Wikipedia editors try to make Jimmy Wales disappear
 

It had to happen eventually

It seems that the over-reaching egos of Wikipedia’s legions of fake penis experts, made up doctorates, and those with chips on their shoulders who comprise its editing teams have decided to make the founder of the organisation disappear in the same way they did with the Everywhere Girl, Fudzilla and Mike Magee.

Earlier this week Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' auctioned an NFT and the iMac he used to build the website. However, that made Wackypedia’s editors furious. Apparently, they had not been consulted about how Wales dealt with his own property or work.

The trouble began when Wales posted an announcement about the auction on his user talk page -- a kind of message board where users communicate directly with each other. Wikipedia has strict rules against self-promotion and some editors felt that Wales' announcement violated that rule.

"Am I crazy? Jimbo has posted a thread on his user talk page promoting an auction of some of his stuff, which he has refused to confirm would not benefit him personally," editor Floquenbeam said on December 3..

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