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redundant and does not add anything useful to the article, and (b) for which no third party source of verification exists. If something cannot be independently verified it is obviously not encyclopaedic. In almost all cases you can see that those links were placed there by editors who have made no other edits at all - in other words they are not only unverifiable, they are self-promotional insertions. There are literally tens of thousands of these types of micronations in existence and Wiki cannot and should not be a link repository for them. My removal of those links is nothing more than basic housekeeping. As I have already stated elsewhere at length,
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