Template talk:Aircraft by nationality

cat alpha sort fixes?

• Hmm, tried to fix Category:Aircraft by country alpha sort, so everything wasn't under "Aircraft" and that worked ok, see this edit. Then I got cocky and figured I would fix some of the countries which were sorted to include "the" because of the {{nation}} parameter, see Czech, Netherlands, UK, US. Which fixed my original cat alpha sort problem, but then completely redlinked [[:Category:Aviation in <nation>]] which needed the the to be there. So, in the spirit of WP:Was Being Bold But Now I'm Over My Head, I have stopped and asked for help. :) Thx. — MrDolomite | Talk 15:34, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
  • @Tom.Reding: the above problem persists today; please can you solve it? – Fayenatic London 16:08, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
    •  Done!   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  21:20, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
      • Let it be stated for the record that this is an example of superb service.– Fayenatic London 07:58, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

'Soviet Union and CIS', 'Soviet and Russian'

What’s the deal with these? The CIS is not Russia, it is Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova (suspended participation), Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The Soviet Union and Russia are not the same sovereign state (the USSR ceased to exist in December 1991, and shortly thereafter one of its republics, the RSFSR, was renamed Russian Federation). Soviet aircraft were manufactured in both Russia and Ukraine (maybe elsewhere, I dunno).

The linked categories should be split, but in the meantime the link text should be changed so it makes some kind of sense.  —Michael Z. 02:59, 15 September 2023 (UTC)