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Former good articleJimmy Wales was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
October 14, 2005Articles for deletionKept
June 15, 2006Peer reviewReviewed
July 5, 2006Good article nomineeListed
October 10, 2006Featured article candidateNot promoted
October 17, 2006Good article reassessmentKept
June 13, 2007Peer reviewReviewed
August 14, 2007Articles for deletionSpeedily kept
August 31, 2007Articles for deletionSpeedily kept
December 20, 2007Good article reassessmentDelisted
September 16, 2008Good article nomineeListed
March 16, 2009Good article reassessmentDelisted
Current status: Delisted good article
Information 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)"[reply]

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)[reply]

Just vandalism and has been reverted. →GƒoleyFour (GSV) 02:57, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think that the Google page has not refreshed. →GƒoleyFour (GSV) 03:04, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In all honesty the newest is extremely creepy and the ones of him staring honestly really bug me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.167.72.169 (talk) 02:09, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

Is this guy really notable? Who even cares about him? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.85.131.55 (talk) 20:22, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:GNG. Rodhullandemu 20:26, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Are you serious? J390 (talk) 18:44, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

He's notable if you think that Wikipedia is notable (which I do, as do millions of others).

98.245.150.162 (talk) 02:53, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jimbo Wales is so notable that his page gets vandalized every year on April Fool's Day. =D CycloneGU (talk) 04:58, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but I feel he has a point. Shouldn't he be, like, included in the Wikimedia Foundation article, for example? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.24.79.174 (talk) 21:38, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If he didn't stick his face at the top of every page on this site, very few people would know about him. I think he's only notable because of his "personal appeal" and should be included in the Wikimedia Foundation article, as suggested above.108.17.72.3 (talk) 16:39, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

He created the whole project, would you be here posting on his talk page if we was not notable, no. Tofutwitch11-Chat -How'd I do? 21:09, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vote to improve description of JimmyWalesJI5.jpg

totally gives off a Hank Scorpio vibe....c'moooon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Turingmachina (talk • contribs) 01:29, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

no Declined as irrelevant, and as regards a Turing Machine, your proposition is formally undecideable; however, as regards the halting problem, I've halted it. Rodhullandemu 01:35, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is this spam? People keep trying to sell these damn Turing Machines. I see you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.235.56.24 (talk) 11:05, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Date of birth

Am I the only one who finds it a little ironic and strange that we can't be sure of the DOB of the founder of Wiki?

You'd think he would come here and correct it himself? 95.148.202.176 (talk) 01:18, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

1) co-founder, please. 2) The issue is basically that he's claimed a date different from the birth certificate, leading to conflicts among official documents and hence sources. But I think it's essentially settled now. -- Seth Finkelstein (talk) 00:29, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
How is this "essentially settled"? First the footnote says that Jimbo said that August 7 is incorrect, but according to the next sentence he says that he was born on August 7. Edge3 (talk) 04:13, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Eid al- Ghadeer

Dear Jimmy Wales.

I appreciate your work as this is really helpfull in our daily life.I can not imajine what the world would be without Wikipedia.You have done an great job and still doing it while the whole world is getting benifit out of this site. I have a request that while searching to for EID-e GHADEER, I found it on Wikipedia as Eid al-Ghadeer. The page is very informative but there is one thing which is not acceptable and that is a Potrait or some kind of Picture attached at the left corner of the page written below to it is "The inventure of Ali(A.S) at Ghadir Khum".It is forbidden in Islam to draw Pictures of Hazrat Muhammad(S.A.W) or Mola Ali (A.S).I am from a Shia sect and if you want Shia's to visit this page I would request you to Please, remove this picture immediately.I know its just a picture for you but it is not acceptable for us.I would be very obliged if you can do this favour and remove this picture.

With Regards. ALI RIZVI. ali_ned@hotmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.186.64.103 (talk) 10:11, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I doubt that Jimmy Wales will personally read this. However I have copied your request to the "Talk:Eid al-Ghadeer" page (see that page, and click on "Discussion"), so somebody can take appropriate action. 156.62.3.26 (talk) 01:59, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please read: A personal appeal...

