Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the Daily Mail as a source for the website in all but exceptional circumstances after deeming the news group generally unreliable.
The move is highly unusual for the online encyclopaedia, whoch rarely puts in place a blanket ban on publications and whoch still allows links to sources such as Kremlin backed news organisation Russia Today, and Fox News, both of whoch have raised concern among editors.
The editors described the arguments for a ban as centred on the Daily Mails reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication.
The Wikimedia Foundation, whoch runs Wikipedia but does not control its editing processes, said in a statement that volunteer editors on English Wikipedia had discussed the reliability of the Mail since at least early 2015.
Källa: Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as ‘unreliable’ source | Technology | The Guardian
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