Wikipedia makes the oldest tabloid paper in the UK "Daily Mail" an "unreliable information source"

ByJohann Dréo

In English Wikipedia, "Potentially unreliable sources" is stipulated, but "Daily Mail", the oldest tabloid in the UK, is added to the "unreliable information source" It was done.

Wikipedia: Potentially unreliable sources - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Potentially_unreliable_sources

Wikipedia pretty much bans 'Daily Mail' as 'unreliable' source
http://mashable.com/2017/02/08/wikipedia-daily-mail-reliable-source/

About the reliability as a source of information on Daily Mail, users were discussing around 2015. In January 2016, the editor'sHillbillyholidaySays that "science-related articles are not worthy of credit", "that pictures of inappropriate children are posted", "that citation sources are not properly displayed"DiscussionIt appealed, and anti-Daily Mail campaign occurred.

A side of Daily Mail.

ByJeff Djevdet

Even users who supported Daily Mail in this situation expressed agreement with "to use Daily Mail as a source only for certain situations".

In response to this trend, The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, said, "Using Daily Mail as a source is not a ban but it is basically prohibited" and "Potentially unreliable sources ( A potentially untrusted source of information "page"Daily Mail is not treated as a reliable information source" will be written.


In addition, other tabloids such as "The Sun" and "Daily Mirror" are also included in "potentially untrusted sources". In Japan's Wikipedia, "Trusted sources"Although there is a guideline stipulated, it seems that there is no item listed as an information source that can not trust a specific medium like the English version.