An exercise bike? What, so if he breaks the her by crashing into a
rock or something, he can just throw her away and get another?

Actually, that does sound like just the sort of thing a number of
guys I've been with would do.

*bursts into tears*

Oh come on, I don't remember people complaining when Giano was compared to a horse.

Wales waning influence –

(1) Wales is a member of the WMF board, albeit with the weird Chairman Emeritus status; he is far more well known than any other Board member and no Wiki editors or admins quote any of the other Board members as an authority when faced with a dispute.

(2) Wales claims that “in Wikipedia, I work closely with a team called 'OTRS”. No other Board member makes this claim. Is Wales, lying about his role in Wikipedia or does he in fact have an exceptional influence over how contacts made with WMF are handled, including those specifically related to Wikipedia BLPs ?

(3) Wales is both a WMF Board member and an Officer(?) of the Wikia Foundation placing him in a unique position of influence.

If Wales is directly involved in contacts related to BLPs, he is uniquely placed to engage with individuals who may have interests which coincide, or which are at variance with Wikipedia or Wikia Corps. (the two not necessarilly being the same). This is an incredibly powerful position which screams COI. Only when the rest of the WMF Board are seen to act in respect of this COI could anyone seriously claim that Wales’ influence has in any way been reduced.

AF

Given the WP entry appears to be excluding everything but that element, the statement is unconvincing.

When he thinks he's in private, Jimbo appears not to agree.

So for the record, we've learned its an acceptable source once its in the Times. Even if the Times parrots the story from the other sites with no discernable independent investigation or fact checking.

Original research!

There are now independently written stories in several newspapers. I saw one in the San Jose Mercury and another in the Sydney Morning Herald.

The story has been carried on four continents by my count. Any sign of Africa or South America yet?

San Jose Mercury News: Wikipedia founder dogged by tawdry tales online



Ha!

I guess that when one is a former porn dealer, one doesn't get the benefit of the doubt.

Not that "one" deserves it. But I'm just sayin'.

Uh....really for the record...it is ok for the co-founder of Wikipedia to be a role model for the creeps of the world...how 6th grade...

and what a shame...I feel sorry for Jimbo's wife and any offspring that he may have helped to produce...

for all of the editors out there that work on the project thinking that it is a real job


In a few years, people will look at the piles of hardware in their garages and wonder what they did with their lives!

What a waste of valuable time.

That's a perfect analogy. Goldstein was presumably meant to be Trotsky, and was given such an obviously Jewish name because Trotsky was Jewish. Sanger is too, although the Cabal wish to conceal that.

gah, if any of you had actually read the damn book, you'd know that [spoiler]Emmanuel Goldstein was a straw man[/spoiler].

I'm with Random832 on this one. I didn't get the impression from the book that Goldstein actually existed in any meaningful way.

During the Attack Sites RfAr I compared the role of WordBomb to that of Goldstein...a sort of shorthand for everything the Cabal existed to protect us from.

I like that Marsden gal. She's got spunk! Literally. Jimmy's spunk. I saw it on Ebay. Ewwwwww.

Well, exactly!

I mean (not to get too back on topic or anything), if we grant that Jimbo had been dating Rachel Marsden for several months prior to the events that precipitated their breakup, then Jimbo did just that, did he not? The "rock" that he/they "crashed into" was his supposed reputation for integrity as the co-founder of Wikipedia, which their relationship essentially threatened to expose as a sham (not that we need further proof).

As for me, I'm one of those guys who generally insists on not being the one to initiate a breakup. At least I used to be that way, until the Bush Administration came into power - at which point I realized that the whole "social contract" thing is basically a joke.