Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Accumulator (intelligence industry term)


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 02:31, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Accumulator (intelligence industry term)

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Evidently unsourcable, may be original research. I like this page and have spent a while trying to source it, but it doesn't appear to have any sources (third-party or otherwise). I understand that it's jargon of a necessarily secretive industry, but surely there must be some verifiable mention of it somewhere to include it in an encyclopedia. Buddy23Lee (talk) 21:12, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The title is OR, the concept is not (when governments introduced life sentences for exactly what's described in the article, they took care to produce RS-level paper trail). How it works in RL - see, for example, in-depth coverage of Igor Sutyagin's case. 78.107.117.194 (talk) 11:51, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree the concept is logical. I just can't seem to find any sources that support anyone ever referring to these people as "accumulators". It draws an obvious parallel to the dictionary definition, but that's about where it seems to stop. I'd much rather see the article get sourced than deleted, but I'm also not comfortable just taking the author's word on the premise of it being super secret info. Buddy23Lee (talk) 18:39, 2 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 7 June 2011 (UTC)




 * Delete No sources => no article. Dingo1729 (talk) 16:20, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
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