Talk:Czech Republic

Hello everyone, I have no intention of renaming the title of this particular article now, but I want to write something that bothers me about Czech sports teams. For several years now, all international sports federations have been using the name "Czechia" to refer to the Czech Republic team. And that's quite annoying when it comes to editing Wikipedia articles. Please see this talk; I presented my idea there. Thanks, Maiō T. (talk) 11:40, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

It is simple. As long as Czech Republic is the name of this page and Czechia has not prevailed as the common name, the name of encyclopedia entries about sports teams of the country is also Czech Republic, and should be used exclusively (we follow Wikipedia conventions, not off-wikipedia usage.). When the country is moved to Czechia, the names of all related pages will change, and the new common name will be used in the text of the pages (including changing existing references to the country). The outcome of the RM discussions on this page should not be circumvented by using the Czechia parameter or by creating an alternative code, as you suggest in the aforementioned talk. Same for Turkey vs. Türkiye, Ivory Coast vs. Côte d'Ivoire, and Timor-Leste vs. East Timor, which was moved recently. FromCzech (talk) 12:00, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

The name Czechia naturally applies retroactively to those sports organizations/teams. Therefore, instead of using name=Czechia in current template usages, you can immediately change the code in sports templates to just "Czechia". There's no need to invent specialized ISO codes; CZE is and was Czechia, and that's that.

Eg. Martin Doktor representing Czechia in 1996, 2000 and 2004. Chrz (talk) 16:43, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

@FromCzech: Okay, I won't use that weird parameter |name=Czechia in articles until everything is official. However, this parameter has already been used a thousand times on Wikipedia and will probably be used another thousand times by other users... So I have mixed feelings... Maiō T. (talk) 17:11, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

@Chrz: Theoretically, we could change the name parameter in Template:Country data Czech Republic, but using the name "Czechia" for events from the 90s doesn't seem very good to me... Maiō T. (talk) 17:11, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Keep name=Czechia for current sports references; it's a long-term 'temporary' solution. Opponents dislike this and want full consistency everywhere, even though it completely ignores the sources. Chrz (talk) 17:37, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

It will be perfectly OK for me, they are synonyms. When the page moves, Category:1990s in the Czech Republic will move too, etc. We refer to the country from today's perspective, not from the 1990s perspective. FromCzech (talk) 18:45, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

It would make sense, because the name Czechia has been officially correct since the breakup of Czechoslovakia. The fact that the translation error has become widespread in English does not mean that this error should be historically fixed. Vasek7 (talk) 14:26, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

"The name Czechia naturally applies retroactively to those sports organizations/teams." Um.... no. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 17:16, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

If sports organizations have "retroactively" changed the results list, I see no reason to frown upon that on Wikipedia. Old PDFs or articles remain the same, but the overview on the websites retroactively substitutes Czechia where it "historically wasn't". So ummm.... yes. Chrz (talk) 17:34, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

To me, that would immediately invalidate those organizations as valid, reliable sources. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 17:37, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Who dares to call it Czechia before 2016(?), is invalid? For example Merriam-Webster- "divided Jan. 1, 1993 into the separate countries of the Czechia and Slovakia"? Chrz (talk) 17:42, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Yep. Show me any English reference from the time that called it Czechia. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 17:45, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

I am also not impressed by a source that says "the Czechia". A professionally produced dictionary should have better grammar than that. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 17:46, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

I think you have just disqualified yourself from this discussion, both sports and general. Those are some criteria of yours that are not supported by anything, now you are rejecting sports organizations and dictionaries, and soon you will be forced to reject almost all sources because they are not 'historically accurate.' Chrz (talk) 17:49, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

So, expecting sources to be historically accurate is a bad thing? Explain this to me. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 18:03, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Given that it was never, ever, ever about renaming the state (but rather about a second name for the same country), the retroactivity of the geographical name is truly not unexpected. Sources dared to use it, so why we should label them as invalid, I truly don't know. Chrz (talk) 18:57, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

The error clearly occurred after renaming the entry 'Czech Republic' to 'Czechia' (Last Updated: 4 Nov 2025 - Definition revised), when it changed links leading to 'Czech Republic' to 'Czechia'. This is another disadvantage of the Czech Republic - the 'the' :) Chrz (talk) 17:54, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

"The error clearly occurred after renaming the entry 'Czech Republic' to 'Czechia'" Yes, I know when it occurred. I just expect better of them than to do so blindly and leave obvious grammar errors in place for weeks. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 18:05, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Czechia is NOT the name of a sports team. It is the name of a country, formerly known as the Czech Republic. Here is the webpage of the European Union describing this member nation.

https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/eu-countries/czechia_en

Certainly the EU knows the proper name of their member nations. Scottca075 (talk) 21:38, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

For the sake of transparency, a discussion (move request) on this exact topic is currently ongoing here. Chrz (talk) 17:25, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

FYI the proposal to rename the hockey articles was successful (see Czechia men's national ice hockey team). If anyone wishes to challenge this, it's better to do so sooner rather than later. We now need to proceed with necessary follow-up changes like renaming the category. Chrz (talk) 16:31, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

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obsolete IMF data for gdp nominal per capita ~2026-11514-47 (talk) 10:26, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want made. Please detail the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Largoplazo (talk) 12:38, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

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The national anthem title is a question not a statement. It should be Kde domov můj? and Where Is My Home? LoneShadow42 (talk) 21:53, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

•  Done: You are correct; it has been fixed. ―Maltazarian ^{(talk${\displaystyle \lor }$investigate)} 22:53, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

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