Bluebook Citation to Wikipedia

Sometimes I anally use Bluebook citation in my school notes. So when I pulled a quote from Wikipedia regarding a case, I needed to cite it. Wikipedia provides guidance on this:

Wikipedia cites the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology for this template:

[Signal] Wikipedia, [article], http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/[article] [(optional other parenthetical)] (as of [date], [time] GMT).

The citation for this entry would be:

See Wikipedia, Bluebook, http://en.wikipeida.org/wiki/Bluebook (as of Aug. 30, 2006, 12:22 GMT).

To get the timestamp, you should use the latest revision date and time, obtainable by clicking on the “History” tab at the top of the entry’s web page. The first timestamp is the latest, and therefore the one you should use.

(I just anonymously edited the Bluebook entry, fixing some typos in the citation. )

Education, Internet, Journal | paul | August 30, 2006 8:24 am

6 Comments

By Michelle, May 19, 2007 @ 8:18 pm

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By Chris, September 8, 2007 @ 10:54 am

This is a great entry. There is at least one narrow area of law where proper citation to Wikipedia is extremely important. In trademark prosecution, you often have to look for evidence of how a word or phrase is understood by the general public. Wikipedia has specifically been allowed as a source of evidence on that issue, both for prosecutors and the government examiners (it’s probative value is constantly questioned, but it’s not rejected out of hand).
By HaeB, December 3, 2009 @ 8:59 pm

Instead of clicking on “history”, why not directly click “Cite this page” (the link is in the toolbox on the left of every Wikipedia article). That gives you citations in many established styles (also APA, MLA, Chicago, AMA, BibTeX…) ready for copying and pasting.

Compared to all the other citation styles there, the Harvard JOLT style has the disadvantage that it doesn’t contain a permanent link to a fixed revision of the page (example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bluebook&oldid=327968301).

In most cases is possible to reconstruct the permanent link (i.e. the exact revision) from the date and time, but can be tedious (you might have to scroll back to that time through pages and pages of revisions), and it can happen that more than one revision is made in a given minute – in those cases the Harvard JOLT citation will not uniquely identify the cited text.
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