A photo of another person with the same surname and the same name as a serial killer has been posted on Wikipedia for two years.

One of the features of Wikipedia is that anyone can edit it, and when adding information to an article, it is required to be based on a reliable source of information, but in reality it is a rule Is not completely protected. In fact, there is a situation where the photo posted in the item about a serial killer is a red stranger with the same surname and the same name.

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Wikipedia: Wikipedia Signpost / 2021-10-31 / Opinion --Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-10-31/Opinion

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https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/08/28/man-confused-robocop-killer-national-tv-sues-discovery-channel-defamation/3442125001/

The problem was an article about a serial killer named Nathaniel White, who killed six women in New York from 1991 to 1992.

Nathaniel White-Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_White

The article was created by a user named Kafziel on May 12, 2008, and a photo was added by a user named Vwanweb on May 28, 2018. The source of the photo is 'crimefeed.com', and it has been confirmed that an article about serial killer Nathaniel White was published on August 2, 2017.

CrimeFeed --Investigation Discovery's True Crime Blog (Internet Archive as of August 3, 2017)
https://web.archive.org/web/20170803013144/http://crimefeed.com/

This site is owned by Discovery Channel, which aired the crime drama 'Evil Lives Here' about Nathaniel White on August 13, 2018, and used this photo in the show.

However, the photo was taken by Nathaniel White, an African-American living in Florida who has nothing to do with the serial killer. The reason for the misidentification may be that they were both black and that Mr. White, who was misidentified, had a criminal record. The misidentified Mr. White was released in 2013 and is seven years older than the serial killer White.

It is unknown when the photo of CrimeFeed was deleted, but it was pointed out by the media that the photo posted on Wikipedia belongs to another person, and by IP users on September 4, 2020 It was erased.

Mr. White, who was mistakenly photographed as a murderer, sued the Discovery Channel in 2020 and the Wikimedia Foundation in January 2021.

Of these, a Florida judge dismissed the case against the Wikimedia Foundation, saying that Article 230 of the Communications Decency Act exempts service providers from liability for content created by third parties.

According to the Wikimedia Foundation, in the complaint plaintiffs argue that Wikimedia should be responsible for all posts, even though it does not create or curate the content, which is Article 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Because it contradicts with, it was decided to be rejected.

Wikipedia Signpost, an online newspaper in Wikipedia, uploaded photos by Vwanweb, who is actively involved in editing articles about crime on Wikipedia, with racist intentions and malicious intent. I'm guessing that I didn't upload it, I just followed the conventions of the community.

In this case, Google continues to disseminate false information, and among the photos displayed when searching with the name 'Nathaniel White', only a few black-and-white photos show the serial killer Nathaniel White. So, the picture of the African-American man displayed in color is Mr. White's mistakenly posted.