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:

This project also aims to improve articles on:
Proto-states:

Active independence movements:

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

Requested moves

• 24 Mar 2024 – 2018–2019 Gaza border protests (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Great March of Return by Selfstudier (t · c); see discussion

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Articles in poor shape

Limited recognition articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			2	2			4
FM					1		1
GA			3	3			6
B	1	7	19	10		2	39
C	3	4	30	38		1	76
Start		3	36	76		2	117
Stub			5	35		1	41
List	1		2	15			18
Category				2	111		113
File					1		1
Portal					2		2
Project					9		9
Redirect			5	4	26		35
Template				7	19		26
Other					2		2
Assessed	5	14	102	192	171	6	490
Total	5	14	102	192	171	6	490
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,264			Ω = 4.47

Bad articles:
Maximum goal: No more than 35%

158 / 493 (32%)

Start class articles:
Maximum goal: No more than 20%

117 / 493 (24%)

Stub class articles:
Maximum goal: No more than 15%

41 / 493 (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 Artsakh 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: Republic of Artsakh, 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

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

Requested moves

• 24 Mar 2024 – 2018–2019 Gaza border protests (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Great March of Return by Selfstudier (t · c); see discussion

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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 196) Start class Taiwan articles (Total of 0) Start class Kosovo articles (Total of Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",".) Start class Palestine articles (Total of 2,953) 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
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		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

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Limited recognition NA‑class

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Limited recognition, a WikiProject dedicated to improving the coverage of entities with limited recognition on Wikipedia by contributing to articles relating to unrecognized states and separatist movements. To participate: Feel free to edit the article attached to this page, join our WikiProject by signing your name at the project page, or contribute to the project discussion.Limited recognitionWikipedia:WikiProject Limited recognitionTemplate:WikiProject Limited recognitionLimited recognition articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Usage

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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