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The Bugle: Issue CXXVIII, December 2016
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Hi
what seems like a lifetime ago (6 years or so maybe less) I had a real life conversation with kiril about which of the projects (espionage or intelligence) should survive a mash up, and all these years later I find this very weird intel task force that cannot even be identified in talk page tags... thats life I suppose. If you are on the list of participants:
 * how come not a talk page for task force?
 * how come such pre-literate coding? surely it doesnt take much for someone to help out and show up the task force?

It is of some interest that no one has bothered even to remove the duplication where espionage and intelligence banners on talk pages have even the need to be cleaned up... My sincere apology if this seems somewhat onerous a query at this time, please re-direct me to someone else. Thanks. Have a safe festive season. JarrahTree 09:50, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I'l be honest; I stuck my name on the intelligence task force page once because it seemed like a good way to find collaborators. But it's a dead project... My interests are very narrow and specialised (and largely not espionage). I suppose it's arguable that intelligence (in the military context) and espionage are related, but not identical, topics, there are divergent interests; e.g. military encryption/decryption or corporate espionage. As to why no one has cleaned it up - well most people work, like me, it seems on tiny portions of the topic... so little bits are tidy, the whole is a mess. You get no argument from me over tidying up a spectrum of pages! --Errant (chat!) 13:12, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

very sinceree apologies I should have engaged you on the subject - thank you very much for your speedy reply - it seems to always die (intelligence, espionage) - and your point is very correct espionage should not have subsumed the other - in reality they both should have become task forces of something else and kept separate - but it looks like the milhist one went nowhere as well - oh well have a safe christmas - maybe in the new year I will try to go down the road of what seems to have taken years to unravel but never solve the mess JarrahTree 14:14, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

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