that statement is almost entirely wrong from top to bottom no from a policy standpoint it is not worse except for biographies of living persons countries are not living people cannot be libelled hence the invention of the template which you chose not to use hence it being destructive i've added references for a handful of select nations because they are the ones that joined after independence almost all the rest joined at independence so it is academic to show their join date i have added information above and beyond what is on the commonwealth secretariat's site because said site is not a repository for all the information in the world on the commonweath are we saving space s that the inane 'continent' field can be included the last point that the opinion of a single user constitutes a consensus is a bizarre misinterpretation of wikipedia policy yet again i will also finally suggest that you a make better use of edit summaries rather than claiming that deletion of what took me a long time to create in the first place is 'cleaning up' and b read my edit summary before inferring that i intended to hurt your poor feelings 'destructive' does not mean 'evil' but that some information has been lost which was not conveyed in your obfuscatory edit summary