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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Category:Tour_de_France FYI Turini2 (talk) 13:01, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Following a conversation with @Kiwipete at Template talk:Cycling data BCS where I inferred regarding this, we are starting to see a lot more UCI team codes being re-used, whether it be for equivalent men's and women's teams – e.g. Lidl–Trek (men's team) and Lidl–Trek (women's team) both using LTK (with Lointek, now Sopela, previously having used LTK) – or Alpecin–Premier Tech now using APT, having previously been a code for the XDS Astana Team when the team was known as Astana–Premier Tech.

Category:Cycling team data has almost 1000 options available, which are a combination of UCI team codes, team codes with gender differentiation, and team names. I know I have previously moved the team code pages as and when the teams have changed codes, but in hindsight, page moves may well be reduced as a result of the team code data categories being names, rather than being a combination of the two. It avoids any potential edit wars, as seen on {{Cycling data EFC}} with @Martijnvdam97 and myself, and would avoid any potential issues with editing such templates, as @Turini2 had identified here last year.

Just an exploratory thought from myself to see what other people's thoughts are? Craig(talk) 22:06, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Craig, thanks for bringing our conversation to a wider audience. An initial thought - I think the overall aim of the {{UCI team code}} template is a good one, allowing for team names to change over time. This does assume, though, that the UCI code remains the same. But that assumption now seems to be the problem. We could adopt the practice of using the team's name (presumably its initial name) rather than the UCI code as the key for the template. Even if the name changes over time, the key would stay the same, and new entries, as now, just get added to the relevant {{Cycling data}} template.

@Turini2 - what particular problems did you have that led you to request a change to those two templates? Is anything that's being suggested here likely to solve those problems?

Cheers, Kiwipete (talk) 22:56, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks for the tag - I've tried to follow what the UCI calls the teams when making edits. Usually the team codes are not visible in wikipedia, apart from in tables like in UCI Women's Team or UCI WorldTeam.

An issue with using the team's name for the code could still run into issues and confusion. An example - Visma–Lease a Bike (men's team), Visma–Lease a Bike (women's team) and Visma–Lease a Bike Development have very similar names and the men's and women's team have identical UCI codes... Turini2 (talk) 23:03, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]