Wikipedia:Version 0.5 Set Nominations/European countries

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[edit] European countries

List of European countries Looks complete to me

•  Åland Islands ^[1] Good B, just needs refs
•  Albania Good B, weak on refs
•  Andorra mediocre B, no refs
•  Austria May be A, but linking in refs from daughter pages may be hard
•  Belarus Looks A to me, former FAC
•  Belgium FA, already in V0.5
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina Looks A to me
•  Bulgaria Good B, former FAC
•  Croatia Decent B
•  Czech Republic Poor B
•  Denmark GA, Looks A to me
•  Estonia Decent B, lacks climate section
•  Faroe Islands ^[2] Good B, only lacks refs
•  Finland Good B, needs proper refs section, former FAC
•  France GA, already in V0.5
•  Germany Failed FAC, needs refs, otherwise very good, Walkerma 05:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
•  Gibraltar ^[3] Needs more refs, otherwise good, Walkerma 05:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
•  Greece Good B, though sections sizes rather unbalanced in places
•  Guernsey ^[4] Good except no refs, Walkerma 05:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
•  Hungary B, needs refs.
•  Iceland B, already in V0.5
•  Ireland Looks A to me
•  Isle of Man ^[4] B
•  Italy B, needs some work
•  Jan Mayen ^[5] B, population of only 14, but a Ukrainian FA on this!
•  Jersey ^[4] Good B, but needs refs
•  Latvia B, needs some rewriting, POV dispute
•  Liechtenstein Good B
•  Lithuania B, needs some rewriting, culture
•  Luxembourg Good B, expansion tag on culture.
•  Macedonia Good B, just needs refs
•  Malta Looks like possible A
•  Moldova Good B
•  Monaco Decent B
•  Montenegro B, perhaps needs some balancing
•  Netherlands Good B, just needs more refs
•  Norway B
•  Poland B, needs more refs, better culture section
•  Portugal Failed FAC, looks A to me
•  Romania B, history section too long
•  Russia B but close to A
•  San Marino Poor B
•  Serbia Poor B
•  Slovakia Decent B, needs more on culture, some rewriting
•  Slovenia Basic B, needs work incl. copyediting
•  Spain B - way too long, needs a good rewrite, few refs
•  Svalbard ^[5] Close to A, just needs more refs
•  Sweden A, GA, already included in V0.5
•  Switzerland Looks A to me.
•  Ukraine Good B, needs culture section
•  United Kingdom A, GA
•  Vatican City B - well organised but the only ref is for a petrol station!

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] Discussion

The ones in italics could be omitted if we wish, though some such as Gibraltar can be small but important. Walkerma 01:24, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

We should have them in there; Gibraltar has been fought over in the past by Spain and the UK and the others, it would not hurt. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 01:33, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I have been trying to add more refs to the Gibraltar pages, but much of my effort is taken up with arguments from those who want it rewritten in Spanish Otherwise its a good overview, largely factual and by far better than encarta etc. --Gibnews

My only immediate concern is Åland, which has redlinks for subarticles. I haven't given a real hard look at the entire list, but these are vital enough that any spectacular quality concerns should be fixed prior to release rather than the topics removed. Nifboy 05:05, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

All sub articles, except for a few are red links and important government officials article's are also redlinks, so this is a major concern. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 05:46, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Assuming we use User:BozMo's script as used for the SOS CD, all redlinks are stripped out. I doubt we would be including the sub-articles for countries anyway (except for a few major countries), so the fact that things like Economy of Åland are missing is unimportant. Most of the usable links are just to other countries, if we pass this (or most of it) as a set. I think the script can even take out the {{main}} template, so just consider the article as a standalone without the sub-articles. Thanks, Walkerma 07:02, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia_talk:Version_0.5_Country_Review for some comments.

If there are no objections by Sunday I will pass all of these, since they all seem to meet the quality requirements for countries (B or above). Walkerma 04:16, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

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After negotiotions in Wiena about future status of Kosovo and Metohia, we should concider puting this Serbian province on the list. --Pockey 13:23, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, that's very useful! It can be hard to keep up with these things! I will add it to the general nominations section, where it can probably stand on its own merits. I hesitate to add it here because it's not YET a country and I don't want to get drawn into a heated debate! If the status changes in the coming weeks we will be sure to change our placing of the article. Thanks a lot, Walkerma 14:21, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

No more comments, so the full set was passed as listed above. Kosovo, England, Wales and Scotland were submitted as individual nominations at WP:V0.5N. Walkerma 05:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)