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===European countries===
[[List of European countries]] Looks complete to me
*''{{ALA}}'' <ref>[[Finland|Finnish]] autonomous province.</ref> Good B, just needs refs
*{{ALB}} Good B, weak on refs
*{{AND}} mediocre B, no refs
*{{AUT}} May be A, but linking in refs from daughter pages may be hard
*{{BLR}} Looks A to me, former FAC
*{{BEL}} FA, already in V0.5
*{{flag|Bosnia and Herzegovina}} Looks A to me
*{{BGR}} Good B, former FAC
*{{HRV}} Decent B
*{{CZE}} Poor B
*{{DNK}} GA, Looks A to me
*{{EST}} Decent B, lacks climate section
*''{{flag|Faroe Islands}}'' <ref>[[Denmark|Danish]] autonomous province.</ref> Good B, only lacks refs
*{{FIN}} Good B, needs proper refs section, former FAC
*{{FRA}} GA, already in V0.5
*{{DEU}} Failed FAC, needs refs, otherwise very good, [[User:Walkerma|Walkerma]] 05:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
*''{{GIB}}'' <ref>[[British overseas territory]].</ref> Needs more refs, otherwise good, [[User:Walkerma|Walkerma]] 05:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
*{{GRC}} Good B, though sections sizes rather unbalanced in places
*''{{flag|Guernsey}}'' <ref name=BCD>[[Crown dependency|British crown dependency]].</ref> Good except no refs, [[User:Walkerma|Walkerma]] 05:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
*{{HUN}} B, needs refs.
*{{ISL}} B, already in V0.5
*{{IRL}} Looks A to me
*''{{IOM}}'' <ref name=BCD/> B
*{{ITA}} B, needs some work
*''{{flagicon|Norway}} [[Jan Mayen]]'' <ref name=NOT>[[Norway|Norwegian]] overseas territory.</ref> B, population of only 14, but a Ukrainian FA on this!
*''{{flag|Jersey}}'' <ref name=BCD/> Good B, but needs refs
*{{LVA}} B, needs some rewriting, POV dispute
*{{LIE}} Good B
*{{LTU}} B, needs some rewriting, culture
*{{LUX}} Good B, expansion tag on culture.
*{{flag|Republic of Macedonia}} Good B, just needs refs
*{{flag|Malta}} Looks like possible A
*{{MDA}} Good B
*{{MCO}} Decent B
*{{flag|Montenegro}} B, perhaps needs some balancing
*{{NLD}} Good B, just needs more refs
*{{NOR}} B
*{{POL}} B, needs more refs, better culture section
*{{PRT}} Failed FAC, looks A to me
*{{ROU}} B, history section too long
*{{RUS}} B but close to A
*{{SMR}} Poor B
*{{flag|Serbia}} Poor B
*{{SVK}} Decent B, needs more on culture, some rewriting
*{{SVN}} Basic B, needs work incl. copyediting
*{{ESP}} B - way too long, needs a good rewrite, few refs
*''{{flagicon|Norway}} [[Svalbard]]'' <ref name=NOT/> Close to A, just needs more refs
*{{SWE}} A, GA, already included in V0.5
*{{CHE}} Looks A to me.
*{{UKR}} Good B, needs culture section
*{{UK}} A, GA
*{{VAT}} B - well organised but the only ref is for a petrol station!

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====Discussion====
The ones in italics could be omitted if we wish, though some such as Gibraltar can be small but important.  [[User:Walkerma|Walkerma]] 01:24, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
:We should have them in there; Gibraltar has been fought over in the past by Spain and the UK and the others, it would not hurt. [[User:Zscout370]] <small><sup>[[User_talk:Zscout370|(Return Fire)]]</sup></small> 01:33, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

::I have been trying to add more refs to the Gibraltar pages, but much of my effort is taken up with arguments from those who want it rewritten in Spanish Otherwise its a good overview, largely factual and by far better than encarta etc. --[[User:Gibnews|Gibnews]]

My only immediate concern is [[Åland]], which has redlinks for subarticles. I haven't given a real hard look at the entire list, but these are vital enough that any spectacular quality concerns should be fixed prior to release rather than the topics removed. [[User:Nifboy|Nifboy]] 05:05, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
:All sub articles, except for a few are red links and important government officials article's are also redlinks, so this is a major concern. [[User:Zscout370]] <small><sup>[[User_talk:Zscout370|(Return Fire)]]</sup></small> 05:46, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
::Assuming we use [[User:BozMo]]'s script as used for the SOS CD, all redlinks are stripped out.  I doubt we would be including the sub-articles for countries anyway (except for a few major countries), so the fact that things like [[Economy of Åland]] are missing is unimportant.  Most of the usable links are just to other countries, if we pass this (or most of it) as a set.  I think the script can even take out the {{tl|main}} template, so just consider the article as a standalone without the sub-articles. Thanks, [[User:Walkerma|Walkerma]] 07:02, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

See also [[Wikipedia_talk:Version_0.5_Country_Review]] for some comments.

If there are no objections by Sunday I will pass all of these, since they all seem to meet the quality requirements for countries (B or above). [[User:Walkerma|Walkerma]] 04:16, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
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After negotiotions in Wiena about future status of [[Kosovo and Metohia]], we should concider puting this Serbian province on the list. --[[User:Pokrajac|Pockey]] 13:23, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
:Thanks, that's very useful!  It can be hard to keep up with these things!  I will add it to the general nominations section, where it can probably stand on its own merits.  I hesitate to add it here because it's not YET a country and I don't want to get drawn into a heated debate!  If the status changes in the coming weeks we will be sure to change our placing of the article.  Thanks a lot, [[User:Walkerma|Walkerma]] 14:21, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

No more comments, so the full set was passed as listed above.  [[Kosovo]], [[England]], [[Wales]] and [[Scotland]] were submitted as individual nominations at [[WP:V0.5N]]. [[User:Walkerma|Walkerma]] 05:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)