Wikipedia:WikiProject Limited recognition

Scope and purpose Welcome to WikiProject Limited recognition, a WikiProject to add, organize, fill out, and provide a standard format for articles about those regions in the world which have declared independence, and maintain a de facto sovereignty, but are conspicuously unrecognized in international circles. The scope of this project includes any and all nations of people considered unrepresented by the international community, primarily those that are considered de facto sovereign states based on the declarative theory. Many of these have very poor articles, or no articles at all, and many lack depth, without articles on key figures. Regions excluded from the international community are notoriously difficult to gain reliable, up-to-date information on, and what little information is available on the encyclopedia is often subject to controversy and edit warring. If you would like to help us provide high-quality information about nations and peoples of the world that cannot be found on most maps, please join us here! Our project was founded on 19 July 2004 as WikiProject Unrecognized countries and later WikiProject geopolitical entities not recognised as states. At its peak, we had 23 members, but this project later became inactive. In 2018, our project was revamped and renamed to WP:WPLR with our original goal still in mind: to organize information about states with limited recognition. Though we also assess and improve articles regarding proto-states and active independence movements, there are currently ten states with limited recognition of high importance as these entities match the criteria for inclusion in the Limited recognition article. These ten states with limited recognition are the primary focus of our project and portal, and their respective articles fall within our scope for improvement. States with limited recognition: Abkhazia Artsakh Kosovo Northern Cyprus Palestine Somaliland South Ossetia Taiwan Transnistria Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic This project also aims to improve articles on: Proto-states: Ambazonia Logone Rojava* Zapatista* Active independence movements: Assam Balochistan Basque Country Catalonia East Turkestan Kashmir Khalistan Kurdistan Scotland  South Moluccas Tibet West Papua Due to the number of peoples that may seek independence, this shortlist attempts to only include movements that are considerably well-documented, particularly those whose movements have standalone Wikipedia articles. Alerts Article alerts Files for discussion 11 Oct 2024 – File:Deirezzorcivilcouncil.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2) was FfDed by Minorax (t · c); see discussion 11 Oct 2024 – File:Manbijcivilcouncil.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2) was FfDed by Minorax (t · c); see discussion 11 Oct 2024 – File:Tabqacivilcouncil.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2) was FfDed by Minorax (t · c); see discussion 11 Oct 2024 – File:Raqqacivilcouncil.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2) was FfDed by Minorax (t · c); see discussion Featured list candidates 15 Sep 2024 – List of national flags of sovereign states (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by Howardcorn33 (t · c); see discussion Requests for comments 01 Oct 2024 – Somali Civil War (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Zabezt (t · c); see discussion Updated daily by AAlertBot — Discuss? / Report bug? / Request feature? Click to watch (Subscribe via  RSS  Atom) · Find Article Alerts for other topics! Progress rainbow 7.1% List-Class 13.2% Stub-Class 37.9% Start-Class 25.1% C-Class 13.8% B-Class 1.9% GA-Class 1% FA-Class Articles in poor shape Limited recognition articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 2 3 FM 1 1 GA 3 3 6 B 2 7 21 11 2 43 C 2 4 31 39 2 78 Start 3 36 77 2 118 Stub 4 35 2 41 List 1 2 19 22 Category 2 123 125 File 2 2 Portal 2 2 Project 9 9 Redirect 5 2 33 40 Template 7 23 30 Other 3 3 Assessed 5 14 103 197 196 8 523 Total 5 14 103 197 196 8 523 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 1,289 Ω = 4.46 Bad articles: Maximum goal: No more than 35% 159 / 526 (30%) Start class articles: Maximum goal: No more than 20% 118 / 526 (22%) Stub class articles: Maximum goal: No more than 15% 41 / 526 (8%) Please help reduce this by improving articles: Start class articles Stub class articles Many of these articles may have received their original quality ratings ages ago and may already be improved. You can also help by re-assessing their quality based on the scale. Related projects WikiProjects: Abkhazia Kosovo Ossetia Palestine Somaliland Taiwan Western Sahara Former countries Countries Micronations Related portals If you have any expertise in subjects covered by these portals, please help by updating or maintaining them! The following subjects in our scope formerly had portals, but were deleted due to a lack of content and/or a lack of maintenance: Kosovo, Ossetia, and Human rights. If you are interested in creating, expanding, and maintaining portals for these topics, please re-add them to the list above. Participants Please use the [[User:(Username) | (Your name)]] format or sign without a timestamp using ~~~ when adding your name  Vanilla  Wizard  💙 Kautilya3 (talk) Outback the koala (talk) EarlGrey2005 (talk) TuorEladar (talk) Yue🌙 PrussianOwl (talk) DownTownRich (talk) Dictator Penguin (talk) Mar4d (talk) Rorr404 (talk) Youprayteas (talk) Kxeon (talk) To-do Articles to improve Status Key Unknown status Problems have been resolved Minor issues; could be fixed quickly Neither very bad nor mostly fine Significant attention needed to finish improvements Urgent attention needed (for situations such as edit wars, etc)             Status Article Entity Notes Culture of Abkhazia Abkhazia Recommend expanding to at least 3-4 distinct sections (currently only has substantive mention of religion & sports). Education section is very short (it mentions that there is a university, but does not state its name) and needs citations for verification. Coat of arms of Ossetia South Ossetia This article attempts to cite articles of legislation, but its reference section is empty. Preferably, the article should have at least four sources (rough estimate based on the amount of content). Consider reorganizing the sections and checking to make sure the wording complies with the Manual of Style. Images may or may not be better off in a gallery. Consider adding a portals bar. The article could benefit from having more in-text links. If possible, expand the article with the equivalent of 1-2 more paragraphs of text. Article alerts Article alerts Files for discussion 11 Oct 2024 – File:Deirezzorcivilcouncil.