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 == Dominated by nationalists == 

 So why couldn't anyone answer Interestedinfairness's question? What is wrong with using Noel Malcolm? He is a highly regarded neutral writer with only Serbs having no respect for him (can't think why?? um???) and he rightly says in his books that serbs have so overplayed the whole Kosova claim that it is not his fault that there are so many myths about the place rightfully being theirs. Kosova - and that is it's name, is a country not a territory, not a disputed region and certainly not no ""Resolution 1244 part of Serbia under UN"". It was this until 2008, and then it declared independence. That independence was followed by recognition from the USA, from the UK, from France and from all other respectable democracies. If anyone wants to go slagging off illegal countries, I'll give you all two: South Ossetia and Abkazia, they are leggaly parts of Georgia. But leave Kosova alone, and for the last time  -""Kosova"" is the country's name. It is not governed by the Serbs any more. Socalled ""Kosovo"" was a name devized by Slobodan Milosevic to distinguish it from it's true Albania character. For those of you who don't know history, Milosevic went to Kosova when it was still Yugoslavia and had his infamous Martin Luther King style speech ""I have a dream"", which in his case was ""I have a dream - of Greater Serbia"", and within a short time, he cancelled Kosova's autonomy and government, moved in his Serbs and sent in his Serb army to invade the land and cleanse it of non-Serbs. And this is not the voice of Interestedinfairness, this is not the voice of Metrospex, this is not even me speaking, this is REUTERS and it is also BBC, SKY, CNN and other impartial neutral news networks. As Interestedinfairness said, this land cannot be disputed - Reuters themselves call it a country. Since noone has answered back to the neutral/fair points made by Metrospex and Interestedinfairness, I now conclude that the ""pro-serb"" arguments have run out and they have lost yet anothe rone of their wars. So as a neutral editor myself with no interest in Serbo-Albanian affairs, I can safely say that ""Kosova is a country"" and that the Guardian article aswell as all other works by the respected Noel Malcolm can be taken as fact.    
 :this, ""Mr.Neutral"",  is exactly why: the dishonesty. We are trying to write an encyclopedia and we should not be expected to play hide-and-seek with people who do not even have the respect and good faith to forego the fundamentally puerile option of sockpuppetry.    
 ::The only possible response to this section header is ""Said the kettle to the pot"". Nationalism works both ways; before you try to clean the speck out of your friend's eye, it may be wise to remove the log from your own. If it were up to me, I would probably ban the lot of you from this page.   
 :::no, it doesn't work both ways, symmetrically, in this case. As it happens, this page is plagued by Albanian nationalists vs. the wider Wikipedia community. There is the occasional Serbian patriot, but for some reason these show considerably less activity than their Albanian counterparts. This isn't about ""the Albanians vs. the Serbs"". This is about ""the nationalists (any flavour) vs. Wikipedia policy"".    
 ::::I was saying that ""Mr Neutral""'s statement about how nationalists are taking over the page is ridiculously hypocritical.   

 The ""country"" vs. ""region"" hubbub is a semantic red herring. Kosovo is a disputed territory. Anything else is a matter of stylistics. The OED definition of ""country"" is 1. ""A tract or expanse of land of undefined extent; a region, district"" and 2. ""A tract or district having more or less definite limits in relation to human occupation"", and only 3. ""The territory or land of a nation"". The patriots try to impose usage in sense 3., which is obviously the subject matter of the international dispute. Obviously, Resolution 1244 isn't in any way affected by the declaration of independence. As in the case of Palestine, Wikipedia will have to take the standing UN resolutions as