Talk:Lists of political entities by century

message: I guess this is where general discussion of this series should go. I am pretty sure there were no border changes visible on a world map between 1977 and 1990, so I will add :Image:BlankMap-World-1985.png to all those pages which have requested maps --Astrokey44 00:41, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  map 

message: A lot of these redirects don't make sense, particularly in the the first half of the twentieth century. They should be removed unless there were literally no changes in the number of countries in that year. Chet Fabulous 23:32, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirects 

message: We should decide on one short form to use across the list so that it stays consistent, because right now it says "USSR" from 1956 to 1979 and "Soviet Union" everywhere else. Chet Fabulous 17:01, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soviet Union/USSR 

message: Seems to be that this will take a very long time to do for every year before 1900 & will be harder to find sources or references as one goes further back in time. It will need a big team of people to do this, including a lot of research on a purely voluntary basis. 
Would have been simpler (in my view) to have a list of nations, etc. & all the years they existed beside it. Unfortunately there is no program to then list it by clickable years on here to show them as a cross-reference. That-Vela-Fella 23:27, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone could always start a Wiki-Project. I'm not sure if there's enough people working on these articles to sustain one, though. Chet Fabulous 17:05, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huge project 

message: is the point of this article? honestly, its a big ass list for every year that dosn't show much change once you get past the decolonization point--Jakezing (talk) 22:13, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  what exactly 

message: A discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries/Lists of countries which could affect the inclusion criteria and title of this and other lists of countries.  Editors are invited to participate. Pfainuk talk 13:46, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Discussion 

message: There are not mentioned dependencies in the lists from 1815 to 1929. To check (I've found some errors) and to make additions (as dependencies) I suggest to use the "World Statesmen" website ( http://www.worldstatesmen.org/ ): is a very complete website for this kind of research. Stanza13 (talk) 01:02, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dependencies 

message: To check (I've found some errors) and to make additions (as dependencies) I suggest to use the "World Statesmen" website ( http://www.worldstatesmen.org/ ): is a very complete website for this kind of research. Stanza13 (talk) 01:03, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "World Statesmen" website 

message: It is first included in 1880 and doesn't have a "(from ####)". Anyone have an idea when it began for the purposes of these lists? Star Garnet (talk) 16:02, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The same goes for Jimma, first listed in 1857. Star Garnet (talk) 17:47, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

text: And Easter Island, first listed in 1875. Star Garnet (talk) 21:41, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Dai Nam]] 

message: The lists that this article redirects to severely lacks sovereign Native American nations up until 1492. I'll add as many as I can but you guys, help too.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.3.65.75 (talk) 19:29, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Native American Nations 

message: THis is apparently an approach of creating a WP:LIST article, 
presenting a standalone, hand-made, list of sovereign states for each year(!)
Clearly, this is neither encyclopedic, nor is it maintainable in any way. 
A trivia question like "what were the sovereign states in the year 1837" might come up, and Wikipedia should be able to answer it somehow, but this is a classic case of something that should be solved by categorization, and smart searches of categories, not be handmade lists. 
Maintaining this is a disaster. If you find a mistake that crept into these lists, say a flag that has been mistakenly associated with a state for a period of 406 years, you will need to edit 406 individual list articles to fix this. 
Then say you figure out what the correct flag looked. Again, have fun editing 406 articles. Then perhaps somebody disagrees and wants to revert you. Again, have fun doing your 406 edits. Then perhaps you reach a consensus, and again have to go off on the quest of implementing it in 406 articles. And so on with the next thing that crops up.
This has nothing left to do with creating encyclopedic lists as part of the Wikipedia project... --dab (𒁳) 09:52, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Ideally it would be possible to have a central list of the years in which states existed, and the lists could be automatically generated for any given year (but this is semantic wiki territory...) --Tyrannus Mundi (talk) 14:24, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What to do with this? 

message: From 1800 to 1949, is it really necessary to have each year, can't it just be every ten years like from the 1950s onwards? PCH17 (talk) 13:10, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specific years 

message: I could use any help the community is able to offer. The article is named List of sovereign states in the 1940s Benuminister (talk) 05:50, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Started summarizing the 1940s into a single decade update 

message: 'Sup people! I've been trying to make the pages in the early 1800s consistent, so I was wondering: It was a tad inconsistent in the start date of the Massina Empire. When did it start? Before 1800, or around 1810? Excuse my lack of knowledge, just trying to get a confirmation. Paintspot Infez (talk) 15:14, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  When did the Massina Empire start? 1810 or before 1800?