On 09 February 2017 at 15:57 Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Which leaves the question of "why blacklist the Daily Mail not even worse
sources?" If anyone can suggest an answer to that which would keep a journo
happy I'd be interested to hear it .... ;)

One reason that I didn't see mentioned in the rfc is that, unlike say the Guardian, the Mail seems to reuse its story urls after only 2 years or so.  Eg: I followed a ref link for a story on a record auction price for a painting to find a recent story about a footie transfer.   That may be good enough for many linking websites but doesn't work for us.

Btw i did the WMUK media training & am used to speaking to the press on Wiki-in-residence matters, & would be happy to be on a panel or whatever,

John