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Uncyclopedia?

File:Uncyclopedia logo.png

Just out of curiosity, Mr. W, what do you think of Uncyclopedia? Do you think it's funny, insulting, or both? And have you ever considered being an editor there in your spare time? I read once that you visited the parody site often but I wasn't given a proper source. ;u) --Is this fact...? 11:15, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You do know that Uncyclopedia is the exact opposite of Wikipedia. The edits we do in Wikipedia is considered vandalism in Uncyclopedia. --Antonio Lopez (talk) 01:11, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I do. I haven't visited it in months, but I used to edit it a lot. --Is this fact...? 10:49, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well one theng Uncyclopedia ended up being taken over by Wikia & Jimmy owns Wikia .

There sre a few good article's like the one about pillow fighting ,where it's about pillows fighting each other .Richardson j (talk) 00:04, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I love Uncyclopedia, it always makes me laugh! --Ye Olde Luke 00:23, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your so cool

Can you give me any advice and it would be a honor if you stopped at my site. And how can i help keep wikipedia a better place???

Your house in the New York Times

Is the house pictured in the NYT magazine recently actually your house? Is that the one on Harrisburg? We need to know exactly where you live, so that we can leave appreciative gifts on your porch. -12.148.45.98 (talk) 06:41, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He's answered this before. He lives in a cave in an undisclosed location with Osama bin Laden. They watch DVDs of Lost with Jimmy Hoffa. :D WODUP 07:32, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_26#Residence. WODUP 23:29, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

:-) --Jimbo Wales (talk) 15:35, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Glad we got that one sorted. Thanks, SqueakBox 16:20, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I read the NYTimes article and I've detected delightful echoes of Colbert, et al. in Jimbo's answers. I'm guessing they punched it up for him over several email communiques before he handed it over to the Times.-BillDeanCarter (talk) 17:06, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, no it was a phone interview. I'm pretty silly.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 17:16, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the club of 5.5 million wikipedians and 1300+ admins. sharara 20:31, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your presentations and lectures

It would be great if you could share some more of your presentations and lectures at meta:Presentations/en. I see we have a couple from December 2004, but I'm sure things have progressed a lot since them. This request is on behalf of meta:Wikimedia New York City volunteers, who would like to possibly give a series of educational Wikipedia/Wikimedia lectures to various groups in their city. Presentations intended for a more general audience would be especially appreciated. Thank you.--Pharos (talk) 04:19, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About an article

Im not one to complain alot but one article Black humor has been having alot of controversy about the name and alot of us want to like vote to have the name changed to dark humor so can you help me. The Panther (click to talk)

List of animals displaying homosexual behavior

Hi. A few days ago, you raised referencing concerns on this article's talk page. There's been a lot of activity since then aimed at addressing your concerns - would you mind taking a look at the article to see if it now meets your requirements? If so, you may want to consider commending User:Benjiboi, who has done the bulk of the work. Thanks. SP-KP 18:07, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes your comment was very helpful and indeed has inspired the transformation of a poor article into a good one. Thanks, SqueakBox 19:09, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spam Finds The Way

Wikipedia is like Jurassik Park movie. Life finds the way. Wow! What a eloquent quote from that movie. In that movie, in the end dinosaurs rule island and the scientist watch it in disbelief and run away. Likewise Spam finds the way. Spam will rule wikipedia park and Jimbo Wales will run away from this wikipedia park. sharara 20:18, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My post may sound like trolling, but spam, advertisements written in mywikibiz style to give look of encyclopedia article, people posting bio citing bizzarre websites, video games, music albums. While patrolling new pages I am seeing 50% spam articles hacking in. I went to admin and admin don't answer how much time we should allow to the author to provide reliable source. Lot of problems there. sharara 20:51, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reference to you in ongoing discussion

Dear Mr. Wales, you may wish to check this discussion as another user has mentioned you in an unflattering manner. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 21:44, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stubs... stubs... and even more stubs!

Hello Jimbo, my name is Javascap and I have a small question for you. Wikipedia has recently broken 2,000,000 articles, but only 3,000 or so are rated B (Which translates to a good article) or better. As the grand high duke of Wikipedia, how do you plan to adress those 1,970,000 articles that almost count as spam?

Warm regards, Javascap (talk) 22:15, 20 November 2007 (UTC) (edited because I forgot to log in)[reply]

Autograph

Hello so I received your Autograph by email by Sannse today and just wanted to thank you for allowing me to have your autograph. We thanks again, H*bad (talk) 22:37, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Next autograph you may want from User:TAA who was named person of the year by TIME magazine. sharara 13:43, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We got another User:Chris 73 who was named person of the year 2006 by TIME magazine.sharara 13:56, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Sharara. I thought that "You" were the Time Person of the Year for 2006. No? -Susanlesch (talk) 13:58, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sharara, hi again. Here is the article. Hope this helps. -Susanlesch (talk) 14:14, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Grossman, Lev (December 13, 2006). "Time's Person of the Year: You". Time. Time Warner. Retrieved 2007-11-21. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
Here's another one. Maybe there are more (sorry I only saw one the first time I checked Google. They probably all link to each other from the cover).
Stengel, Richard (December 16, 2006). "Now It's Your Turn". Time. Time Warner. Retrieved 2007-11-21. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

Yeah, I checked after my post and found that everyone was person of the year. It is outragious that named me also persona of the year 2006 without informing me.

BTW, do you think Jimbo Wales will ever be named person of the year by TIME magazine? I don't think so.

As I was person of the year 2006, here is my brand new autograph. I don't know how it is going to look. sharara 15:20, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:ANI incident

Hi Jimbo, good to see you taking an active part in this; but it is still unclear what should be done in these sort of circumstances, and especially when the Foundation offices may be closed. Perhaps someone should draft a policy rather than an essay? It's a weakness we could live without. --Rodhullandemu (please reply here - contribs) 22:55, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Credible vs non-credible threats

Hi. Per the ANI discussion, I was wondering if you were interested in establishing a threshold for where to send stuff in to OFFICE for foundation response when there are apparent threats made.

I think that most admins (myself included, and I wrote the current WP:SUICIDE) think that there are things that might be threats, but were not credible or specific enough to rise to the level of calling the police in.

I'm perfectly happy to move my threshold for that further over, if you want, but it would help if you can help more specifically say where you think the line is on this. This one on the Battle of Bunker Hill being on the "report it" side of the line helps, but doesn't really clarify for incidents that don't match the details on this one well.

Thanks! Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 22:57, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is a very difficult judgment call. I have no really firm idea of how to specifically write up or establish a threshold for it. I am interested, but not sure how to do it. The risks are pretty obvious... in both directions. Too lax a policy, and we run the risk that a real threat is ignored. Too strict a policy, and we end up with a great tool for trolls to use. It's worth a serious discussion with a lot of minds working on it...--Jimbo Wales (talk) 14:46, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]