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This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations: Josh Fjelstad (22 June 2011). "The 100 Longest Entries On Wikipedia". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 13 December 2014. Michael Graham Richard (2012-11-16). "WTF?! Did BP Use Wikipedia to Estimate the Size of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?". TreeHugger. Retrieved 2013-01-17.

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The lead mentions that the Deepwater oil spill is 8% to 31% larger than the Ixtoc oil spill. The accompanying citation in the lead does not mention these specific numbers. Nowhere in the article is this repeated (and no citations). Sites around the web have been using this number. Might want to remove it. Danial Bass (talk) 22:19, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]