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We are currently having a rel. stable page here that has no flags for Taiwan, Western Sahara (argument: no UN member states), but we do have flags for the BES islands (NL flag), Hong Kong and Macao (own flags). Is there a reasoning behind that that I am missing? or should for consistency all countries that are not UN members have no flags? L.tak ( talk) 13:45, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Good points! I totally agree. My efforts putting in the ROC flag a year ago got reverted by someone insisting the UN membership standpoint. Thanks for pointing out that not only is ISO not part of the UN, more importantly Wikipedia is NOT part of the UN and by not displaying the flag but showing the rest of the flags is non-NPOV. Would anyone disagree? I will reinsert the flag when I got some time. Mistakefinder ( talk) 18:23, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
I don't see any reason to not include the flags for Antarctica, Palestine, Taiwan, and Western Sahara. They are not part of the standard and we're not claiming they are – we're just including them for reference. In fact, there should be a note to that effect. We have the images, they are used in the articles on those places and elsewhere. We should include them here. —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 00:22, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
So, this controversy is alive again. Someone added the Taiwan flag, so I boldly added the flags for Antarctica, Western Sahara, and Palestine. I also added what I believed to be an accurate description of the position of the ISO in listing these areas, and WP in so doing and showing their flags, as being totally unrelated to their political status or independence. Both edits were then reverted, citing no consensus.
I contend that, by omitting some flags while choosing to show others, WP is actually making a political statement, which is wholly inappropriate. It should be all or nothing, IMO, but I'd hate to see yet another article damaged by "throwing the baby out with the bathwater". We have those flag images, and they are shown elsewhere. They are somewhat informative, and add some decoration to an otherwise dry article. Other non- or partially-independent territories are shown in the table, some with their own flags, without implying anything about their political status. —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 09:54, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Simple solution: remove all the flags. They are not part of the standard and are simply decorative, misleading WP:FLAGCRUFT. Jpatokal ( talk) 02:00, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Sorted. No flags, no controversy, no IP edits (less likely because templates scare fly-by IP editors), no 3RR, no nothing. doktorb words deeds 03:38, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
I've reverted L.tak's edit (which had put all the flags back except the 4 that they thought did not belong in the article). I contend that the discussion above shows absolutely no support for leaving the article in that state. Some of us prefer all the flags, while others prefer none if all is a problem. So, none it is. Right? Please don't revert unless you can demonstrate support for showing only some flags. (Note that I also fixed a number of other problems with spurious brackets and inconsistent sorting that had crept in with all the hacking) —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 07:52, 24 September 2012 (UTC) (First sentence above clarified/dis-ambiguated —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 13:53, 24 September 2012 (UTC))
I've decided to be bold and create Template:Editnotices/Page/ISO 3166-1, which is shown above the edit form when someone goes to edit this page. Hopefully it will stop at least some of the drive-by IP editors who continually change "Taiwan, Province of China". I stand ready to adjust the wording or remove the editnotice subject to any consensus formed here. Anomie ⚔ 14:29, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Before changing country names
This article is intended to report on
the ISO 3166 standard, and as such uses the country and territory names defined in that standard. Please do not change them unilaterally. Changes will require change of a long-standing
consensus and can be proposed at
Talk:ISO 3166-1. For suggestions to change the ISO code itself, you may contact the International standardization organization
here. |
(2) Everything on Wikipedia can be overturned by establishing a consensus so I don't see any point in advertising that, hey, in this specific case, the "page policy" (for want of a better term) can be overturned by establishing a consensus. Anyone who cares enough about Wikipedia to start such a debate and contribute meaningfully to it, already knows they can do so.
