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 Jimmy Wales claims to try to stay out of dipute resolution
 and remain "neutral" as much as possible "so as to not influence editorial decisions,"
-but it is apparent that he does intervene, e.g. [[English Wikipedia User Secretlondon]],
+but it is apparent that he does intervene, e.g. the notorious case of [[English Wikipedia User Secretlondon]].  Wales, in a classic example of [[Wikimedia]] [[thuggery]],  asked her in email to "Please stop it." He influences others who do "dispute resolution" and also very often
-and influences others who do "dispute resolution" and also very often
 [[block IP]]s for "[[vandalism]]".  This is
-the most [[sysop vigilantiism|heavily abused power]], especially when
+the most "[[sysop vigilantiism|heavily abused power]]", "especially" when
 extended to so-called "[[trolls]]".
 When Wales "chats" with other users they get a picture of how "Jimbo"
-tends to see things and usually [[defer]] to this person who they see
+tends to see things and usually "[[defer]]" to this person who they see
 as a [[GodKing|awe-inspiring founder]].  Certain [[sycophant]]s skew
-issues towards the way "Jimbo" sees them.   None of this is unusual:
+issues towards the way "Jimbo" sees them.   None of these are unusual:
-[[Group dynamics]] suggest that this cannot be avoided but staying concious about this kind of phenomenom helps to minimize the damage it does, the [[systemic bias]] it creates, [[groupthink]] reinforced.
+[[Group dynamics]] suggest that this cannot be avoided but staying concious about this kind of phemonemom helps to minimize the damage it does, the [[systemic bias]] it creates, [[groupthink]] reinforced.
 ==Wikimedia's response ==