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## M1 FREEWAY SUITE ACCESS TO MY HEADQUARTERS IN JOHANNESBURG 💯%100%&5£K⭕(⭕)

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## Instructions

The main page is made up of a main template that holds the layout of the page, plus a set of smaller templates that hold the content. This allows easy generation of content in multiple languages, simply by creating or editing the appropriate templates listed in the table hereafter.

To translate the Main Page into a new language, first add the language to Project:Main page templates/page, which will add it to the list below. Then, translate each of the system messages by following the red links and filling in the content (by copying and translating an existing language that you understand — preferably the English version).

Finally, to create the main page itself you need to create a page called MediaWiki/**code** whose contents should be:

```
{{Main page|**code**}}
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```

where **code** is replaced by the appropriate language code in both instances. Please make sure you include the comment about editing the page, and if you choose to provide a translation in the appropriate language, please include it *as well as* the English version, not instead of.

If you are only able to do a partial translation then any missing content (red links in the table below) will be in English instead.

*Important note: Please make sure you have read Project:Language policy before starting a new translation.*

## Current status

The table lists all languages that have been started. Please add new languages to Project:Main page templates/page and they will automatically be added below.

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In addition, you may want to translate Template:MediaWiki News and Template:New opportunities/Content, *however* please only do this if you plan to keep it up to date — it is better to have up-to-date news in English than old news in the correct language.

## Notes in 2014

These items are not included in the list above:

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## Sandbox

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51.52.45.222, you have been blocked by ‪Abuse filter‬ until 16:09, 27 August 2019, because: Automatically blocked by the abuse filter. Rule matched: «vandal in user talk ns and other places».
What can I do now?
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### Global unblock for 151.48.0.0/17

Status:    **In progress**
* 151.48.0.0/17 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Facts:13th june a steward (masti) blocked this italian ip range globally for six months with the motivation 'Cross-wiki spam: spambot'.There was not a spambot which is a computer making automatical spam edits but just a troll who abused account creation.The steward also blocked about twenty fake accounts created from that ip range whose only edits were message spamming in various wikipedias.I have seen that the messages were invitations to many users to join a votation in it.wikipedia.org which was closed short after so probably the abuser would have stopped anyway.But yet the block is still active for about 33000 ips until december.
Considerations:a global block is useful to protect wikipedia but this kind of block exceeds this need.It is excessive both because the abuser has apparently no more reasons to continue his abuse and because to stop his abuse it was sufficient preventing users from that ip range from creating new accounts instead of blocking completely the possibility to edit anything.I know that every block causes unavoidably some collateral damage but in this case the collateral damage is too high but most important it is not necessary.I would not be asking to unblock the ip range if the problem was a spambot or an anonymous user who spammed his messages from various ip addresses from this range.I am asking to unblock the ip range because the abuser used the new accounts he continued creating to spam messages.
Request:imho the most proper solution which both protects wikipedia from the abuser's possible return and makes the least possible collateral damage for the remaining 33000 innocent users is globally blocking new account creations but allowing editing from ips.In this way users can continue contributing anonymously and it would be even easier checking possible disruptive edits by keeping an eye on the ip range.Also consider that this italian ip range is maybe the most common provided by the telecommunication company 'Wind' and that a large part of italian contributors are currently prevented from editing for no justified reason.It is still possible that some users from this ip range will commit some abuse but no ip range contains zero percent of abuse and from this ip range no more abuse than from any other ip range is committed.You can check the contributions from the blocked ip range in it.wikipedia.org to verify my affirmation.So please review this six months global block and change its settings to allow normal users to make their usual constructive edits while preventing the abuser from creating new accounts.
LuluGigi (talk) 09:39, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for proxies

Status:    **In progress**
* 171.220.144.232 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 54.37.18.133 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 177.52.55.1 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 208.115.123.130 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 37.59.105.90 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 200.255.122.170 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 200.174.158.26 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 103.85.16.54 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 185.132.90.108 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 170.82.73.128 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 38.117.105.189 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

All proxies with edits in multiple projects. **Rafael** (stanglavine) msg 16:56, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for 2600:1700:8b60:ca00::/64

Status:    **In progress**
* 2600:1700:8b60:ca00::/64 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Cross wiki abuse; BLP violations. --Zaxxon0 (talk) 10:23, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for Year LTA

Status:    **In progress**
* 2604:2000:1343:C000:0:0:0:0/50 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Persistent cross-wiki vandalism for the past several months (going back more than a year on en.wiki). This person has vandalized en.wiki, es.wiki, pt.wiki, fr.wiki, de.wiki, and Simple Wikipedia recently (other sites are probably affected as well). Most of the abuse involves date-changing vandalism and BLP vandalism (including attacks). The LTA appears to be the only person using this range, and there are almost no positive contributions on any wiki in the past year. After being rangeblocked on en.wiki in June, they took their vandalism cross-wiki again, most notably on simple.wiki. Please block the range (set to "anon-only") for at least 6 months. ***Light******andDark2000*** 🌀 (talk) 17:45, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block Proxies/Spambots

Status:    **In progress**
* 31.40.253.186 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 187.144.201.36 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 181.113.56.82 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 104.160.17.105 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 23.83.224.27 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 170.238.119.77 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 125.27.74.187 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 185.94.218.57 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 222.121.116.26 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 31.40.253.186 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 103.14.248.19 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 67.209.183.76 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 189.126.52.238 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 119.204.36.136 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 81.91.189.61 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 125.27.74.187 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 109.69.75.5 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 94.24.111.221 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 95.47.162.216 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 1.54.194.51 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 46.102.234.101 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 103.28.59.131 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 86.202.188.99 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 88.76.131.9 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 103.44.50.114 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 146.198.209.66 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 125.27.251.160 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 65.102.198.21 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 177.67.143.208 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 203.134.197.66 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 80.216.34.28 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 177.85.233.140 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 104.160.18.21 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 91.200.124.197 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 180.180.170.127 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 31.42.254.24 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 146.120.81.73 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 104.160.18.21 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

[1]
[2] [3] --`WikiBayer 👤💬` 19:08, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

* 190.82.64.67 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 113.11.136.28 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 31.40.209.120 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 31.13.227.67 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 31.40.209.120 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 31.202.121.62 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 45.163.117.8 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 45.70.56.211 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 85.31.112.251 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 186.211.105.202 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 200.27.18.138 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 109.94.172.82 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 101.109.241.209 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 95.70.26.148 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 110.93.13.190 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 85.105.201.226 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

[4]--`WikiBayer 👤💬` 19:40, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

* 103.111.54.147 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 103.22.173.250 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 45.70.112.186 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 217.25.221.60 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 223.25.14.66 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 217.107.198.66 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 213.101.151.4 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 45.70.3.30 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 72.12.248.37 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 80.191.27.114 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 45.112.56.122 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 42.115.19.197 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Proxys (Spambots) --`WikiBayer 👤💬` 08:22, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for 125.27.0.0/16

Status:    **In progress**
* 125.27.0.0/16 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Proxys abuse only [5] --`WikiBayer 👤💬` 19:56, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block GRP evasion

Status:    **In progress**
* 82.53.189.24 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 59.90.38.92 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 62.84.255.203 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Ban evasion of GRP - see history of s:wt:Administrators' noticeboard --DannyS712 (talk) 00:51, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

* 81.217.12.66 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 103.255.4.80 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 41.102.48.126 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 83.244.54.158 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 102.137.211.197 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

See contributions on simple english wikipedia. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 23:55, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

