Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source 2011

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Wikipedia is increasingly being used as a source in the world press. Articles citing Wikipedia have been published in over two dozen countries including:

Australia
Austria
Canada
Denmark
Ethiopia
France
Germany
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Pakistan
Russia
Serbia
Singapore
Switzerland
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States

IF THERE ARE ERRORS IN AN ARTICLE, please post the matter to the Wikimedia Communications Committee's talk page. This way, the Wikimedia Foundation can send an official letter to the editor, or request a correction.

Note: This is not a complete list.

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Page guidelines[edit]

  • If the article is about Wikipedia itself, please add it to Wikipedia:Press coverage, rather than here.
  • If the citation is in a book, rather than a periodical, please add it to Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a book source.
  • If the citation is in an academic publication, such as a peer-reviewed journals, please add it to Wikipedia:Wikipedia as an academic source.
  • Also, please check to make sure this is the first publication of the article—newspapers often reprint things other papers published days and even weeks before.
  • Place a notice on the article's talk page about the press reference. See below for instructions.
  • To link to this page from the talk pages of articles concerned, use {{Onlinesource}}.

Formatting[edit]

  • Lastname, Firstname. "Name of article."(If necessary, brief context here) Name of Source. [Month] [Day], 2010. link
    "Relevant/representative quotation here." (Please wikify the articles that were referenced)

Alternately, you may use Template:Cite news. The template, with the most commonly used parameters, is:

  • {{cite news |first= |last= |author-link= |title= |url= |work= |publisher= |date= |access-date=2024-05-02 }}
    "Relevant/representative quote here."

Articles[edit]

January 2011[edit]

  • Harris, Misty (9 January 2011). "'News the speed of death': congresswoman's shooting sparks maelstrom of misinformation online". Postmedia News. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
    "Reports that Giffords hadn't survived began to circulate almost instantly - even her Wikipedia page was edited to include her alleged demise - followed shortly by the news that the Arizona woman was actually 'gravely wounded' and in surgery."
  • Dann, Carrie (12 January 2011). "What is 'blood libel'?". First Read. NBC News. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
    "Less than 4 hours after the release of the video, Wikipedia.org's entry on 'blood libel' had been updated to note Palin's application of the phrase to the aftermath of the Tucson shootings."
  • Descamps, Maud (24 January 2011). "Ce meurtre qui passionne l'Angleterre" [The murder that captivates England]. Europe 1. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
    "L’affaire - par sa complexité - fascine tellement les internautes qu'une page Wikipedia dédiée à Joanna Yeates et à l’enquête a été créée. Elle retrace l’affaire dans ses moindres détails, de la pizza que Jo est allée acheter cinq minutes avant de disparaître aux derniers éléments dont disposent les enquêteurs."

February 2011[edit]

April 2011[edit]

  • Durability — It should stand up robustly and remain in good condition.
  • Utility — It should be useful and function well for the people using it.
  • Beauty — It should delight people and raise their spirits."
"They couldn’t slow Paul, nor could they contain Aaron Gray, a 7-foot backup center whose Wikipedia entry begins with this nugget, for clarity’s sake: '… Not to be confused with the actress, Erin Gray.'"
Arthur Darvill: "Monument Valley is a series of amazing natural hills formed over millions of years and colored red by the iron oxide exposed in their weathered siltstone."
Karen Gillan: "You're reading Wikipedia, aren't you?"
Arthur Darvill: "Look, Karen, I know these things."
Compare phrasing with the Monument Valley article.

August 2011[edit]

"He read aloud the beginning of the Wikipedia entry for crawfish: 'Crayfish, crawfish, or crawdads — members of the superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea — are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are related.'"
  • Anderson, Mark (August 2011). "Wikipedia's Shakespeare Problem". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
    "Yet, despite widely publicized worries that the self-edited and self-policed encyclopedia might subvert authority, the opposite concern has also emerged. Does Wikipedia, in other words, provide a viewpoint that's overly mainstream, giving short shrift to controversial, minority, or heretical ideas?" (article)

September 2011[edit]

  • "Lexington: Classlessness in America". The Economist. September 24, 2011. Retrieved September 25, 2011.
    "Though it [the Socialist Labour Party of America] can trace its history as far back as 1876, when it was known as the Workingmen’s Party, no less an authority than Wikipedia pronounces it “moribund”."

October 2011[edit]

December 2011[edit]

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