Robert Merkel

Hi, I'm a programmer for the Linux Developers Group (http://www.linuxdevel.com) and I'm still getting familiar with Wiki editing so I'll have to apologise if this looks funny.

I've written large parts of articles about

• Victoria
• Melbourne
• Melbourne Cricket Ground
• The Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit
• Canberra
• Bust A Move
• Grand Prix Motorcycles
• [The Simpsons/Barney Gumbel]?
• The Simpsons/Seymour Skinner
• The Simpsons/Edna Krabappel
• [The Simpsons/Krusty The Clown]?
• The Simpsons/Troy McClure
• The Simpsons/Dr. Nick Riviera
• The Simpsons/Lionel Hutz
• The Simpsons/Otto Mann
• Sir Donald Bradman
• [Kart racing]?
• Drag racing
• [open-wheeler racing]?
• [pocketbike racing]?
• [Superbike racing]?
• Swimming
• Diving
• [Table Tennis]?
• Computing
• [The Central Intelligence Agency]?
• NASA
• [Figure Skating]?
• Discus
• javelin
• [Fox Hunt]?
• netball
• parachuting
• [water skiing]?
• downhill skiing
• long jump
• high jump
• pole vault

and probably others I've forgotten, and made substantial edits to

• The Formula One page
• Australia

and a few others.

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Well I would agree with you if you could answer the question of Why are there some isles with only a garrison in the "Countries of the world" table? Besides, not only your opinion counts in this world, and following your reasoning Australia would have never been a country... Many thanks for your opinion...

Probably because they're in the CIA World Factbook and people have assumed that these places are countries (and, as such, they should be removed at some stage). As to Australia never being a country, I am not claiming that the Basque people have never had a state of their own in the past (I don't know the history), nor am I asserting that they will not or should not at some stage in the future have one, but the simple fact is that they don't have one now, despite political agitation and paramilitary efforts to get one. --Robert Merkel

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