p2p news / p2pnet: The manager of a small delivery service in Nashville, Tennessee, has apologised to ex-editorial-page editor John Seigenthaler for a Wikipedia post.

“John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960’s,” said a Wiki item. “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.”

Now Brian Chase, 38, has said he’s sorry for making additions Seigenthaler’s biography as “a joke” on a co-worker “on what he thought was ’some sort of *gag: encyclopedia’,” says USA Today.

“I didn’t think twice about just leaving it there because I didn’t think anyone would ever take it seriously for more than a few seconds,” Chase wrote to Seigenthaler in a letter of apology.

Because of this, Wikipedia users will now have to register before they can post articles, although unregistered visitors will still be able to edit content already online.

And Chase has been fired, adds USA Today.

So is here a Wiki post on the subject?

You’d better believe it.

“Brian Chase (Wikipedia hoaxer), the Nashville man who posted libelous allegations about John Seigenthaler Sr. to Wikipedia in 2005,” it says.

Also read:-
Wiki item – New Wikipedia post rules, December 7, 2005
USA Today – Author apologizes for fake Wikipedia biography, December 12, 2005

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