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Possibly related: "Jimmy Wales launched an investigation to determine if any of the pseudonyms who edit the world's biggest encyclopedia belong to Edward Snowden."

http://www.examiner.com/article/jimmy-wales-breaks-wikipedia...

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That incident was a Jimbo Classic. First, he clearly asks other users to feed him any information they have about Snowden editing Wikipedia. Then, he's told that could be a violation of Wikipedia's long-standing policies against "outing" users who haven't self-identified. Then, the back-pedaling begins. Ultimately, Jimbo ends up at this fake position that he "strongly" supports Snowden's privacy, and how Wales was asking "only" for publicly-acknowledged information, etc. Jimmy Wales must wake up each day and ask, "What shall I lie about today?"

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