(3) I fully agree with using the same names for territories as ISO uses but I disagree that it's against WP:V or WP:OR to use different terms. The article links to a particular interpretation of the phrase "Taiwan, Province of China": why is it unverifiable or original research to say that the code TW means Taiwan but verifiable and not original research to say that it means "Taiwan, Province of China" and then wikilink to Taiwan? It's manifestly obvious that ISO is talking about that particular country/territory/entity, in the same way that it's manifestly obvious that, say, this news article is talking about this Lance Armstrong and not this one. Dricherby ( talk) 21:26, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
This Wikipedia page is about the standard ISO 3166-1 and, consequently, must adhere to that standard. The relevant ISO 3166 page clearly states that the full name of the country is "the Kingdom of Eswatini", that the English short name is "Eswatini" and that the Swazi short name is "eSwatini". Misha Wolf ( talk) 11:13, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
The various ISO 3166-related Wikipedia articles generally use a title cased version of ISO's short name (as opposed to ISO's short name lower case). But there are some inconsistencies. For example, MK's name is shown as the short name [Macedonia (the former Yugoslav Republic of)] in the ISO_3166-1 article but the short name lower case [Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of] in the ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 article. For CD, ISO_3166-1 uses the short name lowercase but drops one "the" [Congo (Democratic Republic of the)], while ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 uses the short name but adds an extra "the" [Congo, the Democratic Republic of the]. There are a handful of others. Are there any objections to consistently using a title cased version of the short name as the ISO name in Wikipedia ISO 3166 articles? DRMcCreedy ( talk)
title cased short name | short name lower case |
---|---|
Bahamas | Bahamas (the) |
British Indian Ocean Territory | British Indian Ocean Territory (the) |
Cayman Islands | Cayman Islands (the) |
Central African Republic | Central African Republic (the) |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands | Cocos (Keeling) Islands (the) |
Comoros | Comoros (the) |
Congo | Congo (the) |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Congo (the Democratic Republic of the) |
Cook Islands | Cook Islands (the) |
Dominican Republic | Dominican Republic (the) |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | Falkland Islands (the) [Malvinas] |
Faroe Islands | Faroe Islands (the) |
French Southern Territories | French Southern Territories (the) |
Gambia | Gambia (the) |
Holy See | Holy See (the) |
Korea (Democratic People's Republic of) | Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of) |
Korea, Republic of | Korea (the Republic of) |
Lao People's Democratic Republic | Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) |
Marshall Islands | Marshall Islands (the) |
Moldova, Republic of | Moldova (the Republic of) |
Netherlands | Netherlands (the) |
Niger | Niger (the) |
Northern Mariana Islands | Northern Mariana Islands (the) |
Philippines | Philippines (the) |
Russian Federation | Russian Federation (the) |
Sudan | Sudan (the) |
Taiwan, Province of China | Taiwan (Province of China) |
Turks and Caicos Islands | Turks and Caicos Islands (the) |
United Arab Emirates | United Arab Emirates (the) |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the) |
United States Minor Outlying Islands | United States Minor Outlying Islands (the) |
United States of America | United States of America (the) |
I would like to ask what we will do when ISO 3166 renames Macedonia. Removing it from the sortable table of disputes will be neater, but "erasing the history". Keeping it in the table is possible by marking it a settled dispute, though making the table longer.-- Jusjih ( talk) 22:16, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
For some reason,
"Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba" sorts between "Cabo Verde" and "Cayman Islands" "Saint Martin (French part)" sorts between "Cocos" and "Colombia" "Congo, Democratic Republic of the" sorts between "Czechia" and "Denmark" (sorting on "Democratic"?) "Palestine, State of" sorts between "Sri Lanka" and "Sudan" (sorting on "State of"?)
There are more.
How do we fix these so that the table sorts correctly? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zonker.in.geneva ( talk • contribs) 09:16, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
The markup you deleted doesn't try to reproduce
Template:ISO 3166 code
,
Anomie. Its purpose is to automate generating country tables. If you don't know what something is needed for, why not ask instead of rushing to undo? (especially since the change is not visible)
Guarapiranga (
talk) 12:44, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
<section>
to the article in some hacky attempt to automate generating country tables, you should generate the tables directly from the dataset used for
Template:ISO 3166 code or something else that doesn't involve cluttering articles with complex extraneous markup?
Anomie
⚔ 14:14, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
The countries are in disarray,
Anomie, that's why I changed it. My mistake was to use cscew
instead of cscw
. Now, are you going to fix it, or shall I?
Guarapiranga (
talk) 14:03, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
It says that each entry includes:
188.3.166.104 has been reverted once before about the change to "common names" (such as adding or taking away labels from country names). This could enter a to-and-fro editing debacle so it will need to be discussed here before going to page protection and elsewhere. doktorb words deeds 21:32, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
I don't have strong views about the edits of 27 October 2020 except for the description of ISO 3166-1 as an "internal standard". I don't know what the editor meant by this but it doesn't make sense.
Reviewing these edits, I've noticed a pre-existing problem with this paragraph. It used to say:
It now says:
Both the previous wording and the new wording make it unclear what is called Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes. Is it ISO 3166 or is it ISO 3166-1?
Well we know that it is the latter, but both wordings are confusing.
Any suggestions?
Thanks. Misha Wolf ( talk) 13:00, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
It removes the inaccurate "internal" description and clarifies what's being named. DRMcCreedy ( talk) 17:40, 27 October 2020 (UTC)ISO 3166-1 (Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes) is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. It is the first part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization.
