Exhibit 1040 ยท Policy page
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 220, Daily Mail RfC (closing statement)
Consensus has determined that the Daily Mail (including its online version, dailymail.co.uk) is generally unreliable, and its use as a reference is to be generally prohibited, especially when other more reliable sources exist.
A request for comment opened on 7 January 2017 closed on 8 February 2017 with a statement by three-plus volunteer closers that the Daily Mail is generally unreliable and generally prohibited as a reference. The closing statement summarizes the support arguments (poor fact checking, sensationalism, fabrication) and the three opposing arguments, and says a second RfC upheld the result in 2019. The Daily Mail entry on the perennial-sources page states that it was the first source to be deprecated. Contributor names are omitted here.
- Source
- English Wikipedia (reliable sources noticeboard; request for comment closed by volunteer editors)
- Date
- 8 February 2017
- Quoted from
- Archive top, result
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_220#Daily_Mail_RfC
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit