Misplaced Pages

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References to Misplaced Pages in culture have increased as more people learn about and use the online encyclopedia project. Many parody Misplaced Pages's openness, with characters vandalising or modifying articles. Still others feature characters using the references as a source, or positively comparing a character's intelligence to Misplaced Pages. Also, the encyclopedia many times is not used as an encyclopedia at all, but instead serves more as a character trait or even as a game. Misplaced Pages has also become culturally significant with many individuals seeing the presence of a Misplaced Pages entry as a status symbol.

Incidents

Landmark

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Date	Nature	Country (of origin)	Title
November 10, 2004	article	United States	"I Must Take Issue With The Misplaced Pages Entry For 'Weird Al' Yankovic", the Onion.
2005	promotion	Australia	Jericho ads
May 7, 2005	comic strip	United States	FoxTrot
2006	commercial	England	Cisco Systems: Human Network Anthem
March 1, 2006	TV show (satirical)	United States	The Colbert Report, episode 58
April 14, 2006	novel	United Kingdom	The Righteous Men, Sam Bourne
August 12, 2006	music video	United States	"White & Nerdy" music video, by "Weird Al" Yankovic
January 18, 2007	sitcom	United States	30 Rock: "The Head and the Hair"
March 17, 2007	TV show (satirical)	United Kingdom	Bremner, Bird and Fortune
April 22, 2007	TV show (sport)	United States	SportsCenter
May 31, 2007	Non-fiction	United States	It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News, Drew Curtis
June 11, 2007	commercial demo	United States	Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.
August 3, 2007	play	United States	The Misplaced Pages Plays
September 3, 2007	magazine	United Kingdom	Official Nintendo Magazine, Issue 21
July 23, 2009	radio (satirical)	United Kingdom	Bigipedia
August 11, 2010	sitcom	United States	Hot in Cleveland: "Good Luck Faking The Gotier"

