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{{merge|John Seigenthaler Sr. Misplaced Pages biography controversy}} |
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'''Brian Chase''' (born circa ]) is a ] citizen who posted false information on ], which led to the ]. {{ref|NYTSeigenthaler}} |
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Chase was the ] of Rush Delivery in ] when he anonymously posted to Misplaced Pages from his employer's ] on ], ]. His post suggested that ], a former editor of '']'' in Nashville, was believed to have been involved in the assassinations of both ] and ] and had lived in the ] for several years. The article remained unedited for several months until Seigenthaler was made aware of the article and subsequently criticized Misplaced Pages in several media outlets. |
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Chase learned of the effect of his post through the news. Meanwhile, the IP address he had used was traced back to his company by ], a commentator regarding privacy issues and the World Wide Web. Chase resigned from Rush Delivery on ] and delivered a handwritten apology that day to Seigenthaler. Chase said he had done it as a joke to shock a colleague, after he had found out anyone could edit Misplaced Pages; he thought that it was a "gag" web site. {{ref label|NYTSeigenthaler|1|a}} Seigenthaler encouraged Chase's boss to not accept his resignation. |
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Because of his central role in the larger controversy involving Seigenthaler, Chase had a profound impact on Misplaced Pages and became the center of a controversy involving the issue of what qualifies ]s as ]s. Few would argue that Chase is not newsworthy. However, but for his role as a "fifteen minute newsmaker" who made the Misplaced Pages edit heard round the world, Chase would still be a private person. At the same time, this assertion could be made for once private persons like ] and ] (better known by her ] ]), now famous as litigants in landmark ] decisions. In an interview with CNET News, Daniel Brandt elaborated: |
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'' " . . . Misplaced Pages's criteria for whether someone merits a biography has an extremely low standard. For example, there's a page on Brian Chase, and I don't feel comfortable about that. Right now, newspapers should print his name because it's topical. But a few months from now, his name will sort of disappear from the Internet because newspapers don't rate that high on the search engines, and it's only up in Google news for a month. But Misplaced Pages articles rank very, very highly on all search engines and Brian Chase will shoot right up to the top with the Misplaced Pages. '' |
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'' "And when this poor guy is trying to send out his resume, and he never gets called back from interviews, how do you know that the people aren't Googling him when they get his resume and saying, 'Well, he did this thing.' The permanence becomes invasion of privacy even more so than getting your name in the newspaper." '' |
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== Notes == |
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# {{note|NYTSeigenthaler}} {{note label|NYTSeigenthaler|1|b}} Seelye, Katharine Q (], ]). . '']''. |
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== Sources == |
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* Page, Susan (] ]). , ''USA Today''. Retrieved ] ]. |
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* Mielczarek, Natalia (] ]). ''The Tennessean''. |
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* Brandt, Daniel (] ]). via wikipedia-watch.org. Retrieved ] ]. |
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* Terdiman, Daniel (] ]). ''C|Net News.com''. Retrieved ] ]. |
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