Student's Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspaper obituaries--Irish Times Options Rating

[EricBarbour]

A WIKIPEDIA hoax by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake quote being published in newspaper obituaries around the world.

I didn't see it in the Newsfeed. Anyone know more?

[Son of a Yeti]

A WIKIPEDIA hoax by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake quote being published in newspaper obituaries around the world.

I didn't see it in the Newsfeed. Anyone know more?

I even could not find a single instance of this quote being used in a context different from describing this "hoax" (I mean in the newsfeeds searched by news.google.com - some blogs did seem to have taken up the bait).

Were they all retracted? 100% of them? Also from Google cache?

[carbuncle]

I even could not find a single instance of this quote being used in a context different from describing this "hoax" (I mean in the newsfeeds searched by news.google.com - some blogs did seem to have taken up the bait).

Were they all retracted? 100% of them? Also from Google cache?

The last paragraph of the Guardian's obit:

This article was amended on Friday 3 April 2009. Maurice Jarre died on 28 March 2009, not 29 March. We opened with a quotation which we are now advised had been invented as a hoax, and was never said by the composer: "My life has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life." The article closed with: "Music is how I will be remembered," said Jarre. "When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head and that only I can hear." These quotes appear to have originated as a deliberate insertion in the composer's Wikipedia entry in the wake of his death on 28 March, and from there were duplicated on various internet sites. These errors have been corrected.