Talk:WikiLeaks/Archive 2

Scope questions
There are a lot of questions about the appropriate scope for this article. I've aimed to make my draft a reasonably complete account of WikiLeaks, and I think I have it about right. However, there's certainly room for discussion, perhaps even debate.

My outline is noticeably different from that suggested by the Managing Editor at the top of the Talk:WikiLeaks page. I do not think most of the differences are particularly important; it is just that I've used a structure appropriate to the particular topic. However, other opinions are needed on this.

On one point, I differ significantly from an ME suggestion. He had

As for the current sections, I suggest to move most of them to more relevant articles: "Cryptome and John Young" should go to Cryptome and a suitably disambiguated John Young, linked from a short summary in the history section Similarly, "Secrecy News and Steven Aftergood" should go to these two articles, linked from a short summary in the history section "Daniel Ellsberg" should go to that article, linked from a short summary in the history section

I have not done that, and do not think it should be done. I kept all of Howard's text on those, and expanded the Young and Ellsberg sections. To me, his seems essential background on WikiLeaks, an important part of the history. I did move them down the hierarchy of headings, though, making those three the subsections of a "looking for support" head which in turn is under "development".

Howard suggested on the same talk page "The two really large leaks, perhaps, should be linked subarticles." He may be right, though my guess is that both are large and important enough to have their own standalone articles eventually. However, I feel there should be at least a brief summary here because it is important to understanding WikiLeaks. I've done such a summary for the Afghan War logs and started one for the diplomatic cables. One of Martin's objections to Howard's original version was that it "has failed to mention the most outrageous revelations of the US government that have emerged from the leaks". I think these sections should answer that.

Comments? Sandy Harris 09:31, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Related articles?
I have started Julian Assange, Cryptome, John Young (cryptome) and Anonymous (group) to eliminate red links here. All are pretty stub-ish so far. Any volunteers to expand them?

What else is needed by way or related articles? Cablegate and Collateral Murder should likely be redirects, but to what? Sandy Harris 10:17, 12 December 2010 (UTC)