In developing Where Monsters Are Born (WMAB), co-curators Dr. Brian J Griffith and Dr. Amy King consulted and/or referenced a wide range of secondary sources, including scholarly monographs and journal articles, articles written by both historians and journalists, and Open Source reference articles, including many on Wikipedia. It is these latter sources that we wish to address in this "Statement on Use of Sources."

Wikipedia, as many  are already well aware, is an Open Access Internet encyclopedia, "created and edited by volunteers around the world," as the organization's byline explains. As such, information drawn from Wikipedia, although "peer-reviewed" to a certain extent via its peer-to-peer backend platform, does not necessarily always represent the latest standards of knowledge production on any given topic. Thus, when referencing Wikipedia articles in our Groups and Materials descriptions, our intention was not to appeal to expert knowledge contained therein but, rather, to provide our visitors with an English-language reference for some of the more obscure individuals and organizations mentioned in WMAB. And since we did not consider these Wikipedia articles as sources of reliable scholarly information, they do not appear in "Sources Consulted" under each item's "Related Resources" section.

To see a compiled list of all of the Wikipedia articles linked to in our various Group and Item descriptions, see the "Bibliography."