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My edit--relationship to The Netherlands

@User:Super Dromaeosaurus I see you reconsidered and walked back one of the two points in my edit that you reverted; very sporting of you, especially since nobody had raised an issue about it. Allow me to explain my thinking in the other point of my edit--and I'll say from the get-go that I have no intention of carrying on a dispute about it.

The article says that Sint Maarten is "part of the Netherlands." I changed that to "a Constituent Country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands."

There are three political entities in the Caribbean that are "part of the Netherlands" (Special Municipalities). They are Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius. These three, together with the country in Europe, make up the Netherlands.

Then there are three--Aruba, Curacao, and Sint Maarten--that are individual countries, but are three Constituent Countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Kingdom of the Netherlands includes four Constituent Countries--these three and (ready?) the Netherlands itself (including those three Special Municipalities).

To summarize, the four Constituent Countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands are:

The Netherlands, comprising the European country, Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius;

Aruba;

Curacao, and:

Sint Maaren.

So to say that Sint Maarten is "part of the Netherlands" at the very least conveys something that isn't accurate. It might matter less if there were not three Caribbean entities that ARE part of the Netherlands. I do grant you that in the article as it is, the word Netherlands is pipe linked to the article on the Kingdom of the Netherlands, rather than the one on the Netherlands itself (both articles exist, and both need to). But a reader will not be inclined to follow the link to clarify the point if the reader does not know that there is a point to clarify. Uporządnicki (talk) 00:56, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I am aware of this political situation. At first I didn't want this article to get into too many details, but thinking it twice, I guess it doesn't really hurt. I thought most readers would not be able to easily understand this situation without explaining it fully but I guess "constituent country" can remind them of the United Kingdom? Also, I thought that none of the sources explained it, which is one of the reasons why I reverted, but I just checked and the first one does. So I've readded this information into the article. Sorry for the revert! Super Ψ Dro 16:06, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]