Module talk:Flags/LocaleData

Why adding the Spanish names here?

Hi Sannita, thank you very much for your help! One question, why have you added the names in Spanish to the flags of Spain? Here at the English Wikipedia they are not needed, they should be added in the Spanish Wikipedia if they want to try this template. Italian Wikipedia would need to have the Italian translations, etc. I'd prefer to keep this list without any translations, so every other language can just copy the list and start translating the empty strings.--QuimGil (talk) 16:18, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Trying to read your mind, forgive me if I'm wrong. :) Adding an array of translations for each entry in this master template is not a bad idea! In principle, at least. Requires a bit more thought. First, those translations would need to identify their language, so the template knows where to search: "if I'm at it. then search through it: labels only". Otherwise things might break (as it happened with the Valencia Community flag after your edits) or wrong flags might be shown (if it turns out that some region in a language has the same name of some other region in another language, no idea if such combination exists but with hundreds of flags and languages the possibility exists). But then... how would these translations be maintained? If all translations are handled in the master then editors of other projects would need to come back always here for new updates. Wouldn't it make more sense that each Wikipedia is taken as reference for each language? Who else apart from it. projects need the Italian translations? It is more natural for it.editors to work and discuss their translations in their language at it.wikipedia...--QuimGil (talk) 16:43, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]