User:Horologium/mnc


 * Principality of Sealand
 * Unquestionably notable.


 * Freetown Christiania
 * Unquestionably notable. Article needs some cleanup and better referencing, though.


 * Hutt River Province
 * Unquestionably notable.


 * Kingdom of Lovely
 * Redirect to How to Start Your Own Country after a merge in 2010. The standalone article had survived an AFD in 2006. The current target's only reference is to the book.


 * Whangamomona
 * The article is adequately referenced in the history section. The whole part about the micronation is supported by a single reference at the end. The book is not mentioned.


 * Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands
 * References are book, one article that is substantially about the subject (from a source of unknown reliability), one source in Dutch which I cannot assess, and three brief mentions in articles which are general overviews of the concept of micronations. The article survived a VFD in 2005.


 * Kingdom of Elleore
 * References are book, review of book, website of book co-author, and Business Insider WP scrape. The article survived an AFD in 2012, after getting zerged by the ARS.


 * Sovereign Military Order of Malta
 * Unquestionably notable.


 * Akhzivland
 * References are book, travel article in Sydney Morning Herald and article in online magazine (not produced by Israeli ministry of Tourism, as alleged in the AFD in 2010).


 * Northern Forest Archipelago
 * Was deleted (twice); see first AFD and second AFD. The book alone was not deemed to confer sufficient notability to retain.


 * Principality of Seborga
 * Unquestionably notable.


 * Principality of Freedonia
 * References are book, (lengthy) article in alternative weekly newspaper, brief article in Somali paper about tangentially related issue, and three SPS, including a geocities link which was neither archived nor ported over to oocities. This went through two AFDs in 2006 (first AFD, second AFD); either of which could have justifiably been closed as "delete".


 * Great Kingdom of Rough and Ready
 * Redirect to Rough and Ready, California, which is an appropriate target.


 * Republic of Molossia
 * Another article in which the notes are totally useless (all links to SPS), but there is a nugget of usefulness in the references. Most of them are either SPS, seriously dead links, or passing mentions, but the first reference is substantively about the subject, and once again, the book has a section dedicated to it. This survived an AFD in 2007, but I think that the standards for inclusion have tightened since then, and I don't know that it would pass anymore.


 * Emperor Norton
 * Unquestionably notable; even his dogs Bummer and Lazarus have an article. Not really a micronation, but was a chapter in the book.


 * Copeman Empire
 * Redirect to Nick Copeman, which has no references except to the book.


 * Empire of Atlantium
 * This is a complicated issue, rendered more complex because "Emperor George II" is also a fairly prolific Wikipedia editor,, whose edits focused primarily on micronations, including some editing upon this article. The current version of the article is largely free of unsourced or poorly-sourced material, but it is also identified as possibly failing to meet the notability guidelines. It has survived an astonishing five AFDs (the numbering is really screwed up, but the links are:first AFD (originally at VFD); second AFD; third AFD (also from VFD); fourth AFD; and fifth AFD. Only the first and the fifth discussions resulted in "Keep", which is probably part of the reason that this went through so many cycles. The last AFD, FWIW, was closed as a keep largely because it was considered a bad-faith nomination from a user who was blocked as a troll two days after the nomination.


 * North Dumpling Island
 * The history section of this article discusses the "secession" fairly succinctly, and there are a number of reliable source references. It is likely that most of them were written because of the unquestionable notability of the founder--Dean Kamen invented the Segway PT, among other things. It's interesting that his biography doesn't include any mention of North Dumpling Island, which raises questions about notability; as per the essay WP:109PAPERS, wide reportage≠notability, and if it is undue weight in the BLP of the founder, is it really notable?


 * Kugelmugel
 * Reference (singular) is the book; there are throwaway references to an open dictionary and another open wiki, the latter for an "in popular culture" section. This was PRODed in 2007, but an editor removed the PROD and changed it to a cleanup tag.


 * Grand Duchy of the Lagoan Isles
 * Reference (singular) is the book.


 * Kingdom of Vikesland
 * Reference (singular) is the book, only EL is SPS.


 * Great United Kiseean Kingdom
 * No article, and it does not appear that there ever was one. The Google Books preview of the book does not cover this subject.


 * Kingdom of Romkerhall
 * Outside of a passing mention, there is nothing in the article on this castle to indicate that it qualifies as a micronation. The Google Books preview of the book does not cover this subject.


 * Ibrosian Protectorate
 * Another micronation without an article. The Google Books preview of the book does not cover this subject.


 * Sovereign Kingdom of Kemetia
 * This was created as a redirect to Undistinguished micronations, which is now a redirect to List of micronations. It does not appear that there was ever an article for this subject.


