Fastfission,
Very well put.
Apart from being massively POV, it would also be original research. We
should base our articles on verifiable material published in other reliable
sources. We should not be publishing original documents ourselves. At best,
it would be a matter for Wikisource.
Regards
*Keith Old*
Keith Old
User:Capitalistroadster
On 11/29/05, Fastfission <fastfission(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've got no problem with "freedom of information" and certainly think
that this alleged memo should be published widely when and if it is
released/exists/etc., but Wikipedia and the WMF cannot be vehicles for
this sort of political controversy (talk about POV pushing). If WP has
any legal obligation to follow the Official Secrets Act or whatever (I
imagine it does -- the idea that the UK and US wouldn't have worked
out these sorts of things in treaties seems unrealistic to me) then it
shouldn't break the law. Doing so would put the whole project at risk
for what would in practice be little gain. I do not think there will
be a difficulty in finding people to post the contents of whatever
this memo is. If it comes down to Wikipedia being the last possible
outlet in the world, then maybe we could talk about it.
And let's also remember that Wikipedia is a place full of contributors
from all political and ideological backgrounds, all of which are
welcome to contribute as long as they obey a few simple rules.
FF
On 11/28/05, stevertigo <vertigosteve(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Since Wikipedia is supposed to be, like, into
this
'freedom of information thing,' (and stuff) and, like,
that includes our friends even in the UK, who arent
used to like, living under freedom (and stuff)...
I thought it might not be out of our mandate to put
this little image (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Illpublish.png ) on
the front page. Maybe even at Wikisource! (Im sure
somebody here is an admin there. Ive only got my meta
priveleges left now - snif!). The image is a little
white box that says "Ill publish the Al Jazeera memo."
It may or may not be linked to the
Blairwatch.org
site.
Anyway, though it might, like, be cheezy to stand up
for freedom of information (and stuff) though. Plus,
that might violate Wikisource's NOR policy.
Stevertigo
Confused: Is it still called 'Valspeak'
when a guy uses it?
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