User talk:RCPayne

Hello, RCPayne! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Paradoctor (talk) 19:20, 23 May 2009 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Intuitive guide to Wikipedia Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Delinking on Artificial intelligence

Hi, I saw you delinked several internal redlinks. Can you tell me why? Paradoctor (talk) 16:33, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

I thought if it was red, that meant there was no link. I thought I was "cleaning up" in other words. Is that not correct? RCPayne (talk) 18:25, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry, nobody's mad at you. You want to read Wikipedia:Red link, though. Some red links should be removed by delinking, others should be removed by creating an article for them. So, it would be better to check whether a red link points to a notable topic before delinking. And I just noticed that nobody has welcomed you, so: Welcome to Wikipedia! Paradoctor (talk) 19:20, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the info Paradoctor. I will read Red Link. RCPayne (talk) 01:05, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Duplicated stuff

RCPayne, please see my discussion at Talk:Special Activities Division, thanks,PeterWD (talk) 09:31, 30 August 2009 (UTC) I appreciate your comments, but believe these sentences best fit at this location, as they tie this event to this unit and article. Point taken on the picture though Peter. RCPayne (talk) 12:16, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Regarding the SAD

The U.S. Department of State (specifically, the Secretary of State) oversees the Special Activities Division of the CIA, among others, and trains intelligence assets and deploys them abroad for covert missions/operations as per orders of the President. The Department of Defense and of course, the CIA are highly involved aswell. The overall direction, coordination, and supervision of interdepartmental activities (intelligence assets, foreign covert operations, foreign missions, and all other activities) of the U.S. Government overseas are the responsibility of the U.S. Secretary of State. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.43.169.0 (talk) 02:05, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

That is absolutely untrue. It is an independant Agency that falls in the Intelligence Community which is overseen by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and answers to the President of the United States (POTUS). The SSCI and HPSCI oversee all covert action in the Senate and House. The Secretary of State is consulted, just as he or she is by the military, but is not in the chain of command. The DNI, Sec State and Sec Def are all on the National Security Counsel. They advise the POTUS. Your wrong and I suggest you read the CIA page on wiki.