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Bolivian Head of State

I don't know who the leaked cable refers to, but the current head of state (and government) of Bolivia is President Juan Evo Morales Ayma according to the CIA Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bl.html). Hugo Chavez, of course, leads Bolivia. Wabbott9 (talk) 22:53, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Venezuela that is.(Lihaas (talk) 09:59, 18 December 2010 (UTC)).[reply]

Duh. Of course. Wabbott9 (talk) 15:20, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate name

Shouldn't we mention somewhere that WikiLeaks prefers to call this "Cablegate"? I'm not saying we should move the page, just mention the alternate name somewhere. Sonicsuns (talk) 14:30, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Absoltuely, verifiable adn sourced it is. Go ahead and be WP:Bold even in the lead.(you can bold the subject in the lead).

Come to think of it we can move the title to what it is actually called, becuase this is ireally the synthesis of wikipedia editors(Lihaas (talk) 16:48, 18 December 2010 (UTC)).[reply]

Cablegate currently redirects to United States diplomatic cables leak. Uncensored Kiwi ^Kiss 23:39, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How's that ? Tim.thelion (talk) 23:56, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Should be the other way round as its the "official" name.(Lihaas (talk) 09:08, 19 December 2010 (UTC)).[reply]

Odd ? Editorialwik (talk) 04:10, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Apart from Wikileaks, who calls it Cablegate? Neither The Guardian nor The New York Times, two of the newspapers which have led on the story, have ever referred to this story as Cablegate. Can we get some perspective? It's in the template and it need not be. Crashandspin (talk) 00:03, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure there's a huge need to change the article's name, but the official tag is "cablegate" (or "#cablegate" where hash syntax is appropriate) [1]; Google gives me 744,000 results on "cablegate"; and international English-language mainstream media refer to it either with a description of several words or with "cablegate".^[1]^[2]^[3] My impression is that "cablegate" is for usage where a short, compact term is needed, e.g. in the headlines in the mainstream media in the references i gave, in tags for online social media or for a cablegate URI. That's not the same context as an article title, so i'm not convinced that Cablegate is so overwhelmingly universal as to replace "United States diplomatic cables leak". But the suggestion that the term is not widely used seems to be incorrect. Boud (talk) 01:49, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tunisia

There are numerous Reliable Sources that connect the cables with the uprising in Tunisia. I was considering putting it in the Reactions to the United States diplomatic cables leak but it doesn't really fit there as that seems to cover only opinions. For now I am putting it in the Reactions subsection here. "But we might also count Tunisia as the first time that WikiLeaks pushed people over the brink."-Foreign Policy "The protesters, led at first by unemployed college graduates like Mr. Bouazizi and later joined by workers and young professionals, found grist for the complaints in leaked cables from the United States Embassy in Tunisia, released by WikiLeaks, that detailed the self-dealing and excess of the president’s family."-NY Times[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Mr.Grantevans2 (talk) 20:49, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

references

^ "WikiLeaks CableGate Live Updates: December 10". CBS. 2010-12-10. Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2011-01-06. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Young, Graham (2010-12-18). "Cablegate gift keeps on giving". The Australian. Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2011-01-06. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Madrigal, Alex (2010-12-03). "Introducing the Cablegate Chronicles". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2011-01-06. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

Another newspaper with access to Wikileaks?

Is it notable that El Espectador newspaper in Colombia has also partnered with Wikileaks to release cables regarding Colombia? They got last week the original cables from Assange itself (in Spanish, on how El Espectador managed to get to Ellingham Hall, Norfolk http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/wikileaks/articulo-252039-encuentro-julian-assange). I had only seen original cables being released in the 5 described newspapers, plus the wikileaks website. I don't know if something like that happend in another countries (let's say, O Globo in Brazil or The Globe and Mail in Canada), so El Espectador may be added to the "official" list of newspapers which have direct access to the Wikileaks cables. ometzit<col> (talk) 23:44, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

[CBS_cablegate-1] "WikiLeaks CableGate Live Updates: December 10". CBS. 2010-12-10. Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2011-01-06. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[TheAustralian_cablegate-2] Young, Graham (2010-12-18). "Cablegate gift keeps on giving". The Australian. Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2011-01-06. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[atlantic_cablegate-3] Madrigal, Alex (2010-12-03). "Introducing the Cablegate Chronicles". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2011-01-06. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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+== Another newspaper with access to Wikileaks? ==
+Is it notable that [[El Espectador]] newspaper in Colombia has also partnered with Wikileaks to release cables regarding [[Colombia]]? They got last week the original cables from Assange itself (in Spanish, on how El Espectador managed to get to [[Ellingham Hall, Norfolk]] http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/wikileaks/articulo-252039-encuentro-julian-assange). I had only seen original cables being released in the 5 described newspapers, plus the wikileaks website.  I don't know if something like that happend in another countries (let's say, [[O Globo]] in Brazil or [[The Globe and Mail]] in Canada), so El Espectador may be added to the "official" list of newspapers which have direct access to the Wikileaks cables. [[User:Alextrevelian 006|ometzit&lt;col&gt;]] ([[User talk:Alextrevelian 006|talk]]) 23:44, 22 February 2011 (UTC)