Wikipedia just banned contributors from citing the Daily Mail as a source

Feb09

by Sindy Cator on February 9, 2017 at 12:14 am

The Daily Mail is one of the most popular newspapers in the UK, and the most widely read English language news website in the world. It’s also one of the worst. Its journalism is a lurid cocktail of innuendo, bigotry, exaggeration, and straight-up bullshit. The Daily Mail is notorious for it. It’s not so much a newspaper, but more a list of things that never happened, and it is for that reason why Wikipedia editors voted to ban contributors from using it as a source in all but the most exceptional circumstances, and classed it as “generally unreliable.” The editors justified the…