My country is not represented in the community profile country selection

[HooZee]

I am from a country called Wales yet it is not available for selection in the steam community profile drop down list. The only option I have is to choose the "United Kingdom" - please note this is not a country, it's a union of four countries (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).

This is so unbelievably frustrating, I mean you even have Christmas Island as a country selection (population of 1402 and populated in the 1900's...).

Wales has a population of 3.136 million! It's been a country for thousands of years!

Please add Wales as a selection.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by HooZee:

the "United Kingdom" - please note this is not a country, it's a union of four countries (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).

It's funny how you naturally assume the good people of Valve have no idea what the UK is. It's actually listed as "United Kingdom (Great Britain)" and as I assume you are fully aware those are two completely different entities.

There are many "errors" in the country list. For instance, you can choose Mayotte which is nothing more than a French Department of an overseas territory, but it's listed as a country for display. And then if you're lucky enough to get the correct country, your city most likely won't be listed. And if it is there is a good chance it won't be spelled just the way it is locally.

And then when you consider the simple vanity it represents, you might realize that it isn't that important to begin with. So just leave it blank.

[HooZee]

My assumption is an informed one based on the selection available. Your reference to Mayotte actually strengthens my assumption, good job.

They'll always be errors in a system if it is just widely accepted and not fed back to those who are in a position to improve and fix it.

Where as you see vanity I see a conduit for international guilds, clans and teams to manage time zones and collaboration through accurate location of members through steam. Plus there is nothing wrong with having a little pride in your country but thank you for your input, it was short but pointless.

[Supafly]

Private profile so why does it matter?

Just ignore the preset options and type it on your profile instead. You can then go all the way to you street and number if you want

[HooZee]

My profile is not private to certain communities and groups, just complete strangers. Why does this thread matter to random people? I was directed here by steam support. If the functionality is there, it should work properly.

Whatever personal opinion a random stranger has regarding the country drop down selection on a steam profile it does not detract from an improvement to an incorrectly functioning feature on steam.

Analogy:

Steam - Here's a vehicle to drive.
Me - I can't select 3rd gear.
Random A - Lots of gears are missing, you don't need 3rd gear to drive the vehicle.
Random B - You're driving by yourself, just pretend to make the engine noises for 3rd gear.
Me - I just want the vehicle to work properly, fix it please or remove the vehicle from use.

[Supafly]

Originally posted by HooZee:

Why does this thread matter to random people?

Because its a public forum and some people have an opinion. I myself in the UK, Britain/England if you prefer.

Point remains you can just add the correct/preferred data on your profile.

Just so you know you can skip gears when both accelerating and accelerating in a vehicle. Doesn't need a broken gearbox to do that either.

Originally posted by HooZee:

Me - I just want the vehicle to work properly, fix it please or remove the vehicle from use.

It's not broken. It may not have the thing you want but it's not broken so nothing to fix.

You should also note I haven't said anything against your suggestion. I merely asked a question which you did answer so I understand you don't have a private profile to all. Fair enough.

Even if Valve would add Wales as an option that would be in Valve time which is.........slow. Thus I provided an option to allow you to do what you want now.

[HooZee]

We can talk semantics all day long about the definition of broken but ultimately the fact remains it isn't working as intended. The drop down is for country selection, of which the United Kingdom (and Great Britain) are not. It's like having "European Union" as sole selection for the likes of France, Germany, Netherlands, etc.

Thank you for your suggestion but I'm obviously aware I can write my country in the free text field, you know full well that is not the intent of this thread. I'm not put off by Valve / Steam being slow to implement a fix. It has to begin somewhere.

Valve / Steam, I'm sure you can allocate five minutes to implement this please.

[snipemaster.007]

Just change your profile picture to a sheep . Job done

[wuddih]

Originally posted by HooZee:

It's like having "European Union" as sole selection for the likes of France, Germany, Netherlands, etc.

UK is a sovereign country, EU is not.

Originally posted by HooZee:

Valve / Steam, I'm sure you can allocate five minutes to implement this please.

will take weeks, if they even bother. it is not like you raised a new issue here. the data used is a decade old and newer data from the same source is incompatible.

[HooZee]

The UK is not a country no matter how much you read wikipedia and try to be smart. It's very similar to the European Union in terms of an overarching political entity and autonomy of countries. Kingdom and Union, fundamentally the same thing bar a difference in head of state. Again we could discuss semantics on how much autonomy England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have in the United Kingdom compared to European countries in the European Union but it doesn't detract from the intent of this thread.

Steam / Valve please add Wales.

[fluxtorrent]

Found your problem, you are using wikipedia as a source

[8-The-General-8]

Originally posted by fluxtorrent:

Found your problem, you are using wikipedia as a source

Hhehehehe

[BloodShed]

Valve got the list of countries and towns from geonames.

That was 15 some years ago, and they haven't bothered to get an updated list since.

[HooZee]

Awesome so it's overdue an update, glad to be highlighting the issue.

[HooZee]

Originally posted by fluxtorrent:

Found your problem, you are using wikipedia as a source

I see you have Canada selected as your country. Remind me who your head of state is again?

Suppose the alternative is to champion all countries with the English monarchy as head of state under the umbrella of United Kingdom and delete those countries as options in the menu. - Note: this is sarcasm.

[8-The-General-8]

Originally posted by HooZee:

Originally posted by fluxtorrent:

Found your problem, you are using wikipedia as a source

I see you have Canada selected as your country. Remind me who your head of state is again?

Suppose the alternative is to champion all countries with the English monarchy as head of state under the umbrella of United Kingdom and delete those countries as options in the menu. - Note: this is sarcasm.

Must say, Fluxtorrent has a really trippy visual for profile. Like the colours etc., quite cool!