Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Countries by year


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   redirect all to List of countries. This is an interim solution until someone can fulfill the suggestion at the bottom of this page regarding a list of country changes in a centralised location. At that point, I'd recommend retargetting the redirects to that page instead of the base "List of countries". Daniel (talk) 03:50, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Countries by year

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Unnecessary list of really unnecessary lists. Lists of countries by year? They don't change that much at all, so the lists are all just copies of each other. Also seems to be a duplicate of Sovereign states by year and its individual lists.

I am also nominating the following related pages because they are all duplicate and unnecessary lists. They pretty much duplicate themselves and List of countries:

-- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 16:16, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Merge all to one article that describes changes in countries by year but i can;t figure ot what to call it.-- Serviam  (talk)  17:09, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Do Something Else yeah, that's a non-standard AFD statement! I don't know what I'm saying here exactly... not delete, not keep, not merge... I understand what the page authors are trying to convey here, and I've often wondered myself when and how countries come into and out of existence... I see value in the idea but shudder at the implementation.--Paul McDonald (talk) 17:25, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Though I'm not sure how important a countries existence is, i think maybe it might be mentioned on the article of the country in question. - Jimmi Hugh (talk) 17:28, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete List of countries that is pretty much the same in every article and provides no useful information. - Jimmi Hugh (talk) 17:28, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Do Something Else I agree with PaulMcDonald - I think it would be interesting to see a list of countries and when they were founded and/or dissolved - but this is not the way to do it. Addionne (talk) 18:39, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Do Someway Else What criterion will be used to define a country? Countries like Taiwan, Israel, Burma, Myanmar, etc are all contested under different circumstances. Presenting this list runs the risk of being NPOV. HatlessAtless (talk) 19:54, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Consider a merge and then Delete, for reasons listed below. As the nominator points out, something else has already been done in the form of Sovereign states by year.  This one is slightly different, adding as it does colonies and dependencies that aren't sovereign (and which definitely aren't "countries").  As with the state leaders by year project, the sovereign states project takes into account the political changes of each year, and has criteria dividing between states recognized by the United Nations, and those that aren't recognized by the UN.  It would be up to the project managers (via the talk page) to decide whether they want to add more entities. Mandsford (talk) 20:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi. I'm the basically the only editor of these pages. While I like these pages and would like to see more of them, I'm certainly incapable of writing them all on my own, and it doesn't really look like anyone else is that interested. So I vote to Merge the dependent territory information into Sovereign States by Year and then delete the lists. They were fun to work on, but they don't really seem to be working out. Also, I'm intrigued by the Do Something Else votes. Does anyone have any ideas on how they'd like to see it done? If you do, it'd be great if you could leave some comments here or on my talk page. Thanks. Orange Tuesday (talk) 23:12, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  14:09, 10 July 2008 (UTC)


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