* 178.165.128.45 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Ban evasion by George Reeves Person.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:10, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

* 64.134.147.103 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker Another one... --94rain **Talk**  05:22, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for 185.174.156.0/22

Status:    **In progress**
* 185.174.156.0/22 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Abused webhost/proxy (HostRoyale). --Zaxxon0 (talk) 09:26, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for 45.70.0.0/17

Status:    **In progress**
* 45.70.0.0/17 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Proxies Spambots and abuse only. https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/stalktoy/45.70.0.0%2F17 --`WikiBayer 👤💬` 08:30, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for Proxies Spambots

Status:    **In progress**
* 1.9.167.35 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 5.189.193.44 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 36.66.218.153 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 41.169.65.26 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 41.169.70.219 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 62.133.171.79 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 66.11.38.34 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 81.161.61.88 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 83.219.142.223 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 95.38.211.68 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 95.47.116.93 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 103.48.67.95 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 118.174.220.164 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 145.255.23.69 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 159.224.243.185 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 168.227.212.66 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 169.255.190.18 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 177.74.112.154 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 181.196.181.146 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 182.16.245.54 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 185.118.155.153 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 185.255.46.13 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 188.0.163.90 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 196.0.111.186 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 201.48.226.249 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 202.91.41.38 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 213.7.203.58 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 217.25.221.60 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 217.107.198.66 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 223.25.14.66 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

See here [6] --`WikiBayer 👤💬` 11:41, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for 143.255.56.0/22

Status:    **In progress**
* 143.255.56.0/22 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Abused webhost/proxy. (HostDime) --Zaxxon0 (talk) 02:49, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for 202.53.48.106

Status:    **In progress**
* 202.53.48.106 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Cross-wiki vandalism. --Xiplus (talk) 09:17, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for 71.55.69.90

Status:    **In progress**
* 71.55.69.90 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Crosswiki vandalism.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:09, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global locks & blocks for a spammer

Status:    **In progress**
* Ludovic5443 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* Maiki90 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* Spd67 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* Zejan (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* Jablu12 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* Zarji89 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* Mp3song (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* Huwa42 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* Wati78 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* Hji56 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* Lemo78 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* Bwi56 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* Hji46 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* Sarahzia12 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* Sabir Shek (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* 119.30.38.23 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 119.30.41.220 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 119.30.35.101 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker
* 213.229.67.85 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Crosswiki vandalism. See also c:Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Ludovic5443.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:26, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for George Reeves Person

Status:    **In progress**
* 83.25.173.217 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

George Reeves Person, as usual. Nigos (talk) 00:07, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for 155.205.200.42

Status:    **In progress**
* 155.205.200.42 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Crosswiki vandalism.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 05:56, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for 74.82.60.190

Status:    **In progress**
* 74.82.60.190 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Long-term abuse and cross-wiki abuse User:Vainevery [7] using IP,see same edit in zh:Template:HITO流行音樂獎海外歌手（新加坡）(74.82.60.190,[8],Vainevery,[9]),zh:Template:KKBOX數位音樂風雲榜年度十大風雲歌手(74.82.60.190,[10],Vainevery,[11]),zh:Template:新城勁爆全國歌手大獎(74.82.60.190,[12],Vainevery,[13]),zh:Template:全球流行音樂金榜年度最佳男歌手(74.82.60.190,[14],Vainevery,[15]) and zh:Template:唱工委音乐奖年度最佳男歌手(74.82.60.190,[16],Vainevery,[17]).--**MCC214 # ex umbra in solem** 11:32, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for 2600:387:6:902:0:0:0:7

Status:    **In progress**
* 2600:387:6:902:0:0:0:7 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Crosswiki vandalism.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:37, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for 144.121.121.99

Status:    **In progress**
* 144.121.121.99 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Crosswiki vandalism.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:46, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for 172.69.134.10

Status:    **In progress**
* 172.69.134.10 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Proxy: Cloudflare. See Steward requests/Global/2019-08#Global block for all IPv4s under AS13335 (CloudFlare). --**云间 守望** 05:58, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global Block for sock

Status:    **In progress**
* 75.166.99.215 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Denver LTA perp. --IanDBeacon (talk) 19:32, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global block for 2806:2F0:9000:14A7:48A7:D053:BBA5:78C4

Status:    **In progress**
* 2806:2F0:9000:14A7:48A7:D053:BBA5:78C4 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

Crosswiki vandalism.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:11, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global lock for Isechika/Masato Koizumi

Status:    **In progress**
* **Script error: No such module "Global lock".**

Isechika, Koizumi PT. ARTIKEL PILIHAN MAKMUR (talk) 21:06, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global lock for massive vanity spam sock farm on amwiki

Status:    **In progress**
* **Script error: No such module "Global lock".**
* 197.156.0.0/16 xwiki-contribs •  xwiki-date • ST •  IP info •  WHOIS •  robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • ipchecker

I'm fairly sure I've missed some but they've made a huge mess that can't be cleaned up by locals or gs. Praxidicae (talk) 15:35, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
Wim b locked all of the accounts, but the IP range is still open. --DannyS712 (talk) 18:45, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
I am not sure that I want to block such a wide range. Ruslik (talk) 08:04, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
### Global lock for cross-wiki abuse and LTA 65.49.0.0/17 and 74.82.60.190 sock

Status:    **Done**
**Script error: No such module "Global lock".**
**Script error: No such module "Global lock".**
Sock of long-term abuse and cross-wiki abuse 65.49.0.0/17[18] and 74.82.60.190,also,I hope to check whether there have sleepers and block their IP(s)/IP range(s) if they have create account,here are some other recently created that still have data available,thanks.--**MCC214 # ex umbra in solem** 09:57, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

* Added another offensive username-94rain **Talk**  13:30, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Template:Done Ruslik (talk) 08:19, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
### Global lock/unlock for \*\*\*

Status:    **Done**
*[REDACTED]* (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
abusive username and crosswiki vandalism--`WikiBayer 👤💬` 13:23, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Template:Done Ruslik (talk) 08:20, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
### Global lock for spammers

Status:    **In progress**
**Script error: No such module "Global lock".**

Praxidicae (talk) 13:56, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
### Global lock for GavinUiw45196041

Status:    **In progress**
* GavinUiw45196041 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)

Spam only account, --—**Ah3kal** (talk) 14:24, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global lock for spammers (2)

Status:    **In progress**
* AlizaShively (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* FranchescaSilvey (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)

Spam only account,—**Ah3kal** (talk) 14:29, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global lock for xwiki lta

Status:    **In progress**
* **Script error: No such module "Global lock".**

See Atomsalebpizza1994 etc...Praxidicae (talk) 14:38, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
### Global lock for Kuldeep sah

Status:    **In progress**
* Kuldeep sah (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)

Long-term abuse, sock of Yash gawli. -★- **PlyrStar93** →Message me. ← 16:59, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global lock/unlock for New York and Chicago

Status:    **In progress**
* New York and Chicago (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)
* Black girl from Chicago (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)

crosswiki vandlism, --`WikiBayer 👤💬` 18:30, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global lock for xwiki spammer

Status:    **In progress**
* Cinquefoil2014 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)

Praxidicae (talk) 18:50, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
### Global lock for cross-wiki vandal

Status:    **In progress**
* *[REDACTED]* (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)

Racist user name, cross-wiki vandalism. Nigos (talk) 09:26, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global lock for cross-wiki abuse and LTA Xayahrainie43 sock

Status:    **In progress**
**Script error: No such module "Global lock".**
Sock of long-term abuse and cross-wiki abuse Xayahrainie43[19],also,I hope to check whether there have sleepers and block their IP(s)/IP range(s) if they have create account,here are some other recently created that still have data available,thanks.--**MCC214 # ex umbra in solem** 10:51, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global lock for cross-wiki abuse and LTA Jessechi sock

Status:    **In progress**
**Script error: No such module "Global lock".**
Sock of long-term abuse and cross-wiki abuse Jessechi[20].--**MCC214 # ex umbra in solem** 11:05, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global lock for LTA Shaunak Chakraborty sock

Status:    **In progress**
* Indian Kolkatan (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)

Obvious sock of Annoimot, the Shaunak Chakraborty LTA. Cross-wiki abuse. --Hiàn (talk)/**editing on mobile account.** 15:21, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global lock for crosswiki spammer

Status:    **In progress**
* Bhuwari 4199 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)

Creating the same page Bhuwari\_dham across many wikis, meta included, indef in enwikinews for spam. Crosswiki spam.--Cohaf (talk) 17:49, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global lock for JeramyWallis42

Status:    **In progress**
* JeramyWallis42 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)

Spambot account, blocked on nl.wiktionary after attempts to add blacklisted links.
