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Revision as of 14:39, 14 January 2014

Welcome!

Hello! My name is Jimmy Wales and this is my user page. I go by "Jimmy" in real life, but often go by "Jimbo" online. People sometimes assume that "James" is my real name, and "Jimmy" is only a nickname, but my real name is Jimmy.

I was born in the city of Huntsville, Alabama, United States. I founded Misplaced Pages on January 15, 2001. Since 2006, I have been the Chair Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation, which I founded on June 20, 2003. In 2004, along with Angela Beesley, I co-founded Wikia, a completely separate organization unrelated to Misplaced Pages and the Wikimedia Foundation. I am proud of founding Misplaced Pages, and I am grateful for what it has offered to millions of people worldwide.

You can edit this page!

Really, you can! If you would like to, please feel free to do so. Make an edit! Make several edits! After all, that is what Misplaced Pages is all about.

I like to keep it a certain way (simple and free from anything that requires a div tag, style, or template) but the thing is, I trust you. Yes, I really do! I trust that you'll add something here that makes me really smile, that informs me, or that helps to inform many others. But please, don't vandalize.

Over 3,000 Wikipedians monitor my user and user talk page via a watchlist, and I trust them to edit and remove errors or attacks. This is a wiki, so (apart from bad faith alterations and vanadlism) visitors are welcome to edit. Misplaced Pages can always use more help. It is, after all, a permanent work-in-progress.

Comments or questions regarding how this page currently looks should be directed to my talk page, rather than this page.

Contacting me

Press inquiries: If your press inquiry is strictly regarding Misplaced Pages or another Wikimedia project, you can contact me directly by e-mail at jwaleswikia.com, or you can call the Foundation office and speak to our communications person, Matthew, at +1 (415) 839-6885. If your press inquiry is for my personal views on some general topic, contact my assistant, Topher, at presswikia.com. He knows how to find me as quickly as possible. If your press inquiry is about Wikia (a for-profit company completely separate from Wikimedia and Misplaced Pages, extending our social model to become "the rest of the library"), also contact Topher at presswikia.com.

General Misplaced Pages questions: You will probably be satisfied by contacting the help desk.

Complaints: The best thing to do if you have a complaint is to start with the help desk. Ask a short, friendly question, and fellow Wikipedians will be happy to help you. Contacting me directly with a complaint should be reserved for after you have exhausted all other possible remedies.

If you have a complaint about article content, there are several avenues to pursue. The best and simplest way is to just fix it. You can also open a discussion on the article's talk page regarding the issues you want to address. Be sure that you are adding well-written text using legitimate information from credible, reliable sources. If your change gets reverted, continue the discussion on the article talk page to get consensus. That is how Misplaced Pages works.

Other inquiries of any kind can be sent by e-mail to jwaleswikia.com (press inquiries by e-mail are also welcome).

Misplaced Pages covers the ten thousand things
like flood waters.
It flows in all directions.
Myriads depend on it:
Misplaced Pages denies none of them.

See also

• Contact Misplaced Pages - describes how to contact Misplaced Pages directly for specific reasons.
• Role of Jimmy Wales - describes the current state of affairs on the English Misplaced Pages as it regards Jimmy Wales.
• Jimbo Wales user-subpages - list of all the pages that begin with Jimbo Wales.
• Notices per the You can edit this page! section above:

• Misplaced Pages administrators
• Misplaced Pages checkusers
• Misplaced Pages oversighters