There's a lot of discussion about Jimmy's head staring at you on every wikipedia page (LMGTFY), with a chrome extention. It's pretty lulzy.

Does anyone care about his apppeal anyway? NO! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.146.0.43 (talk) 14:04, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is a section on this noteworthy?

Ogreenworld (talk) 16:30, 24 November 2010 (UTC)Ogreenworld[reply]

It might be. Apparently its kind of a big deal. I came to this section for the same reason. But it seems like OR. Then again it IS there and people do have opinions about it. Cathys Son (talk) 23:29, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well, can you clarify the biographical relevance? At the moment, I don't see it myself. But perhaps someone can articulate it (personally, I'm surprised there haven't been more parodies - I can think of a few myself ...). -- Seth Finkelstein (talk) 00:03, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It's neither here nor there. People who do not use the Internet have probably never even heard of Jimmy Wales, so that's at least 40% of the world's population discounted. Those that do use the Internet are probably not interested in information for its own sake, so that's possibly another 40%. As for the rest, those that actually use Wikipedia only ever see Jimmy in the November/December fundraising drives. So all in all, I have yet to see parodies of Jimmy per se that would be accessible to a wide audience. That's why there aren't any, as far as I can see. A target is only worth aiming at if doing so is likely to achieve a result. That's all. Rodhullandemu 00:17, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think that chain follows. To give a mild example, imagine a Lolcat with a cat eating a mouse, and captioned "I can haz donation?" (up to you where you place the Jimmy Wales image there ...). That's the sort of thing I'd expect someone to come up with in terms of mashup. It's not a matter of worldwide recognition, but rather, within a particular subculture. -- Seth Finkelstein (talk) 00:53, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I take your point, but Internet subcultures such as lolcats are as a foreign language to so-called "silver surfers" such as myself, although I am perhaps rare in that I was using Internet in the mid to late 1970s, whereas those mostly of my age have only come to it recently, and it is no surprise that those newcomers are bemused by "newspeak". In my experience, most of them want to access content of interest to them and aren't impressed by bandwidth-consuming trivia, as they see it. No ads, no popups, no shite, no trivia. Is it really that difficult to filter out unwanted content? Yes it is, for these users. Rodhullandemu 01:06, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'm not used to discussing on Wikipedia, but there's this: http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/2010/11/4chan_founder_moot_trolls_jimmy_wales.php and ED parodied it too. There are plenty of parodies out there, but only with original research, unfortunately. Also plenty of articles on the chrome extension: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/11/23/jimmy-wales-chrome-extension-wikipedia/ http://erictric.com/2010/11/24/google-chrome-extension-adds-wikipedias-jimmy-wales-mug-to-every-page/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/22/just-add-wales/ http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=jimmy+wales+chrome#q=jimmy+wales+chrome&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=nws:1&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn&fp=f8d2d022449987d8 etc. Ogreenworld (talk) 02:38, 27 November 2010 (UTC)Ogreenworld[reply]

Wikileaks

I have removed the last comment (diff) because it is offtopic. However, it may be worth noting here that Wikipedia is not associated with WikiLeaks. See WP:Wikileaks is not part of Wikipedia. Johnuniq (talk) 00:57, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikia

It is my understanding that he co-founded wikia. However there is no external link to his Wikia account. Shouldn't that be added? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.206.162.8 (talk) 01:38, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not. I, like many other editors, often remove an excess number of external links from articles. Per WP:NOTDIRECTORY it is not Wikipedia's role to provide all possible links, and WP:EL shows no reason to add a link to a user page at Wikia. Johnuniq (talk) 06:15, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

appeal to donate

With all due respect it is annyoing to permanently see Jimbo Bimbo Wales popping up with his fake appeal to "donate" . --Nostradamustk (talk) 08:31, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

take action

Hello mistor Vales, I want to say that the Russian version of Wikipedia, one participant(Bff) did not want to gash full information about the famous Russian man who became famous thanks to a voluntary movement prank Valery Volnov.take action

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