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North Korea Which is a Member of the ASEAN Regional Forum Must Become a Member of the Asia-Europe Meeting as Part of Relaxation or Détente Between North Korea and the ASEM Member States by Ending Decades of the Said Country's Isolation with the ASEM Members and Kim Jong Un will be Invited at the Thirteenth ASEM Summit in Cambodia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:4454:296:900:FC24:F634:B4D4:C3DA (talk) 03:14, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

MNNA

Brunei Darussalam and Colombia Will Become a Major Non-NATO Ally Because they are Friends to the United States Brunei Darussalam is a US Ally Since 1845 via the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Commerce and Navigation signed by the Two Countries in 1850, also the Brunei Darussalam and the United States of America Have a Defence Relations Because of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Military and Defense Cooperation in 1994 Which the Two Countries resulted in joint exercises, training programs, and other forms of military cooperation between the Two Countries, and Also the Two Countries Have an Economic Relations Because It Is Part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Colombia is Also a US Ally Because It Is the Only Latin American Country That Send Its Armed Forces Into the Korean War. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:4454:296:900:600A:46B0:FDEB:72FB (talk) 08:37, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

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A possible sockpuppet is vandalizing the Jimmy Dore page.

it's claiming that information showing Dore crazy viewpoints is slanderous, Slanderous is a term dore uses to defend himself against criticism, also the ip address traces back to Pasadena, which is where dore lives. http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/138.229.221.104 Jaydogg1994 (talk) 09:11, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

It is suspicious that the account has only edited the Jimmy Dore page, but I'm not sure that it's a sock-puppet account. Dore tends to prefer the term "smear", so I don't think it's him. Anyway, I've got the page on my watchlist so I'm happy to revert any vandalism.

I thought they might have been genuine about the source being misrepresented, but I re-worded it so it is essentially identical with the wording of the article. Whoever they are, it's clear they're going to continue vandalising the page unless it gets protected. I would protect the page if I was able but unfortunately I'm not a sysop.

By the way, your edit says "he later released a video". This is inaccurate since the video you cited is from April 2016 (so it is earlier, not later). CowHouse (talk) 13:26, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

They removed my edits and told me I would get blocked if I tried again, I need your help. Jaydogg1994 (talk) 01:03, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

The majority of people on the talk page favoured removing it, and Wikipedia is very careful about BLP violations. There's nothing I can do. Ultimately, there's more important things to worry about. CowHouse (talk) 05:59, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

You're right. Jaydogg1994 (talk) 10:20, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

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It's literally in the first paragraph in a ref still linked in the page. How is that not related? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.211.246.203 (talk) 01:40, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

I never claimed it was not in the source, but the page is about the island. There are many things in that article that do not belong on that specific page. CowHouse (talk) 09:58, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

What happened on the island originated from there, though, so there is a connection. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.211.246.203 (talk) 21:57, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

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Thank you so much for spending the time to rewrite my Li-Meng Yan contribution properly! That was generous of you. I learned a lot from all of this and will get it right in the future. Chiffball (talk) 16:51, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

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Hi, please feel free to incorporate your options into that list as you see fit. I would ask that you please not change the options I already set out, which are already very broad, but instead just add narrower sub-options for your preferred inclusion. Feel free to add your own reasoning etc. as you see fit, it doesn't bother me at all to have you do that. And feel free to edit the way I included your D.1 option, again totally doesn't bother me. But per WP:TALK, we shouldn't create new sections when the existing one is perfectly fine and not overly long. Instead, centralized discussion is preferred to allow everyone to consider the options as they exist and review the discussion as it has happened so far. I don't think you were doing anything wrong, necessarily, but it does make things more messy and makes achieving any consensus more difficult. Talk page discussions should be angled towards achieving a consensus with all available options.--Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 15:04, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

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