--MarcoSwart (talk) 20:12, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global lock for Yash gawli sockpuppet

Status:    **In progress**
* **Script error: No such module "Global lock".**

New sock puppet of Yash gawli. ***Эlcobbola*** talk 20:57, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

+Sock. ***Эlcobbola*** talk 02:27, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
### Global lock for Fran25t socks

Status:    **In progress**
**Script error: No such module "Global lock".**
See here. 1989 (talk) 23:27, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, forgot to ask for a lock. Two of the CU-confirmed accounts are already globally locked for vandalism – the rest should be, too. This person seems to be targeting people who report his sock puppets. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:26, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
### Global lock for TaufikMalhotra13

Status:    **In progress**
* TaufikMalhotra13 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)

Sock puppet of cross-wiki sock puppeteer Special:CentralAuth/Natly 88. See en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Natly 88/Archive#19 August 2019. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:17, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

### Global lock for LTA

Status:    **In progress**
* *[REDACTED]* (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date • CA • ST • **lwcheckuser**)

Long-term abuse. Please check his edits and perform necessary revision and page deletions. --**Tiger-** (talk) 09:15, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
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## DALIY MAIL

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The ***Daily Mail*** is a British daily middle-market newspaper published in London in a tabloid format. Founded in 1896, it is the United Kingdom's third-highest-circulation daily newspaper, after *Metro* and *The Sun*. Its sister paper *The Mail on Sunday* was launched in 1982, while Scottish and Irish editions of the daily paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. Content from the paper appears on the MailOnline website, although the website is managed separately and has its own editor.

The paper is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, a great-grandson of one of the original co-founders, is the current chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust, while day-to-day editorial decisions for the newspaper are usually made by a team led by the editor, Geordie Greig, who succeeded Paul Dacre in September 2018.

A survey in 2014 found the average age of its readers was 58, and it had the lowest demographic for 15- to 44-year-olds among the major British dailies. Uniquely for a British daily newspaper, it has a majority female readership, with women making up 52–55% of its readers. It had an average daily circulation of 1,222,611 copies in November 2018. Between July and December 2013 it had an average daily readership of approximately 3.951 million, of whom approximately 2.503 million were in the ABC1 demographic and 1.448 million in the C2DE demographic. Its website has more than 100 million unique visitors per month.

The *Daily Mail* has been widely criticised for its unreliability, as well as printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research, and for copyright violations.

The *Daily Mail* has won a number of awards, including receiving the *National Newspaper of the Year* award from the British Press Awards seven times since 1995.

## Overview

The *Mail* was originally a broadsheet but switched to a compact format on 3 May 1971, the 75th anniversary of its founding. On this date it also absorbed the *Daily Sketch*, which had been published as a tabloid by the same company. The publisher of the *Mail*, the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Circulation figures according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations in November 2017 show gross daily sales of 1,383,932 for the *Daily Mail*. According to a December 2004 survey, 53% of *Daily Mail* readers voted for the Conservative Party, compared to 21% for Labour and 17% for the Liberal Democrats. The main concern of Viscount Rothermere, the current chairman and main shareholder, is that the circulation be maintained. He testified before a House of Lords select committee that "we need to allow editors the freedom to edit", and therefore the newspaper's editor was free to decide editorial policy, including its political allegiance. The *Mail* has been edited by Geordie Greig since September 2018, following the retirement of Paul Dacre who edited the paper since 1992.

## History

### Early history

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The *Daily Mail*, devised by Alfred Harmsworth (later Viscount Northcliffe) and his brother Harold (later Viscount Rothermere), was first published on 4 May 1896. It was an immediate success. It cost a halfpenny at a time when other London dailies cost one penny, and was more populist in tone and more concise in its coverage than its rivals. The planned issue was 100,000 copies but the print run on the first day was 397,215 and additional printing facilities had to be acquired to sustain a circulation which rose to 500,000 in 1899. Lord Salisbury, 19th-century Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, dismissed the *Daily Mail* as "a newspaper produced by office boys for office boys."Template:Rp By 1902, at the end of the Boer Wars, the circulation was over a million, making it the largest in the world.

With Harold running the business side of the operation and Alfred as Editor, the *Mail* from the start adopted an imperialist political stance, taking a patriotic line in the Second Boer War, leading to claims that it was not reporting the issues of the day objectively. From the beginning, the *Mail* also set out to entertain its readers with human interest stories, serials, features and competitions (which were also the main means by which the Harmsworths promoted the paper).

In 1900 the *Daily Mail* began printing simultaneously in both Manchester and London, the first national newspaper to do so (in 1899, the *Daily Mail* had organised special trains to bring the London-printed papers north). The same production method was adopted in 1909 by the *Daily Sketch*, in 1927 by the *Daily Express* and eventually by virtually all the other national newspapers. Printing of the *Scottish Daily Mail* was switched from Edinburgh to the Deansgate plant in Manchester in 1968 and, for a while, *The People* was also printed on the *Mail* presses in Deansgate. In 1987, printing at Deansgate ended and the northern editions were thereafter printed at other Associated Newspapers plants.

In 1906 the paper offered £10,000 for the first flight from London to Manchester, followed by a £1,000 prize for the first flight across the English Channel. *Punch* magazine thought the idea preposterous and offered £10,000 for the first flight to Mars, but by 1910 both the *Mail*Template:-'s prizes had been won. The paper continued to award prizes for aviation sporadically until 1930.

