User talk:Tom Griffin

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Hi,

Can you also update the page on Feldman with the Rothschild/oligarch story?

And why don't you post some of the pages that you want to see work done on as a list on the portal page (ie on the spooks, NI or Neocons portal)?

--David 08:54, 22 October 2008 (BST)

Hi,

try this way of creating new pages:

http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/Article_Submission Let me know if there are any more headings or formatting that should be added to the default.

--David 15:34, 22 August 2008 (BST)


OK.

Can you suggest the formatting for such a page?

and edit this page to the appropriate format? Format for institution

--David 16:06, 22 August 2008 (BST)

Working on

1. Merge Elliott Abrams/Foreign Policy Hawk with Elliott Abrams

Ideas for pages/pages to come back to

UK

right

MI6

Misc

US

Congress

-NED

-Misc

Neocons

Lovestoneites

FBI

-CIA

Ireland

Stormontgate

agents

Barron report

Journalists

Italy

France

Iraq

Israel

Eastern Europe


Niger


Misc

standpoint

Hi

I entered Standpoint.online after checking SAU where there was NO indication of the magazine. Maybe the sensible thing to do when entering the type of article which is subsidiary to the main one is to actually mention it in the main article.

Please merge them... up to you.

Kind rgds --Paulo 22:16, 8 October 2008 (BST)

user-friendly

Hi Tom

doing a quick tour of the portals prior to launch. I wonder, cd you pls make the N. Ireland portal page a bit more accessible to the public/non experts by giving a short summary of the issues around Northern Ireland? ie what 'sins' are we going to be looking at in the articles in yr portal? you mention the intelligence networks that have sprung up around N Ireland issue. what does this mean for the public/democracy? what are the main problems in the N Ireland field? etc. I suppose a lot of the public think that the whole N Ireland issue has gone away and you will need to explain why it hasn't.

Pls get in touch if you have any q's or if this is mystifying.

best wishes Claire

redundant headers?

--Claire Robinson 20:11, 8 January 2009 (UTC) Hi Tom, doing a quick tour of the portal pages, looks as if u have 2 redundant headers, "Northern Ireland" and "Issues"--can u either move some text into one or both of these sections or delete the headers? let me know if you can't find the coding in the edit page, it takes me a while to find these things too. best,--Claire Robinson 12:56, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Philip Giraldi

Hi Tom

Happened across this article http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/Philip_Giraldi

could you

--pls give a brief intro to who this fellow is/what he does?

--explain who Beckett Brown Int. is?

--introduce the quote saying who is speaking and what the quote shows/the point you're making in including the quote?

let me know if this doesn't make sense.

It's just a bit telescoped and needs to be unpicked for the reader.

thanks! let me know if you cannot get to it and I'll have a go. Claire R (my signature thingie isn't working, no idea why)

categories

Hi Tom

can u pls add the category "Neocons" or whatever your main (overarching, containing all articles in yr portal) category is, to all articles in the Neocons portal? launch is very soon and we need to ensure that all your articles are accessible by the main category, which I assume is Neocons.

thanks! --Claire Robinson 13:11, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

clarification

Hi Tom

Thanks for these new articles. Could you just clarify one bit in

http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/National_Extremism_Tactical_Co-ordination_Unit

what exactly is Monbiot suggesting--ie which claims is there evidence to back? I'm assuming Monbiot is saying that the police were just agitating for more funding because the animal rights groups were in disarray??

George Monbiot suggested that there was evidence to back these claims in the original Observer article.[12] It stated:

The rise of eco-extremism coincides with the fall of the animal rights activist movement. Police said the animal rights movement was in 'disarray' and that its ringleaders had either been prosecuted or were awaiting prosecution, adding that its 'critical mass' of hardcore extremists was sufficiently depleted to have halted its effectiveness.[13]


thank you! --Claire Robinson 12:39, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

robert cooper

Hi Tom

could you by way of a public service go into Robert Cooper and define what the author of this article (not you I know) means by postmodernism in this context? I only know what it means with regard to buildings and interior design and that doesn't help me much here ... the definition will need to come as soon as the word is mentioned. we also have "premodern" which will also need definition.

many thanks! --Claire Robinson 19:34, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

don't worry about cooper

HI Tom

don't worry about "postmodernist" Cooper, I went in and shifted the definition to the top of the "postmodern" section... don't like words like that in our articles, but guess we are stuck with it as it's one of RC's hobby horses.

thanks, --Claire Robinson 14:35, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

cross purposes

whoops sorry Tom, that was your definition of postmodernism in Cooper and a jolly good one too - so to summarise, I have just moved it to the top of that section. thanks --Claire Robinson 14:39, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Free Trade Union Committee

Hi Tom

this is well sourced with page no. etc-- thank you! and the info is well publicised elsewhere. However, we need to word more carefully. You have:

In December 1948, FTUC chairman Matthew Woll introduced Jay Lovestone to Frank Wisner of the Office of Policy Coordination. Lovestone began receiving CIA funds from Wisner a month later. Irving Brown also began receiving Marshall Plan funds.

-- but can you just add a leader that will protect us, putting this allegation in Wilford's mouth, eg

In his book Blah Blah, Hugh Wilford states that ...

many thanks! --Claire Robinson 11:37, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Craig Smellie

HI Tom

in Craig Smellie

I can't work out what this typo "taked" is meant to mean. can u correct?

Although MI6 has denied that Wallace was employed by them, Wallace claims he was taked by Smellie on an ad hoc basis.

thanks --Claire Robinson 23:15, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

style point

Hi Tom

small point of style but one I'm trying to get all writers to follow -- we should always lead in to quotes and often (not always needed) end by telling the reader what they are supposed to have learned, or by linking into our next point. Thus no section or article should simply begin with a quote. we should say who's speaking/in what publication, who they are, or anything that's relevant to establish the context and let the reader know who is speaking here.

In article

Ami Ayalon

we have a section starting with a quote. so would be great to have a lead-in. the style thingie is explained a bit at:

http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/SpinProfiles:How_to_Structure_an_Article#Put_quotes_in_context

many thanks for all yr good work --Claire Robinson 22:36, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

lift page out?

Hi Tom

Lynn and I are working our way thru the old Globalisation page, putting all the useful content onto pages with proper titles, ie without the Globalisation prefix. One of them is this page: http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/Globalisation:Henry_Jackson_Society_Project_for_Democratic_Geopolitics

and I have a note saying you are dealing with this one. could you lift all useful content out of this page, put it in the Neocons site on a page with the appropriate title, and let me know when you've done it? I can then delete the old page, Globalisation:Henry_Jackson_Society_Project_for_Democratic_Geopolitics

many thanks --Claire Robinson 11:06, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

intro

Hi Tom

in the following page for Douglas Bernhart could you pls put in an intro? and introduce the quote by putting it in context, saying who's speaking etc?

many thanks --Claire Robinson 08:25, 12 June 2009 (UTC)


Douglas Bernhart

Loyalist arms shipment

DOZENS of lives were spared because a massive loyalist weapons cache, smuggled in from the Middle East in the late 1980s, included hundreds of rounds of faulty ammunition.

The ammunition smuggled into Northern Ireland in the Lebanese arms consignment was of Chinese origin, and of poor quality.

The weapons, which were divided between the UVF and the UDA and Ulster Resistance, have been reported to have been from South Africa, but the haul came from the Lebanon; the only South African connection was the arms dealer, Douglas Bernhart, who set up the deal between the loyalists and Lebanese businessman, Joe Fawzi.[1]

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