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Target-Centric Approach to Intelligence
Hello again! Thank you for your advice! Someone suggested to me that I change the name of my article to Intelligence cycle (target-centric approach). So, I did that. I'm not sure that the protocol is for starting and leaving a wiki page. My advisor thinks this topic would be better suited under the intel. cycle heading.

Hello! I appreciate your assistance with this wikipedia page! I understand that it sounds like an advertisement, but I am doing my best to make it an unbiased report on this terminology. I have found little information about the term on the web so I am forced to rely largely on the book. I do not intend for it to be an advertisement, and I certainly have no benefit to sell this book! I am writing the article for an assignment, and am doing the best that I can with the given body of knowledge. Please do not delete it, as I will make changes as quickly as I am able to make it clearer. The difficulty is that we are taught about the benefits of using this methodology, and it is presented as having improvements on the older methodologies, so it is difficult to write about it without stating the method's strengths.

Sentence fragments in Soviet support for Iran during the Iran-Iraq war
Hi Howard,

A few odd sentences in the article, I won't try to fix them because I don't know what's missing:


 * "In 1981, a Defense Industries Organization of the Ministry of Defense."
 * "Motivations need to be understood in the context of the time of the Iran-Iraq War, between 1980 and 1988, in which the Soviet Union and the Cold War were still vary real. he revolution that overthrew him resented what they considered U.S. support of an unpopular ruler."

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Category:Intelligence gathering legislation
Hello, Hcberkowitz -- I see you haven't edited for nearly 3 weeks, so I hope you see this note in time to respond if you're so inclined. As a knowledgeable editor in this area, I'm hoping you will take an interest in the CFD discussion for renaming of Category:Intelligence gathering legislation. For some reason it hasn't attracted very much input aside from my own fairly substantial comments. I hope it doesn't wind up as a "no concensus" close due to lack of input. It's already been relisted for further discussion, and would, I think, really benefit from your input. Regards, Cgingold (talk) 11:26, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply, Howard -- I understand your frustrations. It occurs to me that, with your emphasis on adding content to articles, you may not have worked very much on the category system and may never have taken part in a WP:CFD discussion. If that's the case, you might want to check out this particular CFD, as I think your knowledge of the subject area could prove useful in sorting out how these intel-related categories are best organized -- which is rather different from working on content issues. Regards, Cgingold (talk) 18:05, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Perhaps you have an insight that I don't, but even within the questionable categories, over a period of months, it was possible to restructure the CIA article from a 300K+ monstrosity of a main article, to a rational, multilevel hierarchy. Unfortunately, one energetic individual, who tended to act without consensus, took a geographic sub-hierarchy, which was patterned after the actual CIA geographic divisions and transborder approaches, and took over 100 countries and made separate CIA activities articles for each. While there was a need to go down a level for selected countries with extensive coverage, this sweeping change both lost the very real issues of how CIA works on regions, and made the individual country entries unmaintainable for transborder matters. At that point, I gave up on even trying to track geographic activity.


 * With all the categories in the world, there are a large number of people that simply do not understand the idea of hypertext, and want their pet issue on the main page. In the last few days, for example, an anonymous IP announced, on the main article talk page, that the CIA had put Nelson Mandela in jail, and should this not be in the main article? Incidentally, I had some background on South African security of that time, and the idea that an outside nation could make them do anything they didn't want to do is ludicrous. Apparently, this anon either wasn't aware of South African indifference to embargoes, or didn't understand them.


 * I refrained from comment there, although I'm perfectly willing to discuss things with thoughtful people such as yourself. In general, I stopped responding to anons, simply due to the lack of continuity. In this case, I recognized that I had an overwhelming urge to respond on the lines of "if you sourced that in any way, doofus, it might be good material for the CIA Activities in South Africa" article.


 * This Mandela comment is illustrative. There's already a structure in place, although without categories. Individuals like this, however, don't want to work within a structure, or quite possibly even to become aware of it. Given that experience, I don't know how categories would help.


