Wikipedia bans quotations of The Daily Mail for being "generally unreliable"

Wikipedia has barred citations of The Daily Mail
after editors of the online encyclopedia concluded
on February 8, 2017 that the British tabloid is
"generally unreliable."

The decision came after years of long debate over
the Daily Mail's credibility among Wikipedia's active community of volunteer editors.
The editors explained that the decision stemmed from
"the Daily Mail's reputation for poor fact checking,
sensationalism, and flat-out fabrication."

As a result, the Daily Mail and its online offshoot
have been "generally prohibited" as a reference
on Wikipedia, "especially when other more
reliable sources exist."

The editors recommended installing an "edit
filter" that will "warn editors attempting to use the
Daily Mail as a reference." They also encouraged
the volunteers to review the thousands of Daily
Mail citations already on Wikipedia, and to
"remove/replace them as appropriate."

The Daily Mail is one of the UK's most
commercially successful tabloids, and its website
churning out upwards of 1,600 stories a day is the most-read online newspaper in the world.

But the publication has at times been as wildly
inaccurate as it is widely read. In 2014, George
Clooney ripped the Daily Mail for a story claiming
that the mother of Clooney's then-fiancee, Amal
Alamuddin, opposed their marriage for religious
reasons. The story, littered with false claims, was eventually deleted.

Earlier this week, a lawyer for First Lady Melania
Trump re-filed a lawsuit against the Daily Mail
over an already-retracted story detailing claims
that she used to be involved in a "high-end
escort" service.

Source: CNN