Again, the discussion about the use of the term "states" belong to other talk pages. I don't understand why this your personal opinion, which is similar to old disputes about "widely recognised state", You constantly advocate right here. Using of the term "states" for the entities included in the List of sov.states certainly don't consider any violation of NPOV. Especially if it is accompanied by explanatory note. 
There is no any reason why delete the total number of recognitions. It is a logical first information in the intro. On the contrary, there is no reason why the number of UN members in acknowledging the intro article placed twice.  In addition, we can of course mention the limited recognition of S.O., I had suggested a comment about it. Indicating of the number of recognition of S. Ossetia here is redundant, this is an article about the recognition of the SADR, but not of S.Ossetia. Who cares about the recognitions of S.Ossetia, makes use the link or template, and peeks at the appropriate page. 
Article should be logically structured, concise and easy to read. To clear the total number of received recognition, duplication of information about UN members, detailed information about one peripheral recognizer – it's not a meaningful editing, which would have contributed to this. Please stop your edit war, and repeated aggressive rewriting the total number of received recognitions etc. under false pretenses. This is not a good way to improve the article.