Citing, Citations, Siting, and Sighting the Wikipedia

"Oh in regards to the Wikipedia citations for a given article, this is no guarantee that that citation was actually used to research that article. I've found several instances of Wikipedia citing pages on my site that have NEVER existed (strange but true)."KenB: Why Is Wikipedia On Top in Search Results?

A Long List of Disclaimers @ WIKI:

• Use Wikipedia at your own risk
• Wikipedia articles may contain nonsense
• Wikipedia is a work in progress
• Wikipedia articles may have (numerous) spelling and grammar errors
• Wikipedia articles may have errors of fact and errors of omission

WIKI in Progress:

Fake Wikipedia editor unmasked in Webmaster General

Where Wikipedia Ends - Yahoo! News

Is Wikipedia a Victim of Its Own Success? - TIME

New Amazon wiki and citation features

Wikipedia popularity from a citation analysis point of view,
Alireza Noruzi, http://www.webology.ir

LibraryCrunch: "a Wiki citation is toilet paper"

Tools of the Trade:

Wiki citation maker -- Wiki and Blog citation maker:

"This page helps you create biomedical citations to use as references when writing on wikis such as Citizendium, Medpedia, Wikipedia, and others. This page also helps create citations for biomedical blogs hosted on Blogger, Wordpress, and other sites."

Copyrights and Copywrongs - Responsibility of Media and Academia

P.S. This is not a sequel of Copyrights and Copywrongs: Interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan.
Rather, this is about media (MSN, Yahoo, Google) and academia

Belgian newspapers go after Yahoo, By: Nancy Gohring
IDG News Service (Dublin Bureau) (22 Jan 2007)

Google argued that it doesn't violate copyright because it only summarizes articles and displays the source of the content and the name of the author before directing users to the Web page hosting the content. The judge is expected to rule on the case this month. full story

EMERGING NEWS:

Google has pledged to tighten its advertising controls after some of the biggest media companies in the US accused it of knowingly encouraging copyright theft. in US media: Google 'encourages copyright theft' By Laura Clout, Telegraph, 13/02/2007

PUNCHLINE for the academic world (just-in-case):
Oh my god not more copyright stuff @ Playing with Technology
See also:
Public Domain Chart
Fair Use Checklist

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Citing Sources - Electronic, Print, etc.

With Malice Towards None; And Citations for All