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:



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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.

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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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