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> Jimbo & Rachel Marsden : Scandalous, can you say WP:COItus?
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post Wed 5th March 2008, 4:47pm
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Anyway, the crux of the matter is that Giano is wrong. Of course it is a story. The story is neatly outlined by the Balitimore Sun here:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-b...0,6838851.story

...and ends with
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[Marsden] published transcripts of messages in which Wales explained how he would lean on a committee to fix her Wikipedia entry to her liking.


Which takes us back to the point of our thread back in 2006, and Somey's premonitions of Jimbo starting a relationship with Marsden, and her getting her article fixed.

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=5196
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post Wed 5th March 2008, 5:21pm
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Rachel Marsden is a nutter though. Unless there is more to the relationship than a one night stand, and there does not seem to have been much more than that, I find it hard to count that as a boyfriend/girlfriend split and struggle to see why she would go there except for the notch on the headboard for a high profile scalp. The whole, "I've never met you properly before but I am looking forward to my 24 hours of fun, friendship and possibly more" is most peculiar.

Methinks she does protest too much, and can't see that there was any relationship to bother over. It still beggars believe that anyone who was aware of her reputation as a man eater would go there. Shudder...
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post Wed 5th March 2008, 7:24pm
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Methinks she does protest too much, and can't see that there was any relationship to bother over.

No matter.

Being dumped online, ON WIKIPEDIA (with corresponding follow-up IM, as a "special favor") is a level of scumbaggery that even the most freewheeling of maneaters doesn't deserve.

I mean, being dumped on Wikipedia.

I'm surprised that she had the good humor she did, to use Ebay. Most women would have gone to Walmart and gone gun shopping. unsure.gif

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The whole, "I've never met you properly before but I am looking forward to my 24 hours of fun,

Not really.

It's also called "hitting on a famous person". I'm sure old Jimmy gets lots of those.

It boggles the mind, but he probably does.

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post Wed 5th March 2008, 8:53pm
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QUOTE(Disillusioned Lackey @ Wed 5th March 2008, 7:24pm) *


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It's also called "hitting on a famous person". I'm sure old Jimmy gets lots of those.

It boggles the mind, but he probably does.

Ewww. ph34r.gif


Now do you realise why there are so many male hormonal teenage admins?
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post Wed 5th March 2008, 9:14pm
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QUOTE(Disillusioned Lackey @ Wed 5th March 2008, 4:14pm) *


Talk about the worst woman to dump cruelly, and publicly if you don't want bad press. Wow.


Didn't Keith Olbermann name Marsden the "Worst Person in the World" one day?

Anyway, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Jimbo's most serious transgression with Rachel Marsden - conducting original research. biggrin.gif
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post Wed 5th March 2008, 9:15pm
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QUOTE(Disillusioned Lackey @ Wed 5th March 2008, 2:24pm) *


I'm surprised that she had the good humor she did, to use Ebay. Most women would have gone to Walmart and gone gun shopping. unsure.gif

Thankfully for him he didn't get mixed up with Carolyn Doran!



thanks for the easy set up... cool.gif
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post Wed 5th March 2008, 10:54pm
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QUOTE(The Wales Hunter @ Wed 5th March 2008, 3:18pm) *

Then again, the married with kids Mark Oaten was challenging for the leadership of the Lib Dem Party when it emerged he regularly paid rent boys to shit on him.

Then again, the married with kids Mark Oaten was never taken very seriously as a possible leader of the Lib Dem Party.
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Then again, it didn't emerge (due to use of D-notices) that Tony Blair's daughter tried to commit suicide a few years back when she was being bullied about her dad's foreign policy!

Then again, I'm far from convinced that that ever happened. There was only ever one source for that

http://www.bilderberg.org/pepis04.htm#60

and I wouldn't trust that site very far.
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post Wed 5th March 2008, 11:19pm
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It appears that there are no longer any reliable news sources in the world. Everything from the NY Times to the Times of London is a tabloid.

