Talk:Ploughshares Fund

What should be done with this article?
How might this article be saved? Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie Say Shalom! 17:36, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

advertising
I restored many of the edits here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ploughshares_Fund&oldid=587588054

I dont think descriptions of work are advertisements. Igottheconch (talk) 02:06, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Removed middle sentence
Removed middle sentence about Bolus:

Sally Lilienthal died in October 2006, at the age of 87, while still serving as Ploughshares Fund's president. Naila Bolus joined Ploughshares Fund in 1997 as executive director and has overseen the expansion of the Fund's grantmaking capacity and its role as a conveyor of the peace and security community. In 2008 the Board of Directors appointed Joseph Cirincione as Ploughshares Fund's president.

Igottheconch (talk) 06:46, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

We are hoping to update some of the information as reflected on our own website, to wit:
1.	Roger Hale has stepped down from the Board as Chairman. Our current Chairperson is Mary Lloyd Estrin (http://www.ploughshares.org/who-we-are/board/mary-lloyd-estrin) 2.	Naila Bolus has left the organization in 2011. Our Executive Director is Philip Yun (http://www.ploughshares.org/who-we-are/staff/philip-yun) 3.	While we used to work against the spread of WMDs in different forms (biological and chemical weapons), we have since limited our work to nuclear nonproliferation. Further citation can be provided upon request 4.	We have given away $90 million in grants, as of June 2014.


 * Request edit closure rationale: Items 3 & 4 are unreferenced. (Recommend you provide specific textual changes desired with referencing.) Please do proceed on items 1 & 2 to make the needed updates. – S. Rich (talk) 22:37, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

POV nonsense regarding Israel
The following was added following the table "Summarized from references cited by Ploughshares" in the section on "World nuclear weapon stockpile":


 * In some cases—e.g., the nation of Israel with estimates ranging into the hundreds of nuclear weapons—the estimates given are at one extreme of a highly disputed estimate range.

I have two concerns with this:
 * 1) This follows a table with an estimate of 80 nuclear weapons held by Israel, based on a November 2014 evaluation in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.  Thus, the reference to "estimates ranging into the hundreds" does not seem relevant to the discussion.
 * 2) The reference cited is in Hebrew.

I combined that comment and the accompanying reference with the reference to the November 2014 evaluation in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. DavidMCEddy (talk) 14:51, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Removing the 'World nuclear weapons stockpile' section
A table version of World Nuclear Stockpile Report (featured on the Ploughshares Fund website) is not relevant, especially not with poorly-written text. I will put a link to the Stockpile Report under External Links as a stand-in for the 'World nuclear weapon stockpile' section, which I am deleting now. Munich hilton (talk) 20:16, 13 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Is there a reason for also removing the citations in the lede documenting the claimed policies of Ploughshares?
 * I've restored those. DavidMCEddy (talk) 03:47, 14 September 2019 (UTC)