Thread:Proxima Centauri/@comment-406947-20140429050759/@comment-406947-20140430025719

Why would it be difficult, wouldn't it be just a matter of removing the Catagory:Former Countries from the page code? As for the European Union, that's something of a special case. It's member states are generally considered to be sovereign states, and the overwhelming majority of world maps show them as sovereign states and not as mere sub-national entities of the EU. Basically, most sources treat it as an international organization (like the UN) rather then as a state. For the sake of the argument tough, let's say the EU is a sovereign state like any other and it's member-states (politically speaking, not culturally) aren't countries anymore then the provinces of Canada are. I'd say the Former Countries category would be appropriate, along with the Countries category for those that would still be Nations in the cultural sense of the term (e.g. France).