Talk:CIA/Bin Laden Issue Station

This wiki article is largely a copy of Bombshell filing: 9/11 hijackers were CIA recruits, Patrick can you move those parts into a document? -- Sunvalley (talk) 03:21, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

I've just created Document:Bombshell filing: 9/11 hijackers were CIA recruits, as requested.

Couldn't do it sooner, Sunvalley, because of difficulties I've had with the WS log in (since 24 September) which kept repeating: "There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please resubmit the form."

In an email today, Robin asked me to take out the Grayzone-derived content and move it to a document, saying "the Alec Station article will be thin, but then readers will be able to read it quickly, and editors will be motivated to add content (and supporting refs) which is all to the good." Not sure how to remove the Grayzone-derived content, so I'll pass on that one!--Patrick Haseldine (talk) 17:18, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

It's simple, Patrick. Just remove all the content from the page which is taken verbatim from that document, optionally leaving a sentence or two, provided they are properly quoted and referenced to the document. What is left is our original content. -- Robin (talk) 20:24, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

If I had me druthers, Robin, I druther not (from my days in the 1960s working for the RAAF in Paris)!--Patrick Haseldine (talk) 20:42, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Patrick, if you copy the article wholesale like that, make wiki sections from sub headings of the article, another editor can not really/or hardly add to it. Only in the lede and as a new section .. given that he/she understands that this is how the content was added (the article wholesale) .. and nothing against very large citations, but like this it is not really clear what the article is (also not to the reader) + there is a difference in the wording - how you would write things in a wiki vs web article. This might be a proper way to produce an article on short notice, when there are many requests via search (current events thing, etc), but not as a general/long term wiki article .. hence the request to move it into documents. -- Sunvalley (talk) 22:25, 23 October 2025 (UTC)