Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries by formation dates
I don't see this being useful: honestly, who would ever search for this? Further more, per some of the above, this is hopelessly . You can't just create an list of "countries" with dates. What does it mean to be a country? What is a "formation date"? This is a neat concept within the modern thinking, e.g., the United States has a neat date of July 4, 1776 and 1783 as the end of the Revolutionary War, so we have some simple markers to go by. Even so, the US has TWO dates, what exactly is our "date of formation"? And the US is a simple case, what about countries such as Kosovo who has declared independence but is not recognized by any country? There are just too many problems with this list. Lists are good for some things but the nature of countries/nation-states is something that requires much more analysis than a list
— User:Hobbeslover, 07:40, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:OR (Wikipedia:No original research)