Title	Description	Relevance
I Must Take Issue With The Misplaced Pages Entry For 'Weird Al' Yankovic	In an article from The Onion, the character Larry Groznic writes an article about how he was banned from Misplaced Pages for starting an edit war on the "Weird Al" Yankovic page, and goes on to criticize the content on the said page.	Having taken place well before the John Seigenthaler Sr. Misplaced Pages biography controversy, it was one of the first major parodies.
FoxTrot	File:Foxtrot wikipedia.png	First appearance of Misplaced Pages in a syndicated comic strip.
The Colbert Report, episode 58	Arianna Huffington challenges host Stephen Colbert on his claim that he had coined the word "truthiness". She cited Misplaced Pages, claiming that he had merely "popularized" the term. Regarding her source, Colbert, in character, responded: "Fuck them."	First nationally-broadcast television program to mention Misplaced Pages.
The Colbert Report, episode 93	Colbert refers to Misplaced Pages as his source of information for research on Sigmund Freud. With his normal sarcastic and deadpan delivery, Colbert's segment "The Wørd" mocked Misplaced Pages's sometimes-questionable information with the screen posting "Even the accurate parts."	Colbert's first scripted reference to Misplaced Pages, a lead into his "Wikiality" piece.
Global Language Monitor	Global Language Monitor, which tracks trends in languages, named wikiality and truthiness the top T.V. buzzwords for 2006. Shortly after the episode aired, a fan-created Misplaced Pages parody site opened at Wikiality.com, inspired by the term. On October 19, 2006, the term was mentioned again on the show, this time with Wikiality.com given as the url for Misplaced Pages.
"White & Nerdy"	The character who is implied to be the nerd says that editing Misplaced Pages is one of his nerdy activities. In the video, Al is shown editing the article Atlantic Records by typing in large letters YOU SUCK. Thus Al takes revenge on the record company for refusing to let him include "You're Pitiful," a parody of James Blunt's song "You're Beautiful", on his new album. This has prompted copycat vandalism of the Atlantic Records page, which resulted in the page's being semi-protected. Yankovic has said "I don't officially approve of , but on a certain level it does amuse me."	This may be the first time a music video showed the website, as well as the first time a song mentioned the website. The song was also Yankovic's first career Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. It reached #1 at the U.S. iTunes Store, and peaked at #1 on VH1's top 20 video countdown.
Barenaked Ladies Are Me	The track "Home" gives a reference to Misplaced Pages in the line "I showed her my Misplaced Pages page".	First appearance of Misplaced Pages in a Barenaked Ladies song.
Tar Baby	Australian songwriter, Carolyn Shine's 2009 track 'Tar Baby' refers to Misplaced Pages in the line: "If it's all about supply and demand, I don't know which one of us is needier. 'What's a Tar Baby?' I hear you ask. Look it up for yourself in Misplaced Pages.".	May be the first documented use of 'Misplaced Pages' rhymed in a song lyric.
Jericho ads	Following Jericho episodes on Network 10 in Australia, a promotion would appear encouraging viewers to log onto Misplaced Pages and search for "Jericho (tv series)" for proof of the hype and theories surrounding the show.	This is the first station advertisement to encourage people to search Misplaced Pages for their product.
Cisco Systems	A TV advertisement for Cisco Systems shows a young child with a laptop, the Misplaced Pages logo clearly visible on the screen. Part of their "Human Network Anthem" ad campaign.	First television advertisement showing Misplaced Pages as part of the plot line.
30 Rock	While Tracy Jordan, James "Toofer" Spurlock and Frank Rossitano are working to complete Jordan's autobiography within a single day, Rossitano finds Jordan's Misplaced Pages article while using the Internet on his laptop. The article says Jordan was discovered after doing stand-up comedy at the Apollo Theater in 1984, and Jordan, though stating he has no recollection of this, tells the two to add it to the book.	First sitcom series reference.
Bremner, Bird and Fortune	A sketch about the 10 most popular, yet unread books, featuring a voice over talking about the plots of the books, which seem to constantly refer to aliens. At the end of the sketch it says that the information came from Misplaced Pages.	First mention in a British satirical comedy programme.
SportsCenter	After citing a stat about Houston Astros pitcher Roy Oswalt, anchor Kenny Mayne jokingly gave credit to Misplaced Pages for providing the number.	First recorded reference from a sports highlight show.
The Righteous Men	In the 2006 Da Vinci Code-style novel The Righteous Men, Misplaced Pages features as an academic style encyclopedia.	First known reference in fictional literature.
It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News	This book, which examines media bias, mainly about stories which do not count as news, Curtis writes: "Incidentally, one of the more surprising things I discovered while researching the articles for this book is that a number of them exactly mirrored a Misplaced Pages entry on the same subject. I didn't find any exact copies of Misplaced Pages in the articles in this book, but the structure often was the same and used the same citations in the same places. If I had to guess, I'd say that half of all the "original" articles covered in this book are Misplaced Pages entry rewrites. If not more. It certainly makes me wonder about the rest of the articles I didn't research. Misplaced Pages accuracy concerns aside, that's just not cool. Or perhaps that's how the Misplaced Pages articles were generated in the first place. Due to the obscurity of certain details in some of the articles, and the fact that none of those details showed up in a Google search on the same subject, I am more inclined to believe reporters borrow heavily from Misplaced Pages, and not the other way around."	First known appearance in a book criticising the mass media, referencing Misplaced Pages.
Apple Inc. iPhone	In the demonstration for the iPhone's internet capabilities, the Misplaced Pages page for the iPod is shown, along with a link in the user's bookmarks.	First known reference in a multinational product demonstration by a Media Conglomerate.
The Misplaced Pages Plays	Seventeen short plays, inspired by Misplaced Pages entries.	First play known to highlight Misplaced Pages.
The Colbert Report, episode 302	On August 21, 2007, Colbert attacked WikiScanner, a website that tracks down people who make anonymous edits on Misplaced Pages, claiming that it is an invasion of privacy, particularly for corporations, and that it attacks "Self-invention". He highlighted a case where Pepsi edited their entry by removing "Long-term health effects" from their article. This resulted in his "Wørd" being "Self-Determination", claiming that everyone on the internet should be anonymous and should not be forced to give away their true identity. Colbert later described Misplaced Pages as "Second Life for corporations," saying if a corporation wants to pretend to be someone else online, then that is their business.	First nationally-broadcast television program to mention WikiScanner.
Bigipedia	Bigipedia is a BBC Radio 4 sketch show set on a website which is a parody of Misplaced Pages.	First nationally-broadcast radio program devoted to parodying Misplaced Pages.
Hot in Cleveland	In the episode "Good Luck Faking The Gotier", Victoria Chase (Wendie Malick) mentions that she has a Misplaced Pages page and has to keep changing it because posters keep getting her age wrong.	First time that a fictional character (and the first fictional female character) on a television series admitting to having created their own Misplaced Pages page and the first time a fictional character admitted to having to make corrections on their own page.

