User talk:Yanna alfa

I disprove your revisions on 13 December 2014 regarding the history of the ASEAN Integration. Please refer to your work as seen on this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association_of_Southeast_Asian_Nations&diff=prev&oldid=637932724

You have deleted paragraphs of information that I deem very important. One was the speech of PM Goh Chok Tong. That was supposed to be the "start" of the robust integration efforts in the region, after he gave that speech.

I don't mind others editing my work but as I deem it, the original version was better, not having a Philippine-centric view. Editing redundant information is OK but I do not agree that you have improved the sentence structures. And that is not how you cite references in Wikipedia. Please revert the original text. --UPshinji (talk) 09:20, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

My Answer (repost)
Yeah. Those were my text. Actually the whole section "History" that you edited was mine.

I was tracing the history of how the integration came to be. When the ASEAN leaders conceived the ASEAN 2020 in 1997, they had no idea of the integration as we are having it today. They merely outlined their visions of what ASEAN would be in 2020. Remember that by 1997, ASEAN is not yet composed of 10 nations. Cambodia came in 1999.

The succeeding agreements like Bali Concord II etc referred back to ASEAN 2020 and other previous agreements (when there were still 5 or 6 members), if you will read their texts. The "integration", first thought only of the economic one, started when PM Go Chok Tong delivered the speech which was on October 2002. (This was how I understand it when I attended a forum about ASEAN Integration; Mr. Severino alluded to that speech by Go Chock Tong in 2002.) The Bali Concord II which seeks to establish the ASEAN Community (by 2020) was signed in 2003. Later the 2020 deadline was moved to 2015.

Please take note of that timeline. This is why I was keen at including that vital information.

If I had to take my way, I would revert back the original text as I find it more cohesive. By the way, I provided the necessary references for that and and editor ought to have checked that.

By the way, I am an editor myself. UPshinji (talk) 17:06, 16 December 2014 (UTC)