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[pcplantdb] CNN.com - Wikipedia author: false entry was joke - Dec 11, 2005

From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
To: Permaculture Plant Database <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [pcplantdb] CNN.com - Wikipedia author: false entry was joke - Dec 11, 2005
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:14:11 -0500

<http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/11/wikipedia.ap/index.html>
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- A man who posted false information on an online encyclopedia linking a prominent journalist to the Kennedy assassinations says he was playing a trick on a co-worker.

Brian Chase, 38, ended up resigning from his job and apologizing to John Seigenthaler Sr., the former publisher of the Tennessean newspaper and founding editorial director of USA Today.

Chase said he didn't know the free Internet encyclopedia called Wikipedia was
used as a serious reference tool.

[pcplantdb] CNN.com - Wikipedia author: false entry was joke - Dec 11, 2005, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 12/12/2005