User talk:Jimbo Wales

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Wiki administrator Ragib misusing administrative power, need urgent help
I am a wiki fan and editor also. May I draw your attention regarding one Wikipedia Administrator Ragib who abuses administrative powers in a ruthless manner which will tarnish image of wikipeida policy?

I have started to contribute in wikipedia for couple of months ago and thinking to apply for wiki Adminship. But a dispute arose from a bio page of Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury, I became victim of one of one wiki administrator Ragib. I have sent him an email to Ragib on 11/30/2009 to mitigate the problem in an orderly and civil manner (attached). But he became furious within 2 day2 (2 & 3 December) and started tagging and deleting all of my edited works one by one. He is misusing administrator power. Please review his 2 days activities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ragib http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20091202185946&target=Ragib Within a day he also managed his 2 disciples Aditya_Kabir and Niaz in his racketeering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Aditya_Kabir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Niaz My works were stable for couple of months and Mr. Ragib didn’t raise any question. But after the communications starts he couldn’t remain `cool head’ which is a basic principle of wiki editors, as I know. Please check the misused of administrator power in the following pages: Kazi Shamsul Hoque,Sureswar Darbar Sharif,Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury, Habiganj District‎, Mohammad Shamsul Alam, List of people from Shariatpur, Gosairhat Upazila, Lakhai Upazila, Dasherjangal, Weekly Prekshit. Here you will see how impatience he is. He is adding templates one after another, within one or two hours Aditya kabir and Niaz is cheering on deleting it. Is it a place of foul play? My hunch, they will delete all my works with in a short time if this complain in not taken care rapidly. --(Mizan1947 14:59, December 4, 2009 (UTC))

Conduct elsewhere incompatible with adminship: Mr. Ragib is also announcing how neglectly he abuses his power of administrator in his personal blog. http://bongobani.blogspot.com/ It is in Bengali language. I think you will judge it is compatible with the policy or not.

Not rationale: Ragib has cleared Ram Thakur with one reference. But with 2 references he has tagged my article Jan Sharif Shah Sureswari (R.A.). Though he has cleared Faridpur_District, Comilla-District, Munshiganj_District notable people, but deleted my works in the pages of Sylhet District, Dasherjangal, Gosairhat Upazila, Habiganj District, Lakhai Upazila. His point is those who have no wiki-bio can’t be in the notable list of a particular area. What a lame excuse! It seems he is not a rationale man. He is using his excuse arbitrarily.

Politically biased: Finally, Ragib, Aditya, Niazm and me all came from Bangladesh. There is a bipartisan politics in our country. Moreover, most of the people are divided into two groups. One is Bangladeshi nationalism which believes Ziaur Rahman is there leader. And the others are followers of Belgali nationalism, who believe Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is their leader. Unfortunate, I see Mr. Ragib has not apply his axe on any of my edits that belongs a party (Awami League). Example, Abdur Razzaq (politician), Tofael Ahmed, Sheikh Rehana etc. But those he targeted are from the reverse camp, example Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury, Kazi Shamsul Hoque, Mohammad Shamsul Alam. Ragib has openly worked for the Awami League as he is seen openly trying to show clean image of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Assassination_of_Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman). He writes about a controversial issues: “This information is significant as Mujib was the Father of the Nation, and the leader-in-absentia of the liberation war. Therefore, the information is quite relevant and significant. Thank you. --Ragib 23:29, 10 February 2007 (UTC)” and his son Sheikh Kamal (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sheikh_Kamal&diff=328534908&oldid=328327292). On the contrary He and his follower Aditya is adding corruption para in the Page of Tarique Rahman (son of Ziaur Rahman) with a single reference where all his cases are in the court.

Now I am leaving all for judgments.

Request for interview
The Wikia community has requested that you be interviewed in a future edition of Wikia's community newsletter, The Daily Edit. Please reply saying if you would like to be interviewed or not, and we'll contact you at a later date. Happy editing! -- 20:44, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Happy wikimania Jimbo : go and have fun in Asia ! Wiktionary multilingual can soon transform earth into a flat world. --User_talk:Eurobas 02:49, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

A better deal for more serious topic wikia?
Hi Jimbo

I've recently set up a forum and polls on the subject of 'A better deal for more serious topic wikia?' on WikiSocial. It'd be great to get any comments you may have.

At a time when major concerns such as Google are becoming more and more interested in (and taking significant action on) topics such as the environment, climate change etc, is there a danger of Wikia looking like its getting left behind? I know you might point to investing in Green wikia, but it's specifically the issue of what wikia looks like to newcomers and juxtaposition of indiscriminate and potentially offensive advertising that really concerns me, Thanks Philralph @ sca21 08:23, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Do you think wikianswers will be a success?
I mean, there are sooo many questions and soo less people who answer them.. --Spazzpp2:D 01:24, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

I think so, yes. I think it will take some time for the community to form, and we're looking at ways to make question-answering and merging easier. We could also make question-asking harder, although it isn't clear what harm unanswered questions cause. (Some harm, I'm sure! But it is not clear how to think about the balance.)Jimbo Wales 14:27, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Help!
Hi

I have a problem with a wiki I created. It takes forever to load the editing box for the main page and I can't create a page at all. And i'm also suprised to see that you founded Wikia too. Back to the problem, HELP! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Carabera 22:47, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Which wiki?Jimbo Wales 06:12, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Videogaming. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 16:07, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Flu Wiki Vandal
Hello. The conflict page redirected me to you, but I could not contact you from the flu wiki because there is an ip block on my account, issued by you. The I.P. is 173.33.2.67, I was hoping you could lift the block or if it's on a ip range block to lower the range. I was wanting to update some info in regards to Canada but was unable too. I'm a sysop on the RuneScape Wiki, if you choose to contact me there too it would be more convenient (my talk page). Thanks very much. Bonziiznob 16:07, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

I have a big problem. sir
A user told my full name in public.

I told him to tell nobody my name but since a block fight, he has told 30 users on Club Penguin Wiki.

Please Ban him.....

-- Spongebobrocks09 Chat with The Spongemiester 20:48, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Closing wiki
Hi Jimbo,

How can I request my wiki to be closed?

Hello (this is not spam)
Dude, you are like a king to me! I love wikia and wikipedia. Thanks for starting this whole thing i really appreciate it. And by the way, are you on any wikis in particular? I mean you've gotta be interested in something. If you want to see my real user page, see Pac-Man Wiki the first wiki i was on. Thanks for creating this again! See you around! The Alternative Pac-Man ~ PBCZ!!! ~ Hey man!

When a 3 year old is asked about monsters
Hello, I noticed your "Hey this is great" comment about WikiTubia. I have now made an article for When a 3 year old is asked about monsters. You may look at it here. I felt bad that no one made the article so I did. :) I am planning on making an article for the other video edition. :) Jump Guru 02:27, November 12, 2009 (UTC)


 * Your welcome. :) I also made an article for the other one, which you can view here. :D So how have you been doing Jimmy? I also like helping on Wikipedia alot. You made a really great website. :) Jump Guru 19:32, November 12, 2009 (UTC)

Norwegian Uncyclopedia design fix
Hi Jimbo, such an honour it is to talk with you! Can you please change the design on Ikkjepedia, a Norwegian version of the Wikipedia parody Uncyclopedia to look like all other Uncyclopedias? I want to change it now, before ikkjepedia.org be a hit. All other versions of Uncyclopedia have monobook skin except from Ikkjepedia. It's not funny. I think you are the best one to talk about with this. Mr. Floyd 19:56, December 12, 2009 (UTC)

I don't really know anything about that, I would recommend asking Angela, Sannse, or someone else on the community team! Jimbo Wales 15:41, December 14, 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of Doghouse diaries by
Hi Jimmy,

A few days back I had contributed my first article on wikipedia (The DogHouse Diaries), a popular webcomics which surprisingly didn't have a wiki entry. To my astonishment I found that the article was deleted hours after I posted it. The reason for deletion being lack of citations in the article.

I do understand citations to be important in articles which are more academic in nature (which falls into buckets of technology, science, sociology, philosophy etc). However (by my understanding of what wiki should be (and I know that an unknown individual is not qualified enough to make such statements, still)) there are certain things for which an immediate citation (at the time of creation of the article) shouldn't be mandatory. The mere fact that there are thousands of visitors to a webcomic everyday, or there are millions of followers to a band (which hasn't yet been cited in any scholarly article) should be enough a reason for it not being disqualified as wiki entry.

I know I am insignficant individual to give you any advice, but I wish that wiki moves above religiously followed commandments and uses more humane discretions while deleting articles. After all its an effort by millions of contributors and shouldn't merely be designed to appease a few in the academia. It doesn't matter whether we can use an entry from wiki as citation, but it matters that wiki becomes a storehouse of all possible information.

In hope of an understanding reply.

Regards,

Shashi