User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/Iconic photos of Shane T. McCoy

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Recently WP:FAKEARTICLE was brought to my attention.

Some contributors have voiced concerns that some specific userspace pages I was employing lapsed from WP:FAKEARTICLE. Frankly, the boundary of what does and doesn't merit a concern over WP:FAKEARTICLE remains unclear to me.

I modified this page of notes to make this page look less like an article.

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Shane T. McCoy was the (only?) photographer taking photos on the day captives arrived in Guantanamo. Public Affairs officers chose to make public some of his photos, not anticipating that they would be an overall public black eye.

McCoy was assured, by Donald Rumsfeld, that he understood McCoy had merely taken the photos, as per his order and the decision to make them public was made by others.

McCoy had a long career as a Navy photographer. I uploaded about twelve dozen other photos the DoD has on its various sites. McCoy retired from the Navy a few years and started working as the US Marshall Services first official photographer.

At this point in time I consider McCoy an individual just under the boundary of notability.

I keep my eyes peeled for more explicit commentary on his photos, or of more coverage of him.

• Jim Greenhill (2006-12-04). "Outdated images frustrate Joint Task Force-Guantanamo troopers". United States Department of Defense. Archived from the original on 2009-10-01.