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NorseDave
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 4:01 am 
 

Sorry guys, but the bands from Kosovo should have their own country entry, and not listed under Serbia! Kosovo is recognized country by ONU like Taiwan and if Svalbard or Gibraltar have their entry (correctly), so should have Kosovo.

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MetalCuresHeadaches
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 8:14 am 
 

We go by the standard set by ISO_3166-1:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1
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NorseDave
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 4:50 pm 
 

MetalCuresHeadaches wrote:
We go by the standard set by ISO_3166-1:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1


Ok, I get the general rule, but I still think that's not fair for Kosovo band not adding them as a separate country. If you look here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_alphabetic_country_codes you can notice that the only countries missing the ISO_3166 code are, for obvious reasons, North Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales...AND Kosovo. If you see, under the Kosovo ISO code there is this note "With mixed International recognition of Kosovo, for ISO purposes, Kosovo is an 'autonomous province' of Serbia with ISO 3166-2 code RS-KM, under the entry for Serbia. A temporary placeholder code XKX is used by several organisations for the country." That means that, even if lacking of the ISO code, Kosovo is sovereign country recognized by 102 UN member states. It has more recognition than Cook Islands or Niue and almost as Taiwan, that are in the country list. We are not talking about Abkhazia or Nagorno-Karabakh, which existence as free countries is highly disputed, but Kosovo is, de facto, an independent country, and it's unfair not recognize their bands coming from this country just because ISO code is missing.

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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 03, 2023 6:25 am 
 

I sympathize, but politics are not our concern. As stated, we literally follow the ISO standard and the standard is what it is. If you disagree with the organization's definitions, you're at the wrong address.
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