Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Conventions for Long-Form and Short-Form Names of Countries
It doesn't appear that this article got past the stated intent ("This article will provide a basis to summarize the Conventions for Long-Form and Short-Form Names of Countries. Additionally, this article will deal with Names the sub-units of the constitutent-Countries, and if conquered and/or partitioned, its 'successor-States'.")  That's just as well.  This isn't the subject for an article.  Wikipedia does have a manual of style at  and if conventions aren't summarized there, then I would consider it to be free market-- i.e., that the editors can correct "Communist China" to People's Republic of China.  One person's thoughts about conventions for long-form and short-form names are just those-- one person's thoughts
— User:Mandsford, 18:28, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:MOS (Wikipedia:Manual of Style)