Wikiality

In a July 2006 episode of the satirical comedy The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert announced the neologism wikiality, a portmanteau of the words Wiki and reality, for his segment "The Wørd". Colbert defined wikiality as "truth by consensus" (rather than fact), modeled after the approval-by-consensus format of Misplaced Pages. He ironically praised Misplaced Pages for following his philosophy of truthiness, in which intuition and consensus is a better reflection of reality than fact:

You see, any user can change any entry, and if enough other users agree with them, it becomes true. ... If only the entire body of human knowledge worked this way. And it can, thanks to tonight's word: Wikiality. Now, folks, I'm no fan of reality, and I'm no fan of encyclopedias. I've said it before. Who is Britannica to tell me that George Washington had slaves? If I want to say he didn't, that's my right. And now, thanks to Misplaced Pages, it's also a fact. We should apply these principles to all information. All we need to do is convince a majority of people that some factoid is true. ... What we're doing is bringing democracy to knowledge.

According to Stephen Colbert, together "we can all create a reality that we all can agree on; the reality that we just agreed on." During the segment, he joked: "I love Misplaced Pages... any site that's got a longer entry on truthiness than on Lutherans has its priorities straight." Colbert also used the segment to satirize the more general issue of whether the repetition of statements in the media leads people to believe they are true. The piece was introduced with the tagline "The Revolution Will Not Be Verified", referencing the lack of objective verification seen in some articles.

Colbert suggested that viewers change the elephant page to state that the number of African elephants has tripled in the last six months. The suggestion resulted in numerous incorrect changes to Misplaced Pages articles related to elephants and Africa. Misplaced Pages administrators subsequently restricted edits to the pages by anonymous and newly created user accounts.

Colbert went on to type on a laptop facing away from the camera, claiming to be making the edits to the pages himself. In addition, initial edits to Misplaced Pages corresponding to these claimed "facts" were made by a user named Stephencolbert. Thus, many believe Colbert himself vandalized several Misplaced Pages pages at the time he was encouraging other users to do the same. The account, whether it was Stephen Colbert himself or someone posing as him, has been blocked from Misplaced Pages indefinitely. Misplaced Pages, blocked the account not for the vandalism (as believed), but for violating Misplaced Pages's username policies, which state that using the names of celebrities as login names without permission is inappropriate. The account was confirmed to be his later that week, but remains blocked.

Other instances

In comics

In television episodes

In the Radio

In postal items

On January 14 2011, Israel Postal Company chose to commemorate Misplaced Pages's 10th Anniversary by issuing a special postmark and a Souvenir Leaf. These were the world's first Misplaced Pages-related postal items. As is customary on Misplaced Pages, the Souvenir Leaf, postmark and the text on the back of the souvenir leaf were created by a collaboration of volunteers. The design of the postmark was based on the work of "MT0", a Misplaced Pages editor.

Contextual

Citations of Misplaced Pages in culture

In the Homestar Runner cartoon No Hands On Deck!, Homestar Runner mentions that "'Misplaced Pages said vulcanized was the way to go" in reference to the type of nails used to build a deck. At the time the cartoon was released, the Misplaced Pages article on decks made no reference to nails or vulcanization.

The cartoon FoxTrot features Peter being criticized by his teacher for copying a homework assignment directly from Misplaced Pages. Peter replies, "Who's to say I didn't write the Misplaced Pages entry myself?"

