Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of ISO 3166 country codes/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was archived by PresN via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 2 November 2018 (UTC).

List of ISO 3166 country codes

 * Nominator: Buaidh  talk contribs 07:40, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because it consolidates information from multiple articles including ISO 3166, ISO 3166-1, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, ISO 3166-1 numeric, ISO 3166-2, Member states of the United Nations, United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories, List of sovereign states, Dependent territory, Country code top-level domain, and List of Internet top-level domains. This list is sortable on all columns and includes information about United Nations and International Organization for Standardization country name preferences. This list includes the common country name and official state name of all 249 countries. This list also includes UN membership of sovereign states and the parent state of each dependent territory.

I would appreciate all constructive criticism of this list. Thanks, Buaidh  talk contribs 07:40, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment - unless I am missing something, there are no references at all. The section headed "references" actually consists of footnotes and nothing in the article is actually sourced......? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:33, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I've added nine original source references as you requested.   Buaidh  talk contribs 04:15, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment I had to revert your removal of information from ISO 3166-1 because your new list did not accurately reflect the names of countries given by the ISO 3166 standard (as opposed to the common names in use elsewhere). Anomie⚔ 11:11, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I've removed the first column entitled "Common country name" and replaced it with a column entitled "ISO 3166 Country name".   Buaidh  talk contribs 04:18, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I shall remove the disputed tag.  Buaidh  talk contribs 02:52, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment note I tagged the article as unreferenced. I'll give the nominator a little time to respond here regarding the lack of sources, however I am inclined to oppose this nomination. « Gonzo fan2007   (talk)  @ 14:48, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your comments, I am working to resolve your concerns.  Buaidh  talk contribs 15:49, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I've added nine original source references and replaced "Common country name" with "ISO 3166 Country name". Please let me know if this resolves your concerns.  Thanks,  Buaidh  talk contribs 04:22, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I have removed the unref tag but I have not reviewed the list entirely. Not sure if I will at all at this point though. « Gonzo fan2007   (talk)  @ 16:52, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The list is factually correct.  Buaidh  talk contribs 17:08, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't add the other tag. added it here. I have no opinion regarding the tag. On an unrelated note,, seeing User:AnomieBOT date your tag here made me chuckle.  « Gonzo fan2007   (talk)  @ 17:32, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Do you have any suggestions for improvements?  Buaidh  talk contribs 05:38, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
 * No, not at this time. « Gonzo fan2007   (talk)  @ 16:29, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

I am baffled why you created this article. What does this present that the featured list ISO 3166-1 doesn't? Why shouldn't the alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric articles be merged into that article? They are duplicates of the same information, and this is a new article that again duplicates all the same information for no apparent reason. Listing the countries' long names and sovereignty status is neither a particularly useful consolidation of information, nor directly relevant to the standardization system, nor something that couldn't be done to the preexisting FL. Reywas92Talk 22:01, 1 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Oppose I don't see why this isn't in the main article at all. A bright line violation of 3b.  The Rambling Man (talk) 16:53, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
 * ,, this one could use closing out. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:27, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Ugh, I didn't want to close this out without also going through and cleaning the area up, but I don't have time. Agree with Reywas and TRM- it's not that this list shouldn't exist, it's that it should not exist as long as the other 3 3166 lists exist. I'm totally on board with combining the alpha-2/3/numeric lists into a single list, as they're very duplicative, but instead this list just sits alongside them as a content fork. Closing. -- Pres N  02:10, 1 November 2018 (UTC)


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