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Post by Flip Flopped on Jan 9, 2016 23:49:48 GMT
Tire marks are evident on the backs of: - Most recently: Dr. James Heilman who was first forcibly ejected from the WMF Board's co-pilot seat as a Trustee before being run over repeatedly by Jimbo on his talk page
- Larry Sanger, PhD, who Wales now claims did not co-found Wikipedia
Pitch in to compile a list of who Jimmy climbed over on his way to the top and/or backstabbed to stay on top.
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Post by ericbarbour on Jan 10, 2016 1:34:56 GMT
Jesus, you might as well ask for a telephone book. Jimbo fucked over lots, and we are only talking about Wikipedia-associated people. This is only a short sample of things I know of. All involved some kind of "weasel behaviour" by Jimbo. *Ed O'Connor, the Bomis programmer employee who was hired in June 2001 and fired six months later without explanation. *Andy "Karmafist" Sylvia, admin who ran for Arbcom in 2006 and lost. Forced out with Jimbo's connivance. Ask Kelly Martin what happened, it was DISGUSTING. *Badlydrawnjeff: forced out in 2008 after a really nasty arbitration. Jimbo was involved somehow. *The Bell Pottinger PR firm was backstabbed by Jimbo (on the BBC!) after their WP editing was revealed. *Ashida Kim *Seth Finkelstein *Probably Daniel Brandt, although evidence is scarce *The winners of Jimbo's "Wikipedian Of The Year" award *The Independent runs an article " Is Wikipedia Cracking Up?", 3 February 2009. Wales successfully harasses the Independent's editors into removing statements about Bomis and “allegations from former colleagues that he used Wikipedia as a personal piggybank” from the article. www.independent.co.uk/news/corrections/jimmy-wales-1624615.html*Chris Dodd, former longtime Congressman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America. thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/24/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-mpaa-ceo-christopher-dodd-should-be-fired/*http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67757.html *http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/heres-your-correction-wikipedia-founder/ *Mike Wood *Violet Blue *Greg Kohs, repeatedly *Various people on Quora *The utterly fuckheaded Rachel Marsden squawk. Don't ever forget THAT. |
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Post by Flip Flopped on Jan 10, 2016 3:33:57 GMT
Thanks, Eric! Indeed the Marsden saga is unforgettable.
Narcissists, psychopaths, and cult leaders throw countless innocent bystanders under the bus. Doubtless Jimbo will continue to rack up more.
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Post by The Sorrow on Jan 10, 2016 4:02:51 GMT
Jeff Merkey comes to mind as well. He donated thousands of dollars to the Foundation and expected special treatment from Jimbo and Wikipedia, which he got for a good while.
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Post by Mutineer on Jan 10, 2016 15:17:13 GMT
It was learning about the Karmafist matter that I was first acquainted with the phrase "go meatspace," which is how Jimbo described his contacting Karmafist's employers in a conscious bid to damage his livelihood and career. Jimbo actually publicly said he was going to do that.
Karmafist was indeed doing some experimental Wikipedia vandalism, but I don't think it warranted Jimbo's severe response. Greg Kohs last year did his own experiment and study, which I found to be according to the Karmafist model, which is to insert non-overt, non-obvious inaccuracies into articles. Patrollers don't catch that because patrollers, beyond being generally stupid and uncreative, can't be bothered to check references. So the inaccurate information persists, and then becomes entrenched, and then the real hilarity (if you like that brand of humor) starts as the article including the vandalism is replicated and repeated around the Internet by websites and people that regard Wikipedia as reliable.
I will give Jimbo at least the credit of calling Karmafist's employers openly and as Jimbo Wales, which is better than a slimy little punk like former arbitrator AGK Anthony G. Kelly that sent anonymized poison email to Kumioko's employer.
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Post by ericbarbour on Jan 12, 2016 9:23:05 GMT
Jeff Merkey comes to mind as well. He donated thousands of dollars to the Foundation and expected special treatment from Jimbo and Wikipedia, which he got for a good while. Yeah, but Merkey kinda deserved what he got.  I'd like to lock him and Jimbo in a cell together, naked and smeared with peanut butter. Then sic a hog on them.  |
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I'd like to lock him and Jimbo in a cell together, naked and smeared with peanut butter. Then sic a hog on them. 