[WikiEN-l] NY Times blog uses us as a reference...

[Steve Bennett]

On 12/29/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/27/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Talking about how many films show New York City being destroyed (by
> > monsters, ice age, time, etc), Wikipedia entry on a film is used to
> > describe its plot:
>
> Is this remarkable? Even if the NYT itself referenced Wikipedia, would
> that be unusual?

To answer my own question, yes, it would be very unusual:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&rls=en&hs=fSZ&q=%22according+to+wikipedia%22+site%3Anytimes.com+-site%3Ablogs.nytimes.com&btnG=Search

It's only happened twice, and both articles were actually about
Wikipedia. The blogs reference it all the time though.

Steve