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I've added: all of South America, North America, Central America and the Caribbean. Secretlondon 01:14, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hopefully all of Europe added. Secretlondon 00:04, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Sense of Column 3?

Attention moderators. I don`t actually get the sense of the Column 3 as people contribute standard English terms there. Since you do not distinct between a cabinet and a council of ministers strongly (see cabinet), let's regard all those institutions as cabinets. As a political analyst, I see the following ways to fix this:

splitting the cabinet article according to the distinction between parliamentary and presidential republics, then encouraging Wikipedians to specify the exact type of each national government;
specifying the original (national) names of each government, e.g. Cabinet Ministriv in Ukraine. --AlexPU 15:30, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Date of Governments

I'm adding dates for the governments. I'm not sure what I should put for countries where the rightful government was overthrown. Like for Argentina. According to the guidelines, it should probably be 1853, when the most-recent constitution was installed. But the current line of democratically elected presidents only dates back to 1983. The president of Argentina page says that non-elected presidents of Argentina are not recognized by the government as having been presidents, so I guess 1983 is the more proper date. Just like how France's presidency was interrupted by Napoleon or whoever. Not exactly the same because Napoleon declared himself emperor, but you get the idea. Zhinz 02:23, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Naming standard for government cabinets/ministries

I have started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions, which will hopefully lead to a consistent naming standard for national government cabinets/ministries. See Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions#Naming of government cabinets/ministries to take part in the discussion. /Slarre 12:56, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New Discussion

A discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries/Lists of countries which could affect the inclusion criteria and title of this and other lists of countries. Editors are invited to participate. Pfainuk talk 13:32, 17 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Niger and Nigeria

Two entire countries missing for the entire 20-year history of this article. Fuck everything about Wikipedia.