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There is much more important information on the Assange case that has been reported in reliable sources, but we cannot expand the section any more in the Julian Assange article because it already takes up an undue amount of space, so I have created this article for the case. This way, we can include all of the information on the case that has been reported by reliable source while making the necessary reductions to the sexual allegation parts of the Julian Assange article. The new article currently relies heavily on the material from the Julian Assange article](copy pasted) plus this handy timeline from MSNBC. I won't link this article to that one until significant improvements to this article have been made, and the size of the section in the Julian Assange article has been carefully reduced. Gregcaletta (talk) 03:19, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

This is a) rather biased, and b) will not be interesting after extradition. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 08:05, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

a) This can be {{sofixit}}ed through editing b) if he is extradited the title will become the trial of Julian Assange in Sweden or somesuch. victor falk 13:50, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

b) In fact, once he is extradited, the case may still be called "Swedish Judicial Authority v. Julian Assange" although it might become Swedish Prosecution Authority v. Julian Assange.

a) In what way is it biased and for which side? Pretty much all I did was copy the segment from the Julian Assange article and missing facts using a timeline of factual material published in a reliable source, and then I tidies up a bit. In any case, "biased" is rarely if ever a reason for article deletion; it's a reason for adding more factual material from reliable sources and finding quotes to represent opinions that are not duly represented. So far, The only "opinions" are the charges against Assange, the response to the charges from his defence, plus a few quotes from the Swedish prosecutors and one from an alleged victim. The article is mainly factual with few opinions, so there is not much room for "bias" unless you believe there are some important facts that have been omitted, in which case we can find reliable sources for those facts and insert them. Gregcaletta (talk) 00:16, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

This article clearly gives most weight to Assange's defense. Part of this may be because his defense has been quite succesfull in presenting that side in English-language media, and because some wikipedians have removed references to sources in Swedish. But this article does more. For example, the lede almost starts out with: "He is wanted for questioning, having not yet been formally charged." I do not quite see that in the two references given. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 10:44, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Sorry wrong refs. I'll fix that. Gregcaletta (talk) 10:53, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, but it doesn't seem clear to me that the article gives most weight to Assange's defence. What statements by the prosecutors are missing? Feel free to add them if you can find them in reliable sources. Gregcaletta (talk) 11:02, 19 February 2011 (UTC)