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It should be noted that in the Discovery Channel broadcast, the picture of the Florida Nathaniel White was shown only very briefly—long enough to recognize the man if you knew him well, but probably not long enough to memorize his face if you didn't. So in a sense the Wikipedia page was possibly more harmful to him than the original TV content, bearing in mind that thousands of people looked Nathaniel White up on Wikipedia each time the program aired. Overall, more than 125,000 people viewed the Wikipedia article while it showed the wrong image. The spikes correspond to days when the program aired:

https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&pl...

parent akolbe 5 years ago

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