Jimbo & Rachel Marsden : Scandalous, can you say WP:COItus? Options

[Castle Rock]

In case you were wondering why Rachel Marsden got such special treatment on Wikipedia the secret is now out in the Valleywag. They also link here too!

Jimmy Wales loves to talk about "transparency" and "a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge." Unless it's about his scandal-prone girlfriend. Wales, who is divorcing his second wife Christine, has been secretly seeing conservative TV commentator Rachel Marsden since last fall, friends say.

And something for JzG: a steamy chat log is included.

These chats turned my "stub" into a full wiki page

[Derktar]

This seems to be almost too good to be true. The reactions to this will be very telling.

[Kato]

Is this for real?

If so, those transcripts will keep us in one-liners for months:

Jimbo Wales : "I am supposed to be designing a google killing search engine so I can buy a jet"

[Robster]

There isn't the slightest chance that stuff is legit.

Is there?

[UseOnceAndDestroy]

Meanwhile, abusive sockpuppeteer JoshuaZ - who previously used his secret account to help keep Marsden's BLP - fights the Jimbo corner to keep this new tale off WP as long as possible.

[Kato]

Meanwhile, abusive sockpuppeteer JoshuaZ - who previously used his secret account to help keep Marsden's BLP - fights the Jimbo corner to keep this new tale off WP as long as possible.

Rachel Marsden will fail to keep these rumors out of the article. Then she'll want to blame someone for it and wonder "which goddam idiot created an "encyclopedia" which acts as resume at the top of every internet search, but which any clown anywhere can use to propagate any rumor or opinion about me". Here is the idiot she seeks:

[Aloft]

Wow. He's not kidding when he says that BLP's should be handled in a loving manner.

I think this is probably the beginning of the end for Jimbo's role in the WMF. The typical donor will start to wonder just how his money is being used. It doesn't matter that Jimbo pays his own travel; the mere perception of impropriety will be enough for the WMF to want to distance itself from him.

"I'm doing this for the child chicks in Africa Canada..."

This post has been edited by Aloft: Sat 1st March 2008, 2:49am

[thekohser]

Meanwhile, abusive sockpuppeteer JoshuaZ - who previously used his secret account to help keep Marsden's BLP - fights the Jimbo corner to keep this new tale off WP as long as possible.

And they will keep it off Jimbo's Talk page, too.

I'll check in with my friend Jimbo on Facebook and see if any of it has even a grain of truth.

Greg

[WordBomb]

There isn't the slightest chance that stuff is legit.

Is there?

All I can tell you is that if they weren't, Jimbo would own Valleywag, the homes of each of its contributors, and the homes of their children, too.

The only way any publisher would consider running something like those transcripts is if they were certain that they (the transcripts) were legitimate.

Also, I have it on good authority that there's more to come...not necessarily chat transcripts, but other "evidences" of Jimbo's dalliances.

[thekohser]

Complete tangent, but I was reading the Wikipedia article about Jimmy Wales, to see if they mention that he's been married twice already (anybody know that, or is that just more satire?). Lo and behold, Jimbo and I were both married in Monroe County, Florida -- thankfully, not to each other!

[Daniel Brandt]

[Alkivar]

you people seem surprised...

jimbo is an untrustworthy man who is well practiced at being two-faced.

he should run for congress he'd fit in real well!

[Kato]

I'm guessing, judging by Marsden's horrendous record with men...

Marsden was next charged with criminally harassing former Vancouver radio host Michael Morgan in 2002. According to the statement of facts in the case, Marsden and Morgan met in 2001; soon after, he called the police

...that they've had a break up, and the leaked correspondence is from Marsden herself, seeking revenge on Der Jimbo. If that Salon article is anything to go by, Jimbo's going to have to deal with a lot worse to come from Marsden.

[thekohser]

I received a fairly prompt reply from Jimbo on Facebook, with him certain I can understand why he can't comment on it.

Interesting.

[thekohser]

Ain't no stoppin' this now...

[Peter Damian]

Should this thread be languishing in the lounge? Seems pretty on-topic to me.

[Moulton]

Time to dust off the word 'salacious' here.

[jorge]

Someone move this out of the lounge please.

[Kato]

This blog post by Danny Wool has more "salacious" details and Jimboisms

http://allswool.blogspot.com/2008/03/money...s-for-free.html

Here's Jimbo to Bono of U2

I remember how, in Mexico City, Bono explained to us how the band leaves the arena after a concert by running through a long plastic tunnel stretching from the stage to their limos. "I need one of those," Jimbeau responded, "because I am like a rockstar too." That may be. He certainly gets to have sex with groupies. It is just unfortunate that for the longest time, some of this was funded by well-meaning donors, who really thought that their $5.00 would pay for hardware and bandwidth.

[Kato]

<moderator note> Thread moved to General discussion from Lounge, as it is about WP. Renamed from "Scandalous" to "Jimbo & Rachel Marsden : Scandalous"