The irony is that the Mail fails to understand that they are in line with Wikipedia's own policy, which states that it does not use other Wikipedia pages as a source:
‘Wikipedia articles (and Wikipedia mirrors) are not reliable sources for any purpose (except as sources on themselves per WP:SELFSOURCE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SELFSOURCE). Because Wikipedia forbids original research, there is nothing reliable in it that is not citable with something else.’
So yeah, we don't use Wikipedia as a 'sole source' either, because it's not a primary or secondary source.
John
On 10 February 2017 at 09:58, Lucy Crompton-Reid < lucy.crompton-reid@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Well they certainly weren't laughing when they spoke to me...although I was nearly crying by the end of the call!
On 10 February 2017 at 09:53, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
A spokesman for Mail Newspapers said: “It is hard to know whether to laugh or cry at this move by Wikipedia. For the record the Daily Mail banned all its journalists from using Wikipedia as a sole source in 2014 because of its unreliability.
Source: Guardian Online.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia -bans-daily-mail-as-unreliable-source-for-website
Gordo
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