Talk:List of historical unrecognized states and dependencies

Flag images

Several of these should have been made with borders -- they had borders on the original page. The white-on-white color scheme doesn't make for easy visualization of the flags. Squamate 18:36, 12 September 2007‎ (UTC)

Catalan Republic

Now that is has been disestablished, should we add the Catalan Republic (2017) to this list? LoneWolf1992 (talk) 4:15, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

africa

it seems to me the lead on the africa section doesn't have anything to do with the subject of this page, no? why would it be talking about cold war to modern era african societal problems? at a length too SettlementMaster77 (talk) 00:37, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Offhand, this seems like a problem. It's been around for a long time; see this and this. I'll leave it to more regular editors of this article than I to sort out. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 13:52, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

ah i see, alrighty then, thank you SettlementMaster77 (talk) 16:53, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Asia or Europe

This is listed at Asia: Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers, Soldiers, and the Landless in Latvia. Maybe it should be at Europe. Medvexxx (talk) 01:28, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

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Provisional Revolutionary Government of Cibao section is too long

This section seems far too verbose when compared to the other states on this list. Perhaps someone more familiar than me with editing can trim it down a little? AlisterSinclair (talk) 18:01, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Vermont

It seems misleading to say that the Vermont Republic became the State of Vermont. During the 14 years of independence of Vermont, it was occasionally referred to as the Vermont Republic, and that term might be considered one of the official names for it since it appeared on coins, but in its constitution and for most official purposes it was called the State of Vermont, and moreover, when it was admitted to the Union as the 14th state, it did not acquire a new state constitution or a new governor or other new officers of the state. Rather the Constitution of the State of Vermont that had been in force since 1786 (which had superseded the 1777 constitution) continued in effect, and the governor of the State of Vermont whose term under that constitution had begun almost five months earlier continued with that term of office under the same constitution and laws as before, and likewise other officers of the state. And the act of Congress that admitted the state of Vermont said that the entity that had asked them for admission was "the State of Vermont." So what happened was not that something became something, but rather that the status of something changed (in an important way).

So the question is: How should the terse statements here be phrased consistently with that while remaining suitably terse? Michael Hardy (talk) 17:57, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

. . . and now I've rephrased it by changing "Became the State of Vermont" to "Admitted to the Union as the State of Vermont, after a compromise ended its jurisdictional disputes with New York." Michael Hardy (talk) 18:08, 25 June 2023 (UTC)