Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Controversy over Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence
The topic is notable, in the sense that the hypocrisy and double standards of both sides of the recognition divide has been widely reported in the media and by political analysts. There are several avenues the article can take includingt he obvious comparison of A & SO to Kosovo, the legality of A & SO declaration of independence in the 1990s, the legality of recognition under international law. International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is already quite long due to the long list in that article, but somewhere is going to be needed to place scholarly analysis. I do join with most others in the sense of being unbalanced, but I can give you examples of many articles on WP which have an extremely anti-Russian (some bordering on outright hatred) flavour to them, but the solution to this is to provide balance. And yes the embedded lists do need to go and to be standardised as per WP standards, but all it needs is for editors to be  and make the changes, and remember that no-one |owns articles on WP, so it will not be hard to balance the views out and build an encyclopaedic article, because this is one topic which will be debated for many years to come, and it needs a presence on WP
— User:Russavia, 19:26, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BOLD||WP:OWN (Wikipedia:Be bold)