[Foundation-l] Wikipedia articles based on Wikileaks material

[Cool Hand Luke]

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 at fairpoint.net>wrote:

> 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'_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=401953034#Creation_of_articles_from_leaked_classified_documents<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_Initiative
> >
> > Andreas
> >
> >
> >
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