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Hello

Because you were a nice guy at Misplaced Pages, I decided to give you a takeaway cheeseburger from McDonalds. SonicIn2022 (talk) 19:06, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Sonic says

	Sonic the Hedgehog
	Sonic wants to say: You are a nice guy, because you are doing nice at protecting from vandalism! And you are EVEN BETTER because you even founded this glorious Misplaced Pages! SonicIn2022 (talk) 19:14, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Please respond

Hi Jimbo,

I would like to ask you to please respond to concerns related to your behavior here. Multiple respected editors, including admins, arbitrators, and stewards have raised concerns regarding your behavior at that page. SQL 01:24, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

how quaint. .usarnamechoice (talk) 03:55, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Jimbo, can you confirm if you sent your evidence to ArbCom? MarioGom (talk) 06:13, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Has ArbCom received the evidence of WikiExperts activities you claim to have? Has WMF Trust & Safety received it too? MarioGom (talk) 21:33, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Note: the relevant section at User talk:Bradv has been blanked (not by me). But it's easily accessible through the page history. Bishonen | tålk 21:58, 10 April 2023 (UTC).

In answer to the above question, unless it is stuck in moderation or something, the committee has not received the evidence.

A user on an offsite forum has suggested that this might be the underlying incident. It sounds like the exact sort of scam that those folks who actually do real work combating paid editing are all very familiar with. The old "The article about you was vandalized, give me money and I'll watch out for it, don't and it may be deleted." Beeblebrox (talk) 02:48, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Yes, that could be case. And yes, unfortunately, we are familiar with this kind of scam. Now, Jimbo Wales claims to have evidence that could help investigating the case, but if it's not shared, there's little to be done. Given the different angles of this incident, full details should be submitted to ArbCom, Trust & Safety, and paid-en-wp@. MarioGom (talk) 05:58, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Also note that WikiExperts (wikiexperts.com) and WikiExperts Inc (wikiexpertsinc.com) are different companies, and right now, we don't even know which of them are we talking about. MarioGom (talk) 06:01, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Obviously this is an ongoing situation and obviously I will be sharing all evidence with Arbcom and T&S as I obtain it. I've given SilTork my latest update a couple of days ago and will be sending further things today and as they arrive.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 14:09, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Now for something completely different...

Thought this may interest you and page watchers, Template talk:Registered editors by edit count#H1 2022 vs all time (and other stats assembled by Colin above that section on the page). Randy Kryn (talk) 04:32, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

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