Talk:Daily Mail

Latest comment: 3 months ago by Martinevans123 in topic "How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail"

Semi-protected edit request on 22 October 2022

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Missing verb in sentence after footnote 62: “ Rothemere argued that it unjust that…” 2001:1970:4E28:4200:0:0:0:1237 (talk) 20:33, 22 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

  Done Terasail[✉️] 01:48, 23 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

Cite of uco.edu

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Unnecessarily, on 2 April 2023, supported the designation "Right-wing" by adding a cite of uco.edu, tagging the edit as minor and adding edit summary = "Adding/improving reference(s)". I reverted with edit summary = "... don't see how the cited source directly supports the text". Unnecessarily, without going to the talk page, re-inserted with edit summary = "Academic source, more reliable than fringe journals. Adding/improving reference(s))". It's false that it's an "academic source", the cited uco.edu (University of Central Oklahoma) page has a label showing the chart is from Ad Fontes Media in 2022. And it's false that Ad Fontes says Daily Mail is right-wing, their 2023 edition does not have Daily Mail in its "skews right" etc. columns. Therefore I believe Unnecessarily's insertion should be removed again. Any other opinions? Peter Gulutzan (talk) 13:59, 17 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

If you feel that opinion pieces in Feminist Media Studies, Critical Discourse Studies, and The Political Quarterly are better sources, then feel free to delete anything I added. I will not be offended.Unnecessarily (talk) 14:07, 17 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
Or, do you think the label should be changed from "right-wing"Unnecessarily (talk) 14:13, 17 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
I don't feel they are better sources so I can't meet your condition for agreeing to removal of your insertion. I again ask whether there are other opinions about it. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 15:14, 18 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
There were no further comments. I have reverted. I suggest that WP:3O exists, if there is desire to continue this. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 16:28, 15 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
I suppose it is more important to limit different viewpoints, so I will leave it at that Unnecessarily (talk) 18:03, 18 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

"Laura Clark" listed at Redirects for discussion

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  The redirect Laura Clark has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 June 5 § Laura Clark until a consensus is reached. ★Trekker (talk) 01:20, 5 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 26 August 2023

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Add Category:British news websites EntityFacts (talk) 13:48, 26 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

Edited the above comment to display the category as a link instead of categorizing this talk page as a British news website – Recoil16 (talk) 14:02, 26 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
  Done Paper9oll (🔔📝) 15:42, 26 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

"How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail"

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I think this might be worth a brief mention, if a good secondary source could be found. For those unfamiliar with Brian Bilston, the poem is as follows:

"How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail"

I would rather
eat Quavers that are six week’s stale,
blow dry the hair of Gareth Bale,
listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,
than read one page of the Daily Mail.

If I were bored
in a waiting room in Perivale,
on a twelve hour trip on British rail
or a world circumnavigational sail,
I would not read the Daily Mail.

I would happily read
the complete works of Peter Mayle,
the autobiography of Dan Quayle,
selected scripts from Emmerdale,
but I couldn't ever read the Daily Mail.

Far better to
stand outside in a storm of hail,
be blown out to sea in a powerful gale
then swallowed by a humpback whale
than have to read the Daily Mail.

From: You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian Bilston (2017)

Martinevans123 (talk) 13:46, 25 August 2024 (UTC)Reply