Deletion of List of largest empires (6th nomination)

Comment: uhm, sorry but why is Australia included? it is not a "sovereign political entity" (no matter what Republicanism in Australia|ozzie republicans may tell you:), does this reflect the (not very good)  of this list? also why is this needed to be separate from List of empires, where a couple of extra columns could be added
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Comment: A change like proposed on talk to List of largest polities would ''not'' resolve the key problems with this article which have to do with systemic ,  and #INC - changing which arbitrary criteria define the list would not make the list less arbitrary
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Comment: I understand the idea of including polities but per  more people will be searching for empires.  I see no policy-based reason to warrant deletion
Stance: keep
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Comment: The problems with the page are , and the assertion that there is an {{tq|unwillingness to use RS definitions of an Empire}} is patently untrue; the page uses a definition by Rein Taagepera, namely {{tq|any relatively large sovereign political entity whose components are not sovereign}}.{{cite journal|date=1979|title=Size and Duration of Empires: Growth-Decline Curves, 600 B.C. to 600 A.D.|jstor=1170959|journal=Social Science History|volume=3|issue=3/4|page=117|doi=10.2307/1170959|last1=Taagepera|first1=Rein}} {{diff2|859380522|I noted this on the talk page right before this AfD was started}}, and {{diff2|859380805|amended the lead to make this clear right after}} (which resulted in an edit conflict with the AfD notice
Stance: keep
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