Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Incubator/Black projects

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Welcome to the Black projects group, an initiative of the Military history WikiProject.

Purpose & scope[edit]

The purpose of this group is to monitor the growing number of black project articles and their classified project cousins so as to ensure that these articles adhere to the policies and guidelines established by Wikipedia and the Military history WikiProject for inclusion.

To this end, this page will serve to main purposes: First, to list all articles that are within the realm of the black project genre so as to ensure they fulfill the above mandate for inclusion and ensure that black project articles failing to meet the established criteria for inclusion are deleted through the appropriate channels. Secondly, this page will serve as an source hub to ensure that those sources used in black articles adhere to the reliable sources requirements; those sources established as such will be listed here as resources to allow those who wish to work on black projects a chance to look through a compiled list of reliable sources for their attempt.

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Open tasks[edit]

Worklist[edit]

This is the 4871st day since the black project category was checked; the results of the last check are noted below. If this number is greater than 90 please recheck the black project category and update this list as soon as possible.

Article Grade Editor(s) currently working Notes
Aquacade (satellite) Stub MilHist/Spaceflight article
Largely uncited, will need help
Atlas Carver Stub Aviation Project article
WikiProject Africa article
previously nominated for deletion
citations needed for article information
Tagged more footnotes (August 2009)
Aurora (aircraft) (aka SR-91) Start Aviation Project/MilHist/Rational Skepticism article
Milhist rates as Start, Aviation rates as C
tagged as controversial (talk page)
tagged for cleanup
tagged for possible OR/Copyvio issues
Black project Stub MilHist article
Composed largely of unneeded lists, should be rebuilt to give history of black projects
Too focused on US, needs to be expanded to other countries
citation needed tags for information given
Blackstar (spacecraft) C Aviation project/MilHist article
lacks inline citations
tagged as needing references November 2010
Canyon (satellite) Start Space project/MilHist article
needs to be assessed by WP:SPACE
Convair Kingfish Start Aviation/MilHist article
Aviation listed as C-class
Needs infobox (November 2010)
Corona (satellite) Start Space project/Cold War project/MilHist article
reference section needs reformatting
some sections could be merged
good coverage but more citations are needed
Three dead links in references section
User:Dogue/DCEETA (draft) & User:Dogue/DCEETA (draft2) N/A Dogue (talk · contribs) Userpage initiative
needs copyvio monitoring
Enhanced Imaging System Start Spaceflight Project/Milhist/Espionage/US Projects
Previously nominated for deletion, still here
Have Dash B Milhist/WP:US project article
DYK point
Intruder (satellite) Stub Space project/MilHist article
needs expansion
Jumpseat (satellite) Start Space project/MilHist article
needs assessment from WP:SPACE
KH-11 KENNAN Start Space project/MilHist/Cold War article
needs citations for info in body
needs assessment from WP:SPACE
KH-12 Start Cold War/Space/MilHist article
needs assessment from WP:SPACE
needs citations for fact check
alleged conflict of info with KH-13 page
KH-13 Start Space project/MilHist article
needs assessment from WP:SPACE
afd'd, closed as no consensus
tagged as unclear or questionable importance or relevance
tagged as needing references that appear in reliable third-party publications
tagged as containing speculation and unjustified claims
KH-5 ARGON Start Cold War project/Space project/MilHist article
Needs citations
Needs assessment from WP:SPACE
KH-6 LANYARD Start Cold War project/Space project/MilHist article
Needs assessment from WP:SPACE
KH-7 GAMBIT Start Cold War project/Space project/MilHist article
Reports imagery info declassified 2002
Needs Assessment by WP:SPACE
KH-9 HEXAGON Start Cold War project/Space project/MilHist article
Needs assessment from WP:SPACE
KH-8 GAMBIT Start Cold War project/Space project/MilHist article
Needs assessment by WP:SPACE
Lacrosse (satellite) Start Space project/MilHist article
Probable Cold War project article
needs referencing
Needs assessment from WP:SPACE
Lenticular Reentry Vehicle Start Ohio project/MilHist article
More citations needed
Cold War project's scope?
needs assessment from WP:OHIO
Lockheed CL-400 Suntan Start Aviation Project/MilHist project
needs more references
Lockheed D-21/M-21 Start Aviation project/MilHist project
tagged as needing additional citations for verification
Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Start Could make B-class with a little help
Lockheed Have Blue Start In Theory, could be merged in F-117
Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel B Aviation B-class checklist needs to be filled out
article is a little short
Magnum (satellite) Start Space project/MilHist tag
tagged for clarity/confusion issues
Manned Orbital Laboratory Start Cold War project/Space project/MilHist article
Needs assessment from WP:SPACE
Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program Start Space project/MilHist article
Needs assessment from WP:SPACE
MiTEx Start Space project/Aviation project article
tagged for needing citations for verification
Misty (classified project) Start Space project/MilHist article
tagged for lack of citations & for cleanup
Needs assessment from WP:SPACE
Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit B Aviation project/MilHist article
Possible GA candidate
Northrop Tacit Blue Start Needs some expansion for content
Nazi UFOs Start Milhist Article/WP:Paranormal article
tagged cleanup and citations needed
Project Silver Bug Stub Paranormal project/Aviation project/MilHist article
Forum site used for sourcing
Lockheed Martin RQ-3 DarkStar Start Aviation project/MilHist article
Thin on information
Rhyolite/Aquacade Stub Space project/MilHist article
Needs assessment from WP:SPACE
Needs more citations
TR-3A Black Manta Start Aviation project/MilHist article
tagged for lack of inline citations
United States gravity control propulsion research (1955–1974) C Rational Skepticism project/Physics project article
tagged as controversial
May need rewriting to conform with WP:OR
User:Iazyges/Project Moon Dust Draft Working on.

