The Daily Mail is one of the topmost websites for people to go to for the latest buzz, issues, and information. However, just recently, Wikipedia has banned the site from being used as one of its sources due to their methods of presenting facts.
According to The Next Web, the journalism style of the Daily Mail is notorious for innuendo, bigotry, and exaggeration. Because of this, Wikipedia has banned and dubbed the site as generally unreliable. In addition to that, the editors have said that the site is also known for its poor fact checking as well as their flat-out fabrication of stories.
This wasn't a rash decision, to begin with as Wikipedia had some deliberation on the credibility of the Daily Mail. It first started out by a proposal made by one of Wikipedia's editors with the pen name Hillbillyholiday who questioned the credibility of the site. They had to do some more research to prove whether it was a biased proposal or a legitimate one. In the end, there has been enough proof for the latter.
To make a point, the reliability of some of the Daily Mail's articles has since been scrutinized even before Wikipedia had pointed that out. The Guardian wrote an issue about the Daily Mail's false immigration story that talked about immigrants, from Romania and Bulgaria, who have fled to the UK. Despite its popularity over the internet, the Daily Mail is already known for its questionable articles in the UK as there are a lot of references and parodies made directly towards this so-called news outlet.
Although there might be criticisms against Wikipedia for doing so, they say that it is just the Daily Mail that has been banned. Other news and information sites can still be quoted as long as the contributor actually does some more research and not depend on one article as a source.
