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71:. This version was removed as a copyright violation and replaced with a short, original biography. Seigenthaler contacted Jimbo Wales in October to have the false and defamatory material removed from the site. Although the material had been replaced with an appropriate biography, and the edits deleted from the history, the vandalized version of the page remained visible on
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biography. Edits made around
December 24, 2006, stated that Akçam was a terrorist. On his return trip to the United states on February 18, he was again detained; this time at the US border. No reason was given to him for this detention. He encountered further disruption from various individuals during the rest of his 2007 lecture tour.
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disbarred." Crier claims that, as a result of this misinformation placed in her
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ended their marriage." The wholly untrue claim was added by an IP on
February 27, 2009. It was removed by another IP on March 2. Unlike the reactions of some of the other victims of vandalism to biographies on Knowledge (XXG), when Brokaw and Sawyer were told of the incident, both had a good laugh,
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American journalist, author and political figure. On May 26, 2005, a five-sentence attack article was created by an anonymous editor (later identified), which included the sentence "For a short time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and
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against an unnamed party alleging the person knowingly cut and pasted information about a similarly named attorney, Catherine
Shelton, and placed it in Crier's Knowledge (XXG) biography. This John Doe claimed that Crier had "been a murder suspect, a shoplifter, she's served jail time, she's been
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became the most watched cable or broadcast news program in the United States. For five days in early 2009, his
Knowledge (XXG) biography included the sentence: "He had been married to Meredith Lynn Auld (a former Miss South Dakota and author) from 1962 until 2007, when an alleged affair between
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airport on
February 16, 2007. Flying from the United States, Akçam was on his way to give a lecture at a Canadian university. According to Akçam, he was detained by Canadian authorities for four hours based on information obtained from an inaccurate, vandalized version of his Knowledge (XXG)
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suffering real-world negative effects. Some of these have been documented by the media, while the details of others are kept only in the history of various
Knowledge (XXG) pages. Despite these cases, Knowledge (XXG), which is protected by
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American television personality, author, and former Dallas County Assistant District Attorney and judge. She has worked for CNN, ABC, Fox News Channel, and Court TV. On May 20, 2009, Crier filed a
121:. The lawsuit alleged that defamatory edits were made to Zoeller's Knowledge (XXG) biography from a computer originating from the firm. The edits claimed that Zoeller had committed acts of prescription
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his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven." The page remained on
Knowledge (XXG) for more than four months, until a friend of Seigenthaler replaced the biography with one from Seigenthaler's
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