Talk:International Stability Operations Association

IPOA Name Change - Suggested Edits and New Page
I am the Manager of Operations at the International Stability Operations (ISOA), formerly known as the International Peace Operations Association (IPOA). I have some suggestions so that this article can be reflective of the current status of IPOA and ISOA respectively:

The ISOA name change was in response to our evolving membership, of which only approximately 35% are private security companies or engage in private security company activities (as of today). The majority are companies and organizations working in stability operations in various capacities - reconstruction, disaster relief, development, logistics, support, security sector reform, etc.
 * IPOA officially changed its name to the International Stability Operations Association in October 2010. Here is a good public source reporting on the name change: http://www.aprodex.com/international-stability-operations-association--the-new-name-for-ipoa-469-bl.aspx
 * Therefore, the International Peace Operations Association page should also list that there is a page for the International Stability Operations Association (ISOA)
 * Could someone please advise on how I should move forward to suggest to Wikipedians' that the new ISOA article be created?
 * ISOA also publishes a bi-monthly journal titled the Journal of International Peace Operations which is available publicly at www.peaceops.com.

Information on ISOA can be gathered from our website at www.stability-operations.org - including our mission, member companies, etc. We are currently undergoing a website update/overhaul so please bear with us over the next couple of months.

Also, feel free to contact me at jvogel@stability-operations.org with any questions, concerns or suggestions!

JessDC (talk) 19:59, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Hideous
This article seems sort of abandoned. I'm cleaning up the format, modifying sentences that sound like an advertisement, and removing sentences that seems like nonsense. Psychlohexane (talk) 19:23, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Advertisement
This article seems as though it was copied from somewhere and pasted here. It reads like a press release or a flyer. Joffeloff 20:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Can you be more specific about what it is about the writing style you don't like? I've made a few changes to help it flow better and added an additional paragraph. Feel free to pitch in with any changes or additions of your own. mennonot 22:00, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 15:36, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Weapons & soldier prices
I recently read an article about the IPOA in which a price list was made up for an example. These listed prices of ak47's (400$/per unit), rpg's (600 per unit) and ammo (0.33 and 150 dollar per unit of ammo respectively. Jeeps were at 80000 per unit, and there was a wealth of other prices for vehicles, ... too Soldiers (ugandan) were 40$ a day, with increasing prices depending of the type of soldier (eg ugandan, iraqi, columbian, former us soldiers, ...). Former us soldiers came at 1000 dollar a day. perhaps such a list may be added in the wiki-article or, even better on the article arms trade. The article was made available at a Menzo magazine.

81.246.168.199 (talk) 15:42, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Name change, updates
I've done a major update of this article, prompted by the fairly old suggestion above and the obvious need. I hope the updated article will be moved to the new name International Stability Operations Association soon, and am putting in a request to that effect.

As to the quality of the article:
 * I decided to try to use the '09 information still in the article to keep some history which is no longer on the ISOA website. I hope that's satisfactory.
 * There's not too much non-Association-sourced information. I can only hope that with a relatively up-to-date article, more independent information will be added, including better company/member links.

I don't know how to download an image, but there's a new logo here. And I know there are copyright issues. If someone can help with all that, I'd appreciate it. I'd favor leaving the old IPOA logo on the page as well. Swliv (talk) 04:44, 6 August 2011 (UTC)