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The picture of Yevgeni Primakov at the head of the article implies that he is responsible for Operation Infektion, when his publication of the scandal actually helped clear the air of disinformation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.91.86.224 ( talk) 01:38, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
This a "b class" article of "mid" importance to the history of the Soviet Union? Huh? The article is junk (e.g. cia.gov and america.gov citations, confusing descriptions of how blacks have or did give credibility to these various silly rumors, etc.) and ought instead have the usual tags impugning its credibility and quality applied. Is there a shortage of articles about the fine humanitarians of the former USSR and their great accomplishments? This is more befitting an article on some piece of military equipment, not nonsense about nonsense. I am fixing this assessment. Some kind of skewed valuation was at play here. Obotlig ( talk) 04:55, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Didn't the Soviets try to weaponize smallpox, as well? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.209.144.90 ( talk) 19:40, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi. The article says the subject was set up by the KGB in 1962, and then skips to a letter was sent to the editor in July 1983. I added a dubious tag because the source for 1962 covers Soviet activities two decades later. Maybe a link exists so we could all read the source. - SusanLesch ( talk) 16:01, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
This article relies too heavily on US government sources. These sources should be avoided where possible as the US government was an involved party and had a political interest in the subject. Plenty of independent, fact-checked sources (such as news articles and published books) have covered Operation Infektion. They should be used where possible. To be clear, I'm not suggesting the removal of any content, just improvement of the sourcing. R2 ( bleep) 16:50, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
@
Phil Bridger and
Tomastvivlaren: there has been more recent academic work on this by Douglas Selvage. He is from the USA originally, but not the USA government, he is a senior research fellow at the Institute for History at Humboldt University in Berlin. I have learned about his work mainly from interviews he has done,
the paper has been languishing on my "to read later" list. According to Selvage little or nothing survives from Russian archives. I've included a few papers and interviews below.
Irtapil (
talk)
11:04, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
Douglas Selvage articles and interviews
academic work by other authors
I'm not sure if many other people have worked on this, i might wait for some input from other editors before i get too carried away. Irtapil ( talk) 11:04, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
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I think the page should be moved to - Operation "Denver" - with quotes around Denver, but I'll leave it here for feedback for a while first. The name "operation infektion" seems to be a misunderstanding, it appeared in a popular media article from the New York Times (or was it the New Yorker?) but according to Douglas Selvage - the historian I mentioned above - that name was never used until recent media. @ Louis P. Boog, Phil Bridger, Russian Rocky, My very best wishes, Kaliforniyka, Sjö, SgtLion, Thenightaway, Sam1370, Cloud200, DenverDynasty, Vytek75, and Headbomb: I've tagged people from the page history who seemed to make substantial contributions or minor contributors who had some ongoing interest in related topics on their profiles. Irtapil ( talk) 11:31, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
What is the source for the name "Операция «Инфекция»" in Russian? I added the reference that is currently there [1] but I just found that from googling what was there already, they could have even got it from here. Where is it from originally? This needs someone who knows Russian better than I do. Irtapil ( talk) 11:52, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
Some of these are repeats from above…
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The picture of Yevgeni Primakov at the head of the article implies that he is responsible for Operation Infektion, when his publication of the scandal actually helped clear the air of disinformation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.91.86.224 ( talk) 01:38, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
This a "b class" article of "mid" importance to the history of the Soviet Union? Huh? The article is junk (e.g. cia.gov and america.gov citations, confusing descriptions of how blacks have or did give credibility to these various silly rumors, etc.) and ought instead have the usual tags impugning its credibility and quality applied. Is there a shortage of articles about the fine humanitarians of the former USSR and their great accomplishments? This is more befitting an article on some piece of military equipment, not nonsense about nonsense. I am fixing this assessment. Some kind of skewed valuation was at play here. Obotlig ( talk) 04:55, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Didn't the Soviets try to weaponize smallpox, as well? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.209.144.90 ( talk) 19:40, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi. The article says the subject was set up by the KGB in 1962, and then skips to a letter was sent to the editor in July 1983. I added a dubious tag because the source for 1962 covers Soviet activities two decades later. Maybe a link exists so we could all read the source. - SusanLesch ( talk) 16:01, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
This article relies too heavily on US government sources. These sources should be avoided where possible as the US government was an involved party and had a political interest in the subject. Plenty of independent, fact-checked sources (such as news articles and published books) have covered Operation Infektion. They should be used where possible. To be clear, I'm not suggesting the removal of any content, just improvement of the sourcing. R2 ( bleep) 16:50, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
@
Phil Bridger and
Tomastvivlaren: there has been more recent academic work on this by Douglas Selvage. He is from the USA originally, but not the USA government, he is a senior research fellow at the Institute for History at Humboldt University in Berlin. I have learned about his work mainly from interviews he has done,
the paper has been languishing on my "to read later" list. According to Selvage little or nothing survives from Russian archives. I've included a few papers and interviews below.
Irtapil (
talk)
11:04, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
Douglas Selvage articles and interviews
academic work by other authors
I'm not sure if many other people have worked on this, i might wait for some input from other editors before i get too carried away. Irtapil ( talk) 11:04, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
suggested references
{{
cite journal}}
: Check |doi=
value (
help); External link in |doi=
(
help)
I think the page should be moved to - Operation "Denver" - with quotes around Denver, but I'll leave it here for feedback for a while first. The name "operation infektion" seems to be a misunderstanding, it appeared in a popular media article from the New York Times (or was it the New Yorker?) but according to Douglas Selvage - the historian I mentioned above - that name was never used until recent media. @ Louis P. Boog, Phil Bridger, Russian Rocky, My very best wishes, Kaliforniyka, Sjö, SgtLion, Thenightaway, Sam1370, Cloud200, DenverDynasty, Vytek75, and Headbomb: I've tagged people from the page history who seemed to make substantial contributions or minor contributors who had some ongoing interest in related topics on their profiles. Irtapil ( talk) 11:31, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
What is the source for the name "Операция «Инфекция»" in Russian? I added the reference that is currently there [1] but I just found that from googling what was there already, they could have even got it from here. Where is it from originally? This needs someone who knows Russian better than I do. Irtapil ( talk) 11:52, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
Some of these are repeats from above…