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_Dependencies_Initiative&oldid=401201163#cite_ref-2 I'm sure editors will create similar articles on other Wikileaks releases. A. --- On Sun, 12/12/10, Cool Hand Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Cool Hand Luke <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia articles based on Wikileaks material > To: "fredbaud" <[email protected]>, "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" > <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]>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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > foundation-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
