On 4 February 2011 01:32, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
One is expected to use sound editorial judgment. Using
British tabloids
for a biography of a living person falls outside that remit. One is
expected to have some familiarity with what is an appropriate source for
the subject.
That requires people be familiar with such things on an international
scale. In practice most such sources will be the result of people
using the first thing that comes up on Google that looks like a news
source (and the daily mail does rank so well these days) rather than
any deliberate attempt to use tabloids as references.
Other than getting a database report to list every link to such a site
within a ref tag there isn't much we can do about it.
--
geni