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Popular TV history series Timewatch recently aired a programme about medieval melee tournaments on BBC 2.
The programme which can be watch here in full showed the presenter Dr. Saul David who studied at both Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities and was last a year conducting a professorship in military history at Hull University using the internet to research William Marshal the 1st Earl of Pembroke (an Anglo Norman soldier and statesman). Some of the footage showed him reading the article about William Marshall on the popular user contributed encyclopedia Wikipedia.
The encyclopedia which has been banned in many educational establishments because of the incorrect information found on the site has enjoy wide spread media attention.
The footage clearly indicated that it was Wikipedia he was using, however the logo (see below) had been removed from the footage. We assume that the logo was removed so as not to bring to anyone's attention the fact that he was indeed using the encyclopedia as an information resource.
Wikipedia Logo:
BBC Footage:
We have contacted both Dr. Saul David and the BBC but have yet to hear from them at the time of writing, we will of course update this article if they respond.