Before the outbreak of World War I, the paper was accused of warmongering when it reported that Germany was planning to crush the British Empire. When war began, Northcliffe's call for conscription was seen by some as controversial, although he was vindicated when conscription was introduced in 1916. On 21 May 1915, Northcliffe criticised Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War, regarding weapons and munitions. Kitchener was considered by some to be a national hero. The paper's circulation dropped from 1,386,000 to 238,000. Fifteen hundred members of the London Stock Exchange burned unsold copies and called for a boycott of the Harmsworth Press. Prime Minister H. H. Asquith accused the paper of being disloyal to the country.

When Kitchener died, the *Mail* reported it as a great stroke of luck for the British Empire.Template:Citation needed The paper was critical of Asquith's conduct of the war, and he resigned on 5 December 1916. His successor David Lloyd George asked Northcliffe to be in his cabinet, hoping it would prevent him from criticising the government. Northcliffe declined.

### Inter-war period

#### Before 1930

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As Lord Northcliffe aged, his grip on the paper slackened and there were periods when he was not involved. But light-hearted stunts enlivened him, such as the 'Hat campaign' in the winter of 1920. This was a contest with a prize of £100 for a new design of hat – a subject in which Northcliffe took a particular interest. There were 40,000 entries and the winner was a cross between a top hat and a bowler christened the *Daily Mail Sandringham Hat*. The paper subsequently promoted the wearing of it but without much success. In 1922, when Lord Northcliffe died, Lord Rothermere took full control of the paperTemplate:Citation needed.

In 1919, Alcock and Brown made the first flight across the Atlantic, winning a prize of £10,000 from the *Daily Mail*. In 1930 the *Mail* made a great story of another aviation stunt, awarding another prize of £10,000 to Amy Johnson for making the first solo flight from England to Australia.

The *Daily Mail* had begun the Ideal Home Exhibition in 1908. At first, Northcliffe had disdained this as a publicity stunt to sell advertising and he refused to attend. But his wife exerted pressure upon him and he changed his view, becoming more supportive. By 1922 the editorial side of the paper was fully engaged in promoting the benefits of modern appliances and technology to free its female readers from the drudgery of housework. The *Mail* maintained the event until selling it to Media 10 in 2009.

On 25 October 1924, the *Daily Mail* published the forged Zinoviev letter, which indicated that British Communists were planning violent revolution. This was thought by some a significant factor in the defeat of Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Party in the 1924 general election, held four days later.

Unlike most newspapers, the *Mail* quickly took up an interest on the new medium of radio. In 1928, the newspaper established an early example of an offshore radio station aboard a yacht, both as a means of self-promotion and as a way to break the BBC's monopoly. However, the project failed as the equipment was not able to provide a decent signal from overboard, and the transmitter was replaced by a set of speakers. The yacht spent the summer entertaining beach-goers with gramophone records interspersed with publicity for the newspaper and its insurance fund. The *Mail* was also a frequent sponsor on continental commercial radio stations targeted towards Britain throughout the 1920s and 1930s and periodically voiced support for the legalisation of private radio, something that would not happen until 1973.

From 1923 Lord Rothermere and the *Daily Mail* formed an alliance with the other great press baron, Lord Beaverbrook. Their opponent was the Conservative Party politician and leader Stanley Baldwin. By 1929 George Ward Price was writing in the *Mail* that Baldwin should be deposed and Beaverbrook elected as leader. In early 1930 the two Lords launched the United Empire Party which the *Daily Mail* supported enthusiastically.Template:Citation needed

The rise of the new party dominated the newspaper and, even though Beaverbrook soon withdrew, Rothermere continued to campaign. Vice Admiral Ernest Augustus Taylor fought the first by-election for the United Empire Party in October, defeating the official Conservative candidate by 941 votes. Baldwin's position was now in doubt, but in 1931 Duff Cooper won the key by-election at St George's, Westminster, beating the United Empire Party candidate, Sir Ernest Petter, supported by Rothermere, and this broke the political power of the press barons.

In 1927, the celebrated picture of the year *Morning* by Dod Procter was bought by the *Daily Mail* for the Tate Gallery.

#### Support of fascism

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Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and directed the Mail's editorial stance towards them in the early 1930s. Rothermere's 1933 leader "Youth Triumphant" praised the new Nazi regime's accomplishments, and was subsequently used as propaganda by them. In it, Rothermere predicted that "The minor misdeeds of individual Nazis would be submerged by the immense benefits the new regime is already bestowing upon Germany". Journalist John Simpson, in a book on journalism, suggested that Rothermere was referring to the violence against Jews and Communists rather than the detention of political prisoners.Template:Page needed

Rothermere and the *Mail* were also editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists. Rothermere wrote an article titled "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" published in the *Daily Mail* on 15 January 1934, praising Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine", and pointing out that: "Young men may join the British Union of Fascists by writing to the Headquarters, King's Road, Chelsea, London, S.W."

*The Spectator* condemned Rothermere's article commenting that, "... the Blackshirts, like the Daily Mail, appeal to people unaccustomed to thinking. The average Daily Mail reader is a potential Blackshirt ready made. When Lord Rothermere tells his clientele to go and join the Fascists some of them pretty certainly will."

The paper's support ended after violence at a BUF rally in Kensington Olympia in June 1934. Mosley and many others thought Rothermere had responded to pressure from Jewish businessmen who it was believed had threatened to stop advertising in the paper if it continued to back an anti-Semitic party. The paper editorially continued to oppose the arrival of Jewish refugees escaping Germany, describing their arrival as "a problem to which the *Daily Mail* has repeatedly pointed."

### Post-war history

On 5 May 1946, the *Daily Mail* celebrated its Golden Jubilee. Winston Churchill was the chief guest at the banquet and toasted it with a speech. Newsprint rationing in the Second World War had forced the *Daily Mail* to cut its size to four pages, but the size gradually increased through the 1950s.

The *Daily Mail* was transformed by its editor during the 1970s and 1980s, David English. He had been editor of the *Daily Sketch* from 1969 to 1971, when it closed. Part of the same group from 1953, the *Sketch* was absorbed by its sister title, and English became editor of the *Mail*, a post in which he remained for more than 20 years. English transformed it from a struggling newspaper selling half as many copies as its mid-market rival, the *Daily Express*, to a formidable publication, whose circulation rose to surpass that of the *Express* by the mid-1980s. English was knighted in 1982.

The paper enjoyed a period of journalistic success in the 1980s, employing some of the most inventive writers in old Fleet Street including the gossip columnist Nigel Dempster, Lynda Lee-Potter and sportswriter Ian Wooldridge (who unlike some of his colleagues—the paper generally did not support sporting boycotts of white-minority-ruled South Africa—strongly opposed apartheid). In 1982 a Sunday title, the ***Mail on Sunday***, was launched (the Scottish *Sunday Mail*, now owned by the Mirror Group, was founded in 1919 by the first Lord Rothermere, but later sold.)

