Since 2017, Wikipedia editors have compiled a list of news sources from which articles are highly likely to employ systematic bias, lack professional editing and/or journalistic standards, regularly misrepresent sources, and/or fabricate information.
While its list is by no means a complete list of publications with the aforementioned problems, it has helped make Wikipedia articles more reliable by basing them off of sources covering the same events and information from a more objective and factual point of view.
To make Lemmy news communities better than their Reddit counterparts, I think avoiding links to those sources in favor of more reliable alternatives would be worthwhile.
First time I’ve had to use this on a post instead of a comment but here we go.
Please, anyone who reads this, stop posting links to the mobile version of Wikipedia. It doesn’t switch automatically on PC, and I see it happen all the time. Just take the half a second to remove the “.m” from the beginning of the link, save everyone else from the pain of having to be surprised by it and taking the time to do it themselves.
Apologies; fixed it in the main post, so the crossposts should be fixed as well now.
Thank you very much, I see that happen all the time so I like to have that message ready as a copy-paste. It’s actually really interesting to see the variety of reactions I get from people when I post it. I also want to add it left me really confused this one time since I really wasn’t expecting a mobile link so I thought something had gone wrong with my account settings and changed it back to the newer vector skin.