Other tasks[edit]

  • At least once every three months a thorough pass through the black project category must be made to ensure that all articles their meet the requirements for inclusion on wikipedia.

Resources[edit]

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External[edit]

Source Assessment Comments
http://www.planet4589.org/ Reliable Website is well established (about 20 years old), and is regarded as one of the more reliable sources in the area. The author is a doctor of Astrophysics, and a professor at Harvard University, who has a number of scientific publications. The website is mentioned in his formal biography (presumably from Harvard University), and I seem to recall that it has also been republished by at least one major space news website, although its name escapes me.
http://www.daviddarling.info/index.html Reliable Author has several published works in this area.
http://reseau.echelon.free.fr/ Not sure Information seems fairly accurate, but I can't be sure of reliability. Could do with someone with a better grasp of the French language than me having a look.
http://www.zen32156.zen.co.uk/disappearencs.htm Borderline Information seems fairly accurate, and although I can find no formal evidence of reliability, the images published on the main page suggest that the author is fairly competent in the field of satellite observation.
http://space.skyrocket.de/ Fairly reliable I have used this to find information on a number of occasions, and it has almost always proven to be a useful and accurate source. Most of its information can be backed up by other sources as well.
http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/space/ Handle with care The author has been published by a number of major scientific organisations (admittedly not all in this field), and his historical information seems fairly accurate. Care should be taken when using his pages on future launches, as they are often out of date, and may even contain launches which were cancelled some time ago.
http://www.n2yo.com/ Reliable Fairly well known and respected site, I believe it is currently the most used real-time satellite tracking website, which would support claims to reliability
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/ Handle with care This is basically a mailing list, and most of the posts on it are not reliable. It is, however, used by a number of respected and published experts in the field of visual satellite observation, and their posts can be considered reliable sources. This specific post was by one of those experts.
http://www.astronautix.com/ Reliable This website has been cited by the NASA History Office on several occasions. It also has a number of positive comments from organisations including the London Sunday Times, CNN, the New York Times and Encyclopaedia Britannica.
http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/explore/library/online-catalog/ Reliable The Pritzker Military Museum & Library's catalog is highly searchable and it is a Wikipedia GLAM participant. In particular, look for items from the Dr. Charles Metz Collection to use in citations when working on historic aviation related black projects. Library circulates non-classified, non-rare materials to public and academic libraries within the continental United States.

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