On A Claire Day: 27 August-29 August, Monday-Wednesday. Claire, a young adult, embarrasses herself in an interview for a job at a public library by stating incorrect information sourced from Wikipedia.
[1]
2008
June
Charles Peattie; Russell Taylor (2008-06-04).
"Alex"(comic strip). www.alexcartoon.com. Retrieved 2008-06-04. I'm revising Bacon's entry on Wikipedia to make it square with the rubbish I wrote in the exam.
xkcd:
In Popular Culture - A parody of the deprecated "in popular culture" section on some WP articles, listing needlessly specific and trivial instances of
wood use, e.g. "The fence around the backyard of the
house in
The Simpsons is wooden"
2009
April
Zits:
Thursday, April 2, 2009. Walt takes a look at his computer and noticed that his son Jeremy added Connie (Walt's wife and Jeremy's mother) to the Wikipedia entry on
Humiliation, just because she added Jeremy's baby picture in the yearbook. It led to this incident:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Humiliation&oldid=281274459 (see revision history for context; note that the comic strip was removed from Wikipedia per copyvio and the article was semi-protected shortly after).
November
Deadpool #900. In the story "One Down", while carrying out an assassination, Deadpool has a
fourth wall-breaking conversation with his inner voices in which he discusses his own fanbase, noting that as of that writing, his own Wikipedia entry was longer than that of
Spider-Man.
Pearls Before Swine:
2009-11-23, Monday. Rat starts editing
Stephan Pastis Wikipedia article, making up facts about his life that weren't true and later uses it in a conversation to embarrass him.
2010
January
Sherman's lagoon,
January 21: Sherman and Megan leave to
White Shark Cafe, which Sherman describes as being "A secret meeting place known only to great white sharks ... and Wikipedia."
Day by Day,
May 24: Sam suggests that the one word describing a future online commons for political debate amongst citizens would be "Wikipedia".
2013
October
Sex Criminals #2: Suzie looks up a porn actress on Wikipedia with whom Jon was obsessed as a child. She says the article does not say which of her uncles abused her because Wikipedia has "very high verification standards".
Zits:
Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Jeremy Duncan's friend Pierce tells him that instead of buying an essay online, Jeremy should paraphrase Wikipedia instead, just like his other classmates.
On A Claire Day: 27 August-29 August, Monday-Wednesday. Claire, a young adult, embarrasses herself in an interview for a job at a public library by stating incorrect information sourced from Wikipedia.
[1]
2008
June
Charles Peattie; Russell Taylor (2008-06-04).
"Alex"(comic strip). www.alexcartoon.com. Retrieved 2008-06-04. I'm revising Bacon's entry on Wikipedia to make it square with the rubbish I wrote in the exam.
xkcd:
In Popular Culture - A parody of the deprecated "in popular culture" section on some WP articles, listing needlessly specific and trivial instances of
wood use, e.g. "The fence around the backyard of the
house in
The Simpsons is wooden"
2009
April
Zits:
Thursday, April 2, 2009. Walt takes a look at his computer and noticed that his son Jeremy added Connie (Walt's wife and Jeremy's mother) to the Wikipedia entry on
Humiliation, just because she added Jeremy's baby picture in the yearbook. It led to this incident:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Humiliation&oldid=281274459 (see revision history for context; note that the comic strip was removed from Wikipedia per copyvio and the article was semi-protected shortly after).
November
Deadpool #900. In the story "One Down", while carrying out an assassination, Deadpool has a
fourth wall-breaking conversation with his inner voices in which he discusses his own fanbase, noting that as of that writing, his own Wikipedia entry was longer than that of
Spider-Man.
Pearls Before Swine:
2009-11-23, Monday. Rat starts editing
Stephan Pastis Wikipedia article, making up facts about his life that weren't true and later uses it in a conversation to embarrass him.
2010
January
Sherman's lagoon,
January 21: Sherman and Megan leave to
White Shark Cafe, which Sherman describes as being "A secret meeting place known only to great white sharks ... and Wikipedia."
Day by Day,
May 24: Sam suggests that the one word describing a future online commons for political debate amongst citizens would be "Wikipedia".
2013
October
Sex Criminals #2: Suzie looks up a porn actress on Wikipedia with whom Jon was obsessed as a child. She says the article does not say which of her uncles abused her because Wikipedia has "very high verification standards".
Zits:
Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Jeremy Duncan's friend Pierce tells him that instead of buying an essay online, Jeremy should paraphrase Wikipedia instead, just like his other classmates.