On 3/25/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Seriously, the whole "personality cult"
thing loses all meaning if it
automatically applies to anyone who has successfully led anything.
Surely there must be some sort of leadership which involves something
other than encouraging "cult" behaviors.
Your tendency to rewrite history to suit your own purpose is certainly
a factor against you. Your previous use of Wikimedia funds to travel
around the world certainly didn't score a plus for you. And your
current practice of profiting off of Wikia while still maintaining
your positions of power within Wikipedia is questionable at best.
That said, if I understand the term correctly personality cults are
generally much more blatant than this, and as such I don't think
"personality cult" an appropriate term.
Anthony