Jimmy Wales

No, we didn't ban it as a source.

We just said, look, it's probably not a great source, right?

You should probably look for a better source.

So certainly, you know, if the Daily Mail runs a headline saying, new cure for cancer, right?

It's like, you know, probably there's more serious sources than a tabloid newspaper.

So, you know, in an article about lung cancer, you probably wouldn't cite the Daily Mail.

That's kind of ridiculous.

But also for celebrities and so forth, to sort of know, well, they do cover celebrity gossip a lot, but they also tend to have vendettas and so forth.

And you really have to step back and go, hmm, is this really encyclopedic or is this just the Daily Mail going on a rant?

It requires massive community health.

Yeah, a great example that I really loved this morning that I saw, someone left a note on my user talk page in English Wikipedia saying, it was quite a dramatic headline saying,

racist hook on front page.

So we have on the front page of Wikipedia, we have a little section called Did You Know?

And it's just little tidbits and facts, just things people find interesting.

And there's a whole process for how things get there.

And the one that somebody was raising a question about was, it was comparing a very well-known US football player, Black.

There was a quote from another famous sport person comparing him to a Lamborghini, clearly a compliment.

And so somebody said, actually, here's a study.

Here's some interesting information about how black sports people are far more often compared to inanimate objects and given that kind of analogy.

And I think it's demeaning to compare a person to a car, et cetera, et cetera.