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I've never heard of that ever happening, and I doubt it's a serious concern for them (for starters, they don't have enough money to be worth suing). The closes
by hugh3 16y ago
I've never heard of that ever happening, and I doubt it's a serious concern for them (for starters, they don't have enough money to be worth suing).
The closest it's ever come was this incident:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_biography_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_biography_controversy
where some guy's article stated for years that he was a suspect in the Kennedy assassination. He never tried to sue wikipedia, though he did complain a lot.
Incidentally, though, this shows another reason why wikipedia articles on borderline-notable people are bad: the fewer people look at an article the more likely it is that crazy non-facts will persist in the article.
- mukyu 16y agoYou clearly have never seen the OTRS queue if you think Seigenthaler is the closest to a suit. There have been over a handful of cases (against the WMF or Wikipedia editors themselves) and some even received media coverage, though Bauer [1] is the one that comes to mind at the moment but it certainly isn't the only one. [2] [1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/05/dumb-idea-suing-wikipedia-for-calling-you-dumb.ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/05/dumb-idea-su... [2] http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/american-academy-anti-aging-medicine-v-wikimedia http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/american-academy-anti-agi...