 * Talossa
 * The article needs help, but considering that the constructed language created for this entity now has an ISO 639-3 code, I think that the micronation passes the notability threshold.


 * Aerican Empire
 * This one is borderline, with 18 references. However, six of them are to SPS (the official website of the "empire" and a listserv archive), three more are passing mentions (the New York Times article, the Boston Phoenix article, which is the same article as the one for Freedonia, on a different site, and the Context magazine article, which is accessible through the wayback machine), three that don't have anything to do with the "empire" (the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience link is to a journal article written by the "founder" of the empire, as are the two Weird Tales links), two are (offline) French language sources which I am not able to access or assess, and one is a Spanish language something which is not linked to a specific URL, which makes it useless, one is a CBC link which is not to a specific URL, which makes it useless, one is to the book, and the last (the Montreal Mirror article) is an article specifically about the Aerican Empire. This has survived two AFDs, the first in 2006, and the second (which was disrupted by walls of text from a single-purpose account) in 2007.


 * Cascadia (independence movement)
 * Unquestionably notable. Not really a micronation, either, but was a chapter in the book.


 * Principality of Trumania
 * This was created as a redirect to Undistinguished micronations, which is now a redirect to List of micronations. It does not appear that there was ever an article for this subject. (Created by the same user as Kemetia , listed above)


 * Kingdom of Redonda
 * This one is borderline. The sources (not nearly as many as the citations would indicate) are the usual mixture of reliable sou rces and self-published dross, but I'm undecided about this. I certainly would not send it up for AFD on my own, but I'm not sure how others might feel. The article does not reference the book, though, which is an indication that the "kingdom" is notable without the book, unlike a number of articles in this list.


 * Grand Duchy of Westarctica
 * References are a dead link which cannot be accessed through the wayback machine, a blog, and a Dutch-language article which I am not able to assess. Interestingly, the book is not used as a reference for this article, while in the AFD, the book was apparently the final word in notability.


 * Borovnia
 * I will admit to being confused here. There is no article for a micronation by this name, and most of the Ghits seem to revolve around Heavenly Creatures, a 1994 movie, and the true story upon which it was based. Since the Google Books preview of the book does not cover this subject, I'm reduced to scratching my head, shrugging, and returning a blank stare.


 * Maritime Republic of Eastport
 * The article about this micronation was speedy-deleted (A7) in April 2010. A look at the last two revisions (before the CSD tag, and after it was pruned and tagged) indicate that it was a justified deletion. It was totally unreferenced and didn't make any assertion of notability.


 * Republic of Rathnelly
 * There was an article at this location, but it was merged into the larger neighborhood of South Hill, Toronto in 2009. There was a brief mention of an independence movement in the last pre-merge diff, but the whole article was unreferenced. The related Rathnelly was created as a redirect to South Hill.


 * Republic of Saugeais
 * References are a French language site I am not able to assess and a link from Flags of the World, which is a volunteer-staffed site. The book is not used as a reference for this article.


 * Barony of Caux
 * References are the book and the SPS official site.


 * Conch Republic
 * This is another borderline case. There are three substantive articles from reliable sources (and it's likely more could be found), but the other references are to the book (two separate cites), a trivia site, Fodor's Key West, an online travel magazine, and the SPS of the "Republic". This might be better served by being stripped of the crufty links and merged back into Key West, Florida, which already has a section about the Conch Republic, but I won't be AFDing it.


 * Ladonia (micronation)
 * The references and notes here are messed up. The notes (which are linked with the inline citations) are useless. The references (which are not inline citations) are a mixed bag. The first appears to be to a museum (it's accessible through the wayback machine), the second is a tripod website (not RS), the third is a brief mention of an influx of Pakistani visa applicants (which is not addressed in the article at all), and the remaining references are all major newspaper references to the visa thing (from the BBC, Sweden's third-largest newspaper, and the leftist French newspaper Libération). It's bizarre that the only well-documented item doesn't merit a mention in the article, but I'm not convinced that the event is enough to support an entire article. Again, the book is not mentioned. This went through a pair of AFDs, the first in 2005, and the second in 2007, which resulted in a merge from another article.


 * Dominion of British West Florida
 * The references are the book, three personal sites (the "Unrecognized States Numismatic Society", which has more than a few links in this walled garden, derives almost all of its micronational currency data from George Cruickshank, aka "Emperor George II" of Empire of Atlantium, aka User:Gene Poole), and a journal article. The use of the journal article is particularly risible, as it clearly states that the claims made by the "Dominion" are historical revisionism, which substantially discounts the notability of the claims and the subject (and this is an article from a peer-reviewed journal).