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not naming but ABSENCE OF LIST CRITERIA, i.e. a proper way of deciding what goes in and what does not. If such criteria existed, we could easily find a usable title; but there aren't any, which is fatal to the article. A second fatal problem is that there are no reliable sources anywhere which define the non-existent criteria. A consequence of the indefinability of this list is that things which one might have guessed would clearly belong outside the list's vague scope - like sovereign states - seem to be included in the general miasma; and it appears that User:Diego Moya indeed believed those states should have been excluded, so there is probably nobody who knows what this list should contain. It's a disaster and an embarrassment to the encyclopedia.
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That is helpful, but many states and territories are extraordinary in their own way and the categories into which we place them may seem arbitrary. I am not clear whether this article is intended to be about the fact that there are places that do not fall within the accepted definitions of state, etc
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or Berlin after WW2) in which case the list would be long and diverse even if it were confined to those arrangements currently in force, though I am not sure that it should. In either case there needs to be explicit and referenced use of accepted criteria in international law and I am not sure that
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have played an important historical and political role in international law and this is a useful collection of them. The article needs expansion and rewriting, but there is a useful base to work with and it should stay." The relevant criterion for inclusion is a territory (current or, perhaps,
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Please read the detailed criticism that has been written by me and others. It is nothing whatsoever to do with not liking the current or suggested titles: it is to do with their essential incoherence, because of the utter failure of the article to conform to any workable set of list inclusion
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for this hopelessly vague concept. The user on the talk page is correct, how do you define this? A: a ragbag of unrelated items, each defined more or less by its separate section heading. This is Not
Notable "within the meaning of the act", and everything that Knowledge shouldn't be.
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