Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source 2017
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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.
Note: This is not a complete list.
News searches
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- Wikipedia news search: Google News | Yahoo! News | AltaVista News | MSN News
Page guidelines
[edit]- 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}}.
Formatting
[edit]- 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= |title= |url= |work= |publisher= |date= |accessdate=2024-12-27 }}
- "Relevant/representative quote here."
April 2017
[edit]Price, David (19 April 2017). "New iPad (2017) review: A good deal - shame about the unlaminated screen". Macworld UK. Archived from the original on 3 May 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2017. Slightly complicating matters, Apple frequently calls it the "iPad (5th generation)" in official documents, while pundits - including the editors of the product's Wikipedia page - have been squabbling over whether to call it that, or "7th generation", or "iPad (2017 edition)". To make things easier we'll be referring to it as the iPad 2017 throughout this article.
May 2017
[edit]Hauen, Jack (29 May 2017). "Ontario MPP joins Trillium Party after being booted from PCs. So what exactly is the Trillium Party?". National Post. Retrieved 31 January 2018. Although Wikipedia labels them right-of-centre — which would seem a natural fit for the representative for Carleton-Mississippi Mills — Trillium Party leader Bob Yaciuk told the National Post he was reluctant to place the party on a political spectrum