During a debate on Quebec sovereignty in the Canadian House of Commons on November 27, 2006, Conservative Member of Parliament Scott Reid mentioned Misplaced Pages.

In the July 2007 issue of National Geographic Magazine, an article on swarm intelligence, both in nature and as a method used by humans, mentions Misplaced Pages as an example.

The British satirical magazine Private Eye has a section entitled "Misplaced Pages Whispers", which uncovers stories about how Misplaced Pages entries are altered. Stories include examples of how people have altered their own articles to make themselves look better, and vandalism on Misplaced Pages that becomes reported as fact.

Hip hop artist Pharoahe Monch mentions Misplaced Pages in the song "Welcome to the Terrordome" from his 2007 album, Desire. The lyrics are: "Take a walk through all this misplaced media / They got my name spelled wrong on Misplaced Pages."

In Volume 6 of the Canadian comic book series Scott Pilgrim, after the main antagonists injures one of the principal characters, Ramona Flowers, a character in a crowd, wondering if Ramona had died, stated that he was updating her Misplaced Pages page at that moment.

Misplaced Pages, to an academic, might represent peer review on steroids.

— Andrew George, JD candidate at University of Virginia School of Law, from a sociopsychology academic paper

Various people including Jeremy Clarkson, Sir Ian McKellen, Patrick Stump, Mitch Albom and Marcus Brigstocke have criticized Misplaced Pages's articles about themselves.

Inaccuracies on Misplaced Pages in culture

Misplaced Pages was satirized in The Onion with a front-page article ("Misplaced Pages Celebrates 750 Years of American Independence", July 2006), alluding to perceptions that the publicly editable site is an unreliable source of information.

In the 2007 Lyttle Lytton Contest, in which the object is to come up with an opening sentence for a novel, a phrase from the article on Fukutsuru ("Fukutsuru died in 2005 but his frozen sperm lived on for people's benefit") won the prize in Found category.

The CollegeHumor staff posted the video "Professor Misplaced Pages" as part of the CollegeHumor original videos on September 16, 2008; the video satirized many aspects of Misplaced Pages.

Misplaced Pages as a character trait

In 2006, commenting to The New York Times on the demands on Central Intelligence Agency analysts to produce instant information, John E. McLaughlin, former acting U.S. Director of Central Intelligence, stated, "intelligence analysts end up being the Misplaced Pages of Washington".

An altmuslim.com review of a new television series, Sleeper Cell, about terrorists noted that the characters routinely gave detailed background of events in the history of Islam and stated, "no one, and I assume even terrorists, talks like a walking Misplaced Pages."

Miscellaneous

Misplaced Pages is parodied at several websites, including Uncyclopedia and Encyclopedia Dramatica.

In the July 2006 issue of Mad, in the Fundalini pages section there was a short joke with a mock picture of Misplaced Pages called "WonkyPedia". WonkyPedia featured its own logo, in which the letters on the puzzle globe were replaced with MAD characters and the letters M A D. The article shown was on Lincoln's assassination. The URL followed the appropriate pattern: "http://en.wonkypedia.org/wonky/". The same parody returned in the next issue as "Wakipedia". The phrase it advertised was "The 💕 (you get what you pay for!)".

Likewise, CRACKED.com, the online publication affiliated with former Mad rival Cracked, has satirized Misplaced Pages's maintenance templates.

In the American version of the video game Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga, Misplaced Pages is a selectable mantra, equippable by the game's characters to learn skills. However, it appears it was only a mistranslation made by the translators since the name is not present in the Japanese version.

On the TV show The Loop, Misplaced Pages was mentioned on one episode.

On the June 5, 2006 episode of The Howard Stern Show, wack packer Eric the Midget called in and complained that his parents had read about a stunt that he did for the show, that involved him measuring his penis, on Misplaced Pages (which he called "Wackipedia"). Stern read the section of the article regarding penis measuring on the air. Also, Gary Dell'Abate commented on the air he and the Stern Show staff enjoy the picture of Lynch in this article.