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2) was FfDed by Minorax (t · c); see discussion 11 Oct 2024 – File:Manbijcivilcouncil.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2) was FfDed by Minorax (t · c); see discussion 11 Oct 2024 – File:Tabqacivilcouncil.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2) was FfDed by Minorax (t · c); see discussion 11 Oct 2024 – File:Raqqacivilcouncil.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2) was FfDed by Minorax (t · c); see discussion Featured list candidates 15 Sep 2024 – List of national flags of sovereign states (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by Howardcorn33 (t · c); see discussion Requests for comments 01 Oct 2024 – Somali Civil War (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Zabezt (t · c); see discussion Updated daily by AAlertBot — Discuss? / Report bug? / Request feature? Click to watch (Subscribe via  RSS  Atom) · Find Article Alerts for other topics! Assessment requests If there is a page in our scope that you would like to have reassessed, add it to the list below so a member of our project can assess it! TBA Articles in need of translation Emblem of the Luhansk People's Republic (Russian) Anthem of the Luhansk People's Republic (Russian) Article requests If you know of any subjects which lack articles, please list them below! Entity Proposed Name Link to Draft Notes Somaliland Culture of Somaliland TBA There is currently not enough information available on the encyclopedia for a standalone article to exist. Any research would be greatly appreciated. Abkhazia Education in Abkhazia Draft:Education in Abkhazia This subject would be the main article to link to at the Education subsection of the Culture of Abkhazia article, but it does not currently exist. Opentask Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Assess : Identify more articles within the scope of the WikiProject by going through the following categories: Start class Abkhazia articles (Total of 199) Start class Taiwan articles (Total of 0) Start class Kosovo articles (Total of ) Start class Palestine articles (Total of 3,118) Start class Somaliland articles (Total of 0) Classes assessed: FA:  Done A:  Not done GA:  Done B:  Not done C:  Not done Start: In-progress Stub:  Not done Start class countries assessed: Artsakh Start-class assessment not started Kosovo  Not done Northern Cyprus Start-class assessment not started Palestine  Not done Somaliland Start-class assessment not started Transnistria Start-class assessment not started Western Sahara Start-class assessment not started Cleanup : History of Transnistria Comment: May need to be rewritten entirely Expand : The following high-importance states with limited recognition need more information regarding their histories to be found. Please help by expanding the content of their history subsections or drafting a standalone article, as they have no standalone articles for their histories or cultures. History of Northern Cyprus History of South Ossetia Culture of Somaliland Culture of South Ossetia Culture of Transnistria Maintain : Portal: Utilize available templates to automatically display the most up-to-date summaries of featured articles. Project: Establish a visually appealing template that helps editors easily find articles most in need of immediate attention Photo : Portal: Add a photo gallery to the portal to improve the overall quality. Update : WikiProject Ossetia is inactive. Please consider revamping this project, or taking other actions to help readers find reliable information about Ossetia. Other : Establish awards/barnstars for WikiProject Somaliland  Not done Taiwan  Not done Western Sahara  Not done Recognize featured/good content covering: Northern Cyprus  No high-quality articles directly relating to Northern Cyprus? Somaliland  No high-quality articles directly relating to Somaliland? South Ossetia  No high-quality articles directly relating to South Ossetia? Transnistria  No high-quality articles directly relating to Transnistria? Western Sahara  No high-quality articles directly relating to Western Sahara? –When a task is completed, please remove it from the list or mark it as {{done}}. Awards The WPLR Barnstar of International Merit {{{1}}} this WikiAward was given to {{subst:PAGENAME}} by ~~~ on ~~~~~ This project also issues barnstars for significant contributions for articles relating to specific countries within its scope. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Limited recognition/Awards for all awards. Templates Userbox {{User WPLR}} This user is a member of the Limited recognition WikiProject. Project banner {{WikiProject Limited recognition}} Usage {{WikiProject Limited recognition |class= (FA, A, GA, B, C, start, stub, FL, list, NA) |b1= (yes, no) Referencing & citations |b2= (yes, no) Coverage & accuracy |b3= (yes, no) Structure |b4= (yes, no) Grammar & style |b5= (yes, no) Supporting materials |importance= (top, high, mid, low, NA) }} or {{WikiProject Limited recognition|class=|b1=|b2=|b3=|b4=|b5=|importance=High}} Please see WP:WPLR/Assessment for our assessment scale. See also List of states with limited recognition UNPO External links UNPO Nations/Peoples page – This page provides a list of current and former members of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization