Wikipedia:WikiProject IRC/Sources

This page discusses the establishment of reliability of sources to be used in articles related to IRC.

IRC-junkie.org

As noted by User:Tothwolf (found the book references & created full citations) and User:Lexein (verified, added url= params), http://irc-junkie.org has been used, listed, or recommended as a source in 4 independent books about computing and the Internet; these suggest its reliability for use as a Wikipedia source about IRC. The following is a distillation and merge of comments as of this edit of Talk:Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients#Article blanking and "sources":

Shelly, Gary B.; Cashman, Thomas J.; Napier, H. Albert; Judd, Philip J. (April 11, 2007). "Real-time Online Communications". Discovering the Internet: Complete Concepts and Techniques (2nd ed.). Cengage Learning. pp. 223–224. ISBN 1-4188-5990-7. You can learn more about IRC clients, networks, and channels at sites such as IRC-Junkie.org, New2chat.com, and IRCHelp.org.
Kshetri, Nir (May 19, 2010). "Concluding Comments". The Global Cybercrime Industry: Economic, Institutional and Strategic Perspectives (1st ed.). Springer. p. 159. ISBN 3-642-11521-7. See "Help! I am being DoS'ed" at http://www.irc-junkie.org/content/a-DoS.php {{cite book}}: External link in |quote= (help)
Padula, Marco; Reggiori, Amanda (February 4, 2010). "Riferimenti webliografici". Fondamenti di informatica per la progettazione multimediale. Dai linguaggi formali all'inclusione digitale (in Italian). Franco Angeli. p. 182. ISBN 88-464-7893-2. "IRC Junkie - IRC news", http://www.irc-junkie.org/. {{cite book}}: External link in |quote= (help)
Pranz, Sebastian (January 27, 2009). "Direkte Schrift-Kommunikation". Theatralität digitaler Medien: Eine wissenssoziologische Betrachtung medialisierten Alltagshandelns (in German) (1st ed.). VS Verlag. p. 128. ISBN 3-531-16243-8. 210 http://www.irc-junkie.org/content/l-cybersexnot.php 16.3.04 {{cite book}}: External link in |quote= (help)