Andreas, et al
On 23 March, Jimmy stated:[1]
"Still waiting to see if the board allows another board member to publish something that will then allow me to publish further. But I did publish something on my user talk page that is relevant."
We are now exactly one month down the track and there is still no response from Jimmy.
At this juncture the following need to be addressed:
1) Can the board confirm whether Jimmy has in fact made such enquiry? When? And with whom?
2) In the instance of enquiry by Jimmy being made, can that enquiry from Jimmy be published? Assuming of course that the enquiry itself doesn't contain "sensitive" information that needs to be withheld.
3) Can the board explain why one month after Jimmy says he is "still waiting" for direction that direction has not been forthcoming.
For the community to move forward these issues can NOT simply be allowed to fade into distant memory. This is moreso needed given the disgraceful email Jimmy sent to James and Pete Forsyth, and Jimmy's equally disgraceful "utter fucking bullshit" attack on James.
At this point any response which doesn't answer these questions satisfactorily needs to be taken as Jimmy and/or the Board hoping the issue will simply go away; in which case the whole lot of you should resign in order for real community healing to take place.
Warm regards,
Ruslan Takayev
[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg23472.html
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 2:20 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
On March 21, Jimmy posted excerpts from an email conversation he'd had with James Heilman on his Wikipedia user talk page, making further allegations against James.[1]
James replied twice:
<quote>
Jimmy Wales' summary above of our email correspondence is far from complete, and is not an accurate representation of the overall discussion. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:22, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
Jimbo, you quoted some passages of our mails above. Would you have any objection to my posting the complete exchange, so that the parts you quoted can be seen in context? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:09, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
<end of quote>
Jimmy Wales ignored the latter question until the thread was archived.
So – will the community get to see the complete exchange or not, so that everyone can judge for themselves how it was misrepresented by Jimmy's selective quoting?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_206#What_James_s...
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
If we are going to have more elections, can we please hold Jimmy to account this year rather than waiting for him to leave the board under his own steam?
His use of "utter fucking bullshit", then using these distraction politics to avoid answering basic questions intended to deal with his repeated public allegations of lying against a respected community member, is not what the Wikimedia movement needs or wants from a Trustee, or someone who represents the movement to the press.
If Jimmy were a WMF employee, he'd be gone by now.
P.S. We are still waiting for Jimmy to publish his interviews with WMF employees resulting from his trip to SF, when he was claiming to act for the WMF board, I can't be bothered to work out how many weeks ago that was. Is this sort of promise that Jimmy would call "bullshit" if it was yet another person he had an ongoing feud with?
Fae
On 11 April 2016 at 12:24, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 23 March 2016 at 11:48, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
On 23 March 2016 at 10:01, Jimmy Wales jimmywales@wikia-inc.com
wrote:
But I did publish something on my user talk page that is relevant.
Diff, please.
Answer came there none...
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