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This article is focused on Afghanistan only, but the lead paragraph lists that PRTs are also in Iraq. What about Iraq content? If this is going to only be about Aghanistan we should page move this to Provincial reconstruction team (Afghanistan). MPS 03:55, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I'd rather see it moved to Reconstruction of Afghanistan and expanded. We have Reconstruction of Iraq and I think we need something similar for Afghanistan. The contents of this article might be a good start. Regards, Ben Aveling 21:28, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. As there is reconstruction work in Afghanistan separate from the PRTs, and as some PRTs, especially in the south, are closely linked to coalition combat operations, Provincial reconstruction team should be Reconstruction of Afghanistan separate articles. As PRTs are major operations involving tens of thousands of personnel, they must have their own article, separate from any reconstruction page. Chwyatt 10:48, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm not saying that the PRT must not have its own article, just that it doesn't make sense to have an article on the PRT and no article on reconstruction in general, given that there is reconstruction happening outside the scope of the PRT. We don't really want to duplicate material if we can avoid it. If the Reconstruction article grew too big we could extract the PRT stuff to a seperate article, but for the moment, it would make more sense to have it as part of the overall reconstruction efforts. Besides, covering it at Reconstruction of Afghanistan would mean that more people would get to read it. Regards, Ben Aveling 21:22, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I thought you meant merge the Provincial reconstruction team article into a Reconstruction of Afghanistan article. I see what you mean now. I do think that a Reconstruction of Afghanistan article is worthwhile, so long as the details of PRTs remain in the PRT article. Chwyatt 09:21, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I've created something. It's crap. But it's a start. Regards, Ben Aveling 11:47, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

• Hi everybody! I once started to make the list here with the provincial reconstruction teams and the basic information about them. Because there are so many countries involved and there are so many reconstruction teams, and information for example of the MoDs of the countries involved in so many languages, I was hoping other editors would maybe start articles about the different PRTs themselves. So to see this as an overall introduction and contents of the PRTs, and work them out in other articles.

At the lead there can be maybe written that there are also PRTs in Iraq, with a link to it? Next to this I wrote at pages about the districts in Afghanistan, for example below a head of security situation, or contemporary history, there is a PRT.

Because the name PRT is a well known name, also used by the MoDs and Nato, in my opinion we can keep the name Provincial Reconstruction Team. Much Regards Rob van Doorn 15:53, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Note: there can be an article of the NATO-ISAF PRTs, and of the reconstruction work NGOs are doing, and the Afghans themselves?