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Not sure how to do this, but here's the story on how the cables got redacted. I told people how to do it. That paragraph describing it on the main page is speculative gibberish. https://web.archive.org/web/20140816145138/http://nigelparry.com/news/guardian-david-leigh-cablegate.shtml

This is good too: https://unspecified.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/wikileaks-password-leak-faq/

For the record, the latter parts of this are also speculative nonsense: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/leak-at-wikileaks-a-dispatch-disaster-in-six-acts-a-783778.html

Here's Greenwald's article from the time correctly noting the source/process of the redaction: http://www.salon.com/2011/09/02/wikileaks_28/

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The translation in the green quotebox is inaccurate. Any particular reason for that? ATBWikirictor (talk) 15:29, 7 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• "Denn der Freitag hat eine Datei, die auch unredigierte US-Botschaftsdepeschen enthält. [...] Die Datei mit dem Namen "cables.csv" ist 1,73 Gigabyte groß. [...] Das Passwort zu dieser Datei liegt offen zutage und ist für Kenner der Materie zu identifizieren."

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I guess most of this article was very old and not updated since, but I found it odd that there was no mention at all of the source of the leaked cables, which is of course well known by now. Could maybe use a bit more in the body of the article on Chelsea (nee Bradley) Manning and the trial and consequences of her leak. Acerimusdux (talk) 17:57, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Any thoughts on the following text which was recently removed. It comes from a Washington Post report:

One of the leaked documents included comments sent to the US State Department by Philip Alston, United Nations special rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions regarding the Ishaqi incident. Alston stated that US forces handcuffed and executed the residents of a house on 15 March 2006. The residents included five children under 5 years of age. Autopsies later confirmed that "all the corpses were shot in the head and handcuffed". In September 2011, the Iraqi government reopened their investigation into the incident as a result of the publication of the cable.^[1]

The reason for removal consists mostly of a meaningless alphabet of letters. My view is that the text is a fair summary of the WP article and is clearly a significant episode. The release of the cable had real-world consequences as detailed in the text. Burrobert (talk) 02:31, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]