Template talk:Country data GBR

Template-protected edit request on 3 December 2019
Please replace #REDIRECT Template:Country data Great Britain with #REDIRECT Template:Country data United Kingdom GBR is the ISO country code for the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), not for Great Britain alone. Great Britain's ISO country code is GBN. Guarapiranga (talk) 01:34, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. This code has redirected to Template:Country data Great Britain since 2007. This would change the text displayed on a substantial number of articles, over 43,000 pages use this redirect. Per Template:Country data Great Britain, Both the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) use GBR as the three-letter country code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. However, the two-letter country code UK is a very frequent abbreviation for the United Kingdom. Consequently, Template:Country data GBR is the alias redirect for this template (matching the sport-related usage), and Template:Country data UK is the alias redirect for the "United Kingdom" template. This would need further discussion before a change could be implemented. S.A. Julio (talk) 02:05, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * That's inconsistent with GBR, not to mention ISO and the IOC as you did, . That's a mess and we should clean it up. Where did you see the 43,000 figure? How many of those actually render the name Great Britain and are not simply transcluding the flag and/or replacing the name with United Kingdom (as just did at List of countries by population (United Nations) Guarapiranga (talk) 02:31, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Transclusion count says 43,086. Of course not all are necessarily using the display text of Template:Country data Great Britain, though it is still a significant number that has been in place for over 12 years. Clearly after that long, the Great Britain output is expected in current usage (often for sports). Nearly 1,000 articles use the exact code . S.A. Julio (talk) 02:56, 3 December 2019 (UTC)