The following lists the chain of events which led to the inclusion of entities which are not countries to the list I suppose it takes some detective work to come up with this although it isnt really that difficult I leave it up to you guys to interpret the intentions behind this sequence of events  The old version As seen in the version timestamped   Jan  in this pages edit history the page listed only countries as commonly accepted to refer to fully independent entities as recognised by the UN with an opening line which reads  This is a list of countries that only have a land border with one other country  Carbon copy created On   Feb  a similarly titled page called List of countries bordering only one country was created by a user named  In the first version of that page the opening line reads  This is a list of countries and dependent territories having land border with only one country Notes This list includes dependent territories and some disputed or occupied areas that are de facto independent  Interestingly that first version includes Hong Kong and Macau as the only two nonindependent entities while Singapore was listed under a classification called Arguable  Merger Within a few hours the page has evolved to this version at   Feb  Notably he copied the introductory text from the first article into his version of the article  Nations that only share a land border with one other country often have concerns about domination by the other state if it is larger These can be fears of an outright takeover as has happened historically to such states as East Timor which was part of Indonesia until very recently and Ireland which was part of the United Kingdom until  Today concerns are often about economic domination as with the CanadaUnited States relationship or the DenmarkGermany one Because much trade goes over land these countries are often heavily reliant on their single neighbour  In addition he added the merge request with the above page within the same edit  Back in this page he also added the merge request at   Feb   Merged By   Feb   fulfilled the merger request This effectively places s introductory paragraph concerning nonindependent entities as well as his entries for these into that list as can be seen in edit version   Feb  without  probably suspecting anything unusual  Contestations Since this merger debates over the inclusion of entities which are not countries ensued unsurprisingly as we can see above and in the history of edits It is interesting that  made no mention about the merger process which sparked this discourse In addition as we can all see from the above discussions  was quoted as saying  They arent sovereign states but the same treatment should applies to all lists of countries with the same setting The notice at the top of the page already tells this list includes not only sovereign states without any confusions  It has to be noted that again he did not mention who was the one who wrote that paragraph and nor did he mention how it ends up being introduced to this page  Deductions and comments The chain of events as I noted ends here Feel free to comment on the above conduct