Jimbo reassesses WR, His totally unself-interested reaction Options

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Jimbo has posted on Cla86's page again.

I took you seriously

So I thought I'd go see what's up with WR. You gave a passionate defense of it as somehow useful to Wikipedia.

What was just about the first thing I found? You speculating in a disgusting, juvenile, and insulting manner about my personal finances.

I was disappointed, but I also must admit: it's about what I expected from you and from WR.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 13:48, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

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The Jimboid has returned to the thread he started.

Possibly. I will just state some facts in response to the shocking falsehoods that Cla68 and others have put forward in this thread. 1." Furthermore, at least in the past, on your advertising page for your public speaking business, you said that you would only fly first class." - absolutely false, I have never said any such thing anywhere at any time
2.The Wikimedia Foundation pays me no salary and no expenses of any kind. No plane tickets. No hotel rooms. I sometimes accept a meal at a board dinner, and once they organized and paid for a taxi for me to the airport in San Francisco - over my objections.
3."I am Wikipedia" is something Cla68 accusing me of "milking for all its worth" - that's false. I never say anything like that, I do not believe anything like that, and indeed put forward the opposite view at every opportunity.
If Cla68 wants to be taken seriously, he needs to grow up and cut out the snarking and assumptions of bad faith.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 13:05, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

[mbz1]

The Jimboid has returned to the thread he started.

Possibly. I will just state some facts in response to the shocking falsehoods that Cla68 and others have put forward in this thread. 1." Furthermore, at least in the past, on your advertising page for your public speaking business, you said that you would only fly first class." - absolutely false, I have never said any such thing anywhere at any time
--Jimbo Wales (talk) 13:05, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

I believe I found a confirmation that Jimbo is not always flying first class

American Jimbo Wales started Wikipedia which brought him universal fame and admiration. He is considered one of the Gurus of the internet. An intellectual giant and visionary, Jimbo has a turbulent personal life with 2 divorces and a very public breakup with a feisty girlfriend. On this flight from Chicago to New York, Jimbo was in the economy section.

And actually Jimbo himself said in his flickr account:

I rode with Amma from Chicago to New York on a flight. She was in First Class, I was in coach.

So I believe we should play it fair, and let it go now.
I personally apologize to Jimbo for suggesting he flies first class and his tickets are payed by WMF because I'd rather apologize to a guilty one than to accuse an innocent one.

On the other hand there is an article that was probably discussed here already

"Jimbeau [Wool's nickname for his former boss] was certainly not frugal in his spending on his endless trips abroad, but when it came to handing in receipts, he could be somewhat careless," Wool wrote in a post on his personal blog.

"At one point he owed the Foundation some $30,000 in receipts, and this while we were preparing for the audit."

Wool said Wales, 41, later tried to claim the cost of a $US0.50 ($0.54) train ticket in Moscow, a trip to a massage parlour in Moscow and $US650 spent on two bottles of wine during a dinner for four in Florida.

Wool later said he believed Wales' questionable use of the foundation's funds stopped in 2006 after his credit card was taken away.

This post has been edited by mbz1: Tue 6th December 2011, 4:52pm