[WikiEN-l] US Immigration Judge used evidence from a Wikipedia BLP in deciding credibility of Chinese immigrant's application for leave to stay

[Tony Sidaway]

This is an interesting one, for some value of "interesting".  I
suppose I'm posting it because I'm interested in the adverse effects
of a BLP on an immigrant's application.

http://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=In%20FCO%2020101102111.xml&docbase=CSLWAR3-2007-CURR

I'm not sure which article is referred to here, and it may have been
deleted by now.

The appeal was in the 5th Circuit, but they concurred with opinion
from the 8th Circuit (Badasa v. Mukasey, 540 F.3d 909, 910-11 (8th
Cir. 2008)) that quotes Wikipedia's own "Overview" in assessing
Wikipedia as an unreliable source (no surprise there).

The text cited in the 8th Circuit ruling appears to be here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wikipedia