Talk:Jimmy Wales

If you need to contact Jimbo about something, please do so at his talk page, not here. As Jimbo explains... "People who are trying to leave messages for me will likely be more satisfied if they leave messages on my user talk page than if they leave them here. This is the talk page for the article about me, not a place to talk to me. I rarely read this. --Jimbo Wales 06:05, 23 August 2005 (UTC)"

Jimmy Wales' personal income / wealth network

Hey there!

I was just wondering while there is no mention to what Jimmy earns in the article. Being Wikipedia an institution founded by donations, shouldn't all its "numbers" be public? I don't know much about it, I suppose they already are, so I wonder why not mention it in the article?

Some personalities like Mark Zuckerberg or any other of these magnates have got their net worth or they income in the personal box, at least.

Why is this information nonexistent in Jimmy's case?

Cheers from Pakistan!!

Ahmed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.157.111.182 (talk) 19:20, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

The simple answer is that if you can find a reliable source that reports on Wales's personal net worth or on his salary (from what?), and you think it's notable, then you can suggest adding it to the article. The reason sources report on Zuckerberg's net worth is because, well, he's worth quite a lot and it's worth the time of a magazine like Forbes to figure it out.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:49, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

If this dude be worth so much scratch, why do he be keep on axin fo money on EVERY DAMN ENTRY? I be trying to look at articles and dis dude be axin for money. He be poor! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.206.138.33 (talk) 03:14, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Jimmy doesn't get paid by Wikimedia. You can see financial reports for the organization on the Foundation site. In medias res (talk) 05:29, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

What daughter?

Apparently where it says "and had a daughter before separating.[57]" under the section Personal Life, the source provided at [57] says nothing of any daughter. It mentions that Wales and his wife were separated and were planning a divorce, but no mention of the daughter was made, and the sentence is even broken up by citations as follows "The couple were married in Monroe County, Florida in March 1997,[68] and had a daughter before separating.[57]", indicating the "daughter" portion had its own separate citation, though again I read the article 3 times and used several keywords in the find tool and found zero reference to the daughter. This is obviously not to say said daughter didn't exist, as I'm sure Jimbo could verify the existence of his own daughter, but the source should not be cited for that section and if possible a different citation added. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.162.6.245 (talk) 16:48, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

I concur - [1] tells of no daughter. --George2001^hi 20:18, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

I believe the citation is establishing the word "separating", not "daughter". -- Seth Finkelstein (talk) 20:26, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

I've changed the citations to cover separation and daughter.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:30, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Righty oh, I thought the citations were a bit mixed-up. --George2001^hi 20:57, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

I believe the bit about "Monroe County" is original research. I doubt if it appears anywhere other than in the original research, and in any event is pointless trivia which would only serve to confuse the reader. The existence of my daughter should be verifiable in any number of reliable sources.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 23:42, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

ancestry.com drives me bananas. Monroe County may be trivial, but something has to support the marriage to Rohan and the date of the marriage. There's a note in the article about a marriage certificate, but it appears to be sourced to non-online sources, which I can't see. The daughter is already sourced now.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:54, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Editorial power has changed

Wales says Wikipedia role unchanged, but editorial power has been curbed. This reference and matierial about role and power can be added to Jimmy Wales#Role. QuackGuru (talk) 01:18, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Slightly on the same subject, I don't much like the sentence "Wales is the de facto leader of Wikipedia." in the intro. a) It seems taken out of context and b) I really don't believe it to be true, especially given that Wikipedia is a community project, not an enterprise. I vote for removing it, but won't touch it myself. --Metalindustrien (talk) 12:41, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Controversy Paragraph Update

At the end of the Controversy section there are two sentences reading:

"The January/February 2006 issue of Maximum PC reported that Wales refused to abide by a request of the People's Republic of China to censor "politically sensitive" articles in Wikipedia. Other big business Internet companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have already yielded to Chinese government pressure. Mr. Wales would rather see companies such as Google follow suit on Wikipedia's policy of freedom of information.[43]"

I thought Google had stopped censoring information in china... or maybe thats just Hong Cong... If anyone knows more about the Google/China issue this would be a good place to make an update.

Especially considering Jimbo started this all, and this section is already two years out of date and it is a fairly current issue.

Andrewxy (talk) 21:43, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

who cares about the controversy of Jimmy Wales. I thought it was a waste of time of my eyes reading this idiotic controversy over who founded Wikipedia. Actually, why does anyone care? Not like it's a big money maker.

Actually it's a big deal. He runs wikipedia and his character and principles has a lot to do with that. People need to know, especially if their donating what kind of man runs this operation. Who is at the wheel. To that end the controversy around Rachel Masden needs to be greatly expanded. She did release chat logs which would imply he messed with her page while seeing her. A conflict of interest from the highest level of wikipedia is damning and important information relevant to wikipedia and jimbo wales. -A non-moose

How do you get this dude's head out of every damn article!

Do you dudes know how to get his head out of every damn article? Whenevers I open up a new article on the "wiki", I get this dude saying "hey many I gots a personal message for you."

When I be looking up an article on South African Pumas or Pliny the Elder, the last thing I want is this dudes head in the article. It aint got nothing to do with nothing. AND YOU CAINT EDIT HIS HEAD OUT OF IT! Somebody--PLEASE--put something about this in the wiki page for this dude!

Chill, homes. See the [x] in the box to the right of the dude's head? Click that shit, yo, free yo'self from his eyes bein' all up in yo shit. Skomorokh 02:08, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Better pic?

Can we get some better pics of jimbo? Every "personal appeal" banner looks like either a pedophile or a serial killer. Possibly homeless. Jimmy try some personal grooming maybe. --199.173.225.33 (talk) 15:19, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Correct and Protect search snip-it vandalism

The current google blurb/snipo for this article shows a vandalized name

Born, Jimmy F***n***** Donal Wales

I'm a novice wiki user so I'm not sure if this is a google crawiling or wikipedia issue, or how to correct it so I'll ask for help on this one.

Thanks Smile4Chomsky (talk) 02:55, 19 November 2010 (UTC)