Article: Wikipedia: Open-source, and open to abuseSo the question is: 'Can you trust it?'

Katharine Q. Seelye
International Herald Tribune
12-06-2005
According to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, John Seigenthaler is 78 years old and the former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville. But is that information, or anything else in Seigenthaler's biography, true?The question arises because Seigenthaler recently read about himself on Wikipedia and was shocked to learn that he ''was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John and his brother Bobby.''''Nothing was ever proven,'' the biography added.Seigenthaler discovered that the false information had been on the site for several months and that an unknown number of people had read it, and ...

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