →  →  Maiō T. (talk) 17:05, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Here is one example what the other users do – ''(I've fixed it today: ). 15:40, 2 September 2017 (UTC)'' It's because the template hbwy is not compatible with DR Congo country data. Maiō T. (talk) 10:25, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 22:33, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 21 September 2017
Please add these links: Test: →   →    →  Thanks, Maiō T. (talk) 17:44, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 19:21, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I misspelled the navy alias. The correct form is: link alias-naval = Navy of the ... ... Please fix it. Thank you !!! Maiō T. (talk) 11:03, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 14:35, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 13 November 2019
Please add  Guarapiranga (talk) 05:04, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template.
 * Please see the discussion above.
 * Pinging, -- Cabayi (talk) 14:05, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah, ok, now I see it, . Not even sure why this is even controversial. Don't the Federative Republic of Brazil, the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia have shortname aliases? Of course they do. The argument that this will impact navy and army templates is equally vacuous. Is the People's Republic of China's shortname alias "People's Liberation"? No, it isn't. Yet its navy is called the . Guarapiranga (talk) 20:29, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Unlike your examples of Brazil, Bangladesh and Ethiopia, the article for this country exists at Democratic Republic of the Congo. See WikiProject Flag Template, which states the best results are obtained when the template name matches the article wikilink (as specified by the alias value). And you have seemed to miss the technical implications, the  parameter is not only used for text that may be displayed, but also for the link which is generated in some flag templates. Changing this to "DR Congo" would break the links in some instances of the template, which clearly should be avoided. S.A. Julio (talk) 22:54, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It would… if they weren't redirected. But . Guarapiranga (talk) 23:08, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Some redirects exist, but not necessarily in all cases of what a flag template may be linking to. The greater issue is flagcountry, which displays the shortname alias when available. Given the article exists at Democratic Republic of the Congo, there should be consensus before changing how the country name is displayed on the many articles which transclude flagcountry. S.A. Julio (talk) 23:46, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
 * uses of are in lists and tables, precisely where the long form Democratic Republic of the Congo forces a huge column width wheneve word wrapping is not a possibility (e.g. tables with a fixed rank column), also standing out from all other countries listed by their shortname alias. Wherever redirects from ____ in DR Congo &rarr; ____ in Democratic Republic of the Congo don't exist, they can be created, as they should (and indeed the red links are great cue for doing precisely that!). Guarapiranga (talk) 03:32, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Alternatively, I'd be equally happy with DRC's other shortname alias: Congo-Kinshasa. Guarapiranga (talk) 03:34, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Could you provide a sandbox version with testcases to compare before and after for templates such as navy? Sceptre (talk) 16:12, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Sure can, . Guarapiranga (talk) 21:55, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * One issue is Flag+link, where the sortname alias is used to generate the links. This would therefore break the link at Jewish population by country. I'm going to sort through the core flag templates to check for any more issues prior to the change being made. S.A. Julio (talk) 22:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * There, sorted, now flag+link uses the alias for the link and the shortname alias for the display. Guarapiranga (talk) 00:47, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: sorry I can't see the consensus for this change yet. Please reactivate when User:S.A. Julio is convinced that this change will not cause any links to break. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:58, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * So you're saying only Julio can reactivate it? That's not what's written here, (emphasis mine):  Or am I supposed to read his mind? Guarapiranga (talk) 22:39, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Since Template:Country data Republic of the Congo has the shortname alias "Congo", the change seems alright to go ahead with, so now ✅. I went searching through a number of templates and articles to verify the change wouldn't cause any issues. I created a few redirects, but the rest looked adequate to me. Let me know if there are any issues. S.A. Julio (talk) 15:13, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for realization of my old idea! Maiō T. (talk) 21:59, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

1963 flag
For the addition of the 1963 flag, please see the edit request at Template talk:Flagdeco.  P.I. Ellsworth &thinsp;, ed.  put'er there 17:51, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 2 September 2023
Rename:
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