Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Incubator/Black projects

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

Purpose & scope

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.

Participants

• Binksternet (talk · contribs)
• GW_Simulations (talk · contribs)
• MBK004 (talk · contribs)
• TomStar81 (talk · contribs)
• Iazyges (talk · contribs)

Open tasks

Worklist

This is the 5110th 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

• 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

Internal

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External

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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