Talk:International Stability Operations Association

message: I am the Manager of Operations at the International Stability Operations (ISOA), formerly known as the International Peace Operations Association (IPOA). I have some suggestions so that this article can be reflective of the current status of IPOA and ISOA respectively:
* IPOA officially changed its name to the International Stability Operations Association in October 2010. Here is a good public source reporting on the name change: http://www.aprodex.com/international-stability-operations-association--the-new-name-for-ipoa-469-bl.aspx 
* Therefore, the International Peace Operations Association page should also list that there is a page for the International Stability Operations Association (ISOA) 
The ISOA name change was in response to our evolving membership, of which only approximately 35% are private security companies or engage in private security company activities (as of today). The majority are companies and organizations working in stability operations in various capacities - reconstruction, disaster relief, development, logistics, support, security sector reform, etc. 
* Could someone please advise on how I should move forward to suggest to Wikipedians' that the new ISOA article be created?
* ISOA also publishes a bi-monthly journal titled the Journal of International Peace Operations which is available publicly at www.peaceops.com.
Information on ISOA can be gathered from our website at www.stability-operations.org - including our mission, member companies, etc. We are currently undergoing a website update/overhaul so please bear with us over the next couple of months.
Also, feel free to contact me at jvogel@stability-operations.org with any questions, concerns or suggestions!
JessDC (talk) 19:59, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: IPOA Name Change - Suggested Edits and New Page

message: This article seems sort of abandoned.  I'm cleaning up the format, modifying sentences that sound like an advertisement, and removing sentences that seems like nonsense. Psychlohexane (talk) 19:23, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Hideous

message: This article seems as though it was copied from somewhere and pasted here. It reads like a press release or a flyer. Joffeloff 20:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you be more specific about what it is about the writing style you don't like? I've made a few changes to help it flow better and added an additional paragraph. Feel free to pitch in with any changes or additions of your own. mennonot 22:00, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Advertisement

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 15:36, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject class rating

message: I recently read an article about the IPOA in which a price list was made up for an example.
These listed prices of ak47's (400$/per unit), rpg's (600 per unit) and ammo (0.33 and 150 dollar per unit of ammo respectively. Jeeps were at 80000 per unit, and there was a wealth of other prices for vehicles, ... too Soldiers (ugandan) were 40$ a day, with increasing prices depending of the type of soldier (eg ugandan, iraqi, columbian, former us soldiers, ...). Former us soldiers came at 1000 dollar a day. perhaps such a list may be added in the wiki-article or, even better on the article arms trade. The article was made available at a Menzo magazine.
81.246.168.199 (talk) 15:42, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Weapons & soldier prices

message: I've done a major update of this article, prompted by the fairly old suggestion above and the obvious need. I hope the updated article will be moved to the new name International Stability Operations Association soon, and am putting in a request to that effect.
As to the quality of the article: 
:I decided to try to use the '09 information still in the article to keep some history which is no longer on the ISOA website. I hope that's satisfactory. 
:There's not too much non-Association-sourced information. I can only hope that with a relatively up-to-date article, more independent information will be added, including better company/member links.
I don't know how to download an image, but there's a new logo here. And I know there are copyright issues. If someone can help with all that, I'd appreciate it. I'd favor leaving the old IPOA logo on the page as well. Swliv (talk) 04:44, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name change, updates