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earlier comments[edit]

I edited this article by copy pasting my studies on the issue. They are truncated however it, i believe, provides a mroe clear insight into the issue regarding the Timor Gap.

OK, I moved your stuff below the existing article. Do you have any sources that you could point to?--Commander Keane 05:43, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Absurdly biased[edit]

This article is absurdly biased, and in its current form, contravenes Wikipedia's NPOV policy. There is absolutely no discussion of Australia's legal position or any presentation of Australia's justification of its actions; Australia is simply demonised. It reads as though an East Timorese activist has written it. The lack of referencing is also telling.

The first paragraph is fine, along with the statements indicated by the first two bullet points. However, everything below that (along with the "facts and figures" section) should be deleted due to blatant POV.

Removed POV material[edit]

I removed the blatant and completely unreferenced conjecture mentioned in the previous comment and deleted the POV tag.

stub template?[edit]

It seems silly to have four stub templates, and it doesnt really fit in any of them since it is between indonesia and australia. is there a more general stub that could be used? --Astrokey44 03:09, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge[edit]

Are there any objections to the suggested merge from Timor Gap Treaty? It seems that the term "Timor Gap" is a term of convenience, (generally) used in respect of the Treaty and the previous negotiations and issues surrounding the treaty. Having two articles will limit expansion of both and cause confusion over what belongs where. A redirect is appropriate. Moondyne 07:50, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support long time needed to happen the merge Satu Suro 08:53, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment actually, I really meant that the merge should be in the other direction: Timor Gap Treaty to stay. At least some of the links to Timor Gap should be pointing to Timor Sea, IMO. Moondyne 15:16, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion Thinking of creating a Australia-East Timor border page, which will essentially absorb most of the content in the Timor Gap page, which will be redirected to the said page. I know a "border" does not exist yet (although UNCLOS requires it to be an eventuality) but it just seems much easier to refer to the area where the two territorial waters meet and overlap as a "border" rather than the cumbersome title "Australia-East Timor area of overlapping claims over the Timor Sea seabed" or something like that! I used the title Malaysia-Vietnam border despite the absence of a agreed border between the two countries. Slleong (talk) 17:41, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

TIMOR GAP company. Create new article? or merge content into treaty pages[edit]

The TIMOR GAP company was added to this article in February. The article is on the geographic area.

The introduction is now entirely on this company.

A new article can be created for this company. With the information removed. Inserting an about in the introduction of this article with a link to the company.

Or the information on the geographic area can be merged (incorporated) into the existing Timor Gap Treaty, Timor Sea Treaty and Treaty on Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea articles.

There was a proposal in 2008 to merge information.--Melbguy05 (talk) 01:38, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]