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I'm prepared to remove everything below the four lettered notes under the table and above See Also.
This article is about landlocked countries, the definition of which has nothing to do with what "clusters" one might collectively assign a landlocked country and/or the countries adjacent to it. The word "cluster" is mentioned nowhere until a column appears in the table assigning each country (or is it their adjacent countries?) to a cluster. The column provides no information relevant to understanding the landlocked nature of any of the table's entries.
Then, after the table appears extensive and largely incoherent coverage of a number of supposed clusters, which countries are assigned to them, intermingled with alternative outcomes depending on what would happen if we treated this country as being part of that country, etc. There's a single citation in the mess, and it vaguely uses the word "cluster" two or three times while having no relevance to the coverage here.
Another editor posted a query about this 2015, at Talk:Landlocked country/Archives/2015#Original research in defining clusters. There was no response. Since I agree with that editor, and since responses appear slow in coming, I'm figuring on waiting a week or two to see if anyone can shed any light on why it makes sense to talk about clustering and has ideas on how to make the existing text meaningful, or else I'll WP:BOLDly go ahead and remove that content. Largoplazo ( talk) 00:08, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
The inclusion of the West Bank here strikes me as weird. No one recognizes the West Bank as an independent state by itself, but rather as part of Palestine, which has access to the Mediterranean through the Gaza strip. Felagund ( talk) 04:42, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
Unlike Transnistria et al., Tibet does not have quasi-indepndent organs of government and is not a self-declared independent country. El_C 01:35, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
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I'm prepared to remove everything below the four lettered notes under the table and above See Also.
This article is about landlocked countries, the definition of which has nothing to do with what "clusters" one might collectively assign a landlocked country and/or the countries adjacent to it. The word "cluster" is mentioned nowhere until a column appears in the table assigning each country (or is it their adjacent countries?) to a cluster. The column provides no information relevant to understanding the landlocked nature of any of the table's entries.
Then, after the table appears extensive and largely incoherent coverage of a number of supposed clusters, which countries are assigned to them, intermingled with alternative outcomes depending on what would happen if we treated this country as being part of that country, etc. There's a single citation in the mess, and it vaguely uses the word "cluster" two or three times while having no relevance to the coverage here.
Another editor posted a query about this 2015, at Talk:Landlocked country/Archives/2015#Original research in defining clusters. There was no response. Since I agree with that editor, and since responses appear slow in coming, I'm figuring on waiting a week or two to see if anyone can shed any light on why it makes sense to talk about clustering and has ideas on how to make the existing text meaningful, or else I'll WP:BOLDly go ahead and remove that content. Largoplazo ( talk) 00:08, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
The inclusion of the West Bank here strikes me as weird. No one recognizes the West Bank as an independent state by itself, but rather as part of Palestine, which has access to the Mediterranean through the Gaza strip. Felagund ( talk) 04:42, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
Unlike Transnistria et al., Tibet does not have quasi-indepndent organs of government and is not a self-declared independent country. El_C 01:35, 24 May 2019 (UTC)