On 11/1/07, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
[some very wise, balanced and considered words]
To counter all the reasonableness blooming in this thread, here is a bit of levity for comic relief (from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Zoe&oldid=4223822 ):
"Actually, I'm Zoe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zoe. After Tim Starling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tim_Starling discovered that I had two admin accounts, he tried to blackmail me - but I threatened to reveal that he was user:Michaelhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Michael&action=edit(he'd been vandalising Wikipedia in order to gain support to allow sysops to block logged in users - all part of his strategy to overthrow Eloquence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales and his wife Jimbo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eloquence, in favour of a new reign by a crack team of vigilante sysops (this plan was foiled by the group now known as the "arbitration cabalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitrators", who threatened to go public that Jimbo was in fact Elvis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis, and engineered their new power - you'll notice that the number of arbcom people required to ban now follows the Rule of Fivehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism,
after we weeded out the inclusionist infiltrators) - chief amongst them being his two sons: RickK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angela and Angela http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RickK (Angela is the same person as mav, actually, and logs in to different accounts depending on whether he's sober or not). This all came to a head in the famous Gaiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaiaoutbreak fnord http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord, but the *real* cause of that was suppressed of course). Obviously I had to manufacture a quick exit from Wikipediahttp://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?ExitStrategyfor one of my accounts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppet to resolve the problem, and since Zoe had been playing "bad cop" to my "good cop"http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?GoodCopBadCop,
she was the right one to take the fall. I engineered a few bad judgement calls, and then criticised them politely but firmly from this account, and with a rather clumsly nudge or two from my collaborators, the rest was far too predictable, and even Oliver P. couldn't stop it. Of course, I can tell you all this now, because the AC is on the brink of immanentising the Eschaton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschaton, and besides none of the "Wikipedia establishment", the dupes, will take this seriously (the WikiSex incidenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowgirl_sex_positionwas carefully engineered to lower the credibility of this account, and I controlled (directly or indirectly) all the accounts involved, and most of those in the deletion discussion).
23 Skidoo. -- The Controller (posting as Martinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MyRedDice22:57, 27 May 2004 (UTC))"
-- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]