Jkenne10
A tag has been placed on Triga USA, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.
If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Corvus cornix 23:47, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
AFRICOM
editYou are free to add resistance to AFRICOM on the page, what is not acceptable is removing information that does not support your view. I have reinserted the material specifying that Addis Abbaba may be the new command HQ. Please raise concerns such as these on the talk page, suggesting potential alternative wordings - work cooperatively to build knowledge, not to slant it. Surely the possibility that Ethoipia may host the command is important? Buckshot06 (talk) 21:24, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- OK, I somewhat see your point. Let me explain a little why Addis seemed obvious to me: as AU headquarters, it's the obvious place for the Americans to tie into the developing Peace and Security Council and associated apparatus. To try to put the article on firmer ground, I've just added a U.S. official saying in December that Addis is likely to host the command, once they figure out all the admin and political hoop-jumping they'll need to do, which will no doubt take a couple of years.
- On your broader issue, which is no doubt the U.S. trampling with the heavy military feet all over Africa, would you not accept, at the very least, that it might be useful for Western military expertise to be more closely tied in to all the upcoming peacekeeping operations that will no doubt happen in the next few years? Western militaries do know at least how to organise things, which African militaries don't seem to have a very good record of... Happy to continue discussing this issue. Best regards from Down Under. Buckshot06 (talk) 21:04, 23 April 2008 (UTC)