The Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident demonstrated that the subject of a biographical article must sometimes fix blatant lies about his own life. In May 2005, an anonymous user edited the biographical article on American journalist and writer John Seigenthaler so that it contained several false and defamatory statements.
In May 2005, an anonymous editor altered the biography of American journalist and writer John Seigenthaler in Wikipedia to include several inaccurate and damaging claims about his life.