User talk:Jimbo Wales

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You were quoted

You were quoted here [1] at ArbCom. Please check for accuracy. Best regards. Smatprt (talk) 22:18, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

In regards to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Shakespeare authorship question/Evidence#Evidence presented by Jimbo Wales (subsection two), I don't understand which admins you are referring to with "I support a strong degree of thoughtful discretion on the part of admins". ScienceApologist (now user:Joshua P. Schroeder) is not, and has never been, an admin, and I can't see any admins in the merge discussion. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 02:15, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Um...ScienceApologist is not an administrator? We were all led to believe he was. He closed the merge discussion and registered a finding, and in the aftermath, set himself up as overseer of the article, issuing instructions and assigning us all various duties. He was referred to as an administrator on numerous occasions (example - [2]) and never corrected anyone. If this is true, this is really disturbing. His early close and poor decision are the direct cause of so much of the dissension that has now resulted in the ArbCom case... and my earlier topic banning. Wow, I feel like I've been had.Smatprt (talk) 05:12, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

It's a common misconception among editors who avoid the dark corners of Wikipedia that people who step up and organize things are admins. However, there was no attempt to deceive and anyone who jumped to the "admin" conclusion were mistaken on two counts: ScienceApologist is not an admin, and an admin can make mistakes and can be challenged just like a humble editor (i.e. politely question them at the page in dispute if appropriate, or at their talk page). Johnuniq (talk) 07:41, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

ScienceApologist never represented himself as an admin, and IIRC, he never commented on the case that brought about Smatprt's topic ban. It was nothing but his behaviour that brought about his topic ban. ScienceApologist's action stopped an interminiable edit war and set up the conditions that brought about the present Shakespeare authorship question page, and his decision should be used as a model for other pages troubled by WWI-style trench warfare. Tom Reedy (talk) 13:15, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm glad we agree on at least this - ScienceApologist's action set up the condiditons that brought about the present SAQ page, which is now surrounded with so much fury. But the fact remains that we were all under the impression that he was an Admin. Tom named him an admin on several occasions. He was named an admin on pages he participated in and - here's the deception - he never corrected anyone, but allowed that misconception to remain. No matter though, as I see [3] he has been blocked indefinitely. Smatprt (talk) 15:58, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Well I, like you, assumed he was. It's too bad when editors get so convinced of their righteousness that they become vigilantes. Eric Hoffer said a lot about that type of mindset. Tom Reedy (talk) 19:38, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

I was referring to ScienceApologist, as I was thinking at that moment that he was an admin. However, that was irrelevant to my remark really, so I have made an edit to change that tidbit.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 09:48, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying that. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 22:39, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

when did national scout association of Eritrea founded

Hi dear my name is YONAS i am boy scout Eritrea .As we learn in my country ERITREA scout movment was found on 1945 .But you at this article it wrote it was stared on 1950.but in 1950 it was in ETHIOPIA not in Eritrea.I hope you will be answer my quetion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.55.76.18 (talk) 12:40, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Please ask this at the Reference desk, not Jimbo's talk page. --Perseus, Son of Zeus ✉ sign here 16:51, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia creator

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Awarded for creating Wikipedia.

Japanese business income 2

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