Are we also leaving these three Argentina matches off the database? I understand why (league or B teams) but it's worth asking.
Argentina 1-0 Romania 1994-07-12
Argentina 2-0 Poland 1996-06-20
Argentina 2-1 Romania 1998-02-19
Yes, for now I think we are leaving them out.
These questions will become increasingly difficult the further back we go in time. There are many countries who count games against some league, olympic or B teams as full internationals. We have no idea what FIFA thinks about all of these games nowadays. We have to make up our own rules, and they will not always make 100% sense. Luxembourg for example have for a long time mostly played against B teams, and see all of those games as fullinternationals. I want to include those games as non-FIFA games, but that does not mean that we will add all games against B teams that were ever played by A teams. We have had difficult discussions about which olympic games to include. Most eastern european, asian and african teams (and some more) consider nearly all of the games that their olympic teams played as full internationals, while western european and south american teams don't. It's difficult, and what we do will not please everyone.
So I think that we need to focus on games that are clear cases. We should also add games which are considered full internationals by one of the two countries, but these are less important. And we will have a big discussion about olympic games from 1948 to 1980 in a separate thread, to get all of your views. But it is a problem that you can talk about many of these games forever, and then lose time in which you could actually add the games which are clear cases. And we do have limited for those discussions. Also, every time we include a game against a B team, or which is olny official for one side (or any of the other strange cases), I tend to get angry mails demanding that I should include this or that game. And again, all of that costs time that could be spent on the clear cases. Also, I know that I should not let unfriendly people on the internet get to me, but unfortunately they do upset me a lot.