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[edit] Reference.com as a Reference for Wikipedia

Reference.com is a Wikipedia Mirror and search engine. Per WP:SOURCES it would not meet the requirements of being a reliable source for the core content policy of Verifiability. Jeepday (talk) 21:55, 3 December 2007 (UTC)


Perhaps reference.com should not disambig to here, since reference.com seems to use wikipedia source? ++Lar 21:05, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Independent variables on plants

what do they mean or whats your opinion about it

[edit] question

how can referance.com be a competitor of wiki, if wiki supplies some of it's search results?--Manwithbrisk 00:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia is free and open; by definition it cannot compete with anything. Fishal 17:05, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

That's ridiculous. Free and open websites can still compete, e.g. number of users. 71.246.235.133 —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 17:59, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but there is no sense whatsoever in a free and open website to attempt to compete. Commercial websites would want to be competitive, because they are interested in making a profit, which relates directly to the amount of views and visitors they have, as well as people who pay this website, if it is a website which charges for membership/access. Wikipedia is non-profit, and it is therefore not in any way affected by the number of visitors it has. In theory Wikipedia would not benefit any more if it had a billion visitors than if it had a hundred. The only reason, then, that Wikipedia would try to compete with other websites, commercial or non-commercial, would be for sheer vanity purposes, and the last time I checked Wikipedia's long term goals do not include becoming the most famous or the most popular website on the internet. Calgary (talk) 23:59, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] reference/external

I found Reference.com used as a reference/external link on the article "Bernie LaBarge" History and on review found that the the article was a Wikipedia mirror http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Bernie_LaBarge. a check at finds that there are over two hundred thousand mentions of Reference.com on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Reference.com&fulltext=Search. the use I found was not in keeping with WP:EL. How many more inappropriate usages are there? Who is posting this? is it spam? Jeepday (talk) 14:58, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

  • I looked in to this a little more, the place where "Reference.com" is used in my example above was part of a series of edits to the same article by a user, it was not intential spam. Second my search above was flawed I should have searched for "Reference.com" in quotes, which comes up with around 3,000 many of which are to baseball-Reference.com which appears to be a separate entity from Reference.com Jeepday (talk) 21:47, 3 December 2007 (UTC)