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:

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• 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=2025-05-06 }}

  "Relevant/representative quote here."

• 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."

• Bateman, Jessica (7 February 2011). "Christina Aguilera fluffs national anthem lyrics at Super Bowl by singing botched Wikipedia version". South West News Service. Retrieved 9 February 2011.

  "The 30-year-old singer was opening the NFL championship with a rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner, but sang a botched version which previously appeared on an incorrect Wikipedia page."

• Lipshutz, Jason (14 February 2011). "Esperanza Spalding Attacked on Wikipedia by Justin Bieber Fans". Billboard. Retrieved 14 February 2011.

  "Esperanza Spalding's shocking win in the Best New Artist category at the Grammys last night (Feb. 13) drew some venomous reactions from fans of Justin Bieber, who lost out to the upstart jazz artist. Bieber fanatics reportedly attacked Spalding on her Wikipedia page last night following the award show upset."

• Gill, Kathy (18 February 2011). "House Defunds Planned Parenthood : Culture Wars 2011". Newsvine. Retrieved 2011-02-19.
  • Article links to the Planned Parenthood article as the source of a breakdown of budget" sourced in the "Services and facilities" section of the article.

• Matta, Joseph (April 1, 2011). "My View: Proposal for new County Government Center is sound". Times-Herald Record. Middletown, NY: News Corporation. Retrieved April 8, 2011.

  The writer, defending a proposal to replace the Orange County Government Center, says: "The theory and purpose of architecture has evolved over time. The Wikipedia entry on architecture states that, according to the first-century Roman architect Vitruvius, a good building should satisfy these three principles:

• 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."

• Ludden, Johnny (April 17, 2011). "Kobe challenges Gasol after Game 1 loss". yahoo.com. Archived from the original on April 18, 2011.

"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.'"

• Gillane Seaborne (Executive Producer); Arthur Darvill and Karen Gillan (Presenters) (30 April 2011). "Breaking the Silence". Doctor Who Confidential. Episode 2. Cardiff. Event occurs at 25:45. BBC. BBC Three. Retrieved 1 May 2011.

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.

• Barron, James (August 11, 2011). "Lobster Salad, but a Key Ingredient Was Missing". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-08-12.

  "'If you go to Wikipedia,' [Saul Zabar, president and co-owner of Zabar's] said, 'you will find that crawfish in many parts of the country is referred to as lobster.'

"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)

• "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”."

• Blakemore, Bill (14 October 2011). "'Anonymous': New Hollywood Film Shows William Shakespeare as Someone Else". ABC News. Retrieved 15 October 2011.

  "Wikipedia, says Shapiro, has (as of this writing) a compact, illuminating and trustworthy treatment of 'The Case for Shakespeare's Authorship' to be found under the entry, 'Shakespeare Authorship Question.'" (quote on page 3; article)

• Dwyer, Kelly (October 17, 2011). "Can Eddy Curry still cut the mustard as an NBA player?". sports.yahoo.com. Yahoo!. Archived from the original on October 23, 2011.

  "300 pounds is still too much for a player who will be 30 in 14 months, and who is generously listed at 6-11 (geez, Wikipedia even has him at 7-feet)."

• Rob, Fitzpatrick (October 27, 2011). "When bands fall off cliffs". The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-10-29.

  "Their Wikipedia page trumpets that the band's follow-up, 2010's Congratulations, sold 66,000 copies in its first week ("the best sales week ever for the group"). What the site doesn't mention is that in the 18 months since, the album has only sold another 11,000 copies."

• Chung, Jen (December 27, 2011). "Knicks Sign Asian-American Guard/ Harvard Grad Jeremy Lin". Gothamist. Archived from the original on January 4, 2012.

  "According to his Wikipedia page, "Lin has regularly heard bigoted jeers at games such as 'Wonton soup', 'Sweet and sour pork', 'Open your eyes!', 'Go back to China', 'Orchestra is on the other side of campus', or Chinese gibberish."