We wish to announce that as a result, we will be offering a daily print edition of Wikinews. Accept no other news sources a there are no others.

In unrelated news, Wikipedia would like to announce the launch of its Newspeak edition. Initially, Wikipedia.newspeak will exist alongside the Oldspeak (standard English) edition. However, we anticipate that by 1984, I mean 2014, we will be able to phase out the Oldspeak edition as well as the rest of the internet as there will be no need for anything other than the Newspeak edition.

We will also be dispensing with article "histories" since once a wikipedia article is changed, its previous versions are deemed to have never existed. Indeed, any change to an article is an illusion as in fact the article was always the way it appears to be in its latest version.

That is all.
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post Wed 5th March 2008, 11:19pm
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QUOTE(Heat @ Wed 5th March 2008, 9:14pm) *


Didn't Keith Olbermann name Marsden the "Worst Person in the World" one day?



I'm not sure if she made the worst person list, but Olbermann did do a story about her "colorful past" after she tried to argue the Duke lacrosse players weren't harmed by the false rape charges.
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post Wed 5th March 2008, 11:22pm
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QUOTE(Replacement Party @ Wed 5th March 2008, 11:19pm) *

QUOTE(Heat @ Wed 5th March 2008, 9:14pm) *


Didn't Keith Olbermann name Marsden the "Worst Person in the World" one day?



I'm not sure if she made the worst person list, but Olbermann did do a story about her "colorful past" after she tried to argue the Duke lacrosse players weren't harmed by the false rape charges.


Of course not. Marsden's false rape charges against Liam Donnelly didn't do him any harm. That's why the current Jimmy approved version of the Rachel Marsden article reduces the incident to a he said/she said where they simply "accused each other of sexual harassment".
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QUOTE(Replacement Party @ Wed 5th March 2008, 11:19pm) *

QUOTE(Heat @ Wed 5th March 2008, 9:14pm) *


Didn't Keith Olbermann name Marsden the "Worst Person in the World" one day?



I'm not sure if she made the worst person list, but Olbermann did do a story about her "colorful past" after she tried to argue the Duke lacrosse players weren't harmed by the false rape charges.

This is all I could find:
QUOTE(Kieth Olbermann March 29 @ 2007)
OLBERMANN: Dude, we`ve captured our own stupidity on videotape. Hey, we`re not judging you. In fact, if we found this a week earlier, you guys might have earned yourself a Keithy.

Speaking of, tonight, the final grouping of nominees for the 2007 annual awards honoring the best of Web, category, Greatest Animal in All the Internets.

And he once made the joke himself. But are Laura and Barney now truly the president`s only supporters?

Those stories ahead.

Now, though, here are COUNTDOWN`s top three newsmakers of this day.

Number three, Roxana Arias Becerra, Miss Bolivia of 1993, arrested on charges of trying to take nearly two pounds of cocaine over the Brazilian border. A sad story, no doubt, but mentioned here only because a week ago, Sonya Falcone (ph), Miss Bolivia 1988, was ordered out of this country after she pleaded guilty to employing four illegal immigrants as household servants. You guys need to meet Tara Conner.

Number two, Sean Diddy Combs tells "The London Daily Mirror" that he had a nice, romantic trip to Paris with girlfriend Kim Porter. We went up to my suite and had tantric sex for at least 30 hours. You know, Mr. Diddy, they do say, if it lasts more than four hours, consult your doctor.

Number one, Rachel Marsden of Fox Noise Channel not going to be happy with her profile on Salon.com, not after she explained to Fox viewers how the Duke lacrosse players won`t suffer any long-term aftereffects from the false rape accusations made against them. Salon reports Ms. Marsden had filed quote, "questionable rape charges" of her own in her native Canada a decade ago, and later pleaded guilty to stalking, criminally stalking, a male Canadian radio host. Ms. Marsden, meet Mr. O`Reilly.


