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: I don't know much about the exact status of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man, but as far as I know, they are dependencies of the UK (Wikipedia's [[w:Dependent territory#United Kingdom|list of dependent territories]] includes them, one of its essays says that [[w:WP:Nationality of people from the United Kingdom#The Crown dependencies|its residents are officially British citizens]], and they're even called "crown ''dependencies''"). The Commonwealth realms are different from the CDs in that they are all sovereign states on their own. I think grouping these under ".... of the Commonwealth Realms" would be like having grouping countries under "... of EU member states": the realms share the same head of state, but are all independent countries. The crown dependencies are more like the U.S. insular areas or the French overseas collectivities: they are self-governing, not integrated in their mother country, but not independent either.
 
: I don't know much about the exact status of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man, but as far as I know, they are dependencies of the UK (Wikipedia's [[w:Dependent territory#United Kingdom|list of dependent territories]] includes them, one of its essays says that [[w:WP:Nationality of people from the United Kingdom#The Crown dependencies|its residents are officially British citizens]], and they're even called "crown ''dependencies''"). The Commonwealth realms are different from the CDs in that they are all sovereign states on their own. I think grouping these under ".... of the Commonwealth Realms" would be like having grouping countries under "... of EU member states": the realms share the same head of state, but are all independent countries. The crown dependencies are more like the U.S. insular areas or the French overseas collectivities: they are self-governing, not integrated in their mother country, but not independent either.
 
: Commons has no policy or guideline as for what entities should be included in "... by country" categories. Most of these though list only sovereign states; the ones that do list dependencies normally list them because nobody bothered to move them. It doesn't seem like there is some rule or standard that the CDs should be listed separately: the search results for {{search link|Category: of the Isle of Man|... of the Isle of Man}} etc. show that a lot of the categories about the CDs are categorized in "... by country", but the same is true when searching for {{search link|Category: of French Polynesia|... of French Polynesia}}, for example. [[User:SiBr4|SiBr₄]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]]) 18:57, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
 
: Commons has no policy or guideline as for what entities should be included in "... by country" categories. Most of these though list only sovereign states; the ones that do list dependencies normally list them because nobody bothered to move them. It doesn't seem like there is some rule or standard that the CDs should be listed separately: the search results for {{search link|Category: of the Isle of Man|... of the Isle of Man}} etc. show that a lot of the categories about the CDs are categorized in "... by country", but the same is true when searching for {{search link|Category: of French Polynesia|... of French Polynesia}}, for example. [[User:SiBr4|SiBr₄]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]]) 18:57, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
 
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::They do appear in the article [[w:Dependent territory#United Kingdom|list of dependent territories]], however they're under the sub-heading of ''Crown dependencies''. That's not the same as "dependencies of the UK". For the purposes of categorisation (in many industries, etc. not just on wikipedia), these islands are normally categorised as, and often treated as countries, this is why they have their own ISO 3166-1 country codes. [[User:Danrok|Danrok]] ([[User talk:Danrok|talk]]) 03:05, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

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