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Curious and funny: The Onion is slightly more reliable than some non-satire websites. For Wikipedia's purposes, I would think Onion would be an outright "Do no
by skytreader 6y ago
Curious and funny: The Onion is slightly more reliable than some non-satire websites.
For Wikipedia's purposes, I would think Onion would be an outright "Do not use".
I wonder what cites The Onion? The only reason I can think of would be for meta-Onion entries, e.g., Wiki entry on The Onion itself, perhaps their management board, etc.
- itcrowd 6y agoI guess something to the extent of: "[action X] was widely mocked in the press ..."
- mattkrause 6y agoI clicked on a few random references. Several use The Onion to establish "Cultural Significance": the logic seems to be that if something is well-known enough for The Onion to mock, it has a reasonable amount of cachet. Clever, as I doubt there are many sources that literally report "X is a household name."