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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (441)	6/14/2008 2:25:56 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 3816

You certainly want it backed up by a better source. Terrible info can be in there and until someone reads it ,knows it is false, reports it, Then someone else to do something about it..yada yada Gotta be happy your not a Seigenthaler-ng- Tuesday, December 20, 2005 John Seigenthaler: Wikipedia biography controversy John Seigenthaler Sr. on CNN, 5 December 2005. The John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy occurred in 2005 after an anonymous editor posted a hoax in the Wikipedia entry for John Seigenthaler Sr. in May. In September 2005, Victor S. Johnson, Jr., an old friend of Seigenthaler's, discovered the entry, which suggested that Seigenthaler may have had a role in the assassinations of both John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. Demonstrably false statements in the article included claims that Seigenthaler lived in the Soviet Union from 1971 to 1984, and that he was the founder of a public relations firm. Seigenthaler's brother founded a PR firm which bears the family name, but John Seigenthaler has no role in it. After Johnson alerted him to the article, Seigenthaler emailed friends and colleagues about it. One colleague, Eric Newton from Knight Foundation, cut and pasted Seigenthaler's official bio into Wikipedia from the Freedom Forum web site and on 23 September 2005 that biography replaced the problematic one. It was soon replaced by another, minimal biography, with the reason given that this would violate the Freedom Forum's copyright. Seigenthaler himself contacted Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales in October 2005, and Wales took the unusual step of having the false information hidden from the public (deleted in Wikipedia terminology) in Wikipedia version logs. As a result, the unredacted versions of the article could be viewed only by Wikipedia administrators. The false statements were added on May 26, 2005 so they had remained uncorrected for almost four months. Several "mirror" websites not controlled by Wikipedia continued to display the inaccurate article for several weeks following Wikipedia's action. It is not known how many people actually saw the libelous entry before it was corrected. On November 29, 2005, an op-ed article by Seigenthaler appeared in USA Today, describing the particulars of the incident. It included a verbatim reposting of the falsehoods in question: "John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960's. For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven." Seigenthaler detailed his own failed attempts to identify the person who posted the inaccurate biography to Wikipedia anonymously. He reportedly asked the poster's Internet service provider, BellSouth, to identify its user. He criticized Wikipedia for offering inaccurate material to a wide audience. An expanded version was published several days later in The Tennessean where Seigenthaler was editor