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List of WikiLeaks mirrors

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It is unnecessary to list all of the sites mirroring wikileaks. that not Wikipedia is and besides wikileaks give other wikis a bad name. JDDJS (talk) 04:24, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

• Delete - per WP:LINKFARM. In addition, a list such as this is very hard to keep updated. jonkerz♠ 04:40, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:LINKFARM. Whether Wikileaks give Wikipedia a bad name or not (I think they don't), is irrelevant. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 05:05, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

• Keep. The purpose of the list is to make sure anyone visiting the main wiki-article about WikiLeaks can easily find a working link to the WikiLeaks website (so this isn't a linkfarm). The editors at the main WikiLeaks page have decided that it is ok. to give some links to mirrors, so there isn't an issue about giving Wikipedia a bad name, according to the Wiki-community (despite WikiLeaks being controversial). Then since the mirrors don't have a long lifetime, and the big lists of mirrors in found on the mirrors themselves, it may be difficult for readers to actually find a working mirror. So, that's why I created this list and then linked to this list from the small list of mirrors on the main WikiLeaks wiki-page. Other media outlets also have lists of mirrors, but these are not so comprehensive and they are obviously the main targets of the people who want to close down WikiLeaks. Maintaining this list is then also not so difficult, precisely because you're bound to find some mirror sites that work and they will have updated information on the active mirrror sites. Count Iblis (talk) 05:09, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

There are already two links to mirror sites in the infobox, it is better for people off-wiki to maintain these. SmartSE (talk) 10:50, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

• Strong/Speedy Keep: The FBI and other authorities who try to shut down any iteration of Wikileaks could find this list of mirrors quite useful. Otherwise, they'll be in for a longer wild goose chase.

It's also a double-edged sword in that anyone who avidly reads Wikileaks would find any of these mirrors useful in the event that the main Wikileaks shuts down. --Let Us Update Wikipedia: Dusty Articles 06:09, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

• Delete it's a linkfarm. WP:ITSUSEFULL applies. DC T•C 06:10, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:LINKFARM and WP:LISTCRUFT. In addition, if the real WikiLeaks site goes down, the mirrors wouldn't work right either, would they? Erpert (let's talk about it) 06:43, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 07:04, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 07:04, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
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• Delete - Sure this is useful, but Wikipedia is not a repository of external links.—Chris!_c/t 07:55, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
• Speedy delete Serves no encyclopedic value, however useful it may be, it is not a reason to keep it. SmartSE (talk) 10:50, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
• Delete As linkfarm. Andjam (talk) 11:28, 7 December 2010 (UTC)