Template talk:Flaglink

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[edit] PR China broken

Please help For some reason {{flagicon|China}} works, but {{flagicon|People's Republic of China}} does not, even though Template:Country data People's Republic of China exists. I'm not adept at this, so if someone could please fix it, I would appreciate it. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 18:14, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

I presume you are referring to flaglink, not flagicon. I think you need to understand how this template works before making mass edits like that. {{flaglink}} creates a wikilink by appending a string to the country name. Therefore, your edit would have changed the wikilink from China at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics to People's Republic of China at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. Now in this specific instance, the former target article doesn't exist, so no harm would have been done, but in many sporting events, just "China" is used for the PRC. (In contrast, the Republic of China is called "Chinese Taipei" in most of those same events). So please look at the context of your AWB edits and skip over sport related ones. Thanks, — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:39, 9 January 2008 (UTC)