Knighted in 1982, Sir David English became editor-in-chief and chairman of Associated Newspapers in 1992 after Rupert Murdoch had attempted to hire *Evening Standard* editor Paul Dacre as editor of *The Times*. The *Evening Standard* was then part of the Associated Newspapers group, and Dacre was appointed to succeed English at the *Daily Mail* as a means of dealing with Murdoch's offer. Dacre retired as editor of the *Daily Mail* but remains editor-in-chief of the group.

In late 2013, the paper moved its London printing operation from the city's Docklands area to a new £50 million plant in Thurrock, Essex. There are Scottish editions of both the *Daily Mail* and *Mail on Sunday*, with different articles and columnists.

In August 2016, the *Daily Mail* began a partnership with *The People's Daily*, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party. This partnership included publishing articles in the MailOnline produced by The People's Daily. The agreement appeared to observers to give the paper an edge in publishing news stories sourced out of China, but it also led to questions of censorship regarding politically sensitive topics. In November 2016, Lego ended a series of promotions in the paper which had run for years, following a campaign from the group 'Stop Funding Hate', who were unhappy with the *Mail'*s coverage of migrant issues and the EU referendum.

In September 2017, the *Daily Mail* partnered with Stage 29 Productions to launch DailyMailTV, an international news program produced by Stage 29 Productions in its studios based in New York City with satellite studios in London, Sydney, DC and Los Angeles. Dr. Phil McGraw (Stage 29 Productions) was named as executive producer. The program was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment News Program in 2018.

## Scottish, Irish, Continental and Indian editions

### *Scottish Daily Mail*

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The *Scottish Daily Mail* was published as a separate title from Edinburgh starting in December 1946. The circulation was poor though, falling to below 100,000 and the operation was rebased to Manchester in December 1968. In 1995 the *Scottish Daily Mail* was relaunched, and is printed in Glasgow. With a circulation in December 2009 of 113,771, it has the third-highest daily newspaper sales in Scotland.

### *Irish Daily Mail*

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The *Daily Mail* officially entered the Irish market with the launch of a local version of the paper on 6 February 2006; free copies of the paper were distributed on that day in some locations to publicise the launch. Its masthead differed from that of UK versions by having a green rectangle with the word "IRISH", instead of the Royal Arms, but this was later changed, with "Irish Daily Mail" displayed instead. The Irish version includes stories of Irish interest alongside content from the UK version. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the Irish edition had a circulation of 63,511 for July 2007, falling to an average of 49,090 for the second half of 2009. Since 24 September 2006 *Ireland on Sunday*, the Irish Sunday newspaper acquired by Associated in 2001, was replaced by an Irish edition of the *Mail on Sunday* (the *Irish Mail on Sunday*), to tie in with the weekday newspaper.

### *Continental* and *Overseas Daily Mail*

Two foreign editions were begun in 1904 and 1905; the former titled the *Overseas Daily Mail*, covering the world, and the latter titled the *Continental Daily Mail*, covering Europe and North Africa.

### *Mail Today*

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The newspaper entered India on 16 November 2007 with the launch of *Mail Today*, a 48-page compact size newspaper printed in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida with a print run of 110,000 copies. Based around a subscription model, the newspaper has the same fonts and feel as the *Daily Mail* and was set up with investment from Associated Newspapers and editorial assistance from the *Daily Mail* newsroom.

## Editorial stance

The *Mail* has traditionally been a supporter of the Conservatives and has endorsed this party in all recent general elections. While the paper retained its support for the Conservative Party at the 2015 general election, the paper urged conservatively inclined voters to support UKIP in the constituencies of Heywood and Middleton, Dudley North and Great Grimsby where UKIP was the main challenger to the Labour Party.Template:Citation needed

The paper is generally critical of the BBC, which it says is biased to the left. The *Mail* has published pieces by Joanna Blythman opposing the growing of genetically modified crops in the United Kingdom.

On international affairs, the *Mail* broke with the establishment media consensus over the 2008 South Ossetia war between Russia and Georgia. The *Mail* accused the British government of dragging Britain into an unnecessary confrontation with Russia and of hypocrisy regarding its protests over Russian recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia's independence, citing the British government's own recognition of Kosovo's independence from Russia's ally Serbia.

## Awards

### Received

The *Daily Mail* has been awarded the *National Newspaper of the Year* in 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2011, and 2016 by the British Press Awards.

*Daily Mail* journalists have won a range of British Press Awards, including:

* "Campaign of the Year" (Murder of Stephen Lawrence, 2012)
* "Website of the Year" (Mail Online, 2012)
* "News Team of the Year" (*Daily Mail*, 2012)
* "Critic of the Year" (Quentin Letts, 2010)
* "Political Journalist of the Year" (Quentin Letts, 2009)
* "Specialist Journalist of the Year" (Stephen Wright, 2009)
* "Showbiz Reporter of the Year" (Benn Todd, 2012)
* "Feature Writer of the Year – Popular" (David Jones, 2012)
* "Columnist of the Year – Popular" (Craig Brown, 2012) (Peter Oborne, 2016)
* "Best of Humour" – (Craig Brown, 2012)
* "Columnist – Popular" (Craig Brown, 2012)
* "Sports Reporter of the Year" (Jeff Powell, 2005)
* "Sports Photographer of the Year" (Mike Egerton, 2012; Andy Hooper, 2016, 2010, 2008)
* "Cartoonist of the Year" (Stanley 'MAC' McMurtry, 2016)

Other awards include:

* "Orwell Prize" (Toby Harnden, 2012)
* "Hugh Cudlipp Award" (2012; Stephen Wright/Richard Pendlebury, 2009; 2007)

## Stories

### Holes in the road

On 17 January 1967, the *Mail* published a story, "The holes in our roads", about potholes, giving the examples of Blackburn where it said there were 4,000 holes. This detail was then immortalised by John Lennon in The Beatles song "A Day in the Life", along with an account of the death of 21-year-old socialite Tara Browne in a car crash on 18 December 1966, which also appeared in the same issue.

### Unification Church

In 1981, the *Daily Mail* ran an investigation into the Unification Church, nicknamed the Moonies, accusing them of ending marriages and brainwashing converts. The Unification Church, which always denied these claims, sued for libel but lost heavily. A jury awarded the *Mail* a then record-breaking £750,000 libel payout. In 1983 the paper won a special British Press Award for a "relentless campaign against the malignant practices of the Unification Church."

### Gay gene controversy

On 16 July 1993 the *Mail* ran the headline "Abortion hope after 'gay genes' finding". Of the tabloid headlines which commented on the Xq28 gene, the Mail's was criticised as "perhaps the most infamous and disturbing headline of all".

### Stephen Lawrence

The *Mail* campaigned vigorously for justice over the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993. On 14 February 1997, the *Mail* front page pictured the five men accused of Lawrence's murder with the headline "MURDERERS", stating "if we are wrong, let them sue us". This attracted praise from Paul Foot and Peter Preston. Some journalists contended the *Mail* had belatedly changed its stance on the Lawrence murder, with the newspaper's earlier focus being the alleged opportunistic behaviour of anti-racist groups ("How Race Militants Hijacked a Tragedy", 10 May 1993) and alleged insufficient coverage of the case (20 articles in three years).

