Document talk:The Three Establishment Model of Covert Politics

Wikis & Sourced Documents

Why the wikified version? Should people be editing this? If so, how/why? The idea of wikis is for everyone to modify at hoc etc. but since this is from elsewhere, it would be a bit disingenuous to edit it.

Adding links, i.e. CIA-> CIA is some help, but the label at the top makes me wary of more significant editing it.

Is there a standard for this? i.e. Anything in the 'document' namespace is for reference only, not for editing, other namespaces are good to edit. If not, perhaps this would help?

Robin 08:17, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

The 'Document' namespace rules are set out here. Additionally I see no problem with adding links, both within the text and in a clearly separate 'See Also' section for example. As long as the original document text remains otherwise untouched. I guess a 'Document editing rules' link should be included in the 'Document Provenance' section too. I'll have a look at the 'DocDisclaimer' template. Probably best to put it there because it will show in all existing Documents then. Agreed at about normal wiki-editing conventions. However, I do think it useful to the project to be hosting original stuff external to the project itself. The precise criteria for including them are unwritten as yet - ie they tend to get included if I judge them to be important and only available on obscure sites which may or may not be around next week/year, whatever. --Peter P 12:46, 6 December 2011 (UTC)