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Iceland[edit]

For years there have been 3 items in the section for Iceland. It should not come as a surprise to anybody that Iceland has no intelligence agencies. These are the entries that have been listed as Icelandic intelligence agencies:

Greiningardeild Ríkislögreglustjóra
Greiningardeild Varnarmálastofnunar Íslands
Skattrannsóknarstjóri Ríkisins

The first is just a division of the national police and may merit being listed as they do some minor intelligence gathering. The second was also a division of an agency that ceased to exist a decade ago. The third was just an agency that did tax fraud investigations and has been merged with the internal revenue service as of last month. Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson (talk) 23:51, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is just a list, the two entries there now have linked articles. Do you plan to update those pages? If the MIS has stopped operating, then the main article should reflect that, with sourcing. That seems to be only issue if you agree the NSA should stay and the tax-guys didn't belong anyway. - wolf 00:08, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Those names, NSA and MIS seem to be entirely made up. I have never heard of those divisions – they are not even agencies – referred to be those names. The MIS link is to an entirely unsourced section of the article Iceland Crisis Response Unit where there is no mention of "MIS" but rather the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. What this list refers to as NSA is a division of the national police and I can not tell from their web site that the division has any official English name. A literal translation would be "Analytical Division of the National Police Commissioner" (greiningardeild ríkislögreglustjóra). My best guess is that some years ago somebody got a bit carried away in their creative editing. Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson (talk) 21:46, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson: On that last point I absolutely agree with you. I just made some changes to this article, and in the coming days, planning to go country by country and remove anything that isn't linked to a WP article or has a source attached (similar to the List of military special forces units). As for the initialisms, I was just going by what's on the page. Anyway, with list articles, I usually leave entries linked to an article, having faith that the article is sufficient in content and sourcing. If you don't feel either of the Iceland entries here belong, then remove them again, I won't contest it. I will just ask that you check that the linked articles. Cheers - wolf 01:18, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Information Does Not Match Subject[edit]

The presented information is not a list of the world's intelligence agencies. The lust of countries opens to a profile of that nation and may not list the intelligence agency at all. WriterCPA (talk) 06:30, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to WP:FIXIT! - wolf 15:50, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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