[Tagging] Tagging of Country Names

Dave F davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com
Wed Oct 26 23:35:56 UTC 2016


On 26/10/2016 20:56, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
> if we go with "official" we will always be on the side of the 
> powerful, and we will completely ignore other aspects. Take the Basque 
> area as example, it is not long ago, that only French and Spanish 
> (according to the side you are looking at) were officially recognized, 
> we would have completely ignored the native Basque population with 
> this rule.

Basque area isn't a country & the region can be rendered with it's own 
regional name using name:*=.

>
> Also, if you write "official language", would this include recognized 
> minority languages? Should we have a different tag for this?
> See here for example about the only one "official language" in France 
> and other relevant languages: 
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_France

See my comment above

Cheers
DaveF
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