Perhaps we should write a guideline that editors should please wait with the Wikileaks articles until there is secondary-source coverage, and that they should sum up *that coverage* rather than the original document.
If Wikisource should decide they can host the original documents, it is always possible to provide a link there.
This article started out as a simple copy of the Wikileaks document:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Critical_Foreign...
I'm sure editors will create similar articles on other Wikileaks releases.
A.
--- On Sun, 12/12/10, Cool Hand Luke User.CoolHandLuke@gmail.com wrote:
From: Cool Hand Luke User.CoolHandLuke@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia articles based on Wikileaks material To: "fredbaud" fredbaud@fairpoint.net, "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sunday, 12 December, 2010, 17:27 Exactly right. Using the documents themselves prior to secondary analysis is a WP:PSTS problem in the first place. Once secondary sources have analyzed them, the sourcing problem will be resolved, and any secrecy concern will be even more moot than it is already.
Frank
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.netwrote:
We might suppress a leak made directly into Wikipedia,
for example
information about a troop movement, but once something
has been published
on a thousand mirrors there is little point. I don't
think links on
Wikipedia to documents which remain classified is a
good idea. The
disclosed primary documents will come under intense
analysis in reliable
sources; those analyses are notable and properly
included in Wikipedia
despite their source in classified primary documents.
Copying a list of
potential military targets from a classified document
would seem out of
bounds unless a source generally considered reliable
has widely
distributed the list.
Fred
User:Fred Bauder
This might need some eyes and attention:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_notice...http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=401953034#Creation_of_articles_from_leaked_classified_documents
It concerns Wikipedia articles reproducing the
content of the recent
Wikileaks releases, notably
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Critical_Foreign_Dependencies...
Andreas
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