Deletion of List of sovereign states

Comment: I agree that my nomination could have been better worded. To hopefully make it clearer - I am not nominating this list for deletion because it is subject to various disputes, but because I see it as a  of Member states of the United Nations and along with the duplication of the UN list it contains contentious . My intention in remarking upon the disputes was to highlight that editors are arguing over how criteria should be interpreted, and that the disputes are indicative of the original research nature of the list
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Content forking (WP:CONTENTFORK||WP:OR)

Comment: I deplore the use of this page to make borderline attacks on the nominator, but I also think this nomination is severely mistaken and fails .  List of sovereign states is a plausible search term and should ''at absolute minimum'' be a redirect of some kind.  I can't imagine how it could be thought wise to turn it into a redlink.   applies
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE||WP:ATD)