Wikipedia:WikiProject Espionage

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WIKIPROJECT ESPIONAGE

WikiProject Espionage was formed on May 2, 2010 to better improve espionage-related articles on Wikipedia. It is our goal to help users of the site gain more knowledge about espionage and its history, as well as encourage community participation in editing articles on the topic of espionage. Through collaboration and team-work, we hope to play a part in improving articles within our scope, while also participating in community-wide reviews and collaborations with other WikiProjects on the website. It is our hope that this project is a net positive for the community.

Key definitions

There is a lot of confusion about the difference between "intelligence" and "espionage." Here it is:

The Intelligence field is the top-level field, and it involves spies, analysts, case officers, briefers, and all of the other people who relate to intelligence.
Intelligence is the information collected.
Espionage is the specific subfield of intelligence involving spies who collect intelligence. People who do not collect intelligence are not called spies.

We get the word "espionage" from French, and in French, there is also a distinction: Espionage is the same, and Intelligence is translated as "Renseignement."

An analyst or policymaker who works in intelligence analysis or intelligence assessment, for example, works in the intelligence field, but these people are not spies, and they do not work in espionage.

Active Members

Matthewrb (talk · contribs) - Love to help out wherever.
Aboudaqn (talk · contribs) - Specialize in biographies in American and international espionage in 1930s (give or take a decade).
usernamekiran (talk · contribs) - Area of expertise: OSS, and CIA from 40s to early 70s, NGA, DMA, NPIC. Current status: fully active.
Coretheapple (talk · contribs) - Various interests, including OSS
Guy Macon (talk · contribs) - I design cryptographic hardware and countermeasures against hardware-based side-channel attacks.
Abovfold (talk · contribs) - I work on national security policy and legislative affairs, although my interests are wide ranging in the area of clandestine operations.
PuppySchoolDropout (talk · contribs) - Interests are Cold War espionage (especially Eastern Bloc and non-aligned intelligence services), counterintelligence and penetration agents, targeted assassinations.
Smallchief (talk · contribs) - Creator and editor of articles about Special Operations Executive and escape and evasion lines in World War II.
Drocj (talk · contribs) - As an architectural designer, my skills hopefully lend to organizing information for efficiency, readability, clarity & consistency.
W9793 (talk · contribs) - Mainly US intel operations during the Cold War, Asia-related articles
Neuropol (talk · contribs) - Mainly editing US intelligence and HUMINT. Glad to help out or accept help on anything I'm working on.
Guylaen (talk · contribs) – Howdy.
Gurkubondinn (talk · contribs)

Inactive members

Writersblock14 (talk · contribs) (Founder)
Adamdaley (talk · contribs) - Doing "Spy/Espionage" articles.
Sp33dyphil (talk · contribs) – spy/aircraft (SR-71 Blackbird, U-2 Dragon Lady, etc).
Minipup (talk · contribs) - I'm busy at university now, but I will re-activate when the opportunity arises
L.J. Tibbs (talk · contribs) - Mossad and CIA.—Inactive since July 2019.
Smoth 007 (talk · contribs) - Across the board—Inactive since March 2018.
Sasattack (talk · contribs) f.k.a. sasnfbi1234 - Across the board—Largely inactive since April 2019.
Pahlevun (talk · contribs) - Iran-related articles

Backlog and tasks

The Espionage backlog is visible here.

Related WikiProjects

Formerly there were:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Intelligence - however it now redirects to - Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Intelligence_task_force

There was also:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Intelligence Agency - now inactive

Group Templates

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User templates

{{Userbox espionage}} will produce:

This user is a member of
WikiProject Espionage.

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Related templates

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