Given that this Talk page had become extremely long and had sections on it dating back to 2003 that had either been resolved long ago or were no longer relevant, I followed the H:ARC manual process and created a new Talk:ISO 3166-1/Archive 1 page. I moved older discussions to that page, trying to keep discussions here that were either new, unresolved, or seemed very important to continue to have on this main Talk page. If you think any sections I moved to Talk:ISO 3166-1/Archive 1 should remain on this page, they can be easily copied/pasted back to this page. There are probably a couple more conversations on this page that could be archived, as it is still quite long, but I have not been active enough on this page to know which should be archived. The archive page is also searchable from the box at the top of the page. Hopefully this will make it easier for people to find new discussions on this Talk page. - Dyork ( talk) 02:46, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Misha Wolf,
you said that ISO 3166-1 section 1 (titled "Scope") defines "country name" as "name of a country, dependency, or other area of particular geopolitical interest"
. Where is that? I couldn't find it. I looked at:
I figured the article was outdated from its lede, stating that ISO 3166-1... is a standard defining codes for the names of countries
, when
ISO's own website clearly states:
it does not define the names of countries – this information comes from United Nations sources
— 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ( talk) 09:57, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
I made a mistake earlier when I wrote that the definition of "country name" appears in section 1 (titled "Scope") and in section 3 (titled "Terms and definitions"). It appears only in section 3, as Anomie wrote. I also made a mistake when I wrote that the "Foreword" states that "The ISO 3166 series provides universally applicable coded representations of names of countries (current and non-current), dependencies, and other areas of particular geopolitical interest and their subdivisions.". This sentence is, actually, located in the "Introduction". Misha Wolf ( talk) 23:42, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
Why is Palestine not independent? The country is a United Nations observer state. Even though a lot of its land is occupied by Israel, it has nevertheless been universally recognised as an independent country by the international community. 139.130.131.82 ( talk) 08:01, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
Any notes on what is going to be Bougainville's ISO 3166-1 code, as the next new country to be formed on planned and peaceful means in the near future? 2804:14D:8084:A496:51E6:4393:607D:C9D0 ( talk) 22:57, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
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We are currently having a rel. stable page here that has no flags for Taiwan, Western Sahara (argument: no UN member states), but we do have flags for the BES islands (NL flag), Hong Kong and Macao (own flags). Is there a reasoning behind that that I am missing? or should for consistency all countries that are not UN members have no flags? L.tak ( talk) 13:45, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Good points! I totally agree. My efforts putting in the ROC flag a year ago got reverted by someone insisting the UN membership standpoint. Thanks for pointing out that not only is ISO not part of the UN, more importantly Wikipedia is NOT part of the UN and by not displaying the flag but showing the rest of the flags is non-NPOV. Would anyone disagree? I will reinsert the flag when I got some time. Mistakefinder ( talk) 18:23, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
I don't see any reason to not include the flags for Antarctica, Palestine, Taiwan, and Western Sahara. They are not part of the standard and we're not claiming they are – we're just including them for reference. In fact, there should be a note to that effect. We have the images, they are used in the articles on those places and elsewhere. We should include them here. —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 00:22, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
So, this controversy is alive again. Someone added the Taiwan flag, so I boldly added the flags for Antarctica, Western Sahara, and Palestine. I also added what I believed to be an accurate description of the position of the ISO in listing these areas, and WP in so doing and showing their flags, as being totally unrelated to their political status or independence. Both edits were then reverted, citing no consensus.