 * Incidentally, you might find some interesting legislative data in Intelligence cycle management and elsewhere -- I don't always agree with Paul Pillar, but he has some interesting suggestions. There's also some mention, IIRC in the main signals intelligence article, about some very good oversight work done, years ago, by the Senate Intelligence Committee in getting independent, cleared experts to investigate if NSA put a "back door" into the Data Encryption System. Now, however, the Administration is preventing any really specific disclosure of the warrantless surveillance details, at least to committee professional staff or consultants qualified to judge the rationale. Unfortunately, the Congress has not shown much backbone on insisting on such accessHoward C. Berkowitz (talk) 18:42, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

SIOP section removal
Unless you have any strong arguments against this, I'm going to remove the "Effects" section of the SIOP article that you added some time ago. This would be appropriate for an article on the effects of nuclear weapons, but is entirely off-topic where it is. Maury (talk) 14:48, 26 July 2008 (UTC)


 * To start with, I did start this discussion on the talk page. but no one responded. Given that you wrote the text, I considered it to be a courtesy to post on your talk page, as it is entirely too easy to simple miss new posts to article talk pages.
 * And while it is true that any discussion while setting nuclear policy requires a discussion of nuclear effects, the text in the article is far too detailed, and isn't even referred to in the other sections. Those sections include their own discussions, which are more on-topic. It's like arguing that there should be a discussion of neutron economy in the article, or X-ray pre-filling in the holraum. These topics are simply not germane to a discussion of strategy, and can be replaced by a single wikilink. If people really want to know about over-pressure range curves while reading about the schlesinger doctrine, which doesn't mention it once, it's one click away.
 * Maury (talk) 12:27, 27 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I disagree, but since I'm not maintaining and updating the article here, including tying in some of those details, do as you will. If you come up with something better, fine. From my standpoint, the Wikipedia-style content disputes, with no one in a role to mediate or arbitrate from knowledge, are just not worth it to me. I may reorganize effects at CZ, but am unlikely to do it here.Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 01:42, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

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For a hierarchical list of articles, at higher see the intelligence cycle management hierarchy. the "at higher" part doesn't make sense to me. (from masint page) any help? 69.242.82.130 (talk) 14:38, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

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US Intelligence Community A-Space
Hello,

I'm translating in Italian this article (too). I'm guessing if the page should be better updated.

I can't understand if A-Space is working at the moment.

Thank you in advance for your precious help.

See you, --Filippof (talk) 10:41, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

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Hue chemical attacks
We have identified the possible agents. However, according to the source the French used phosgene in some of their WWI tear grenades(white cross ammunition). That doesn't make sense. Phosgene oxime would make sense. Can you check this issue please. Thanks a lot. Wandalstouring (talk) 11:18, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

CIA
Hi Howard,

I know you are retired, and I am fairly certain you miss the CIA and IC work much less than the Military History Project, I would very much welcome any comments you have before FAN. I have particularly asked for help with "content balance" decisions about whether each section is given due wait in comparison to other sections, as I discuss in more detail on the talk page. I know this could open up a can of worms, but I'm hoping the caveats I've laid will help keep it under control.

Anyway, your thoughts would be much appreciated, even if you don't want to actually work on it yourself.

Cheers,

Morethan3words (talk) 21:36, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Looking ofr input
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Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

User group for Military Historians
Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:29, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive
G'day all, please be advised that throughout April 2018 the Military history Wikiproject is running its annual backlog elimination drive. This will focus on several key areas:


 * tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
 * adding or improving listed resources on Milhist's task force pages
 * updating the open tasks template on Milhist's task force pages
 * creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the scope of military history will be considered eligible. This year, the Military history project would like to extend a specific welcome to members of WikiProject Women in Red, and we would like to encourage all participants to consider working on helping to improve our coverage of women in the military. This is not the sole focus of the edit-a-thon, though, and there are aspects that hopefully will appeal to pretty much everyone.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 April and runs until 23:59 UTC on 30 April 2018. Those interested in participating can sign up here.

For the Milhist co-ordinators, AustralianRupert and MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:53, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:35, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:22, 15 September 2018 (UTC) Note: the previous version omitted a link to the election page, therefore you are receiving this follow up message with a link to the election page to correct the previous version. We apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

Have your say!
Hi everyone, just a quick reminder that voting for the WikiProject Military history coordinator election closes soon. You only have a day or so left to have your say about who should make up the coordination team for the next year. If you have already voted, thanks for participating! If you haven't and would like to, vote here before 23:59 UTC on 28 September. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:29, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

hello?
I see you edited recently, after a very long retirement. I hope you come back someday. Best wishes for your real life, — usernamekiran (talk)  04:26, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive
Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive and create a worklist at WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:21, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of CIA in fiction for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article CIA in fiction is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/CIA in fiction until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:50, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Cognitive traps for intelligence analysis


The article Cognitive traps for intelligence analysis has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "This article's topic seems inherently like a personal essay, not like an appropriate article for an encyclopedia. It's been tagged to that effect for ten years."

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. — Moriwen (talk) 18:52, 16 June 2023 (UTC)