Wikipedia talk:Version 0.5 Country Review

European countries set
Before this page was created, I submitted a set nomination for all European countries, including the page List of European countries. I have already reviewed most of these, and all meet the criteria so far (B or higher), even the tiny countries. Please see the short discussion and comments there. The list has been up for a week or so without anyone rejecting any outright - so once I have checked the last few, can I go ahead and pass all of these, or does anyone else want to take a second look? Walkerma 17:59, 28 July 2006 (UTC)


 * The short answer is yes, please do pass them if you've looked at each of them individually and the quality won't embarrass us. Thanks!
 * Less to the point, it should be at least as easy for countries to get in as it is for FAs.
 * And sorry, but I don't have time to look at each individually. Maurreen 03:23, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are all European countries too, see Constituent country. If we are having Svalbard and Guernsey, then surely to goodness we have to have England? --Mais oui! 22:57, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


 * OK. The list on the project page is almost identical to List of countries. Maurreen 23:05, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Mmmm... that is most certainly not a "list of countries", that is a "list of sovereign states". A country is a geographical entity, a state is a political one. And not all states are sovereign states, eg. Scotland is a State (law) (see Scots law), but it is not a sovereign state. If you mean "sovereign state" you should say "sovereign state", cos there are a lot of countries that are not sovereign states. --Mais oui! 23:37, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * As a Brit myself (living in exile) I would definitely like to see England, Scotland and Wales included too. Why is it that all of the other countries (except perhaps Norway) are so straightforward, but the UK has all of these strange pseudo-countries like Guernsey (and even a feudal state, Sark!)  I'll try to resist nominating Berwick upon Tweed and also my native country, Geordieland....! :) Walkerma 23:47, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Southern Africa
I have added info to the articles on:
 * Botswana
 * Lesotho
 * Namibia
 * South Africa
 * Swaziland
 * Maurreen 15:21, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot! When I've recovered from my weekend wiki-overdose I'll take a look!  Walkerma 06:01, 6 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Just finished them - but it seems I got logged out, so many/all have an anon IP, sorry about that. Walkerma 05:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Working on the articles
By the way, I haven't dropped out completely. I've decided to do a little work on the opposite end. Have been adding a little to the articles, so when they get approved, it will be a better version. Am starting at least-populated countries, because I'm guessing they get the least attention. Maurreen 08:11, 12 August 2006 (UTC)


 * That's OK, I'd noticed! I've also seen you've been active with bios.  If you have a chance to look at Gabon and Guinea-Bissau I'd be grateful. When I get back home I hope to set up a WVWP page of regional notice boards, that should help with this stuff as well.  Thanks, Walkerma 09:12, 12 August 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, I added a little to each.
 * For some reason, the "Music of Foobar" articles seem often more developed than other "Foobar" articles, especially in "culture." Maurreen 21:12, 12 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I've just finished reviewing the North American listing - now we just have Oceania and Antarctica left. As seen before, many smaller places have only Start-Class articles, but I have included them anyway as (a) we need them for completeness and (b) the usual reason is lack of content, but the content there (e.g. tables of population, etc.) is perfectly usable, and most have good history sections. Martinique is really weak, really just a table and stub, I'm including it for the above reasons, but I'm contacting the Caribbean RNB to request expansion. Walkerma 09:26, 23 September 2006 (UTC)