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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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  • If the article is about Wikipedia itself, please add it to Wikipedia:Press coverage, rather than here.
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Formatting

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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= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= |url= |work= |publisher= |date= |accessdate=2024-11-25 }}
    "Relevant/representative quote here."

Articles

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January 2012

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  • Healy, Jack (January 7, 2012). "Iraq Turns Justice Into a Show, and Terror Confessions a Script". The New York Times. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
"In the United States, the "perp walk" is common enough to merit its own Wikipedia page."

March 2012

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"The Wikipedia entry on Alicia Esteve Head said (as of Tuesday): 'In the documentary "The 9/11 Faker," broadcast in September 2008, Head's whereabouts were said to be unknown. In February 2008, an e-mail sent from a Spanish account to members of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network claimed that Head had committed suicide.'"
"'Noynoying' is now in online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which describes the word as an Internet meme or concept that defines an effortless pose or activity consisting of sitting or standing around, in an unconcerned manner."
"Aside from trending on microblogging site Twitter and having about 3,685 likes on Facebook as of posting time, 'Noynoying' now has an entry in the user-managed free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. However, the article is currently tagged for possible deletion in accordance with the site’s deletion policy."

May 2012

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"FLATOW: Is there someplace you can study it? You know, is it a topic you can take in college, or do you have to go to a special school or military to study this?
WAYNER: Well, you know, there are several books out there, and, you know, some - if you want to take it in college, there are some general courses on encryption, and they often get kind of lumped in there, and they'll spend a week or two on steganography.
There are - you know, you can poke around. The article on Wikipedia is quite nice. And so somewhere along all those different choices, you can get a pretty good education."

July 2012

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"According to Wikipedia, the term was coined in 1977 by The Economist “to describe the decline of the manufacturing sector in The Netherlands after the discovery of a large natural gas field in 1959.”"

August 2012

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"Teresa, today, 19th August 2012, the Italian paper Corriere della Sera reported that Samia Yusuf Omar, the Somalian sprinter, died while on her way to Italy on a boat from Libya. This news came from Abdi Bile, a compatriot of hers and fellow runner but they appear to be difficult to verify. I, myself, have checked her Wikipedia page this very morning and no mention of her death was made; while I write I have seen that that same page has now been updated with these very remarks I have just made: what can you tell us yourself about her fate?"
"Inkie was once arrested in 'Operation Anderson', the world's largest 'graffiti bust', says Wikipedia; he worked alongside Banksy in his early days in Bristol and London; then in the video games industry as head of creative design for Sega."
"He spent years searching public records for information on his father, but only discovered the truth when a friend told him to check Wikipedia. 'I looked myself up and there it all was,' he says during his Edinburgh Fringe Festival show Suggs: My Life in Words and Music. 'It said my father had died in 1975, aged just 40. The thing is, this website knew more about my life than me and my whole family combined.'"
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