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Contents 1 News searches 2 Multiple Tags 3 Page guidelines 4 Formatting 5 Articles 5.1 January 2007 5.2 February 2007 5.3 March 2007 5.4 April 2007 5.5 May 2007 5.6 June 2007 5.7 July 2007 5.8 August 2007 5.9 September 2007 5.10 October 2007 5.11 November 2007 5.12 December 2007

[edit] News searches

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[edit] Multiple Tags

The "This article has been cited as a source" tag should be adapted as shown here to fit multiple citations, instead of it being displayed multiple times.

[edit] Page guidelines

• 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 in academic studies.
• 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.

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[edit] Formatting

• Lastname, Firstname. "Name of article."(If necessary, brief context here) Name of Source. [Month] [Day], 2007. link

  "Relevant/representative quotation here." (Please wikify the articles that were referenced)

[edit] Articles

[edit] January 2007

• Terdiman, Daniel. "To delete Wikipedia entry or not to delete?" CNET News.com. January 11, 2007. To delete Wikipedia entry or not to delete? Page 1 Page 2, retrieved 2007-01-14

  "I have my very own Wikipedia page. And it looks like it's here to stay."

  "I went and looked at the entry and discovered that there was a considerable amount of momentum for deleting it. (Since writing this reporter's notebook, Wikipedia administrators have decided to keep the entry.)"

• Holtgren, Bruce. "Truth about Tourette's not what you think", The Cincinnati Enquirer, January 11, 2007. Retrieved on February 2, 2007.

• "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourettes - The Wikipedia article on Tourette's is thorough, accurate and well-documented."

• Metro (Ottawa). Elgin Theatre factbite (top margin page 3) Metro Ottawa. 11 January 2007. [1]PDF, retrieved 2007-01-11

• The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, BC) - "Long-term solutions" (for telephone area codes, infobox), 2007-01-12

• Oliver Duff. "Internet scandal of the MP and the topless model", The Independent (UK), 12 January 2007. Retrieved on January 21, 2007.

"The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia claimed that [topless model Jodie] Marsh's former relationships 'include nightclub boss Fran Cosgrave, male model Calum Best and Labour MP Frank Dobson'."

• Hoffman, Michael. "They got 15 minutes of fame . . . and then?", The Japan Times, 14 January 2007. Retrieved on January 14, 2007.

• Author names Wikipedia as his source on reporting what Leila Khaled is currently doing.

• Weinberger, Sharon. "Mind Games", Washington Post Magazine, 14 January 2007. Retrieved on January 15, 2007.

• "Tinfoil hat," says Wikipedia, has become "a popular stereotype and term of derision; the phrase serves as a byword for paranoia and is associated with conspiracy theorists." (Page 2)

• Helft, Miguel. "Netflix to Deliver Movies to the PC", New York Times, 16 January 2007. Retrieved on January 16, 2007.

• "Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, lists more than five dozen personalities whose obituaries were published prematurely. Someone may want to add Netflix to that list."

• Sharkey, Joe. "An Airport Security Game That Rivals the Real Thing", New York Times, 16 January 2007. Retrieved on January 16, 2007.

• "So I consulted Wikipedia, which informed me that Sudoku is a 'logic-based placement puzzle' involving 'a type of Latin square with an additional constraint on the content of individual regions.'"

• Paulson, Joanne. "Nelly Furtado to host Junos", Saskatoon StarPhoenix, 16 January 2007. Retrieved on January 16, 2007.

• Uses Nelly Furtado as source for basic information about her.

• Leader. "In praise of... Joanna Newsom", The Guardian, London, print edition page 30, 29 January 2007. Retrieved on January 29, 2007.

• The Guardian leader article quotes Wikipedia as a source of information in its praise of the harpist Joanna Newsom.

[edit] February 2007

• Buric, Mirsada. "Prescott police arrest California fugitive." The Daily Courier. February 6, 2007. [2]

  "The Wikipedia Web site describes Henson as a 'staunch critic of Scientology, whose retaliation resulted in his conviction … for interfering with the civil rights of Scientologists.'"

• Högström, Henrik, Expressen 2007-02-11
• Marklund, Tomas, Norra Västerbotten
• Nordenhem, Lisa, Högskolan Kristianstad
• Laurin, Mats, Norrköpings Tidningar
• Katrineholmskuriren
• Norrköpings Tidningar
• ÖP
• Knight, Deborah. "Get the Mercury Out", New York State Conservationist, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, February 2007. Retrieved on February 20, 2007.

Print version of article about state mercury-removal program has a sidebar, "Mercurial Facts", "adapated from Wikipedia, an on-line encyclopedia". Doesn't use any actual wording from the article; instead sort of paraphrases it.

• http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/education/21wikipedia.html
• Timothy Noah. "Evicted From Wikipedia", Slate, 24 February 2007. Retrieved on February 24, 2007.

"My Wikipedia bio is about to disappear because I fail to satisfy the "notability guideline."

• Colin Pearce. "Timid relative accepts shabby treatment from Uncle Sam", Townsville Bulletin, 24 February 2007. Retrieved on March 1, 2007.

• Refers readers to David Hicks for information.

[edit] March 2007

• Lurie, Alison. "When Is a Building Beautiful?" New York Review of Books. March 15, 2007. link

  "In fact, the hyena, which dwells exclusively in Africa, southern Asia, and international zoos, has what Wikipedia calls "a chirping, birdlike bark that resembles...hysterical human laughter" rather than the sounds generally associated with sexual passion."

• "Local nonprofits taken to task", Palo Alto Daily News, 2007-03-05. Retrieved on March 5, 2007.

  The term Poverty pimp is defined in the article and Wikipedia cited as the source of the definition.

• Weingarten, Gene. "Wiki Watchee", The Washington Post. March 11, 2007. link

  Weingarten, a humor columnist, vandalized his own page and then wrote about it.

• Reno, Bob (March 2007). BadJocks.com (English). Retrieved on March 19, 2007.

  Cites Tonya Harding as a source for an account of the former skater's past run-ins with the law.

• McCormack, John, M.D. "The LGBT Patient; What health care professionals need to know." CMA Today 40 (March/April 2007): pp. 14-18.

  Gives brief bio of Robert Eads; Wikipedia is cited as the source.

• Claburn, Thomas Web 3.0 Survives The Wrath Of Wikipedians, InformationWeek, March 15, 2007.

  Quotes controversy over creation, deletion and restoration of Wikipedia Web 3.0 article and current industry status of topic.

• Carlton, Sue. "A chance for Largo to show its progress." St. Petersburg Times. March 21, 2007.

  "Then the news broke that their longtime city manager, Steve Stanton, plans to ultimately live his life as Susan, and the world went a little nuts. How nuts? Today Stanton has his own entry in Wikipedia."

• Reno, Bob (March 2007). BadJocks.com (English). Retrieved on April 1, 2007.

• Cites Chelsea F.C. on fans throwing celery at each other while singing dirty songs, although specifics about given are not in the article.

[edit] April 2007

• "Jeannie Ferris biography"(Biography of recently deceased Australian senator, credited to Wikipedia.) Adelaide Advertiser. April 2, 2007. link

  "Jeannie Margaret Ferris was born on March 14, 1941. An Australian politician, she was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1996, representing South Australia."

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