User:Jimbo Wales
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| Name | Jimmy Wales | ||
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| Born | August 7, 1966 Huntsville, Alabama, US | ||
| Current location | London, England | ||
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| Website | jimmywales | ||
jwales wikia.com (Please read Contacting me first) | |||
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| Flickr | Jimbo_Wales | ||
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Welcome!
Hello! My name is Jimmy Wales and this is my user page. I go by "Jimmy" in real life, but often by "Jimbo" online. People sometimes assume that "Jimmy" is just a nickname for "James", but it's actually my full first name.
I was born on August 7, 1966, in
You can edit this page!
Really, you can! If you would like to, please feel free to do so. You need to register for an account, hang around for a few days, make some good edits to pages that are totally unprotected (which is most of them!) and you'll be "
I like to keep it a certain way (simple and free from complicated
About 4,000 Wikipedians monitor my user and user talk pages via a watchlist, and I trust them to edit and remove errors or attacks. This is a wiki after all, so anyone is welcome to edit! Wikipedia is a permanent work in progress, so it can always use some more help. While vandalism is not appreciated and is sure to be promptly reverted, there is plenty of time to become a better Wikipedia editor who only contributes to the good of the platform!
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Contacting me
- Press inquiries: For inquiries regarding Wikimedia project, you can get in touch by emailing press.
wikimedia.org. For inquiries about Wikia, now known as Fandom, (a for-profit company completely separate from Wikimedia and Wikipedia, extending our social model to become "the rest of the library"), see the Fandom contact page - General Wikipedia questions: You will probably be satisfied by contacting the Teahouse. Sometimes I respond to questions on my talk page.
- Learning about Wikipedia: If you want to learn more about Wikipedia, the best place to start is at Wikipedia:Tutorial and Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia. Those pages are designed to help any beginner get oriented quickly and get started here. Once there, you will find numerous links which will direct you towards other articles, resources, and help documents that you may find helpful.
- Complaints: If you have a complaint, it's best to start with the reliable sources. If your change is reverted, please continue the discussion on the talk page to get consensus. This is how Wikipedia works.
- Other inquiries of any kind: These can be emailed to jwaleswikia.com.
See also
- Contact Wikipedia – Describes how to contact Wikipedia directly for specific reasons
- Jimmy Wales – The Wikipedia article about Jimmy Wales
- Role of Jimmy Wales – Describes the current status of Jimmy Wales on the English Wikipedia and its administrative bodies, with some examples of how he has used his powers in the past
- Jimmy Wales on Quora – Jimmy has answered hundreds of questions on Quora, many of which concern Wikipedia
- Jimbo Wales user-subpages – List of all the pages that begin with User:Jimbo Wales
- Contributions – Jimmy's personal contributions to the English Wikipedia
- History of Wikipedia – Information on the founding of the Wikipedia project and the early roles of its founding members
- Manual of Style – Information on the basic style and grammar rules for Wikipedia
- Writing better articles – How to write and improve an article
- Policies and guidelines – List of general guidelines, apply common sense
- Pillars of Wikipedia – A summary of the fundamental principles of Wikipedia