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[edit] AfD nomination of A Strategic Analyst On 9/11

A Strategic Analyst On 9/11, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that A Strategic Analyst On 9/11 satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Strategic Analyst On 9/11 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of A Strategic Analyst On 9/11 during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Kateshortforbob 12:11, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

In my haste reading the article, I mistakenly believed it was promoting a 9/11 conspiracy theory and said as much in my comment. That comment is gone, but I apologize for the mistake. Gazpacho 21:32, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CIA main and subordinate articles

Thanks for the link for the anti-Soviet source. You may not have been involved at the time late last year, but several of us (including the Intelligence Task Force at the Military History Project) are trying to reduce the size of the main CIA article, by moving country- and topic-specific material to separate sub-articles. If you look at the bottom of the CIA page and expand the first entry, you'll see the established article. Soviet activities in Afghanistan have been going into the regional article containing Afghanistan, rather than the Russian article.

Thanks! Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 14:52, 1 March 2008 (UTC)


Again, if you want to add material, please add it to one of the subordinate articles, not the main CIA article. There is a fairly wide consensus that the size of the main CIA article needs to be reduced, without losing information that is well sourced. This can be done by putting the text in the sub-articles identified in the navigation box at the bottom of the page.

If you disagree with this statement of consensus, please discuss it at the CIA talk page. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 15:15, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Moves to CIA transnational anti-terrorism activities

I moved your material to CIA transnational anti-terrorism activities, deleting no content, but breaking out by date so it can merge. Please try to work with several of us in getting the detailed material off the main CIA page. You have good content there, and there is good content in the sub-article. Please work with us, and not get into a revert war. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 10:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Summaries on main page

I fully agree with the idea of having summaries, with the details wikilinked. Perhaps the only thing that is not clear between us is the definition of "topic". For example, the basic blowback problem, the CTC, the Bin Laden virtual station are all legitimate topics, but I'd hate, for space reasons, to have more than a couple of sentences on each on the main page. The topics can, of course, have Topic # Subtopic links to the transnational and possibly country articles.

You have good material that enriches the content of the transnational terrorism article. I didn't delete any of your content that I moved; I only broke it up to fit the chronology. You'll see that I marked your material with temporary headings -- either of us can do merges.

Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 11:23, 18 March 2008 (UTC)