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fun fact: Wikipedians have hated this guy for decades. In 2010, he has many of his founder privileges stripped after users accused him of being an "elephant in a china shop" and abusing his power. Good thing he lost those privileges!
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request...
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request...
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I would like to propose and give the place to the Wikimedia community to discuss about possible founder rights removal. These rights were given to Jimmy Wales (was there any election?), the founder of Wikipedia, to act on Wikipedia as a steward forever. Unfortunately other communities (other than Wikipedia), were not informed about this fact, but Jimmy Wales behaves there like an elephant in china shop. He doesn't respect any ethical rules applied until this time by other stewards and simply disrupted and discredited Wikiversity. And I am afraid that other projects might be possibly injured in the future, as this was not for the first time Jimbo did it (in beginning of fall 2008 he came to English Wikiversity (at those times elected as a steward) and disrupted the project, which led to the exodus of people outside).
I would say, that such charismatic person as Jimmy Wales would not saw phrases such as „I am currently discussing the closure of Wikiversity with the board.“ (source: [1]) That is what discredits Wikiversity as a project. I think such smart guy as Jimmy Wales is, can't say such a phrase even in the case WMF would discuss about the possibility of closing the project!
The other problem blocking users (even administrators, who haven't been noticed as a "danger" by community), desysopsing administrators and deleting pages without a further discussion and based on a "simple" call on his Wikipedia discussion page leads to the exodus of people from the project. People who believed in community decision making are gone and may never come back. They can't swallow the fact, that community decision making is changed to centralized dictatorship from day to day, by the Wikimedia movement founder, the symbol of free thinking.
So let me open this evaluation. During the last 2 years Mr. Jimmy Wales showed he is not able to use the rights, which community (or someone ?) gave to his hands. For further reading about the current problem you can visit these …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3qydk2zg25crp4yalkdvbzc4/bafkreih65hmg5bwyesnh6u6tnttq7jvhjfprd3mvppbncw5lmau6pl4wsa@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
fun fact: Wikipedians have hated this guy for decades. In 2010, he has many of his founder privileges stripped after users accused him of being an "elephant in a china shop" and abusing his power. Good thing he lost those privileges!
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request...
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request...
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With the GOP megabill’s $75 billion in extra ICE funding (on top of ICE’s regular annual budget), the Trump administration expects 50% more personnel, 100% more detention capacity, and 268% more deportations by 2029.
www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...
www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...
ICE budget set to triple in 2026
Polygraph | Newsletter n°311 | 22 Jul 2025
www.stephensemler.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
With the GOP megabill’s $75 billion in extra ICE funding (on top of ICE’s regular annual budget), the Trump administration expects 50% more personnel, 100% more detention capacity, and 268% more deportations by 2029.
www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...
www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...
Yeah who is this Waleed dirtbag click baiting me into reading this crap and then acting all silent and above-it-all when called out. Blocked.
September 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Yeah who is this Waleed dirtbag click baiting me into reading this crap and then acting all silent and above-it-all when called out. Blocked.