According to Wikipedia, the phrase has been in use since at lease the middle of the twentieth century.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/putting-lipstick-on-the-numbers-8491338/

An entry on how Wikipedia has fallen victim to hoaxes runs to more than 60 printed pages.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/magazine/wikipedia-ai-chatgpt.html

Another, by an Instagram user in Toronto, said “Jews Own Wikipedia and 46 Bioweapon labs in Ukraine, so they are busy with Monkey Pox.

Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/04/17/antisemitic-incidents-in-canada-remain-high-despite-slight-dip-new-study-says/

Barbie Almalbis is Asian, according to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia and IMDb.

Source: https://ksusentinel.com/2023/01/23/who-is-barbie-almalbis-husband/

Before she made it big on and moved to the US, Margot Robbie's first movie role was in a low-budget independent Aussie thriller named such a flop that it's not even on Wikipedia.

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jemimaskelley/actors-whose-first-roles-were-flops

Did rumours of a ‘Cleopatra’ re-make drive people to the Egyptian queen’s Wikipedia page?

Source: https://theconversation.com/2022-wasnt-the-year-of-cleopatra-so-why-was-she-the-most-viewed-page-on-wikipedia-197350

Even though it was patently false and based on a conspiracy theory, the entry remained online for 15 years in English and was translated into 12 other languages on Wikipedia and viewed by about half a million people.

Source: https://forward.com/news/536276/new-research-documents-how-wikipedia-distorts-the-holocaust/

From Wikipedia: "By the 17th century, it was expected that overnight guests to private homes would provide sums of money, known as vails, to the host's servants"

Source: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/23/05/05/2036208/unionized-apple-store-workers-want-you-to-start-tipping-them?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Henry Silva’s whole biography is available on Wikipedia.

Source: https://thecurrent-online.com/net-worth/henry-silva-net-worth/29425/

If you go to the Wikipedia page that lists Grey Cup halftime shows, you'll find familiar names such as Shania Twain, the Guess Who and the Tragically Hip.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/grey-cup-mystery-band-1.7029918?cmp=rss

If you look on Wikipedia, pageants have produced politicians and world leaders.

Source: https://www.salon.com/2023/09/29/how-to-fix-a-pageant-miss-usa-scandal/

In a description which suggests that someone has at least visited its Wikipedia page if not the place itself, it was said that Barningham has 60 houses, a large green, a village hall and “a recently restored pub”.

Source: https://www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/news/23416545.posh-milbank-arms-one-nations-poshest-villages/?ref=rss

Minutes after their divine nuptials Wikipedia updated the respective pages of the actors as each other's spouses.

Source: https://www.ibtimes.co.in/kiara-advani-radiates-mangalsutra-sindoor-she-walks-hand-hand-sidharth-malhotra-mumbai-856624

My initial search did come up with a few online biographies on Tár, one of which looked the goods on Wikipedia.

Source: https://www.theage.com.au/culture/celebrity/cate-blanchett-and-the-curious-case-of-the-fake-conductor-20230111-p5cbre.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_culture

Other places online — notably Wikipedia — see the current season as the eighth.

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1395519/futurama-hulu-possible-movie/

Pakistan's media regulator said Monday it blocked Wikipedia services in the country for hurting Muslim sentiment by not removing purportedly blasphemous content from the site.

Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-stands-ready-to-help-after-deadly-earthquake-rocks-turkiye-syria-trudeau-1.6261773

Several years ago, I co-led a “voice audit” of major CPG brands and found that nearly 80% of “impact queries” default to Wikipedia, detractors or activist groups.

Source: https://adage.com/article/opinion/how-ais-digital-memory-can-debunk-brand-narratives/2462497

Since there exists no one official pantheon of action heroes, I started by turning to the first port of call for many researchers: Wikipedia.

Source: https://slate.com/culture/2023/03/john-wick-james-bond-action-heroes-j-names.html?via=rss

So, I disconnected my phone from the TV, read up what happened on Wikipedia (I know, I’m a bad movie lover), and then decided I could handle the rest of the movie on the comfort of a smaller screen.

Source: https://collider.com/horror-in-the-high-desert-ending-explained/

The data used for this analysis comes from the International Movie Database, TV Tropes, Wikipedia, Wikidata and The Guardian’s own research.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/ng-interactive/2023/mar/12/can-95-years-of-data-tell-us-who-will-win-this-years-oscar-for-best-picture