In May 2006, British chat show host Paul O'Grady received an inquiry from a viewer regarding information given on his Misplaced Pages page, to which he responded, "Misplaced Pages? Sounds like a skin disease."

On the show X-Play, Morgan Webb looked at the Misplaced Pages article of Point Blank DS, and then looked at the article on their show. After reading it, the logo in the top left corner of the page spoke to Morgan in typical X-Play fashion. It also pointed out that since the show's inception, they have made 337 fart jokes. When asked why it could talk the logo stated that Misplaced Pages had become self aware in 2004 due to the massive amounts of information provided by the public.

On the E! network program The Soup, during the "Reality Show Clip Time!" segment a clip of Flavor of Love 2 was shown in which someone mentioned Google as a point of research on September 8, 2006, to make fun of this, host Joel McHale said "Well at least it's better than saying 'Misplaced Pages Misplaced Pages Misplaced Pages'" Another time he said he looked up something on Misplaced Pages and saw a dance.

Something Awful once featured Misplaced Pages's article on Knuckles the Echidna as an ALOD (Awful Link of the Day), satirizing the amount of detail that sometimes goes into seemingly irrelevant topics. The link description adds that the article at the time was longer than each of the articles about Echidnas, the Internet, the internal combustion engine, William Shakespeare and Western Culture. The topic was also satirized in the front page, which featured a fake Misplaced Pages style article about Albert "Al" Calavicci from the TV series Quantum Leap written by Something Awful contributor David Thorpe. Thorpe elsewhere linked the existence of such articles to Asperger syndrome, stating "Don't make fun of Aspergers. If it weren't for Aspergers, we wouldn't have 20-page Misplaced Pages articles about Knuckles the Echidna." Misplaced Pages was also mocked in a December 4, 2006 update on Something Awful. The update detailed the life of a talk page on Misplaced Pages, and mocked the neutrality, copyright, naming, quality, and personal disputes that the pages are beholden to. The update also linked Misplaced Pages usage to Asperger syndrome once more, with one fictional editor claiming to have a case of the syndrome twice as powerful as that of another fictional editor. In a 2007 Awful Link of the Day, a Misplaced Pages article was featured again, this time on the villains of Codename: Kids Next Door. Once again, it calls out the detail put onto seemingly irrelevant topics, citing a discussion in said article's talk page about the subjectiveness of the speed of certain characters. Something Awful founder Richard Kyanka then mockingly offered to write up a speed comparison of the KND characters Big Badolescent and Cheese Shogun Roquefort, citing a fake episode called "episode 35, 'I Am a 38-Year Old Man With Several Obese Cats and an Empty Life I Futilely Try to Fill With Childrens' Cartoons'".

The comic strip Sally Forth has mentioned Misplaced Pages a few times.

Comedian Zach Galifianakis claimed to look himself up on Misplaced Pages in an interview with The Badger Herald, stating about himself, "...I'm looking at Misplaced Pages right now. Half Greek, half redneck, around 6-foot-4. And that's about it... The 6-foot-4 thing may be a little bit off. Actually, it's 4-foot-6."

In his "pickoff" in which he makes predictions on the winners of NFL games, Peter King said of the Thanksgiving night game between Indianapolis and Atlanta in 2007 "The sleep-inducing qualities of turkey are overrated, as I learned this week on Misplaced Pages. There is more tryptophan in cheddar cheese than turkey."

The December 3, 2007 episode of Jeopardy! had a category entitled "'ick'-ipedia", where all correct responses contained the letters "ick".

British comedian Eddie Izzard referenced Misplaced Pages in his 2008 show Stripped, remarking that nobody would join a library in order to find out how to make spoons.

In the film National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Riley uses an online source called Find On-Line, which appears to be a modified Misplaced Pages page.

In the Dan Brown novel The Lost Symbol, a character cites a fictional Misplaced Pages entry on the character Peter Solomon.

In the James Patterson novel The Dangerous Days of Daniel X, the eponymous character "the contents of Misplaced Pages" to his classmates.

In the second season premier of the action-comedy series Chuck, Chuck Versus the First Date, Chuck mentions in an "interview" for the Assistant manager job at the BuyMore with Lester as the interviewee that Lester has included in his CV a pasted "Misplaced Pages entry about yourself, from yourself".

