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 Sentence by sentence analysis of WP:MOS segment that is being misused 
 Most Wikipedia articles should consist of prose, and not just a list of links. 
 *However, this articles is not more made up of lists than other region pages 
 Prose allows the presentation of detail and clarification of context, while a list of links does not. 
 *This prose is just a clumping of the list and the amount of content associated with each part of the list 
 Prose flows, like one person speaking to another, and is best suited to articles, because their purpose is to explain.  
 *Not in this case. It was mostly just the list without the flags and spaces with a reference turned into a comment and with two prior statements fused and misplaced (referring ""The People's Republic of China and Iran are also observer members of the organization"") 
 Therefore, lists of links, which are most useful for browsing subject areas, should usually have their own entries: see Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists) for detail. 
 In an article, significant items should be mentioned naturally within the text rather than merely listed. For example: 

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