Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia as an academic source

An academic search engine gave me the following two hits for "wikipedia" but I don't have access to the journals in question, so would appreciate it if someone who has access could look them up:

Title: Knowledge and Truth: Answers or Questions? Author(s): Michael A. West Source: Surgical Infections     Volume: 4 Number: 4 Page: 297 -- 309 DOI: 10.1089/109629603322761355 Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Title: Spectroscopic Imaging in Art Conservation: A New Tool for Materials Investigations Author(s): Michael Attas ; Edward Cloutis ; Catherine Collins ; Douglas Goltz ; Claudine Majzels ; James R. Mansfield ; Henry H. Mantsch Source: Leonardo     Volume: 36 Number: 4 Page: 304 DOI: 10.1162/002409403322258736 Publisher: MIT Press

I don't have access to the Surgical Infections journal. I do have Leonardo, and the given article doesn't cite Wikipedia, but on the same page there's an article that does; I added it to our list. AxelBoldt 06:00, 29 December 2005 (UTC)


 * The first one indeed cites wikipedia: Marcello Malpighi is in the references list. --WS 19:12, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure if this qualifies as an academic source, or where to put it, but references Wikipedia on page 6 and in the Appendix. Someone could take a look and decide where to put it. Dan Gardner 16:55, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * I don't think it's academic: it's a paper of a think-tank. AxelBoldt 06:00, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

This preprint cites the Quantum cryptography article. Since it is not published yet, I am putting it on talk page. Andris 13:48, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)

Does wikipedia count as encyclopedic knowledge that doesn't need to be cited, or does it have its own MLA format?


 * Every Wikipedia article now has a link "cite this article" in the toolbox to the left. That gives the citation in various formats. AxelBoldt 06:00, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

An interesting study: --WS 19:22, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

And another one that refers to wikipedia: --WS 19:26, 31 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I added them to Wikipedia_in_academic_studies. AxelBoldt 02:52, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I was looking for this
I had a little discussion here Wikipedia_talk:Researching_with_Wikipedia about what should be on this page. We need to strip out any listing on this page Wikipedia_as_an_academic_source that cites wikipedia as an example, and not as a source. Mathiastck 17:12, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Papers by Kewal Krishan
There are several papers listed by Kewal Krishan. I have skimmed two [ http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijfs/vol2n1/forensic.xml ][ http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijba/vol1n1/editorial.xml ] and I cannot quickly identify the part where Wikipedia ise used as a source. &mdash; fnielsen (talk) 12:04, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Cites Replaced
Sorry, Wikipedia, it seems the editing staff replaced all of my Wikipedia cites with more mundane paper sources. :-( —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wmmstevens (talk • contribs) 18:13, 11 May 2009 (UTC)


 * By "mundane" do you mean current, accurate, peer-reviewed works written by experts in your field? Sounds like a good editorial staff.134.2.245.63 (talk) 17:34, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Saxena, Sunil K. (2011). History of Medieval India
To the best that I could determine from GoogleBooks (I don't have a paper copy) Saxena, Sunil K. (2011). History of Medieval India ISBN 978-1-61820-263-5, does not list Wikipedia as a source. However, at least on pages 85–86 Saxena used, verbatim, text from the Wikipedia article from the Firuz Shah Tughlaq. See Talk:Firuz Shah Tughlaq for more detail. Should this be listed here annotated "uncredited"? --Bejnar (talk) 19:09, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

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 * Pacerier (talk) 04:37, 5 March 2016 (UTC): ❝
 * This is an article talking about Wikipedia as a subject; should list it on "wp:Academic studies of Wikipedia" instead.