A 2010 television commercial for AT&T high-speed wireless service depicts a high school student looking at Misplaced Pages's article on the Mayflower (with two of the images visible) while discussing his homework, with all markings identifying the site removed.

Aoi Haru, the end theme of the anime Seitokai Yakuindomo performed by Angela, mentions using the Misplaced Pages as one of the daily activities of the high school girl portrayed in the song.

A front page parody news article in The Onion made fun of Misplaced Pages's tendancy to quantify its page views and of its use as a reference source for long-past television series.

The subject of New Zealand musical group Kazaamblam!'s song "Colon/Hyphen" (from their 2010 album Trapezoids Away!) is the search for the meaning of existence using the internet. The lyrics of the chorus include the URL of Misplaced Pages's article Ultimate fate of the universe.

Misplaced Pages in web comics

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On May 7, 2005, the comic strip FoxTrot showed one character appending his older sister to unflattering Misplaced Pages articles. In a similar joke, the web comic Penny Arcade also satirized Misplaced Pages with a comic strip depicting Skeletor vandalizing the He-Man article. The web comic PvP featured a similar gag with the character Marcy adding embarrassing information about Francis, though she denies it's vandalism, claiming truth.

On December 12, 2005 comic of UserFriendly, Greg, who is first defending Misplaced Pages against criticism, is seen about to vandalize Misplaced Pages after finding out he is listed under "hairy dork".

The November 8, 2006 installment of Dinosaur Comics features T-Rex presenting a solution to Misplaced Pages's vandalism problems; the article about chickens would be designated for vandalism, leaving all other articles intact.

A Bunny strip which features Misplaced Pages includes a tombstone which reads: "RIP Jeph Jacques" with the bottom caption: "The Moral of the story is you cannot always trust what you read on Misplaced Pages."

Questionable Content references Misplaced Pages several times. Hannelore, a character who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, cut most of her hair off after reading Misplaced Pages's article on head lice. Misplaced Pages was also referenced when Penelope, a character who is bitter against romance, stated that her edits to the De Beers entry kept getting reverted (she attempted to add a conspiracy theory to the article suggesting that the company had subverted humanity's mating drive in order to sell more diamonds). Misplaced Pages was also parodied, taking the form of a mock product similar to SpaghettiOs.

Applegeeks has jokingly referred to Misplaced Pages as a replacement for traditional education twice.

xkcd first published a comic showing a protester holding up a placard during a political rally that says "", mimicking the wikipedian Citation Needed template used to request a citation for an unsupported statement. The tooltip of the comic, often part of the joke, shows the additional comment "SEMI-PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION". Numerous references to wikipedia have been made in xkcd since then.

The webcomic PartiallyClips criticised Misplaced Pages's supposed policy of deleting many articles on webcomics.

Roadkill Bill has a comic mocking Misplaced Pages.

Ethan in Shortpacked! often describes edit wars he is involved in regarding the Transformers articles on Misplaced Pages.

George of Bob and George once used Misplaced Pages to research The First Annual Robot Tournament (a plot element from Mega Man 6) after being told his brother, Bob, was killed during it, but found no information. Later, however, Mega Man researches the subject and finds detailed information has been added. This article is then used as a plot device in following comics as the characters read about the events being depicted.

Diesel Sweeties comic #1831 shows the Red Robot swearing "on the Misplaced Pages's entry for 'Honor'" to not kill anyone, and then later editing the page. In addition, comic #2036 is entitled "This article about my love life is a stub. You can help 'sexipedia' by expanding it." In this comic, Metal Steve asks Lil' Sis if she remembers losing her virginity. Her response is, "What am I, Misplaced Pages?"

Claims of negative impact on culture

Misplaced Pages has also been criticized for encouraging what Andrew Keen called the "Cult of the Amateur", resulting in toleration and enjoyment of lowerbrow culture.

