Simple question, and I know before I heard that “Barack Obama” had the most references, currently sitting at 316, but I found another page with more (436):
Is there a wiki page with more references than that?
Are we limiting this to just articles, or all Wikipedia pages?
OK, I’m clearly not understanding what the OP means. I was curious what a low number of references would look like, and so I tried what I thought would be a relatively unimportant President. But Zachary Taylor still has close to 1000 references to it.
The OP is talking about the “References” section at the bottom of an article, not the number of pages that link to it.
I believe that the OP is referring to the number of footnotes in the article, and not the number of pages that link to a given article. The number of footnotes, however, doesn’t really tell you the number of references since a number of works are cited several times. That might gum up the works a bit, depending on what the OP wants.
A comparison is made more difficult because Wikipedia does not have a unified citation format. Through the ages different pages have had slightly different citing styles and there have been different templates used.
For example, some pages will cite a given book only once, while others will cite each use of the book (or each page) a different time, as in the Rome article. And that’s just counting deliberate citations… other times two different editors will cite the same source, and not realizing someone else already used it, make a new footnote for it.