I contend that, by omitting some flags while choosing to show others, WP is actually making a political statement, which is wholly inappropriate. It should be all or nothing, IMO, but I'd hate to see yet another article damaged by "throwing the baby out with the bathwater". We have those flag images, and they are shown elsewhere. They are somewhat informative, and add some decoration to an otherwise dry article. Other non- or partially-independent territories are shown in the table, some with their own flags, without implying anything about their political status. —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 09:54, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Simple solution: remove all the flags. They are not part of the standard and are simply decorative, misleading WP:FLAGCRUFT. Jpatokal ( talk) 02:00, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Sorted. No flags, no controversy, no IP edits (less likely because templates scare fly-by IP editors), no 3RR, no nothing. doktorb words deeds 03:38, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
I've reverted L.tak's edit (which had put all the flags back except the 4 that they thought did not belong in the article). I contend that the discussion above shows absolutely no support for leaving the article in that state. Some of us prefer all the flags, while others prefer none if all is a problem. So, none it is. Right? Please don't revert unless you can demonstrate support for showing only some flags. (Note that I also fixed a number of other problems with spurious brackets and inconsistent sorting that had crept in with all the hacking) —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 07:52, 24 September 2012 (UTC) (First sentence above clarified/dis-ambiguated —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 13:53, 24 September 2012 (UTC))
I've decided to be bold and create Template:Editnotices/Page/ISO 3166-1, which is shown above the edit form when someone goes to edit this page. Hopefully it will stop at least some of the drive-by IP editors who continually change "Taiwan, Province of China". I stand ready to adjust the wording or remove the editnotice subject to any consensus formed here. Anomie ⚔ 14:29, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Before changing country names
This article is intended to report on
the ISO 3166 standard, and as such uses the country and territory names defined in that standard. Please do not change them unilaterally. Changes will require change of a long-standing
consensus and can be proposed at
Talk:ISO 3166-1. For suggestions to change the ISO code itself, you may contact the International standardization organization
here. |
(2) Everything on Wikipedia can be overturned by establishing a consensus so I don't see any point in advertising that, hey, in this specific case, the "page policy" (for want of a better term) can be overturned by establishing a consensus. Anyone who cares enough about Wikipedia to start such a debate and contribute meaningfully to it, already knows they can do so.
(3) I fully agree with using the same names for territories as ISO uses but I disagree that it's against WP:V or WP:OR to use different terms. The article links to a particular interpretation of the phrase "Taiwan, Province of China": why is it unverifiable or original research to say that the code TW means Taiwan but verifiable and not original research to say that it means "Taiwan, Province of China" and then wikilink to Taiwan? It's manifestly obvious that ISO is talking about that particular country/territory/entity, in the same way that it's manifestly obvious that, say, this news article is talking about this Lance Armstrong and not this one. Dricherby ( talk) 21:26, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
This Wikipedia page is about the standard ISO 3166-1 and, consequently, must adhere to that standard. The relevant ISO 3166 page clearly states that the full name of the country is "the Kingdom of Eswatini", that the English short name is "Eswatini" and that the Swazi short name is "eSwatini". Misha Wolf ( talk) 11:13, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
The various ISO 3166-related Wikipedia articles generally use a title cased version of ISO's short name (as opposed to ISO's short name lower case). But there are some inconsistencies. For example, MK's name is shown as the short name [Macedonia (the former Yugoslav Republic of)] in the ISO_3166-1 article but the short name lower case [Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of] in the ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 article. For CD, ISO_3166-1 uses the short name lowercase but drops one "the" [Congo (Democratic Republic of the)], while ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 uses the short name but adds an extra "the" [Congo, the Democratic Republic of the]. There are a handful of others. Are there any objections to consistently using a title cased version of the short name as the ISO name in Wikipedia ISO 3166 articles? DRMcCreedy ( talk)
title cased short name | short name lower case |
---|---|
Bahamas | Bahamas (the) |
British Indian Ocean Territory | British Indian Ocean Territory (the) |
Cayman Islands | Cayman Islands (the) |
Central African Republic | Central African Republic (the) |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands | Cocos (Keeling) Islands (the) |
Comoros | Comoros (the) |
Congo | Congo (the) |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Congo (the Democratic Republic of the) |
Cook Islands | Cook Islands (the) |
Dominican Republic | Dominican Republic (the) |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | Falkland Islands (the) [Malvinas] |
Faroe Islands | Faroe Islands (the) |
French Southern Territories | French Southern Territories (the) |
Gambia | Gambia (the) |
Holy See | Holy See (the) |
Korea (Democratic People's Republic of) | Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of) |
Korea, Republic of | Korea (the Republic of) |
Lao People's Democratic Republic | Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) |
Marshall Islands | Marshall Islands (the) |
Moldova, Republic of | Moldova (the Republic of) |
Netherlands | Netherlands (the) |
Niger | Niger (the) |
Northern Mariana Islands | Northern Mariana Islands (the) |
Philippines | Philippines (the) |
Russian Federation | Russian Federation (the) |
Sudan | Sudan (the) |
Taiwan, Province of China | Taiwan (Province of China) |
Turks and Caicos Islands | Turks and Caicos Islands (the) |
United Arab Emirates | United Arab Emirates (the) |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the) |
United States Minor Outlying Islands | United States Minor Outlying Islands (the) |
United States of America | United States of America (the) |
I would like to ask what we will do when ISO 3166 renames Macedonia. Removing it from the sortable table of disputes will be neater, but "erasing the history". Keeping it in the table is possible by marking it a settled dispute, though making the table longer.-- Jusjih ( talk) 22:16, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
For some reason,
"Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba" sorts between "Cabo Verde" and "Cayman Islands" "Saint Martin (French part)" sorts between "Cocos" and "Colombia" "Congo, Democratic Republic of the" sorts between "Czechia" and "Denmark" (sorting on "Democratic"?) "Palestine, State of" sorts between "Sri Lanka" and "Sudan" (sorting on "State of"?)
