Template talk:GBR

If you want United Kingdom use {{UK}}. {{GBR}} is needed for olympic articles and needs to be at Great Britain. -- Earl Andrew - talk 22:54, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

ISO codes take precedence. We've used {{GBR}} for quite some time according to its ISO meaning now, and you can't simply barge in and declare all that invalid. Could we compromise to leave {{GBR}} for United Kingdom and use {{GBRoly}} or something like that for its IOC usage? We've taken great efforts to standardize the flag templates according to ISO usage, and it would be rather counterproductive to revert that partially now. I'll revert for now to the status quo before this discussion, since else, many pages currently using {{GBR}} will be incorrect. ^N_i^g_h^t_s^t_a^l_lⁱ_oⁿ ✉ 23:14, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My point is, we have {{UK}}. Why make things more confusing? Shouldn't UK be United Kingdom and {{GBR}} be for Great Britain? -- Earl Andrew - talk 00:24, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

For standardization's sake? People who know their ISO codes will expect to find  United Kingdom at {{GBR}}, and that's what's been used up to now... I can understand your reasoning, but would it be that much of a problem to use {{GBR2}} or {{GBRoly}} or something like that for the Olympics pages? ^N_i^g_h^t_s^t_a^l_lⁱ_oⁿ ✉ 01:54, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose  Great Britain would work. -- Earl Andrew - talk 03:21, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect! Thanks a lot for your understanding, and take care! ^N_i^g_h^t_s^t_a^l_lⁱ_oⁿ ✉ 09:11, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't quite understand this compromise. Surely the olympic team is Great Britain AND Northern Ireland and competes under a flag INCLUDING St Patrick's cross? Doops | talk 23:38, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Frankly, I don't know; whatever you do with it, though, please do it at {{GBR2}}. ;) Thanks! —Nightstallion (?) 07:26, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There may be a very few uses for the new template, but the Olympics would definitely not be one. In the Olympics, the team is a United Kingdom team that competes under the name Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The one use thus far (2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships) is also incorrect, as ice hockey is also a UK-wide sport (governed by Ice Hockey UK, Belfast Giants play in the Elite League, etc). That aside, I still have reservations about using an historical flag to represent a geographic area (imagine using the Soviet flag to represent the former Soviet Union or the flag of the Kingdom of Great Britain to represent the USA and Canada). Same message at Template talk:GBR2 Bastin8 13:16, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]