A fact from Jackie (dog) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 January 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Point taken. As long as the awareness issue was uncertain, it was better to leave it out. Now that the Tagesspiegel story proved false (I'll cancel my subscription!), that note on awareness - or rather unawareness - is welcome to go back in. For the sake of completeness, I put in a reference to the original TAZ article by Hillenbrand [1] as published online the day after the print version. Alandeus (talk) 14:06, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
All media outlets essentially bought an AP story without doing any research on their own. AP itself bought it from a German newspaper. Though the story is probably correct it essentially rest on the contribution of one newspaper journalist rather than being supported by a large number of (independently researched) articles in the international press as one might think at first glance. The situation is explained here (in German) by the original journalist himself: [2]--Kmhkmh (talk) 01:57, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]