Template talk:Country data Eswatini/Archive 1

Template-protected edit request on 31 October 2018

Per the two consensuses at Talk:Eswatini (1. renaming the page from Swaziland & 2. using Eswatini over eSwatini) and per WP:CONSISTENCY, please change:

1. The template title to Country data:Eswatini (if possible in a way that any existing use of this template would not need to be manually changed)
2. All instances of Swaziland (but not SWZ as this abbreviation remains) to Eswatini

Thank you :) Brendon the Wizard ✉️ ✨ 23:19, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

 Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:48, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 1 November 2018

Please add the following parameter to this template:

|related1=Swaziland

to give

• Template:Country data Swaziland Swaziland

in the related section, thanks. - Wiz9999 (talk) 10:10, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

 Done Galobtter (pingó mió) 11:13, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Fix Template:Country data Swaziland (for historical purposes)?

@Andrwsc:, the recent change with "Template:Country data Swaziland" has broken various references to the original name. I've found a problem with how the Template:Country data Eswatini/Template:Country data Swaziland situation has been for the past few days - on pages that widely use the "Flagcountry" (and not "Flag") template exclusively. Like, on historical list pages and sports pages (etc.) of events before 2018 that widely use the "Flagcountry" template, the widespread notation of "Flagcountry|Swaziland" appears as "Eswatini", a name that wouldn't be used for decades.

It's on a widespread-enough scale (e.g. on enough pages) that it wouldn't be easy to fix, unless Template:Country data Swaziland is reverted back to being a separate-ish data template (like the Template:Country data Burma situation mentioned above). Would you be able to quickly revert this (your most recent Nov 12 change), making Template:Country data Swaziland its own separate-ish data template again (instead of a redirect) again? Thanks. Paintspot Infez (talk) 02:08, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 1 November 2018

Can the following line please be added to the template:

|variant = {{{variant|}}}

I think it will resolve the issue where the Examples box near the bottom is currently not displaying "Swaziland" correctly under the {{flagcountry}} line. Thanks. - Wiz9999 (talk) 23:02, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Saying that you "think it will resolve the issue" on the third edit request in two days doesn't inspire confidence. Why do you think it will? Or are we just piling on code in the hope that *something* will work? Cabayi (talk) 12:57, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

 Done OK, so I took a chance. It didn't have the desired effect, but it didn't have a detrimental effect either. I've left it in place. Cabayi (talk) 19:58, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Hmmm, ok try adding the following two parameters then. Hopefully one of the two fixes the issue:

|shortname alias = {{{shortname alias|Eswatini}}}

|altvar = {{{altvar|}}}

- Wiz9999 (talk) 03:22, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

I'm not just piling on code at random, I am attempting to replicate the situation over at {{Country data Myanmar}}, as this situation is very similar to how the Myanmar/Burma situation functions. - Wiz9999 (talk) 03:32, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Wiz9999, It's reassuring to know there's a parallel and that we're following a precedent, even if it's not had the desired outcome again. Cabayi (talk) 10:45, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Wiz9999, Must have been waiting on a purge - it looks good. Cabayi (talk) 11:11, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

@Cabayi: Ah! Excellent. Thank you! - Wiz9999 (talk) 11:19, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Template has been repaired to work properly. No special "fixes" are needed in situations like this; we just need Template:Country data Swaziland to be a normal redirect to this template. Old pages that use {{flag|Swaziland}} will display "Swaziland" as expected. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 08:46, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Where "Swaziland" is intentional, please add that to documentation. Please see Template:SWZ and Template talk:SWZ for an example of the confusion that is created by a lack of documentation. Thank you. – Jonesey95 (talk) 08:52, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 21 March 2019

Hello, I would kindly request that Template:Country data Swaziland be restored from a redirect to a functioning template with the following parameters:

<includeonly>{{Country data Eswatini
|1={{{1}}}
|shortname alias={{#if:{{{altlink|}}}|Eswatini|Swaziland}}
|size={{{size|}}}
|name={{#if:{{{name|}}}|{{{name}}}|{{#if:{{{altlink|}}}|Swaziland}}}}
|altlink={{{altlink|}}}
|altvar={{{altvar|}}}
|variant={{{variant|}}}
}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{Documentation}}</noinclude>

This template was made into a simple redirect in this edit by Andrwsc during his ill fated edit across these related country data templates that broke the functionality of Template:Country data Eswatini with Template:flagcountry to no longer be able to display "Swaziland" in the historical context. This restored functionality will be akin to the current functionality of Template:Country data Myanmar and Template:Country data Burma (using Template:Country data Myanmar/doc to display template usage to its users). - Wiz9999 (talk) 11:33, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

 Done -- /Alex/₂₁ 07:22, 22 March 2019 (UTC)