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Anomaly Six[edit]

I recently created an article for Anomaly Six, a secretive American company which develops tools that can be used in mass surveillance. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Thriley (talk) 04:48, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Operation Rubicon (Crypto AG)#Requested move 26 August 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — Shibbolethink ( ) 15:48, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Project-independent quality assessments[edit]

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:57, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discrepancy in importance rating?[edit]

This makes zero sense to me:

Central Intelligence Agency is within the scope of WikiProject Espionage, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of espionage, intelligence, and related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page, or contribute to the discussion.
B This article has been rated as B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Top This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.
List of CIA controversies is within the scope of WikiProject Espionage, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of espionage, intelligence, and related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page, or contribute to the discussion.
List This article has been rated as List-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

The List of CIA controversies is part of why the CIA has a top importance rating yet they are low importance? I would think the controversies themselves should register as high importance at a bare minimum especially as far as lists go. Drocj (talk) 07:31, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Then change it - this project in the last 10+ years or so has suffered from severe neglect, name changes, and poaching of context by the Milhist project - similarly the Cold War project has been swallowed up by milhist... if you are able to improve the assessment standards, please do so! JarrahTree 07:51, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Failure in the intelligence cycle#Requested move 22 August 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 15:34, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

United States involvement in regime change in Latin America has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. WMrapids (talk) 18:36, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]