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Now with regards to this nomination, Pelmeen10 the reason that this is an issue has to do with the way other templates interact with these. Specifically I came across the issue when using {{Medals table}}. What this template does is take two params {{{flag_template}}} & {{{event}}}. These parmas are used in conjunction with the various 3 letter nation codes to produce things like {{flagIOC2team|GRE|2004 Summer}} where flag_template = flagIOC2team and event = 2004 Summer. So far, every single flag template I have come across is setup in the format {{<template_name>|<country_code>|<optional_descriptor>}}. The only exceptions that I have found so far are {{bku}} and {{Fbwu}}. I don't doubt there are others. So what I am proposing is that we try to keep things consistent. Instead of being formatted as {{bku|<descriptor>|<country_code>}}, I propose flipping this around to be {{bku|<country_code>|<descriptor>}}. The template only has 277 transclusions at the moment and most of those are within medal tables that I will be cleaning up as part of converting them to use {{Medals table}} anyway so I would gladly take responsibility for updating every single transclusion of the template but I want to make sure that I do so after a discussion has been had. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:23, 28 September 2018 (UTC)Reply
I did some random checks and it does indeed seem that the nation code always appears first. I would support this change. But how can you change the template without breaking all those uses and how can you change the uses wthout first updating the template? I can put some code into the template so that a number will always be interpreted as the first parameter. I assume that in men's national under-NNN basketball team the NNN will always be a number? That would allow you to change all 277 uses and then we can fix the template for good. Thoughts? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 06:54, 12 October 2018 (UTC)Reply
@MSGJ: that is a great question... So there are a few ways to do this. First, there are only 276 transclusions of this template. So it wouldbe totally practical to change the template and then do a quick WP:AWB clean up to fix the broken ones. They would really only be broken for a few minutes, and with caching, you probably wouldn't even notice. The second solution, which would take a bit longer, would be a multi step process. I've already created a {{bku2}} which works the way you and I seem to agree this template SHOULD work. So we could basically convert all the transclusions of {{bku}} over to using {{bku2}}, then fix {{bku}}, redirect {{bku2}} to {{bku}} and then change all transclusions to use {{bku}}. I don't think that the longer process is really needed... If you are in agreement, I am happy to handle this myself with a WP:AWB script. Let me know! :) --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:13, 14 October 2018 (UTC)Reply
Okay, please go ahead. But you didn't comment on my proposed method by detecting numbers. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:16, 14 October 2018 (UTC)Reply
@MSGJ: Sorry!! Totally overlooked that. Can you elaborate on what it is you are suggesting? Perhaps mock it up in the sandbox? I don't entirely understand what you are getting at but you seem to be onto to something. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:44, 14 October 2018 (UTC)Reply
