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Extraordinary rendition

Hi does anyone have any sources for Extraordinary renditions carried out by anyone durring the cold war. This includes the middle east and africa. ^{(Hypnosadist)} 19:42, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Stranded Pakistanis, Biharis or Bihari Muslims?

Yes all three exist, carrying different project-banners for WikiProject Ethnic groups, WikiProject Cold War, WikiProject Pakistan and WikiProject Bangladesh. I have proposed a merger of all three, but what would the title be? As soon we can decide on the title, I can volunteer to do the merging. I am posting to all of the WikiProjects for a solution, but it would be better to have a centralized discussion. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 13:19, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Does scope include Survivalism related articles

I was wondering if the scope of the Cold War wiki-project includes survival topics like Survivalism, Retreat (survivalism), etc. which seem to have grown out of cold-war fears? AliveFreeHappy (talk) 21:02, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Sure, why not? I think it should go more under culture, rather than political/military, which is the main focus of this article. Maybe put something in Culture during the Cold War article? Hires an editor (talk) 22:29, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Prague Spring

The Prague Spring article was just awarded Good Article status. Any chance we can round up a bunch of you Cold War experts to help make it and Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968) Featured Articles for the 40th anniversary? - TheMightyQuill (talk) 02:30, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Samantha Smith

Hi, just to let you know that Samantha Smith, an article within this project's scope, is at featured article review. Please see Wikipedia:Featured article review/Samantha Smith if interested. Cheers! J Milburn (talk) 17:58, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Politics

The cold war was not about the conflicts around the world that it created, that would be a hot war. The cold war was a time period where Democracy, led by the Americans, was fighting Communism, led by the Soviet Union. There was not a shot fired at the other by either of those two nations, but it seems that this project is focusing mainly on the war aspects of the cold war, such as the Korean war, and the Vietnam war, these happened during the cold war, and as a result of the cold war, but they should not be central to the project, we should look to improve the articles about political climates during the war, not just conflicts that were set alight by the war. That is just my opinion, if anyone agrees, contact me on my talk page. Tom.mevlie (talk) 07:47, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

You might want to make this point on the Cold War talk page, instead of here, as that article may in fact do what you are saying. The project, though, does not focus exclusively on the "hot" parts of the Cold War, it also takes some interest in the other aspects, such as politics, and economics, and the like. The Cold War Template should be a good reflection of important Cold War events and themes. And last of all, since agreement (or not) is topic specific, it should go on the topic discussion pages, so that others interested in the topic can have their say. Hires an editor (talk) 21:50, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

personally I think you should focus more on the beginning of the war, such as with Hoovers report[1]--Stor stark7 ^Talk 01:05, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Piotrus at Morgenthau plan

Piotrus (talk · contribs) is in apparent collaboration with Molobo (talk · contribs). I don't think that it is right for administrators to behave as he has done in the article Morgenthau Plan. Molobos edits are heavily contested in the Morgenthau plan, see the article talk page, and he simply selects to revert back to include all of Molobos edits. And don't even bother to explain himself at talk.--Stor stark7 ^Talk 01:01, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

This is Not a Test

Just FYI I have created an article on the famous Cold War-era nuclear war film This is Not a Test (1962 film). Unfortunately there aren't many online sources related to this film beyond catalogues for its DVD release. As such I fear the deletionists might be quick to nominate it for AFD. If anyone can provide additional information about this film, as well as sources (i.e. references in Cold War history books, etc), that would be much appreciated. 23skidoo (talk) 03:26, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Requesting Cold War article move

It has been proposed that 1983 nuclear war scare be moved back to Able Archer 83. All editers are invited to participate in the discussion on this matter on the talk page for 1983 nulcear war scare. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.41.166.59 (talk) 06:03, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Continental Air Command

I am a new user and have made some minor changes in the section below the listing of CONAC installations - basically concerned with explaining some of the reorganizations of Troop Carrier wings that occured in the 1960s. I would appreciate comments and additional input on the entry. CLDWARHIST (talk)CLDWARHISTCLDWARHIST (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 20:55, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Cold War Era USAF Units

I would like to do some work on the USAF unit history pages - is anyone currently working on these or have any interest in them? CLDWARHIST (talk) 20:57, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Request for Peer Review

I have requested a peer review of the CIA main article, in order to gain some new perspective on the page. I invite anyone interested to please contribute their thoughts. Please find the peer review page for it here. Thanks! (Morethan3words (talk) 10:15, 15 May 2008 (UTC))

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

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Articles flagged for cleanup

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The article New Cold War has been nominated for deletion

The deletion debate over the article New Cold War can be found here: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/New_Cold_War

Any input is greatly appreciated.

⇨ EconomistBR ⇦ Talk 03:13, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Mutual assured destruction

Could someone give an importance rating and possible quality review to Mutual assured destruction? That would be great. --Simpsons fan 66 00:43, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Done. It's a great article but needs some of the listed references included at the end of the article text as in-line references. Now it's 'Start' class, but with better referencing and a few images it would easily become 'B class'. Cheers, Paxse (talk) 16:54, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Cold War

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Assessment drive!

I noticed a backlog of article assessments here. I'm going to see if I can clear the backlog. Feel free to join in. Let's see if we can give the 1.0 bot something to do when he comes around next. I make it 778 un-assessed articles. Paxse (talk) 17:38, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

685 articles left to assess and the A's are done. Paxse (talk) 04:23, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

653 and the B's are done. Paxse (talk) 06:18, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

594 and the C's are done. Paxse (talk) 14:58, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

567 and the D's are done. Paxse (talk) 06:56, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

539 and the E's are done. Paxse (talk) 17:57, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

512 and the F's are done. Paxse (talk) 18:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

483 and the G's are done. Paxse (talk) 19:00, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

455 and the H's are done. Paxse (talk) 13:43, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

436 and the I's are done. Paxse (talk) 17:59, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

399 and the J's are done. Paxse (talk) 17:09, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

356 and the K's and L's are done. Paxse (talk) 18:20, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

265 and the M's are done. Paxse (talk) 14:44, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Z-Division Deletion

My request to delete the Z-Division page was reversed by an administrator. The page provides no proof of the statements it makes, and has continued to fail to provide any proof for months. Since the administrator does not want comments directed towards them placed on their personal page, I am stating on this page, that I see no reason to continue to spread potentially false information on the Z-Division page. Sk2jdnc09w (talk) 02:03, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

There are references listed on the talk page of the Z-Division article. And objections to the content of the page should also go there as well as here, since likely the audience for that page is small. You don't say if you've gone through the sources to verify the information or not...Hires an editor (talk) 13:51, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Done! rewritten slightly and referenced. Cheers, Paxse (talk) 18:17, 29 December 2008 (UTC)