Board Thread:Legislation/@comment-5843134-20150327185832/@comment-24325645-20150407212838

Monsterfurby wrote: Good point, but also somewhat of an interesting starting point for discussion of the terminology. Since micronation is used in its narrowest sense to refer to Sealand and the like, wouldn't most of the micronations this Wiki actually seeks to classify already be a somewhat broad use of the word? Wouldn't, theoretically, there be room in the term to consider cybernations a subset of "micronations"? I may of course be just unfamiliar with a consensus within the community about that very question, but wouldn't a virtual "micronation" that unified a dozen or more citizens/members be more worthy of recognition via a wiki than a micronation that consists of - sorry for putting this in colourful terms - a guy and a flag? Aren't there quite a few of the latter around the micronational community?

I totally get the issue with having such a lax definition that allows a micronation exist without "physical evidence" - it invites frivolous and/or destructive, non-serious contributions. Yet, I'd still draw the line in terms of a "micronation's" ability to act in a constructive fashion, be it as a community builder/influencer, carrier or a rich and colourful authentic history or the aforementioned physical evidence. Indeed, there was a concensus where most of our contributors wished to not allow cybernations.