Wikipedia fan fiction, Oh Jimbo, she gasped as I thrust my turgid prose... Options

[carbuncle]

I guess it was inevitable. Please enjoy this really, really lame piece of soft-core porn Wikipedia fan fiction:

"M-Mr. Wales? You wanted to see me?"

Her words jolted me from my trance and I immediately returned to presence.

"Oh, ah... I did want to see you," I nervously stumbled over my words. "I mean ah, well, yes. I wanted to see you - I mean speak to you." She smiled at my nervous attempt to speak, but I knew she was just as nervous as I was. "I mean... I mean call me Jimbo. Jimbo Wales. You don't need to call me Mr. Wales."

She smiled serenely again, a lock of her blue hair falling over her eye. She gently brushed it back into place.

Clearly the author hasn't seen those text messages allegedly sent by Jimbo to the completely sane and not crazy at all Rachel Marsden.

[The Wales Hunter]

Jimmy deleted the slash fiction!

12:54, 2 January 2010 Jimbo Wales (talk | contribs) deleted "User:7107delicious/Wikipedia stories" ‎ (G10: Attack page or negative unsourced BLP)

Thank you for pointing this page out, Skomorokh. I have deleted it. I would block the user, but since the page was a pornographic story written about me, some might consider me to have a conflict of interest, so I'll let someone else deal with that aspect of things.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 11:57, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Please tell me someone took a copy first?

This post has been edited by The Wales Hunter:

[Milton Roe]

12:54, 2 January 2010 Jimbo Wales (talk | contribs) deleted "User:7107delicious/Wikipedia stories" ‎ (G10: Attack page or negative unsourced BLP)

Thank you for pointing this page out, Skomorokh. I have deleted it. I would block the user, but since the page was a pornographic story written about me, some might consider me to have a conflict of interest, so I'll let someone else deal with that aspect of things.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 11:57, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

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Ummm, when one of Jimbo's beloved policies causes him to go through that much tortured and wacky rigmarole, it continues to amaze that he still refuses to consider the idea that the real problem might lie with WP policy.

In this case, Wales pretends he can't block or directly warn this intrusive and obnoxious user. Forget it. He could, but thinks he can dodge the issue of hypocrisy by pointing out dirtywork that he wishes done, Henry II style.

The real problem is that if this happened to anybody else but Jimbo, there would probably be no lackies to fix it FOR them. Whereas, there still exist such lackies in Jimbo's case, so that all that is happening here is that he is allowed to pretend that all the policies apply evenly on WP (including COI on personna-bashing), even to Himself. Of course, they don't.

(N.B.: In this case, LessHeard blocked the offending user pronto, and his protected talkpage stands now as his wiki-tombstone).

Anybody being discussed on Wikipedia under their own RL names is generally going to have a Conflict of Interest about the issue, from Barack Obama on down to the littlest tabloid target nobody ever heard of till yesterday (say, somebody new Tiger Woods once made a hole-in-one with-- but it's always something new like that). Because Jimmy Wales has generally refused to do anything to get biographical information off Wikipedia, WP is stuck with an insoluble epistemological problem.

Of course, each person is the world's leading unpublished authority on the topic of themselves. However, Wikipedia's official policy is that only published authority counts, which leaves WP with a problem when it comes to biographical information on living people. That leads to things such as the silly question of when Jimmy Wales was born (an incident which taught everyone, inluding Jimbo, absolutely nothing). Wales can afford to ignore this kind of thing because he can have people like Gerard fix up BLPs of his own bimbos, and even now, people like LessHeard continute to wipe the pigeon crap off Jimbo's personal statue on WP (truly a thankless and never-ending job). The last incident didn't even involve facts, but Jimbo didn't want to touch it, since opinionated stuff on public figures does continue to get added to Wikipedia, and where indeed do you draw the line? (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/fear.gif)

But this does not really solve the basic problem for others. Meanwhile, we are treated to the bizarre situation in which Jimbo pretends that blocking a user who writes personalized fiction about himself on WP, would represent abuse of power in the service of a "conflict of interest." Jimbo would rather abuse his power in private, it seems. And he certainly doesn't dare bring up the problems with biographical conflicts of interest. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/ermm.gif)

Jimbo, if you really want to pretend you're a commoner, you're going to have to learn not to "notice" this stuff at all, rather like Queen Elizibeth II does. And thereby letting it stay undeleted, right where it is, in the tabloid and work of cited fiction you call an encyclopedia.

MR