Two men who the *Mail* had featured in their "Murderers" headline were found guilty in 2012 of murdering Lawrence. After the verdict, Lawrence's parents and numerous political figures thanked the newspaper for taking the potential financial risk involved with the 1997 headline.

### Stephen Gately

A 16 October 2009, a Jan Moir article criticised aspects of the life and death of Stephen Gately. It was published six days after his death and before his funeral. The Press Complaints Commission received over 25,000 complaints, a record number, regarding the timing and content of the article. It was criticised as insensitive, inaccurate and homophobic. The Press Complaints Commission did not uphold complaints about the article. Major advertisers, such as Marks & Spencer, had their adverts removed from the *Mail Online* webpage containing Moir's article.

### Cannabis use

On 13 June 2011, a study by Dr Matt Jones and Michal Kucewicz on the effects of cannabinoid receptor activation in the brain was published in *The Journal of Neuroscience* and the British medical journal *The Lancet*. The study was used in articles by *CBS News*, *Le Figaro*, and *Bild* among others.

In October 2011, the *Daily Mail* printed an article citing the research, titled "Just ONE cannabis joint can bring on schizophrenia as well as damaging memory." The group Cannabis Law Reform (CLEAR), which campaigns for ending drug prohibition, criticised the *Daily Mail* report. Dr Matt Jones, co-author of the study, said he was "disappointed but not surprised" by the article, and stated: "This study does NOT say that one spliff will bring on schizophrenia". Dorothy Bishop, professor of neuroscience at Oxford University, in her blog awarded the *Daily Mail* the "Orwellian Prize for Journalistic Misrepresentation", The *Mail* later changed the article's headline to: "Just ONE cannabis joint 'can cause psychiatric episodes similar to schizophrenia' as well as damaging memory."

### Ralph Miliband article

In September 2013, the *Mail* was criticised for an article on Ralph Miliband (father of then Labour-leader Ed Miliband and prominent Marxist sociologist), titled "The Man Who Hated Britain". Ed Miliband said that the article was "ludicrously untrue", that he was "appalled" and "not willing to see my father's good name be undermined in this way". Ralph Miliband had arrived in the UK from Belgium as a Jewish refugee from the Holocaust. The *Jewish Chronicle* described the article as "a revival of the 'Jews can't be trusted because of their divided loyalties' genre of antisemitism." Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith linked the article to the Nazi sympathies of the 1st Viscount Rothermere, whose family remain the paper's owners.

The paper defended the article's general content in an editorial, but described its use of a picture of Ralph Miliband's grave as an "error of judgement". In the editorial, the paper further remarked that "We do not maintain, like the jealous God of Deuteronomy, that the iniquity of the fathers should be visited on the sons. But when a son with prime ministerial ambitions swallows his father's teachings, as the younger Miliband appears to have done, the case is different." A spokesman for the paper also described claims that the article continued its history of anti-Semitism as "absolutely spurious." However, the reference to "the jealous God of Deuteronomy" was criticised by Jonathan Freedland, who said that "In the context of a piece about a foreign-born Jew, [the remark] felt like a subtle, if not subterranean hint to the reader, a reminder of the ineradicable alienness of this biblically vengeful people" and that "those ready to acquit the Mail because there was no bald, outright statement of antisemitism were probably using the wrong measure."

### Gawker Media lawsuit

In March 2015, James King, a former contract worker at the *Mail's* New York office, wrote an article for *Gawker* titled 'My Year Ripping Off the Web With the *Daily Mail Online*Template:'. In the article, King alleged that the *MailTemplate:'s* approach was to rewrite stories from other news outlets with minimal credit in order to gain advertising clicks, and that staffers had published material they knew to be false. He also suggested that the paper preferred to delete stories from its website rather than publish corrections or admit mistakes. In September 2015, the *Mail's* US company Mail Media filed a $1 million lawsuit against King and Gawker Media for libel. Eric Wemple at the *Washington Post* questioned the value of the lawsuit, noting that "Whatever the merits of King's story, it didn't exactly upend conventional wisdom" about the website's strategy. In November 2016, Lawyers for *Gawker* filed a motion to resolve the lawsuit. Under the terms of the motion, *Gawker* was not required to pay any financial compensation, but agreed to add an Editor's Note at the beginning of the King article, remove an illustration in the post which incorporated the Daily Mail's logo, and publish a statement by DailyMail.com in the same story.

### Anti-refugee cartoon

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Following the November 2015 Paris attacks, a cartoon in the *Daily Mail* by Stanley McMurtry ("Mac") linked the European migrant crisis (with a focus on Syria in particular) to the terrorist attacks, and criticised the European Union immigration laws for allowing Islamist radicals to gain easy access into the United Kingdom. Despite being compared to Nazi propaganda by *The New York Times*, and criticised as "reckless xenophobia," and racist, the cartoon received praise on the Mail Online website. A *Daily Mail* spokesperson told *The Independent*: "We are not going to dignify these absurd comments which wilfully misrepresent this cartoon apart from to say that we have not received a single complaint from any reader".

### Anthony Weiner scandal

In September 2016, the *Mail Online* published a lengthy interview and screenshots from a 15-year-old girl who claimed that the American politician Anthony Weiner had sent her sexually explicit images and messages. The revelation led to Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin—an aide of Hillary Clinton—separating. In late October, less than two weeks before the presidential election, FBI director James Comey stated that files found on Weiner's devices may be relevant to Clinton's email controversy. Weiner pleaded guilty in May 2017 to sending obscene material to a minor, and in September he was jailed for 21 months.

### Campaigns against plastic pollution

The paper has campaigned against plastic pollution in various forms since 2008. The paper called for a levy on single use plastic bags. The Daily Mail's work in highlighting the issue of plastic pollution was praised by the head of the United Nations Environment Program, Erik Solheim at a conference in Kenya in 2017. Emily Maitlis, the newscaster, asked Green Party leader Caroline Lucas on *Newsnight*, 'Is the biggest friend to the Environment at the moment the *Daily Mail*?' in reference to the paper's call for a ban on plastic microbeads and other plastic pollution, and suggested it had done more for the environment than the Green Party. Environment group ClientEarth has also highlighted the paper's role in drawing attention to the plastic pollution problem along with the Blue Planet II documentary.

### Gary McKinnon deportation

Attempts by the United States government to deport a computer hacker Gary McKinnon were campaigned against by the paper. In 2002, McKinnon was accused of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time" although McKinnon himself states that he was merely looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other technologies potentially useful to the public. The *Daily Mail* began to support McKinnon's campaign in 2009 – with a series of front-page stories protesting against his deportation.

On 16 October 2012, after a series of legal proceedings in Britain, Home Secretary Theresa May withdrew her extradition order to the United States. Gary McKinnon's mother Janis Sharp praised the paper's contribution to saving her son from deportation in her book in which she said: 'Thanks to Theresa May, David Cameron and the support of David Burrowes and so many others – notably the Daily Mail – my son was safe, he was going to live.'

### Abd Ali Hameed al-Waheed

In December 2017 the *Daily Mail* published a front-page story entitled "Another human rights fiasco!", with the subheading "Iraqi 'caught red-handed with bomb' wins £33,000 – because our soldiers kept him in custody for too long". The story related to a judge's decision to award money to Abd Ali Hameed al-Waheed after he had been unlawfully imprisoned. The headline was printed despite the fact that during the trial itself the judge concluded that claims that al-Waheed had been caught with a bomb were "pure fiction".

