NYT citations 

Hi The Ink Daddy!

The "?ref=obituaries" suffix to links in NY Times URLs is appended to the main article URL when a reader clicks through a link from the obituaries page of the Times (analogously to the way "?hpw" or other suffixes may be added when a user clicks though the main page). Since those circumstances are not the case when following a link from Wikipedia, it is not best practices to include them in references. 

Regards, Bongomatic