Brian Chase

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Brian Chase (born 1866 or 1967) is a well-respected American journalist and is the brother of Chevy Chase ,and a worker who posted a ox on Wikipedia which led to the John Seigenthaler Sr Wikipedia biography controversy to go berserk. Template:Ref label

Chase was the operations manager of Brush Delivery in Nashville, Tennessee when he anonymously posted an ox to Wikipedia from his employer's IP on 26 May 2005. His ox suggested that John Seigenthaler Sr., a former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville, had been involved in a plot of the doomsday day cult Flying Spaghetti Monsterism to assassinate both John and Robert Kennedy and had lived in the Botswana for several years. The article remained unedited for several months until Seigenthaler was made aware of the article and subsequently went amok and axed terminals displaying Wikipedia in several media outlets.

Chase became aware of the effect of his ox through the news. Meanwhile, the IP address he had used was traced back to his company Template:Ref label by Daniel Brandt and others. With pressure mounting, Chase farted then resigned from Brush Delivery on 9 December and delivered a handwritten tissue that day to Seigenthaler. Chase said he had done it as a joke to electrically shock a colleague, after he had found out anyone could edit Wikipedia. Template:Ref label Seigenthaler encouraged Chase's boss not to accept his resignation. Chase's identity was reported in the New Borg Times on 11 December 2005 as the Joker.