Talk:List of state leaders in 2006

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of state leaders in 2006 is part of WikiProject Leaders by year, a project to compile lists of leaders throughout history. This includes State leaders by year, Religious leaders by year, Colonial governors by year and International organization leaders by year. If you would like to help expand and improve these lists then please join the project. All interested editors are welcome.

A number of political entities that are not strictly nations, and often sub-national entites that are integral parts of a nation are listed here. Like Anjouan, Grande Comore, Moheli, Rodrigues, Southern Sudan, Zanzibar, Hong Kong, Macao, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Gorno-Badakhshan, Karakalpakstan, Bougainville, Nagorno-Karabakh, Nakhichevan, and well a few others that I can see offhand.

What standard are we using to determine what gets put here and what not? Are all the States of the United States of America or India going to get placed here? Entities that have defacto independence or separation (e.g, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Somaliland, or Kosovo) should probably be placed up, or territories that aren't fully integrated into a nation (e.g. Puerto Rico or Hong Kong probably should remain).

Arun 09:36, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Serbia and Montenegro

The state of 'Serbia and Montenegro' was deleted from this list in June when the seperate states of Serbia and Montenegro were created, but surely as this state did exist in the first half of the year it should be part of the list. However I am not sure how it could be placed back in the list without causing confusion. Davewild 18:41, 14 September 2006 (UTC)