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I get where you're coming from. As of now the only press article about this is this little piece in the Tallahassee Democrat that may have led to the Wikipedia

• mojomark 5y ago
  > Nobody else has written about it. > I suspect though Mr. White might possibly prefer to go back to his private life and never hear about Wikipedia again. Except that the image was used in a Discovery channel doc on the killer - which isn't an easily fixable Wiki. No idea if Discovery Channel nixed this episode, or clawed back any distributions of this content from consumers. The focus of the article was on Wikipedia errors, which is undoubtedly to blame for the onset of the issue (albeit now "corrected" with a.link to the Tallahassee article - further subtly perpetuating), but the primary issue of perpetuation appears to be the fault of Discovery Channel's journalistic negligence. 1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8358280/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8358280/
  • akolbe 5y ago
    The oldest page I've found featuring the wrong picture is this one: https://web.archive.org/web/20201128204840/https://www.monstersandcritics.com/tv/copycat-killers-spotlights-robocop-2-serial-killer-nathaniel-white/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201128204840/https://www.monst... It's dated July 1, 2017, which would mean it precedes the presence of the image on Wikipedia by almost a year. I haven't seen the complete Reelz episode referred to on that page (see trailer at the bottom of the page), but it looks like it may feature (or may have featured) the wrong image as well. https://www.reelznow.com/video/9c2e55a5-0478-4e91-a338-983e7e3aebb0 https://www.reelznow.com/video/9c2e55a5-0478-4e91-a338-983e7... I don't have access to it so can't check. In Google, this Reelznow page is dated 16 June 2017. The broadcast date for the Discovery episode on the IMDb page you linked ("Episode aired May 3, 2018") seems to be wrong. According to the legal papers, the episode was broadcast August 13, 2018. See page no. 4: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/2e/White_v._Discovery_Channel_et_al._-_Complaint.pdf https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/2e/White... This is borne out by the Wikipedia page views: https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2017-01-01&end=2020-09-04&pages=Nathaniel_White https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&pl... Big spike in August 2018, nothing in May 2018.
• CRConrad 5y ago
  > If Wikipedia ever covers this, it had perhaps best be in an article about Wikipedia controversies Well, judging from TFA and a The Register link posted in this discussion, I think I know of someone who knows how to write such articles... ;-)