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Old 12-04-2008, 10:38 PM
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Wikipedia disbelief breaks out into the real world.

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I hate to point out that 'citation needed' is not a wiki invention...
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I hate to point out that 'citation needed' is not a wiki invention...[citation needed]

But seriously though, it IS from wikipedia. In common culture/slang, it's an expression of disbelief of a statement, which people use as a joke BECAUSE of wikipedia. As a statement, wikipedia never created anything but the word 'wikipedia'.
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Well that might be what it has become, but it's traditionally to alert that a book/reference is required.
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