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"Jeff Merkey, a former computer scientist at Novell, claims Wales told him in 2006 that in exchange for a substantial donation from Merkey, he would edit his uncomplimentary Wikipedia entry to make it more favourable.
Merkey made a $US5000 ($5455) donation in 2006 and the edit history for his Wikipedia entry showed that, around the same time, Wales personally made changes to the entry after wiping it out completely and ordering editors to start over." More
I think this situation shows a downside of relying too much on one person for success. As far as crimes go, this doesn't seem that terrible. Wikipedia will write a bit more about itself and its problems, and Wales learned something important we hope. I'd even guess that Wikipedia will fix itself here. We perhaps have an interesting case study for the future, with Wales once again a featured actor in it.
"I'm no fan of Pokemon, but the deletion of well-written Pokemon articles demonstrate the motives of "deletionists". Pokemon characters have lots of media and sources associated with them, have a lot of fans who would be interested in reading these articles and editing them, and are "notable". They're also a great way to get people involved in Wikipedia: they come to the site, see how good our coverage of that subject is, and begin contributing/getting interested in the project." http://wikip.blogspot.com/
The above author makes a number of good points. It's been my opinion that the deletionists may have a point that, "less is more", in that a higher quality leads to more use of Wikipedia, the one highest goal of WP should be "More".
More good things and options are available to the encyclopedia when there is more traffic. A goal of a site about everything would be my choice. We don't an entity that keeps throwing good parts of itself away.
"So I'm going to make one simple statement: Jimmy has never used Wikimedia money to subsidize his personal expenditures. Indeed, he has consistently put the Foundation's interests ahead of his own, and has erred on the side of personally paying for his own Wikimedia-related expenditures, rather than the reverse." Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner
She was responding to accusations by ex-Wikimedia Foundation employee Danny Wool. Then we have:
"This questionable use of Foundation funds stopped in 2006, largely because Jimbeau's credit card was taken away." - Danny Wool
OK, so we don't have perfection from Wales or Wikipedia. I do see the possibility of some un-reported income for taxpayer Wales though. If your employer pays for your personal expenses, that is generally taxable income. The next question might be, what were the auditors doing? The question after that would be, does this impact the Foundation's non-profit status? I'd have to assume that wouldn't be too big of a deal, since any amounts would be relatively insignificant.
The saga of Misery (band) and Misery (Australian band) continues. I added the above tag to the Wikipedia article about the Australian band Misery that survived being nominated for deletion by myself. The article still has no citations that I can see.
The people who defended this article: A1octopus, Capitalistroadster, BrianFG, Hesperian, SatuSuro, Rocket000, Dihydrogen Monoxide, Twenty Years, Orderinchaos, GlassCobra, and ILovePlankton haven't found the time to go beyond giving their opinion and add some citations.
Perhaps they've been too busy making arguments about the sources of nominations as some of the above did. So we can gather from how this Afd played out that, a mindset of Wikipedia's editors is that it is perfectly normal to attack the source of a nomination. That the more important thing is, who makes a statement, not the statement itself.
We also have this from the apparent author of most of the article making an argument for why the page should not be deleted: "...unfortunately most of any reference material is offline and can't be linked but the discography is definitely not invented."
Since it was DEFINITELY not invented, I guess it stays. My band, Misery (band) is still doesn't have its article on Wikipedia, even though that article was DEFINITELY not invented. I still can't reconcile why one is toast, and the other is not? It might have something to do with different personalities fighting their little battles, not as an attempt to improve Wikipedia, but to try to prove something. Did I just write something ironic? Perhaps.
It's not really true that I Hate Wikipedia. It's just that I had a little disagreement with them, and that explains the orgin of this web site. They banned me for a while from editing their pages. Wikipedia is arguably a not for profit organization while I am a capitalist. I happen to think the two of us can work together in a mutually beneficial way. One might be surprised how often the non-profits organizations look around and see that the rest of us really aren't that bad. Capitalists can also have ideals, for instance the concept of "Liberty". Over time, my opinion of Wikipedia has changed as I learn more about it. Jimmy Wales' favorite authors has something to do with that. I hope you find some humor on this site, as I think the most important thing here is to have some fun with Wikipedia. If you have anything of interest, send me an email, or leave a comment on the: I Hate Wikipedia Blog.
Here are my websites: I don't believe in all those annoying gimmicks the some webmasters dream up. My sites are safe and straight forward. You won't find pop-ups, pop-unders, or those stupid things that float across your screen so you can't see the page. I ask my users to give me feedback about anything they don't like about my websites, including the ads and my company, Commission Junction who provide publishers like me, with advertisers. See my here for further information about my standards. www.JokeCat.comwww.MoundWestonka.com
Bomis Slogans – a random slogan is displayed on each www.Bomis.com page.