In July 2018 the Independent Press Standards Organisation ordered the paper to publish a front-page correction after finding the newspaper had breached rules on accuracy in its reporting of the case. The *Daily Mail* reported that a major internal investigation was conducted following the decision to publish the story, and as a result, "strongly worded disciplinary notes were sent to seven senior members of staff", which made it clear "that if errors of the same nature were to happen again, their careers would be at risk".

### Powder Keg Paris

In August 2018, the *Mail Online* deleted a lengthy news article by journalist Andrew Malone which focused on "illegal migrants" living in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis, after a string of apparent inaccuracies were highlighted on social media by French activist Marwan Muhammad, including mistaking Saint-Denis, the city, for Seine-Saint-Denis, the department northeast of Paris. Local councillor Majid Messaoudene said that the article had set out to "stigmatise" and "harm" the area and its people. The journalist, Andrew Malone, subsequently deleted his Twitter account.

## Libel lawsuits

### Successful lawsuits against the *Mail*

* 2001, February: Businessman Alan Sugar was awarded £100,000 in damages following a story commenting on his stewardship of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
* 2003, October: Actress Diana Rigg awarded £30,000 in damages over a story commenting on aspects of her personality.
* 2006, May: £100,000 damages for Elton John, following false accusations concerning his manners and behaviour.
* 2009, January: £30,000 award to Dr Austen Ivereigh, who had worked for Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, following false accusations made by the newspaper concerning abortion.
* 2010, July: £47,500 award to Parameswaran Subramanyam for falsely claiming that he secretly sustained himself with hamburgers during a 23-day hunger strike in Parliament Square to draw attention to the protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War in 2009.
* 2011, November: the former lifestyle adviser Carole Caplin received damages over claims in the *Mail* that she would reveal intimate details about former clients.
* 2014, May: author J. K. Rowling received substantial damages and the *Mail* printed an apology. The newspaper had made a false claim about Rowling's story written for the website of Gingerbread, a single parents' charity.
* 2017, April: First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump, received an undisclosed settlement over claims in the *Mail* that she had worked as an escort in the 1990s. In September 2016, she began litigation against the *Daily Mail* for an article which discussed escort allegations. The article included rebuttals and said that there was no evidence to support the allegations. The *Mail* regretted any misinterpretation that could have come from reading the article, and retracted it from its website. Melania Trump filed a lawsuit in Maryland, suing for $150 million. On 7 February 2017, the lawsuit was re-filed in the correct jurisdiction, New York, where the *Daily Mail*Template:'s parent company has offices, seeking damages of at least $150 million.

### Unsuccessful lawsuits

* 1981, April: The *Daily Mail* won £750,000 from the Unification Church, which had sued for libel due to articles about the Church's recruitment methods. Margaret Singer, professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, Berkeley, testified that the *Mail*Template:'s accounts of these methods were accurate. The trial lasted over five months, one of Britain's longest-ever civil trials.
* 2012, February: Nathaniel Philip Rothschild lost his libel case against the *Daily Mail*, after the High Court agreed that he was indeed the "Puppet Master" for Peter Mandelson, that his conduct had been "inappropriate in a number of respects" and that the words used by the *Daily Mail* were "substantially true".
* 2012, May: Carina Trimingham, the partner of former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne, was ordered to pay more than £400,000 after she lost her High Court claims for damages for alleged breach of privacy and harassment against the *Daily Mail*. Huhne, whilst married, had an affair with Trimingham – who herself was in a lesbian civil partnership – and then later left his wife Vicky Pryce for Trimingham. This and a series of other events involving Pryce and Huhne led to his resignation from the Cabinet, and to both of them being arrested for perverting the course of justice and the criminal prosecution *R v Huhne and Pryce*.

## Criticism

### Racism accusations

There have been accusations of racism against the *Daily Mail*. In 2012, in an article for *The New Yorker*, former *Mail* reporter Brendan Montague criticised the *Mail'*s content and culture, stating: "None of the front-line reporters I worked with were racist, but there's institutional racism [at the *Daily Mail*]."

### Homophobia accusations

After High Court judges ruled in 2016 that parliamentary approval must be sought for activation of Article 50, the leading headline on the *Mail'*s front page read "Enemies of the People". The paper's front page and other coverage drew much criticism from the legal world, as well as from high-ranking politicians. On its website, the *Mail* described one of the judges as "openly gay." Critics accused the *Mail* of unnecessarily highlighting the judge's sexual orientation due to anti-gay motives. The *Mail* later removed the description. One law professor commented: "I have never seen this kind of invective against judges, either here or abroad, in the national media."

### Sexism accusations

In 2014, after Emma Watson spoke at the launch of the United Nations HeForShe campaign, the *Mail* was criticised for focusing its coverage on Watson's dress and appearance, rather than the content of her speech, in which Watson complained how media had sexualised her in their coverage from when she was 14. The *Mail* was much criticised for running the front-page headline "Never mind Brexit, who won legs-it", accompanying a photograph of Theresa May meeting with Nicola Sturgeon in March 2017, running more than a page of coverage on the two leaders' appearance. Jeremy Corbyn, the Leader of the Labour Party, stated "It's 2017. This sexism must be consigned to history. Shame on the Daily Mail." The *International Business Times* quoted an unnamed *Daily Mail* staff member describing the headline as "moronic", and out of touch with the *Daily Mail'*s largely female readership.

### Other criticisms

The *Mail*Template:'s medical and science journalism has been criticised by some doctors and scientists, accusing it of using minor studies to generate scare stories.

In 2015, freelance journalist Djaffer Ait Aoudia told *The Guardian* that he secretly filmed a *Mail* representative negotiating for a "hacker" to obtain a café's CCTV of the November 2015 Paris attacks. The café owner agreed to supply the footage for €50,000. *The Daily Mail* responded: "There is nothing controversial about the Mail's acquisition of this video, a copy of which the police already had in their possession." *The Guardian* also, briefly, embedded the footage on their own website before removing it.

Other criticisms include the extent of coverage of celebrities, the children of celebrities, property prices, and the depiction of asylum seekers, the latter of which was discussed in the Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights in 2007.

In February 2017, the English Wikipedia banned the *Daily Mail* as an "unreliable source" to use as a reference in Wikipedia. Its use as a reference is now "generally prohibited, especially when other more reliable sources exist". Support for the ban centred on "the *Daily Mail*'s reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism, and flat-out fabrication".

In early 2019, the mobile version of the Microsoft Edge Internet browser started warning visitors to the MailOnline site, via its NewsGuard plugin, that "this website generally fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability" and "has been forced to pay damages in numerous high-profile cases". In late January 2019, the status of the MailOnline was changed by the Newsguard Plugin from Red to Green, updating its verdict to "this website generally maintains basic standards of accuracy and accountability". An Editors Note from Newsguard stated that "This label now has the benefit of the dailymail.co.uk's input and our view is that in some important respects their objections are right and we were wrong".

