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 Thank you. First of all, if you're going to get into amount of work – I have the most edits on the article. Secondly, that should be completely disregarded – please look at past discussions on this before making this change. It has been done before, and will be reverted again until further consensus develops. List of countries is really the central article, and if you want to add those constituent countries, then take it up THERE first, as it also uses ""countries"" in its title.  (talk) "