See also

• Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Misplaced Pages
• Misplaced Pages in the media

Notes

1. "Loxodonta", "African Forest Elephant", "African Bush Elephant", "Pachydermata", "Babar the Elephant", "Elephant", "Oregon",
   "George Washington", "Latchkey kid", "Serial killer", "Hitler", "The Colbert Report" and "Stephen Colbert" are/were temporarily protected. "Mûmak" (formerly at "Oliphaunt") has also been vandalized.

References and footnotes

1. Jennifer Ablan (2007-07-08). "Misplaced Pages page the latest status symbol". Reuters. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
2. "Larry Groznic" (2004-11-10). "I Must Take Issue With The Misplaced Pages Entry For 'Weird Al' Yankovic | The Onion - America's Finest News Source". The Onion. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
3. Note that the song was leaked on the Internet almost a month prior, on August 27, 2006.
4. The Colbert Report, "Faith", Comedy Central, March 1, 2006.
5. The Colbert Report, "Superegomaniac", Comedy Central, May 9, 2006.
6. ""[[Truthiness]]," "[[Wikiality]]" named TV words of year". Reuters. August 27, 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-28. {{cite news}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
7. "'Truthiness' and 'Wikiality' Named Top Television Buzzwords of 2006 Followed by 'Katrina', 'Katie,' and 'Dr. McDreamy'". Global Language Monitor. August 27, 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-28.
8. White & Nerdy lyrics:

   My ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored

   Shopping online for deals on some writable media

   I edit Misplaced Pages

   I memorized Holy Grail really well

   I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL

9. Adams, Cameron. "Weird Al Yankovic." Herald Sun, October 5, 2006.
10. BBC News, Harry Potter book "often unread". Retrieved 1 April 2007.
11. Curtis, Drew (2007-05-31). "It's Not News It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News: Chapter 1". Retrieved 2007-08-12.
12. "The Misplaced Pages Plays Will Be Seen at the Ars Nova in August", Playbill. A review of the piece is here: Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2007-08-06/Wikipedia Plays Review
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14. "Bigipedia". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
15. The Colbert Report / Comedy Central recording of The WØRD "Wikiality", Comedy Central, July 31, 2006.
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21. Colbert, Stephen (2008-06-09). "ThreatDown – Secret Negro Presidents". The Colbert Report.
22. Not My Job: Misplaced Pages Founder Jimmy Wales November 11, 2006
23. "No Hands On Deck!". Homestar Runner Wiki. 2006. Retrieved October 15, 2006. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
24. Chapman, Matt (2006). "No Hands On Deck!". Homestar Runner. Retrieved October 15, 2006. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
25. "Deck (building)". Misplaced Pages. 2006. Retrieved October 15, 2006. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
26. Hansard, November 27, 2006.
27. "Swarm Theory" by Peter Miller, National Geographic Magazine, July 2007
28. O'Malley, Bryan Lee. Scott Pilgrim Volume 6. Oni Press. Pg. 156. July 2010 Printing. Chapter 37: It's not the end of the world "I'm updating her Misplaced Pages page as we speak"
29. "Avoiding Tragedy in the Wiki-Commons". Papers.ssrn.com. Retrieved 2010-02-19.
30. Clarkson, Jeremy (2006-07-30). "Lexus GS 450h SE-L Independence". Times Online. London. Retrieved October 15, 2006. {{cite news}}: External link in |work= (help)
31. Empire Magazine, May 2006.
32. Marcus Brigstocke (2007-11-26). Marcus Brigstocke - Planet Corduroy (DVD). The Shaw Theatre, London, England: Sony/BMG.
33. "Misplaced Pages Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence". The Onion. 2006. Retrieved October 15, 2006. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
34. "The 2007 Lyttle Lytton Contest". Retrieved 2007-06-12.
35. "Professor Misplaced Pages"(Flash video) CollegeHumor. September 16, 2008.
36. Professor Misplaced Pages on YouTube CollegeHumor. September 16, 2008.
37. Weiner, Tim (2006-05-14). "Langley, We Have a Problem". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
38. Ali, Wajahat (2006-01-16). "Sleeping Cell". altmuslim.com.
39. "The brains behind Uncyclopedia". .net. 2007-05-03. Retrieved 2007-11-19.
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