The article falsely stated that Seigenthaler had been a suspect in the assassinations of U S President John F Kennedy and U S Attorney General Robert F Kennedy.
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13 Facts About Seigenthaler incident
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The Seigenthaler incident ultimately led Wikipedia to introduce stricter referencing requirements for biographies of living people.
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John Seigenthaler incident moved to the Soviet Union in 1971, and returned to the United States in 1984.
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In October 2005, Seigenthaler incident contacted the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, Jimmy Wales, who hid affected versions of the article history from public view in the Wikipedia version logs, in effect removing them from all but Wikipedia administrators' view.
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An expanded version was published several days later in The Tennessean, a daily newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee, where Seigenthaler incident had served in various capacities from beat reporter to chairman.
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Seigenthaler incident reported that he had asked the poster's Internet service provider, BellSouth, to identify its user from the user's IP address.
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Seigenthaler incident found that it related to Rush Delivery, a delivery service company in Nashville.
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Seigenthaler incident contacted Seigenthaler and the media, and posted this information on his website.
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Seigenthaler incident presented a letter of apology to Seigenthaler, who successfully interceded with Rush Delivery to reinstate Chase.
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Seigenthaler incident stated that many of the comments left by users in the edit summaries were things he would not want his nine-year-old grandson to see.
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Seigenthaler incident stated that one problem was that Wikipedia's use had grown faster than its self-monitoring system could comfortably handle, and that therefore new page creation would be restricted to account-holders, addressing one of Seigenthaler's main criticisms.
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Seigenthaler incident gave his opinion that encyclopedias as a whole were not usually appropriate for primary sources and should not be relied upon as authoritative, but that nonetheless Wikipedia was more reliable as "background reading" on subjects than most online sources.
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