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UAV Usage by Non-State Actors

I was very surprised to see that the history section doesn't touch on the phenomenon of armed groups using remote-controlled vehicles for reconnaissance, and even dropping explosives, in war zones in Iraq and Syria (and perhaps elsewhere) as of late. As for UAV development it seems rather notable that armed groups such as Daesh have now taken to retrofitting commercial UAVs and are successfully employing them in their activities. 2601:87:4400:AF2:84D7:679C:1DA0:C7F6 (talk) 20:10, 7 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Redundant Sentence

From the second paragraph:

"Compared to manned aircraft, UAVs were originally used for missions too "dull, dirty or dangerous"[2] for humans. While they originated mostly in military applications, their use is rapidly expanding to commercial, scientific, recreational, agricultural, and other applications,[3] such as policing, peacekeeping,[4] and surveillance, product deliveries, aerial photography, agriculture, smuggling,[5] and drone racing."

Do we need "agricultural" and "agriculture"?--Cheeseball701 (talk) 10:07, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Latent sexism in the title?

When I searched for this article my initial temptation was to type "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle", but I stopped myself and entered "Unpiloted" instead. That got me a hit in the academic literature. But surely the title in wikipedia should be gender-neutral? Unpiloted is any case a more accurate description and still works well with the commonly used "UAV". Dtprice (talk) 19:19, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As the father of two daughters, I'm all for gender-neutral (I think we should use "actor" rather than "actress", for example, and it is only the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences's continued use of "actress" that prevents me from proposing a mass RM of the various "actress" categories); but I think here WP:COMMONNAME controls. The common name is indeed unmanned aerial vehicle (i.e. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems Association, Martin UAV's use of "unmanned"). Wikipedia should not try to impose a nomenclature that does not yet have widespread usage. To change this to "unpiloted" or something else (the usual gender-neutral form of "manned" is "crewed", so presumably the alternative here would be "uncrewed") would need to evidence consistency with COMMONNAME. TJRC (talk) 19:52, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. On second thoughts, "unpiloted" is not accurate, since most UAVs do have a pilot, on the ground. "Uncrewed" would be better, but unlikely to catch on just yet. Dtprice (talk) 20:42, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

OK thanks for telling me that Amanda 297 Chloe (talk) 12:46, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Splitting away of the applications section

It is now at List of unmanned aerial vehicle applications.

See here.

Cheers. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:20, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Terrible views

This is the consequence. Terrible. Thoughts? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:05, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't matter. It just means that one subject is less interesting or less searched than another. The views will likely improve with improved linking. And I wouldn't call 2000/day average "terrible". ~Anachronist (talk) 21:29, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough, Anachronist, but the 2,000 is the main article. This breakaway gets 20. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:34, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Still, that's more than a lot of articles get, and I think the low hits are likely due to the low number of internal links to it. I spent days writing this one about an AI subject for example, and it even made the DYK list, but it gets a handful of hits per day, if that. ~Anachronist (talk) 03:08, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Anachronist, good points. Well, I do hope it improves anyhow. Many thanks for the thoughtful reply. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:46, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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