Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a source
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Below is a list of documents that have cited Wikipedia as a source and are of general interest to Wikipedians, but don't fall into one of the other categories (see right).
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[edit] 2007
- February 1: On the "Ben Franklin" episode of the US version of The Office, Jim Halpert explains that he looked up prima nocta on Wikipedia (actually a redirect to droit de seigneur) to confirm his suspicions that Michael Scott had used the term incorrectly.
- March 3: Nine Inch Nails, on their promotional website for their upcoming DVD Beside You in Time, include an HD FAQ briefly discussing the differences between DVD, HD-DVD, and Blu-Ray; they point to our article Comparison of high definition optical disc formats for additional details. --Delirium 23:43, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 2006
- November 19: A Simpsons episode capsule on snpp.com refers to wikipedia to explain the quote, "what John Glenn eats when he's not in space". [1]
- October 16: political commentary posted on YouTube cites the Wikipedia article on Bill Frist. Association of Professional Casino Webmasters commentary on Bill Frist
- August 20: dailyrotten.com uses the article Death (DC Comics) on their Sunday Morning Church Chat for Sunday, August 20th.
- July 26: The 9 on Yahoo! TV had on its list, "What Would MacGyver Do?", linking to the article List of problems solved by MacGyver.
- July 4: Count Your Sheep cites Martha and the Vandellas.
- Sprite launches "sublyminal" campaign. Entering "illusion" as a code on the sprite website unlocks several lines of text from wikipedia, and the URL of the article floats around the screen
- 1 March: Australian Senator Lyn Allison cites the article propaganda to describe Prime Minister John Howard on the eve of his tenth anniversary in office. [2]
- In the 2006 Da Vinci Code style novel The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne, which Piers Morgan said of: "The best thriller I've read in years" and the the British newspaper The Mirror said "The biggest challenger to Dan Brown's crown" , Wikipedia features as an academic style encyclopedia.
[edit] 2005
- Sen. Paul Coghlan quotes Wikipedia on green card in Seanad Éireann debate Coghlan 24 November 2005 - Employment Rights - Statements : Column 1813
- Anne McIntosh MP quotes Wikipedia on persecution of Christians in 9th century China in UK House of Commons debate Hansard 13 Jul 2005 : Column 301WH
- Marilyn Burns, an Alberta politician, has her website linked to the Wikipedia article [3]
- The Parliament of Canada cites Wikipedia's article on Same-sex marriage in the further reading list of Bill C-38 (An Act respecting certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes). [4]
- American Radio Works (the documentary arm of public radio program producer American Public Media (formerly known as Minnesota Public Radio, still the name of its parent)) cites Wikipedia as a source concerning Y2K, on the references page of its retrospective package "The Surprising Legacy of Y2K".
- In Apple Computer's announcement that one of the winners of its OS X Tiger Dashboard contest is the "WikityWidget", it links Wikipedia's wiki article to explain "wiki technology".
- Gervase Markham writes about the book of mozilla and refers to about:mozilla on his blog, Hacking for Christ.
- del Arte, Alonso. "FUSION : Although current, Wikipedia not always reliable source of information". The South End Newspaper. March 2, 2005. [5]
- History Professor Eric Ash, of Wayne State University, stated that he had looked at the Samuel Smiles article for some general information:
- "Ash recalled that one time, before giving a lecture on a novel by 19th century author Samuel Smiles, he turned to Wikipedia to see if he could find some supplemental information.
- "Ash said, 'Wikipedia had one screen of information. I learned he’d written other books' besides the one he was lecturing about."
- History Professor Eric Ash, of Wayne State University, stated that he had looked at the Samuel Smiles article for some general information:
- Kilmer, Mark. "Fatwa Against bin Laden". March 10, 2005. Redstate. [6]
- Wikipedia defines a fatwa as "a legal pronouncement in Islam, issued by a religious law specialist on a specific issue." OBL does not qualify, while the Spanish Islamic Commission just might. And they've issued a fatwa against bin Laden for making up Islam as he goes along.
- Crouch, Dennis. "Intellectual Property Podcasting". March 17, 2005. [7]
- Podcasting is catching on as an extension of the blog. According to the Wikipedia, a podcast is like an audio magazine subscription: a subscriber receives regular audio programs delivered via the Internet, and can listen to them at their leisure.
- 9 February: Australian MP Danna Vale discusses the article on totalitarianism in a speech about terrorism. [8]
[edit] 2004
- PressThink, a blog by Jay Rosen, cites Spiro Agnew in this update
- Sys Admin, a magazine of the United Business Media, cites Slashdotted in the July 2004 issue, in the article about Squid cache. Sysadmin
- The American Numismatic Association's biennial publication, Discover the World of Money references Wikipedia's article "Marianne" in an article about that figure on French coins and currency.
- "Mel Gibson's Film "The Passion of the Christ" - AN INTERNATIONAL HOAX" references Wikipedia on a number of topics, particularly Aramaic. It is a document which refers to many sources in order to demonstrate that "The Passion of the Christ" is a Satanic film designed to trick good Christians into worshipping the Antichrist.
- Roger Ebert's review of the 2004 movie "Zatoichi" refers to Wikipedia for information on Takeshi Kitano.
- Something Awful's IHateAlpacas.com Article by Zack "Geist Editor" Parsons uses Wikipedia's Alpaca article to define the Alpaca.
[edit] 2003
- Sony, presskit for the movie The Statement. Cites Vichy France and Paul Touvier. [9]
- National Nuclear Security Administration, "Radiation and how it effects you" part of a Emergency Public Information series. Based on radiation. [10]
- Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Crime Commission, Cybercrime. Cites worm, virus, payload and trojan. [11]
- Mark Doernhoefer, Surfing the net for software engineering notes, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (November 2003). Has a section about wikipedia.
