Wikipedia editors ban ''unreliable'' Daily Mail as source

Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the use of articles from British tabloid The Daily Mail and its globally popular website as sources, calling them "unreliable", according to a statement. English-language editors of the online encyclopaedia cited the newspaper''s "reputation for poor fact-checking, sensationalism, and flat-out fabrication", said the statement posted on Wikipedia Wednesday. The vote means the tabloid''s use as a reference should be "generally prohibited", it said.
The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit organisation that runs the Wikipedia website, acknowledged the vote in a statement cited in The Guardian, but said it was up to its unpaid editors. From now on, it said "the Daily Mail will generally not be referenced as a ''reliable source'' on English Wikipedia, and volunteer editors are encouraged to change existing citations to the Daily Mail to another source deemed reliable by the community".