## Supplements and features

* *City & Finance*: The business part of the *Daily Mail*, featuring City news and the results from the London Stock Exchange. It also has its own website called This is Money.
* *Travelmail*: Contains travel articles, advertisements etc.
* *Femail*: Femail is an extensive part of the *Daily Mail'*s newspaper and website, being one of four main features on Mail Online others being News, TV & Showbiz and Sport. It is designed for women.
* *Weekend*: The *Daily Mail Weekend* is a TV guide published by the *Daily Mail*, included free with the *Mail* every Saturday. Weekend magazine, launched in October 1993, is issued free with the Saturday *Daily Mail*. The guide does not use a magazine-type layout but chooses a newspaper style similar to the *Daily Mail* itself. In April 2007, the *Weekend* had a major revamp. A feature changed during the revamp was a dedicated Freeview channel page.

### Regular cartoon strips

* *Garfield*
* *I Don't Believe It* (discontinued)
* *Odd Streak*
* *The Strip Show*
* *Chloe and Co.* (by Knight Features)
* *Up and Running* (by Knight Features)
* *Fred Basset*

*Up and Running* is a strip distributed by Knight Features and *Fred Basset* has followed the life of the dog of the same name in a two-part strip in the *Daily Mail* since 8 July 1963.

The long-running *Teddy Tail* cartoon strip, was first published on 5 April 1915 and was the first cartoon strip in a British newspaper. It ran for over 40 years to 1960, spawning the *Teddy Tail League* Children's Club and many annuals from 1934 to 1942 and again from 1949 to 1962. Teddy Tail was a mouse, with friends Kitty Puss (a cat), Douglas Duck and Dr. Beetle. Teddy Tail is always shown with a knot in his tail.

### Year Book

The *Daily Mail Year Book* first appeared in 1901, summarizing the news of the past year in one volume of 200 to 400 pages. Among its editors were Percy L. Parker (1901–1905), David Williamson(1914–1951), G. B. Newman (1955–1977), Mary Jenkins (1978–1986), P.J. Failes (1987), and Michael and Caroline Fluskey (1991).

### Online media

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The majority of content appearing in the *Daily Mail* and *Mail on Sunday* printed newspapers also forms part of that included in the *MailOnline* website. *MailOnline* is free to read and funded by advertising. In 2011 *MailOnline* was the second most visited English-language newspaper website worldwide. It has since then become the most visited newspaper website in the world, with over 189.5 million visitors per month, and 11.7 million visitors daily, as of January 2014.

Thailand's military junta blocked the *MailOnline* in May 2014 after the site revealed a video of Thailand's Crown Prince and his wife, Princess Srirasmi, partying. The video appears to show the allegedly topless princess, a former waitress, in a tiny G-string as she feeds her pet dog cake to celebrate its birthday.

### Regular contributors (present)

**Journalists**

* Victoria Bischoff
* David Blunkett MP
* Samantha Brick
* Craig Brown
* Alex Brummer
* Ross Clark
* Jack Doyle
* Henry Deedes
* Stephen Glover
* Ephraim Hardcastle
* Sir Max Hastings
* Nasser Hussain
* Liz Jones
* Richard Kay
* Martin Keown
* Ian Ladyman
* Dominic Lawson
* Richard Littlejohn
* David Lloyd
* Jack Maitment
* John McEntee
* Jan Moir
* Bel Mooney
* Piers Morgan
* Andrew Pierce
* Graham Poll
* Jeff Powell
* Jamie Redknapp
* Martin Samuel
* Sebastian Shakespeare
* Jim Shelley
* Jaci Stephen
* Janet Street-Porter
* Ruth Sunderland
* Chris Sutton
* Tom Utley
* Sarah Vine
* Brian Viner
* Sir Clive Woodward
* Chris Wheeler
* Stephen Wright

* Dave Colton
* Alex Graham
* Stanley McMurtry

**Photographers**
* Dave Parker
* Mark Richards
* Jamie Wiseman

### Past writers

* William Comyns Beaumont (left in 1903 to create *The Bystander*)
* Anthony Cave Brown (worked from the mid-1950s to mid-1960s, won "Reporter of the Year" award in 1958)
* Vernon Bartlett MP
* Jonathan Cainer, astrologer, 1992–2000, 2004–16 (died 2016)
* Paul Callan
* Nigel Dempster
* Daniel Farson
* Percy Izzard Gardening and country life correspondent for over 50 years.
* Stephen Leather Author of Thriller Novels.
* Lt Cdr Ralph Izzard (Writer for the *Mail* beginning in 1931 and continued contributing until his death in 1992, with the only interruption being his service in British Naval Intelligence during WWII.)
* Paul Johnson (left the *Mail* in 2001)
* Sir John Junor
* Lynda Lee-Potter (wrote for the *Mail* from 1967 until her death in 2004)
* William Le Queux
* Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin
* Vincent Mulchrone
* Allison Pearson
* Melanie Phillips (left the *Mail* in September 2013, and now writes for *The Times* newspaper)
* Keith Waterhouse
* Valentine Williams (1883–1946) (General news correspondent and, during the First World War, chief of the *Daily Mail* war service. Later a popular mystery novelist.)
* Peter Wildeblood (the paper's former royal correspondent diplomatic editor, was prosecuted for homosexuality in a high-profile trial in the 1950s)
* Herbert Wrigley Wilson
* Ian Wooldridge
* Evelyn Waugh
* Michael Winner
* Quentin Letts (left the Mail in February 2019 to return to The Times newspaper)
* Simon Heffer (left the Mail in June 2015 to return to The Daily Telegraph)
* Norman Tebbit

## The *Daily Mail* in literature

The *Daily Mail* has appeared in a number of novels. These include Evelyn Waugh's 1938 novel *Scoop* which was based on Waugh's experiences as a writer for the *Daily Mail.* In the book the newspaper is renamed *The Daily Beast*. The newspaper appeared in Nicci French's 2008 novel *The Memory Game,* a psychological thriller. In 2015, it featured in Laurence Simpson's comic novel about the tabloid media, *According to The Daily Mail.* And in 2017, a thinly-disguised version of the *Daily Mail,* called simply *The Mail* appears in Michael Paraskos's dark satire based on the Donald Trump presidency, *Rabbitman*, in which the newspaper's fictional editor is subjected to a lobotomy in a dystopian post-Brexit Britain to try and cure him of "nasty little paranoid thoughts about scroungers, traitors and foreigners."

## Editors

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* 1896: S. J. Pryor
* 1899: Thomas Marlowe
* 1922: W. G. Fish
* 1930: Oscar Pulvermacher
* 1930: William McWhirter
* 1931: W. L. Warden
* 1935: Arthur Cranfield
* 1939: Bob Prew
* 1944: Sidney Horniblow
* 1947: Frank Owen
* 1950: Guy Schofield
* 1955: Arthur Wareham
* 1959: William Hardcastle
* 1963: Mike Randall
* 1966: Arthur Brittenden
* 1971: David English
* 1992: Paul Dacre
* 2018: Geordie Greig

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## See also

* 1910 London to Manchester air race
* *Daily Chronicle*, a newspaper which merged with the *Daily News* to become the *News Chronicle* and was finally absorbed by the *Daily Mail*
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