Template:Did you know nominations/Luxembourgish Progressive Youth
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Luxembourgish Progressive Youth
- ... that during the Cold War, the Luxembourgish state intelligence infiltrated the communist Festival Youth?
- Source: Dr. Nadine Geisler, Jean Reitz. Rapport Final - MISSION DE RECHERCHE ET D’EXPLOITATION DES BANQUES DE DONNEES HISTORIQUES DU SERVICE DE RENSEIGNEMENT DE L’ÉTAT 1960 - 2001. Luxembourg, 2020. pp. 71-72, 81
Soman (talk) 21:31, 18 August 2026 (UTC).
Unfortunately, much of the article, hook included, is sourced to Geisler and Reitz, which doesn't appear to have a publisher. If it were to be shown to be reliable, we would still require page-by-page citations to the facts, including first and foremost the hook -- not a citation to the whole doc. Please fix this before the article can be even considered. Dahn (talk) 16:42, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
- For a bit of background, Geisler and Reitz are historians who were contracted by Luxembourgish authorities to produce a report on the activities of SREL 1960-2001. The study followed an affair from 2013, which prompted political moves for transparency on the history of the institution. The Geisler-Reitz commission was established by act of parliament (Law of July 23, 2016), study was conducted 2017-2019, and the report was presented in the parliament upon completion. See outline of how the study was initiated after the passing of the Law of July 23, 2016 at "An international competition was launched in September 2016. A commission, called the "evaluation committee," composed of two representatives from the CCP SREL, two members of the University of Luxembourg (de facto C2DH), and the Director of the National Archives, chaired by First Government Advisor Jeff Fettes, heard two teams: a Franco-Belgian team composed of two PhDs in Contemporary History, including the author, and a team of two residents of Dudelange, a PhD and a Master's degree in History. The foreign teams were eliminated in favor of the Luxembourgish teams. Thus, Nadine Geisler and Jean Reitz were entrusted with the task of scientifically analyzing specific historical archives. They submitted their report on February 5, 2020, contractually completing work begun on June 1, 2017." Plenty of other media coverage on the research project and the report - , , , , , etc.. So, whilst the report is not a book or magazine article in the usual sense, it suffices as WP:RS in being a formal scientific work, not self-published. I'll revise the page numbers for the cites to the article. --Soman (talk) 00:40, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
- Page numbers for Geisler/Reitz ref added now, here and in article. --Soman (talk) 10:16, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
- @Soman: I think you can add forum.lu as the publisher of that version of the report, as currently it appears as if it is self-published -- and all the above detail doesn't really address that. I also think you know better than to add the page numbers to one citation. You should make separate citations for each of the pages/page ranges you cite. Also: is is too much to ask that you properly format the title INSTEAD OF HAVING IT IN ALL CAPS and that you put make the link lead to archived version, so that it doesn't rot and become unusable in two years or so? Dahn (talk) 10:02, 27 August 2026 (UTC)
- The above-mentioned concerns have now been addressed in the article. For the Geisler/Reitz reference, basically three instances are sourced to page 69. The fourth time that Geisler/Reitz is the source is for the factoid that SREL infiltrated the organization, which has pages 42, 71, 72, 74, 79, 80 and 81 as the reference. --Soman (talk) 02:27, 13 October 2026 (UTC)
- Pinging reviewer Dahn to see whether the concerns have been sufficiently addressed for this article to be reviewed. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:15, 29 October 2026 (UTC)
- The above-mentioned concerns have now been addressed in the article. For the Geisler/Reitz reference, basically three instances are sourced to page 69. The fourth time that Geisler/Reitz is the source is for the factoid that SREL infiltrated the organization, which has pages 42, 71, 72, 74, 79, 80 and 81 as the reference. --Soman (talk) 02:27, 13 October 2026 (UTC)
