Wikisource:Jimbo Wales against attacks on userpages

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On 29 September 2006, Jimbo Wales, the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, commented against certain ways to use userpages, which may violate wmf:Policy:Terms of Use#4. Refraining from Certain Activities:

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...libelling people on userpages is a bad idea, and in fact, using userpages to attack people or campaign for or against anything or anyone is a bad idea.[1]—Jimbo Wales, founder of Wikipedia

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campaign - planned actions: a planned and organized series of actions intended to achieve a specific goal, especially fighting for or against something or raising people's awareness of something.^[2]

Examples

Real

On May 2022, a Meta userpage self-described having retired, but it was found using Russian language to criticize Ukrainian Wikipedia and its users, thus suspected of harassment while false retiring. The questionable versions were deleted in August 2022, and m:User:MF-Warburg requested archiving the discussion on 1 December 2022.

References

1. Quoted from Jimbo Wales commenting about making libels in userpages
2. Quoted from Microsoft Encarta Dictionary 2005