Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source 2013

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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:

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.

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• Wikipedia news search: Google News | Yahoo! News | AltaVista News | MSN News

• 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}}.

• 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= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= |url= |work= |publisher= |date= |accessdate=2025-05-05 }}

  "Relevant/representative quote here."

• "Our Sultan of Sulu and Sabah". The Manila Times. 2013-02-16. Editorial. Retrieved 2013-03-05.

"According to Wikipedia, the present Sultan of Sulu, who has reigned since 1986 up to the present is “Raja Muda, crowned 2012".

• "Sabah sultan followers take fight to cyberspace". Australia Network News. Agence France-Presse. 2013-03-04. News. Retrieved 2013-03-05.

"A Google search for the word "Sabah", the state at the centre of Malaysia's biggest security crisis in years, came back with a search results page that quotes "Wikipedia" calling Malaysian control of the state "illegitimate".

• "Timpla ng kape: Nancy Binay Wiki page defaced". ABS-CBNnews.com. 2013-05-15. Nation. Retrieved 2013-05-15.

"Binay's Wikipedia page showed several changes. It said Binay "comes from a dynasty" in the Philippines and is professionally known as "Noggie", a play on the word "nognog" or a black person."

• Andrew C. Revkin (June 3, 2013). "Rising Aggression Against Turtle Conservationists Preceded Costa Rica Slaying". Dot Earth Blog (New York Times). Retrieved June 4, 2013.

"There is now a Wikipedia page on the killing."

• Oliver Laughland (June 4, 2013). "Egyptian military removes President Mohamed Morsi - as it happened". Guardian. Retrieved June 4, 2013.

"Wikipedia has launched a new page describing today's events as a coup d'état.
The entry, available to read in full here, starts with the following two sentences:"

• Michael Jaccarino (August 4, 2013). "Snowden a friend or foe? Wikipedia fight takes both sides". Fox News. Retrieved August 4, 2013.

"While the world watches for the next development concerning the one-time National Security Agency contractor who leaked details of top-secret U.S. surveillance programs to the press, a battle rages on the Internet – and specifically Wikipedia – over just how to refer to the man in print."