Jimmy Wales Faces Allegations of Corruption

eldavojohn writes "The SFGate site has up an article noting that Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, is facing allegations from multiple quarters accusing him of abusing his power. Several people apparently claim he used the foundation to pay for personal expenses, including reimbursement for a $1,300 dinner for four at a Florida steakhouse. Accusations have also been made indicating that he edited the Wikipedia entry of political commentator Rachel Marsden, a woman he was seeing, at her request. In the case of that allegation, Wales replied that 'I acted completely consistently with Wikipedia policy. I did the right thing: I passed along my work to date for other editors to deal with, and I recused myself from the case.'"

Comments

Re:Dates and dinners are not the issue

[garett_spencley]

Either way you Godwinned the thread. It's the most tried and proven way to inflate a discussion into a big messy heap of a flame war. You should know better.

You made your bed. Now sleep in it.

Re:Hitler

[Robber Baron]

Hitler would have said the same thing. Hitler wouldn't have needed to because he would have been smart enough to steer well clear of that rabbit-boiling rat-bag stalker in the first place.