Talk:Nordic countries

Not Plural Only

I removed the "plural only" tag from this entry. It is perfectly sensible to say "Denmark is a Nordic country" or "Is Estonia a Nordic country?". Contrast "Balkans" in which it's simply not possible to say, "Serbia is a Balkan". — This unsigned comment was added by 2601:42:1:5647:5d9:eb6b:5efb:f700 (talk).

I agree that it's a little strange, but the way you removed it was even worse. We have very strict formatting rules here. To me, the real question is whether this is just Nordic + country/countries. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 02:52, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

OK, can you reformat it according to your system? I happen to think that its worse for a dictionary to present false information to the public than to not conform to its back-of-house formatting rules. I will be removing the tag again, just to keep this ball rolling. For more evidence against "plural only" compare Google n-gram for "Nordic country,Nordic countries" and "Western European countries,Western European country". The graphs look basically the same, and I don't think anyone wants to argue that "Western European countries" is plural only. — This unsigned comment was added by 2601:42:1:5647:5d9:eb6b:5efb:f700 (talk).

@Metaknowledge, if Nordic country were Nordic + country, it would be possible to say “such and such country is Nordic”. This is indeed attested (e.g. google books:"country is nordic"), but not at all usual. I don’t know how to proceed, but at the very least the content should be moved to Nordic country. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 12:51, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

• I've moved the definition to the singular. I don't think it is SoP, but I could be wrong. SemperBlotto (talk) 12:52, 11 September 2017 (UTC)