Talk:Nation codes

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Known Issues

I'm moving a bunch of the older discussions to the archive page and summarizing them as follows. I also moved User:Pinguinum's comment about airline codes to Talk:List_of_international_airline_companies.--Einmyria 14:53, 28 October 2007 (GMT)

• Code Overlap = when 2 or more nations have the same code. It makes no sense for the same telephone code, TLD, etc... to be effectively claimed and used by two or more countries. Rule is, first come first serve. Do not duplicate a code if you know it is already taken. See "Disputes" section below for current disputes. Nations who are disputing the codes should contact each other to resolve the dispute by consensus.
• The use of RL codes in the codes section. +1 for telephone codes, for example, was discouraged due to it's prominent use in RL...but there was much debate over whether this should be dictated or enforced. There was also discussion over the use of RL TLDs in NS. It boiled down to lack of enforcement.
• What are carplate codes? It's this.
• ISO Standards of 4 characters long appeared in the original forum thread, and so is highly suggested, but there has yet to be any "enforcing."

Disputes / Dispute Resolution Section

The Nation Codes are assigned on a first come first serve basis. A dispute can only occur if a player realizes that another player has the same code despite his/her claiming it first. This section highlights the dispute.

List of Current Disputes

List of Past Disputes

Talk

International Currencies

A question has come up in the Simtropolis region about how to sort their new regional currency, the Simoleon. I suggested having one entry for the Simoleon, as it is now. The Digital Network said that each nation should be listed individually. So I thought I'd ask what the community thought.--Kedalfax 22:45, 22 February 2007 (GMT)

Don't Know really. I'd go with listing it just once, and placing "Simtropolis", or "Simtropolis Nations" where the nation should go. Personally, I would change the format so the currency goes before the country, but switching this now might take some time. --swilatia 01:11, 9 March 2007 (GMT)

Split this article

I'm thinking this is getting quite unnecessarily lengthy—could we split these lists up into separate articles? We could place a template on the bottom of each list, linking to other lists. Blast 03:11, 28 June 2007 (GMT)

I second this. Not only is this making the article really long, it makes no sense to me for all these code types to be sharing an article. swilatia 17:16, 28 June 2007 (GMT)

Done! Instead of putting a template though, I just linked back to the main "Nation codes" page. I've also made changes to the top. I put the words "suggested." After all, it's non-enforcable. lol --Einmyria 17:05, 28 October 2007 (GMT)

A couple things

Just to let whoever-needs-to-know know, I am changing America of Tomorrow's currency from the "Money" to the "Point." So, I'm going to update this on the main article. ALSO, what is a calling code and do I need to register? Sorry if that's a dumb question... however I've seen many ranging numbers and it's a little confusing!

If I'm doing anything wrong, lemmie know please! Thanks.

America of Tomorrow 03:35, 18 July 2007 (GMT)

A calling code is the code someone outside your country needs to dial in front of a phone number when phoning someone in your country. Aridd 10:43, 29 July 2007 (GMT)

Currency and Keeping one Article

I think NS should adopt the following currency symbols:
Dollar/Peso: $
Pound: £
Lira: ₤
Yen/Yuan: ¥
Colon: ₡
Baht: ฿
Franc: F
Won: ₩
Presta: Pts
Rupee: Rs
Dong: ₫
Euro: €
Naira: ₦
Krona/Krone: kr
Sheqel: ₪
Ruble: p.

Not knowing about this page I created this, a page specifically for currencies currently circulating. Those of you wanting a separate article have your wish.

The way to keep the codes in a single article is putting all of the codes pertaining to a particular attribute of a nation in a sortable wikitable
--FirelightInvoker

There is absolutely no way that all the nations in Nationstates are going to adopt RL currency. The reason why NS is so diverse is because no RL currencies are used. As such, I oppose this suggestion. --Ѕтøќʟǒмōʟvї ^{Rant | Contributions} 22:53, 12 October 2007 (GMT)

I agree with User:Stoklomolvi in that RL shouldn't intrude too much on NS but I like the idea of including fractional monetary units, which people were not able to input in this main article. Is it possible to merge the two, I wonder?--Einmyria 10:58, 27 October 2007 (GMT)

Sorting Order

I had inadvertently made "Sorted By Code" first when I split the article, rather than "Sorted By Entity" first since it was by alphabetical order ("C" before "E"). Any reason why User:Swilatia changed it around again? :) *curious* --Einmyria 19:28, 28 October 2007 (GMT)