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Flagicon giving incorrect results despite correct code being entered.
Hi, I've been trawling through my local football team's wikipedia pages, and I've noticed that the flagicon for Ireland seems to be...broken? The flagicon code is IRE, which should give the tricolour of Green, White and Orange, but instead it gives the Red on White Saltire of Northern Ireland instead, which, apparently is EIR. I've tried to sort it through both source and visual editing, but nothing changes, leading me to think this is an issue on the template side.
Going to deactivate this for a minute. The change has merit, but I hadn't been tracking this and should have. There are about 1100 pages to investigate for goodness/cleanup (see the top of the page for an explanation), which it would be best to do before we add this here. Are you willing to do that work? Izno (talk) 22:15, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No, I'm not willing to do the work. I was proposing the change on a pure CSS reasoning. Personally, I don't even need the fix applied to all instances. Just those that don't even match .content a > img but have the "hack" applied to them and wrecking their aspect ratio (e.g. Switzerland, where the flag icon isn't linked). SocietyBox (talk) 01:55, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The base template is {{Country data Example}}, which implies that using a white flag should be for example purposes and not article use. {{flagg|uxx|blank}} might be better, as it shows as well without being linked. I don't really have any opinions on whether the behaviour being described is a good one necessarily, so do not take my suggestion as saying we should leave everything as-is (I am rather apathetic on that count). Once again, though, I am reminded that this entire system is ridiculous and we need a better one (which I am working on, just... slowly).Primefac (talk) 10:51, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No, just different organisations with different codes. I believe the technical backend is meant to distinguish the country from the island, but I am not sure (outside of sports) if anyone actually does that. Primefac (talk) 11:38, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
different organisations? I get confused easily sometimes, it seems fs player was using IRE code for Northern Ireland. I noticed we are quite keeping consistent codes between different templates and was thrown off course! I think I snapped my mask!!! :/ Govvy (talk) 11:45, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Switzerland, where the flag icon isn't linked). SocietyBox (talk) 01:55, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
(flagicon|white) links to the main page? Surely it should link to White flag? A7V2 (talk) 00:23, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
