Ta‌̱mpi‌̱let:FlagIOCathlete/doc

This template is used to simplify creation of Olympic results articles. It expands upon the infrastructure developed for the {{FlagIOC}} template to render the following additions to an athlete's name:

• flag icon for the athlete's nation before the name
• country code for the athlete's nation after the name
• wikilink from the country code to the appropriate "Nation at the year Olympics" article

Usage

{{FlagIOCathlete|athlete|code|games}}

Examples

{{flagIOCathlete | [[Mark Spitz]] | USA | 1972 Summer }}

 Mark Spitz (USA)

{{flagIOCathlete | [[Jamie Salé]] and [[David Pelletier]] | CAN | 2002 Winter }}

 Jamie Salé and David Pelletier (CAN)

{{flagIOCathlete | [[Nedo Nadi]] | ITA | 1920 Summer }} (shows historical Italian flag in use in 1920)

 Nedo Nadi (ITA)

For comparison, the output of {{flagIOCmedalist | [[Nedo Nadi]] | ITA | 1920 Summer }} is:

Ta‌̱mpi‌̱let:FlagIOCmedalist

{{flagIOCathlete|[[Selemon Barega]]|ETH}}

 Selemon Barega (ETH)

{{flagIOCathlete|[[Sifan Hassan]]|NED}}

 Sifan Hassan (NED)

Supporting templates

• The country name is supplied by {{country alias|AAA}} where AAA is an IOC country code.
• The flag image name is also supplied by {{country alias}}
  • For the complete country code list with related names and flags, see Module:Country alias

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This template is used to simplify creation of Olympic results articles. It expands upon the infrastructure developed for the FlagIOC template to render the following additions to an athlete's name: national flag icon before, and country code after with wikilink to the appropriate "«Nation» at the «year» Olympics" article.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Athlete	1	Any content string; usually one athlete wikilinked, but could be two. Example [[Jamie Salé]] and [[David Pelletier]]	Content	required
Country code	2	Three letter code as per [[List of IOC country codes]]. Example CAN	String	required
Games	3	String of the form "«year» Summer" or "«year» Winter". In combination with the country code, shows the historically correct flag. Example 1920 Summer	String	required

Note that the combination of code and games parameters will automatically choose the correct flag for the nation (including historical flags for nations in which they have changed over the years) and the correct wikilink to the nation's article.