What outrageous controversy is the wikipedia encyclopedia involved in?”
The Wikipedia biography controversy was a series of events that began in May 2005 when Brian Chase anonymously posted a hoax article in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia about John Seigenthaler, a well-known writer and journalist. The post, which alleged that Seigenthaler was involved in the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, was not discovered and corrected until more than four months later. The incident raised questions about the reliability of Wikipedia and other websites with user-generated content that lack the accountability of traditional news sites. After the incident, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales stated that the encyclopedia had barred unregistered users from creating new articles and taken other unspecified steps to prevent a recurrence. Hoax Brian Chase was an operations manager of Rush Delivery, a delivery service company in Nashville, Tennessee. As a prank on a colleague, Chase created a Wikipedia biography on Seigenthaler which fingered Seigenth
The Wikipedia biography controversy was a series of events that began in May 2005 when Brian Chase anonymously posted a hoax article in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia about John Seigenthaler, a well-known writer and journalist. The post, which alleged that Seigenthaler was involved in the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, was not discovered and corrected until more than four months later. The incident raised questions about the reliability of Wikipedia and other websites with user-generated content that lack the accountability of traditional news sites. After the incident, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales stated that the encyclopedia had barred unregistered users from creating new articles and taken other unspecified steps to prevent a recurrence.
