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John Moe (2011-05-02). "For bin Laden news, it's not Twitter's moment, it's Wikipedia's". American Public Media. Archived from the original on 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2011-05-03. I read the Wikipedia page about the attack and it was comprehensive. Wikipedia gets slammed sometimes for being unreliable and a place where any yahoo can alter reality to anything they like. The page about the attack is extensive, well sourced, and incredibly informative.... In high profile cases like this, these pages are being extensively edited and also extensively policed. Good stuff.
Thomas Rid (2011-05-02). "Death of Osama Bin Laden on Wikipedia". Department of War Studies, KCL. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-05-09. So the man's dead. Quite an event. As Europeans are waking up and catching up with the big news, one question is: who's got the best coverage? Believe it or not, but Wikipedia is one of the candidates. In less than five hours and in an impressive 400 edits, a dedicated team of self-appointed authors and editors has come up with a pretty good (and protected) article.
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Who put two unrelated templates at the bottom?[edit]
I scrolled through the page and noticed two templates, unrelated to this whole article. They're about ESPN and MLB or something. 2601:445:601:82E0:B5C5:2A68:7895:6502 (talk) 06:25, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Spam can be removed at will. — LlywelynII 12:08, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
So... did the repatriated widows ever talk to anyone?[edit]
Two bizarre articles (one focused on herbal viagra) seem to suggest they did but it isn't clarified or sourced to the original (presumably Yemeni or Arabic) accounts. It would be valuable to know what they claim, given how patently false the initial US accounts were and how cravenly self-serving some of the subsequent SEAL accounts have been. OBL not having the guns nearby or loaded but still attempting to reach for one in the moment makes no sense at all unless the helicopters and grenades were somehow magically silent at a distance of a few hundred meters. He had to have been either bedridden, attempting to surrender, or cowering in an entirely different room from the weapons.
Strange that no one on the English internet (per vanilla Google) seems to have even hunted down the widows' accounts. Even stranger we haven't, per the 5 pages of archived discussion. — LlywelynII 12:08, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Not done: Please see the note attached to that statement in the article: At the time of the raid, it was early morning of May 2 in Pakistan and late afternoon of May 1 in the United States.Tollens (talk) 17:34, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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