Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a source

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).

2014[edit]

23 February: The active noise control article is referenced in a discussion of how noise-cancelling headphones work by Scientific American. The article says, "There are several websites that explain how these headphones work, so a simple google search will lead you to them, but really, Wikipedia does a fine job if you don't mind a bit of physics terminology."

2013[edit]

Robert W. Wood, Jackson Estate Says, "Beat It, IRS." NYSBA Journal, November/December 2013. pp. 11-13, at 13. Cited Celebrity bond in footnote 4.

2010[edit]

5 October and 6 October: The Anwar al-Awlaki article is discussed in a discussion as to whether he should be subjected to targeted killing; those discussing it are Andrew Sullivan in "Yes, We Are At War, Ctd", October 5, 2010, The Atlantic; Amy Davidson in "Should We Kill Anwar Al-Awlaki?", October 5, 2010, The New Yorker, and Glenn Greenwald in "Times Square bomber: Cause and effect in the War on Terror", Salon.

2009[edit]

27 January: In a post to blog site ibeatyou, actress Jessica Alba references Wikipedia's Sweden during World War II article as ammunition in an ongoing dispute with commentator Bill O'Reilly. [1]
Accessed 28 July: On the official Philippines site for the two-dimensional platform game Grand Chase, the character biography of the unlockable character Ryan (second from bottom) is a direct lift from Ryan's entry in this revision of the Grand Chase article.

2008[edit]

15 July: United States Department of Defense links to frigate, battleship and Delaware class battleship when announcing the naming of two Virginia-class submarines, explaining previous uses of the names USS Minnesota and USS North Dakota.
29 June: Signpost for the new street "Erika-Mann-Bogen" (English: Erika Mann drive) in Hamburg, Germany, citing Wikipedia for the explanation of its name.
10 June: Haute Secure links to malware from its FAQ.
21 April: Astronomy Picture of the Day uses Image:Phage.jpg as their picture of the day.
Accessed March 8: The United States Department of Agriculture links to Community-supported agriculture from its page describing community sponsored agriculture to define community supported agriculture.
Accessed February 1: The Michigan Department of Transportation links to Single-point urban interchange from its page describing SPUIs to provide a definition.

2007[edit]

November: "Web User Interaction: Threat Trees", a W3C Working Group Note, cites the English Wikipedia entries for cross-site request forgery and cross-site scripting.
September: FIDE uses the Spanish Wikipedia biographies of the contenders in the 2007 World Championship Tournament in Mexico. link
August 24: List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film was cited by Peter Martin on the website Cinematical (which belongs to AOL). He referred to it as a "nicely formatted list of winners and nominees".[2]
Official web site of the governor of South Australia links to Wikipedia biographical articles.
July 25: BBC News directs readers to the Wikipedia article on social bookmarking to learn more about the service they launch on their web site.
July British agency cites Wikipedia in denying F1 trademark
June A religious web site of the Rapture persuasion, ShoutVoiceTrump.com, announces "Pre-Tribulation Rapture Already in Progress". They cite Wikipedia as the source: "The Rapture has started. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture"
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 Disc; they point to our article Comparison of high definition optical disc formats for additional details. --Delirium 23:43, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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.
February: Steve Wander, ed. (February 2007). "Supercritical" (PDF). System Failure Case Studies. 1 (4). NASA. (an internal NASA safety awareness document) lists SL-1 as a reference.

2006[edit]

November 29: Environmental Assessment Application for Bear Mountain Wind Park Project (Volume 1 & 2) Re: Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Visual meteorological conditions, and Main Page.
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". [3]
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.
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. [4]
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 British newspaper The Mirror said "The biggest challenger to Dan Brown's crown" , Wikipedia features as an academic style encyclopedia.
The 2006 publication BioVisions 2015 by Siemens AG cites the articles Proteomics and Systems Biology.

2005[edit]

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 [5]
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). [6]
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. [7]
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."
Kilmer, Mark. "Fatwa Against bin Laden". March 10, 2005. Redstate. [8]
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. [9]
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. [10]
Storobin, David Esq. "Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII". January 3, 2005. Cites Wikipedia article on Amin al-Husseini, Sherif_Hussein_bin_Ali, and Rashid_Ali_al-Kaylani. [11] [12]

2004[edit]

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.

2003[edit]

Sony, presskit for the movie The Statement. Cites Vichy France and Paul Touvier. [13]

National Nuclear Security Administration, "Radiation and how it effects you" part of a Emergency Public Information series. Based on radiation. [14]

Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Crime Commission, Cybercrime. Cites worm, virus, payload and trojan. [15]

Mark Doernhoefer, Surfing the net for software engineering notes, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (November 2003). Has a section about wikipedia.