Talk:Janes Information Services

Comments
I thought Jane was a first name, not a surname. I found it strange how one woman would have such a fascination with military vehicles. &mdash; J I P | Talk 15:25, 27 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I know right! Always thought it was the female name. :) 192.121.232.253 (talk) 12:15, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Question
Does this Jane have something to do with the 1990's flightsimulators from Jane's/EA?
 * Jane's provided EA with the data for the aircraft and weapons in the games, and in return got a cut of the profits.  Imp i  21:53, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't forget that the Jane's brand has a strong association with accuracy, and EA wanted to convey that to their audience. &mdash;Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 21:57, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Recent additions to the list of annual books
I have shunted these here to be sorted out. The anonymous editor who placed them here deleted some information. This needs to be cleaned up:


 * ''Aero-Engines"
 * ''Air Traffic Control"
 * ''Air-Launched Weapons"
 * ''Aircraft Component Manufacturers"
 * ''Aircraft Upgrades"
 * ''Airport Review"
 * ''Airports and Handling Agents - Central and Latin America (inc. the Caribbean)"
 * ''Airports and Handling Agents - Europe"
 * ''Airports and Handling Agents - Far East, Asia and Australasia"
 * ''Airports and Handling Agents - Middle East and Africa"
 * ''Airports and Handling Agents - United States and Canada"
 * ''Airports and Handling Agents Library"
 * ''Airports, Equipment and Services"
 * ''All the World's Aircraft"
 * ''Ammunition Handbook"
 * ''Amphibious and Special Forces"
 * ''Armour and Artillery"
 * ''Armour and Artillery Upgrades"
 * ''Aviation Growth and the Environment"
 * ''Avionics"
 * ''Return to Top"
 * ''Beat Officer's Companion"
 * ''C4I Systems"
 * ''Chem-Bio Handbook: 3rd Edition (United States)"
 * ''Chem-Bio Handbook: French"
 * ''Chem-Bio Handbook: International"
 * ''Chem-Bio Handbook: Russian"
 * ''Chem-Bio Handbook: Spanish"
 * ''Chem-Bio Web"
 * ''Citizen's Safety Guide"
 * ''Crisis Communications Handbook"
 * ''Defence Equipment Library"
 * ''Defence Industry"
 * ''Defence Magazines Library"
 * ''Defence Weekly"
 * ''Return to Top"
 * ''Electro-Optic Systems"
 * ''Electronic Mission Aircraft"
 * ''Explosive Ordnance Disposal"
 * ''Facility Security Handbook"
 * ''Fighting Ships"
 * ''Foreign Report"
 * ''Helicopter Markets and Systems"
 * ''High-Speed Marine Transportation"
 * ''Infantry Weapons"
 * ''Intelligence Digest"
 * ''Intelligence Review"
 * ''Intelligence Watch Report"
 * ''International ABC Aerospace Directory"
 * ''International Defence Directory"
 * ''International Defence Review"
 * ''Islamic Affairs Analyst"
 * ''Jane's Defence Forecasts "
 * ''Land-Based Air Defence"
 * ''Locomotives and Rolling Stock Forecasts"
 * ''Marine Propulsion"
 * ''Market Intelligence Library"
 * ''Mass Casualty Handbook: Hospital"
 * ''Mass Casualty Handbook: Pre-Hospital"
 * ''Merchant Ships"
 * ''Military Communications"
 * ''Military Vehicles and Logistics"
 * ''Mines and Mine Clearance"
 * ''Missiles and Rockets"
 * ''Naval Construction and Retrofit Markets"
 * ''Naval Weapon Systems"
 * ''Navy International"
 * ''Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence"
 * ''Part I Promotion Crammer for Sergeants and Inspectors - 2006"
 * ''Police and Security Equipment"
 * ''Police Review"
 * ''Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems"
 * ''RUSI/Jane's Homeland Security & Resilience Monitor"
 * ''Safe Schools Planning Guide for All Hazards"
 * ''School Safety Handbook: Second Edition"
 * ''Security Library"
 * ''Sentinel Library"
 * ''Sentinel Security Assessments "
 * ''Simulation and Training Systems"
 * ''Space Directory"
 * ''Strategic Weapon Systems"
 * ''Teachers' Safety Guide"
 * ''Terrorism and Insurgency Centre"
 * ''Terrorism and Security Monitor"
 * ''Terrorism Watch Report"
 * ''Transport Finance"
 * ''Transport Library"
 * ''Unconventional Weapons Response Handbook"
 * ''Underwater Technology"
 * ''Underwater Warfare Systems"
 * ''Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Targets"
 * ''Urban Transport Systems"
 * ''Workplace Security Handbook"
 * ''World Air Forces"
 * ''World Airlines"
 * ''World Armies"
 * ''World Defence Industry"
 * ''World Insurgency and Terrorism"
 * ''World Railways"

&mdash;Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 18:17, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Transport Business
They also have a transport business news section. Maybe to be added? Ingolfson 05:36, 20 October 2007 (UTC)


 * It might be of some value . 66.191.19.217 (talk) 23:12, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Ownership
Can the bulk of the ownership details in the intro (namely previous ownership) be removed or placed into it's own ownership / corporate history section? Are previous ownership percentages crucial to understanding what Jane's is?


 * Done. It didn't make a lot of sense to discuss an ex-owners financial stake without context and also have no detail about the current owners status. And no source to say that who owns how much was relevant anyway. Cheers. Weakopedia (talk) 22:11, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Competitors
Get rid of The Shephard Group as a competitor - the guy who added that entry was their former marketing manager. They only compete on a very small number of products. Methna7 (talk) 22:11, 24 Feb 2012 (UTC)

reasons for pruning
Really, it's almost entirely a list, rather than an article. It's the sort of thing that might be pasted up here by a publisher (for marketing purposes) or an enthusiastic fan. Neither use is acceptable.

Almost all of the entries are "red-linked" meaning that the publications aren't important enough to merit a Wikipedia article.

None of the entries has a prose explanation of the publication.

Given those three failings, it'd perhaps be better to delete this completely. However, I'll begin by removing the red. Weeb Dingle (talk) 09:47, 24 August 2019 (UTC)


 * First, I cut all those red links, which took entirely too long. Then I removed all entries lacking an article or even a rudimentary source. What remained was turned into sentences. Finally, the pointless section divisions were dropped. Weeb Dingle (talk) 16:55, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Comparison to WEG
How similar is Jane's to the Worldwide Equipment Guide (WEG) that many militaries use? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.92.159.28 (talk) 07:05, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Q: any known scandals or investigations or censorship?
Howard from NYC (talk) 15:48, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

given these various publication contain intel of value to various governmental entities (military officers, covert intelligence analysts, policy wonks, etc) it would not be a surprise if efforts at censorship occurred; so too scandals and/or investigations;