Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/United Nations member states

United Nations member states

Just found this, like a pearl lying on the beach. -- ALoan (Talk) 14:07, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

• Comment I really like it so far. Is there any chance an image of the UN building or the UN logo could be added somewhere? --Sophitus 21:03, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
  • Added the UN flag and the {{United Nations}} template. -- ALoan (Talk) 10:11, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
    • Support Very well done --Sophitus 16:55, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
• Support, though I wonder if this would this look better with {{prettytable}}. --Spangineer (háblame) 11:17, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
  • It is just a list of countries and dates, a bit like the featured Commonwealth of Nations lists: I doubt that {{prettytable}} would add much, unless the table included the notes too (but that would be rather duplicative).

However, it has come to my attention that the notes need some work (some of the cross-references are wrong, which seems to be due to Korea and The Gambia being deleted at some point, and the Yemen notes are currebtly out of alphabetical order: it would help if the current system was replaced by one of the automatic note/footnote/reference systems). I will look at it in the next few days if no-one beats me to it. -- ALoan (Talk) 16:55, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

• Support: some suggestions: 1) Is it possible to bold the countries that were the founding members? 2) A note about India: India joined the UN in 1945 as a colony, not as an independent country. Similarly Pakistan and Bangladesh also joined on that day as part of undivided India but formally joined much later. 3) In the section mentioning the countries never to have joined, Sikkim could be mentioned. =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:08, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
  • The founder members are now in bold; similar issues with Ukraine, for example: perhaps I should add a note re India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Sikkim isn't even an observer, as far as I can see. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:08, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Yeah a note about the countries would be informative. Your hyperlinked notes do not work BTW. Sikkim was an independent country till 1975. From 1945 to 1975 Sikkim had no contact with the UN. [1]. From what I understand, it is the only country never to be a part of any of the UN organs. The UN though, has a country code for Sikkim: 698 [2] =Nichalp «Talk»= 09:01, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Support -- Ian ≡ talk 01:53, 31 July 2005 (UTC)