On this day, "Comedian Rush Limbaugh" was Worst Person in the World.

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Another new piece from Cade Metz at the Register.
Why you should care that Jimmy Wales ignores reality
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post Sat 8th March 2008, 12:42pm
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QUOTE(Heat @ Wed 5th March 2008, 5:19pm) *

We will also be dispensing with article "histories" since once a wikipedia article is changed, its previous versions are deemed to have never existed. Indeed, any change to an article is an illusion as in fact the article was always the way it appears to be in its latest version.

That is all.

Is this true? If so, it is HUGE!

All that openly available libel and defamation, gone?

Wow.

What genius at WMF figured this one out?

Godwin?
(edited by gullible idealistic person who actually believes in redemption, all evidence to the contrary).

QUOTE(BobbyBombastic @ Wed 5th March 2008, 3:15pm) *

Thankfully for him he didn't get mixed up with Carolyn Doran!

QUOTE(BobbyBombastic @ Wed 5th March 2008, 3:15pm) *

thanks for the easy set up... cool.gif
You're welcome. I accept paypal™. wink.gif

But I'll do you one better....
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Thankfully for him he didn't get mixed up with Carolyn Doran!

Or (drumroll..) Thankfully for him he didn't get mixed up with Lorena Bobitt!

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Perhaps Jimbo should have read this first: How To Have An Affair

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FORUM Image

CANADA

Where false rape charges cause no harm

since 1867

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Marsden posting to Jimbo. Also note the history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=200307410

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As anyone who has ever cared about Jimbo here knows, the only way to have any sort of rational or caring discussion with him is in the Wikimatrix here. Alright, fine. Game on, sweetheart. Newsflash: Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia; it is a cult. I wouldn't even be included in a real encyclopedia. I want the Wikipedia entry about me deleted. I don't know why this is such a difficult concept to accept. This is not a publishing company, nor is it some kind of altruistic venture for the greater good of humanity. Wikipedia is nothing more than the biggest and most prolific defamation machine that the world has ever known, run by people with varying degrees of personality disorders. You couldn't have cared less about my Wikipedia entry until we started sleeping together, Jimmy. At that point, it was nicely cleaned up and taken care of through your proxies here on the site, as per your instructions (and it's not the first time an article has been cleaned up through a proxy, as per your orders...this kind of stuff, contrary to popular belief, doesn't just happen "magically" here on Wikipedia). Now that we're not sleeping together and since you so publicly broke up with my here on this website, the page about me has turned into a complete free-for-all. Are you aware, Jimmy, that "NPOV" (aka "Neutral Point Of View") is actually an oxymoron? By its very nature, a "point of view" cannot be "neutral". Communism has failed everywhere it has been tried, Jimmy, and Wikipedia is no exception. As for you trying to make it seem as though your invisible hand isn't involved in any of this, perhaps it's wise for people to remember that the greatest feat the devil ever pulled off was convincing people that he doesn't exist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RachelMarsden (talk • contribs) 14:51, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
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Reverted 47 minutes later as vandalism.
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...I want the Wikipedia entry about me deleted. I don't know why this is such a difficult concept to accept. This is not a publishing company, nor is it some kind of altruistic venture for the greater good of humanity. Wikipedia is nothing more than the biggest and most prolific defamation machine that the world has ever known, run by people with varying degrees of personality disorders.

I know what it sounds like, but I swear, my invisible hand never touched her! mellow.gif
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This is not a publishing company, nor is it some kind of altruistic venture for the greater good of humanity. Wikipedia is nothing more than the biggest and most prolific defamation machine that the world has ever known, run by people with varying degrees of personality disorders.
Wow. She pretty much nailed it there.
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I agree. For whatever other faults she may have, she accurately characterized the most disturbing aspect of Wikipedia, namely its passion for bringing the subject of BLPs (as well as fellow editors) into disrepute.
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