There are more.
How do we fix these so that the table sorts correctly? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zonker.in.geneva ( talk • contribs) 09:16, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
The markup you deleted doesn't try to reproduce
Template:ISO 3166 code
,
Anomie. Its purpose is to automate generating country tables. If you don't know what something is needed for, why not ask instead of rushing to undo? (especially since the change is not visible)
Guarapiranga (
talk) 12:44, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
<section>
to the article in some hacky attempt to automate generating country tables, you should generate the tables directly from the dataset used for
Template:ISO 3166 code or something else that doesn't involve cluttering articles with complex extraneous markup?
Anomie
⚔ 14:14, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
The countries are in disarray,
Anomie, that's why I changed it. My mistake was to use cscew
instead of cscw
. Now, are you going to fix it, or shall I?
Guarapiranga (
talk) 14:03, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
It says that each entry includes:
188.3.166.104 has been reverted once before about the change to "common names" (such as adding or taking away labels from country names). This could enter a to-and-fro editing debacle so it will need to be discussed here before going to page protection and elsewhere. doktorb words deeds 21:32, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
I don't have strong views about the edits of 27 October 2020 except for the description of ISO 3166-1 as an "internal standard". I don't know what the editor meant by this but it doesn't make sense.
Reviewing these edits, I've noticed a pre-existing problem with this paragraph. It used to say:
It now says:
Both the previous wording and the new wording make it unclear what is called Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes. Is it ISO 3166 or is it ISO 3166-1?
Well we know that it is the latter, but both wordings are confusing.
Any suggestions?
Thanks. Misha Wolf ( talk) 13:00, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
It removes the inaccurate "internal" description and clarifies what's being named. DRMcCreedy ( talk) 17:40, 27 October 2020 (UTC)ISO 3166-1 (Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes) is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. It is the first part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization.
Given that this Talk page had become extremely long and had sections on it dating back to 2003 that had either been resolved long ago or were no longer relevant, I followed the H:ARC manual process and created a new Talk:ISO 3166-1/Archive 1 page. I moved older discussions to that page, trying to keep discussions here that were either new, unresolved, or seemed very important to continue to have on this main Talk page. If you think any sections I moved to Talk:ISO 3166-1/Archive 1 should remain on this page, they can be easily copied/pasted back to this page. There are probably a couple more conversations on this page that could be archived, as it is still quite long, but I have not been active enough on this page to know which should be archived. The archive page is also searchable from the box at the top of the page. Hopefully this will make it easier for people to find new discussions on this Talk page. - Dyork ( talk) 02:46, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Misha Wolf,
you said that ISO 3166-1 section 1 (titled "Scope") defines "country name" as "name of a country, dependency, or other area of particular geopolitical interest"
. Where is that? I couldn't find it. I looked at:
I figured the article was outdated from its lede, stating that ISO 3166-1... is a standard defining codes for the names of countries
, when
ISO's own website clearly states:
it does not define the names of countries – this information comes from United Nations sources
— 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ( talk) 09:57, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
I made a mistake earlier when I wrote that the definition of "country name" appears in section 1 (titled "Scope") and in section 3 (titled "Terms and definitions"). It appears only in section 3, as Anomie wrote. I also made a mistake when I wrote that the "Foreword" states that "The ISO 3166 series provides universally applicable coded representations of names of countries (current and non-current), dependencies, and other areas of particular geopolitical interest and their subdivisions.". This sentence is, actually, located in the "Introduction". Misha Wolf ( talk) 23:42, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
Why is Palestine not independent? The country is a United Nations observer state. Even though a lot of its land is occupied by Israel, it has nevertheless been universally recognised as an independent country by the international community. 139.130.131.82 ( talk) 08:01, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
Any notes on what is going to be Bougainville's ISO 3166-1 code, as the next new country to be formed on planned and peaceful means in the near future? 2804:14D:8084:A496:51E6:4393:607D:C9D0 ( talk) 22:57, 18 October 2022 (UTC)