Fwd: False Wikipedia biography

[Henk Vreekamp]

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>Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:42:10 -0500
>To: "The NewsLib mailing list" <newslib at listserv.unc.edu>
>From: Margot Williams <margotwill at nytimes.com>
>Subject: [newslib] False Wikipedia biography
>
>In USA Today, John Seigenthaler Sr. discusses his personal experience with
>being the subject of a false biography on Wikipedia, which was copied also
>to reference.com and answers.com..
>For four months he was depicted as a suspected assassin of President Kennedy
>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm
>
>The "biographer" signed his article with an IP address. Seigenthaler
>describes his attempts to track the source.
>
>Margot Williams
>The New York Times
>margotwill at nytimes.com
>212 556-4098

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