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".
 * 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.
 * , if Nordic country were, it would be possible to say “such and such country is Nordic”. This is indeed attested (e.g. ), 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)