Encyclopedia salesman Eric Idle trying to gain entrance to John Cleese's apartment in a Monty Python skit. Idle does get in by claiming he is a burglar and not an encyclopedia salesman. Cleese prefers burglars to encyclopedia salesmen. I think there is a notable connection here. Something like: Bomis is to Wikipedia, as burglars are to encyclopedia salesman. Watch the skit at YouTube by clicking on the picture.
Don Quixote takes on Wikipedia
Penguin, "Now hear this, now hear this. This is your Captain speaking. My fine pinioned pirates, we're approaching the tricky buoy! Sharpen your cutlasses! There may be skullduggery ahead!" Click on Don Quixote to hear Burgess Meredith.
URGENT as of Monday afternoon, May 12, 2008.
Large sheepdog found in Central Park (????) in Chaoyang district: appears to be a Shetland Sheepdog, found 24 hours ago on Sunday afternoon. Will be turned over to the police in the next day, according to Central Park management, and fate will likely not be good.
Details: Dog was [...]
For the last week, gossip web site Valleywag has been dressing down Erik Moeller, deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation, about his previous essays and thoughts about — and let’s use the most ‘neutral’ term we can for this — “child sexuality.” The “Wag” links to his postings of yesteryear on his own web site [...]
Below are the three Wikipedia articles receiving the most edits in the last 24 hours.
wikirage - What is hot now on Wikipedia - Last Day
Introducing JokeCat's I Hate Wikipedia online store at cafepress.com
JokeCat is following Wikipedia's path and is selling T-Shirts, Hats and other stylin' products. Promote your second most favorite website by buying special gifts for those people important to you. Nothing says I Love You, like a "Wiki Babe" "Wiki Witch" or "Wiki Man" T-Shirt. JokeCat's I Hate Wikipedia store (Owners of reputable websites are allowed and encouraged to support JokeCat, and link to his store.)
Official I Hate Wikipedia endorsed Bumper Music which coincidently was also the theme music for Wikimania 2007.
New to these pages is a photo album slide show that attempts to answer the question, What was Bomis? See it on the Misc. page, here: Babes Image of Neriah Davis.
See Wikimedia's 2006 IRS form 990 tax return on page five.
Wikipedia Information Minister
"Wiki" as a verb To "Wiki" something, is to look it up on Wikipedia. The same as "Googling" something. Of course the punch line is, before long, both verbs will mean the same thing.
The Wikipedia Yahoo! Buzz Since no one can figure out how to make an RSS feed of the top searches on Wikipedia, this will have to do. The current most visited articles on Wikipedia are:
A little bit about me. I started, knowing nothing about the subject, making websites using an economy package from GoDaddy. It is server based and slow as there is server lag, but I didn't have to learn html or whatever that special language is, but am happy with GoDaddy. I'm just an accountant who decided to make his own website and found I liked it, and then made another one about my hometown. I then met the Goliath that is Wikipedia. But it's been fun and my "Fun Index" is probably higher than the typical Sysops is. I am also a volunteer for Wikipedia, username: Nanabozho I work primarily in the hinterlands, working on articles that don't generate much controversy. These types of articles I think, are one of Wikipedia's strengths.
Wikipedia and what it means to us, is something new and something that is often challenging.
Wikipedia - A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
If you Google I Hate Wikipedia the first hit for a long time was of course from Wikipedia, but I am happy to announce that as of 3/06/08, I Own that search. Wikipedia's rank in the Google search results has fallen dramatically, and it's nice to see that Goggle doesn't consider Wikipedia the source of information about people who hate it. However, Wikipedia is still the source for information on Hate. Google Hate Wikipedia and Wikipedia wins that one. Update: As of 3/06/08, I am in 2nd for the phrase: Hate Wikipedia. Incidently, Wikipedia brings back the first hit for the phrase Love Wikipedia.
Website hits since 03/19/06:
Wikipedia - More than a feeling
How to filter out Wikipedia search engine results
Wikipedia search hits are becoming more and more common, especially on Google that sends Wikipedia a great amount of its traffic. You can stop most search engines from returning Wiki hits by simply typing: "-wikipedia" after your normal entry. Distilled, a website design company has created a Firefox search plugin that enables you to search Google without getting wikipedia results. They call it ‘Google without wikipedia’ and if you’re running Firefox, you should be able to easily install it. I think it's time for Google and other search engines to make Wikipedia exclusion an easy and permanent option for their search engines.
New to these pages is a photo album slide show that attempts to answer the question, What was Bomis? See it on the Misc. page, here: 
If you Google I Hate Wikipedia the first hit for a long time was of course from Wikipedia, but I am happy to announce that as of 3/06/08, I Own that search. Wikipedia's rank in the Google search results has fallen dramatically, and it's nice to see that Goggle doesn't consider Wikipedia the source of information about people who hate it. However, Wikipedia is still the source for information on Hate. Google Hate Wikipedia and Wikipedia wins that one. Update: As of 3/06/08, I am in 2nd for the phrase: Hate Wikipedia. Incidently, Wikipedia brings back the first hit for the phrase Love Wikipedia. 
