# Is Jimmy "Wikipedia" Wales Handsome? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 18, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jimmy-wikipedia-wales-handsome/561096 "2010-11-18T15:07:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jimmy-wikipedia-wales-handsome/561096/21 "2010-11-19T02:14:01Z")
> [@Spectralist](#): > > There should be a little ‘x’ in the corner of the banner you can click to make it go away. I clicked it days ago and the banner has never reappeared. Oh, hey–that did the trick. Thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jimmy-wikipedia-wales-handsome/561096/22 "2010-11-19T02:14:58Z")
He’s from my hometown, Huntsville, AL. By Huntsville standards, he’s handsome. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jimmy-wikipedia-wales-handsome/561096/23 "2010-11-19T02:25:30Z")
I’m a straight male, so I’m not the best sample. I thought he was ugly. He’s not? News to me. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jimmy-wikipedia-wales-handsome/561096/24 "2010-11-19T02:34:56Z")
> [@Spectralist](#): > > There should be a little ‘x’ in the corner of the banner you can click to make it go away. I clicked it days ago and the banner has never reappeared. I click it and goes away and doesn’t come back as long as I stay in that particular browser tab. As soon as I close that browser tab and reopen another browser tab with Wikipedia, there he is again. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jimmy-wikipedia-wales-handsome/561096/25 "2010-11-19T02:49:47Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > He’s okay-looking. His Ayn Rand obsession is a big turn-off, though. It doesn’t even make sense, since Wikipedia’s claim to fame is its communistic tendencies–the idea that the community can generate more value by working together rather than trying to beat every other person. And that’s not even getting into Rand’s distaste for non-profit organizations. But enough of that hijack: I thought he looked attractive in the pictures on top of Wikipedia, but, when you see the one in his Wikipedia article, he looks malformed. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jimmy-wikipedia-wales-handsome/561096/26 "2010-11-19T03:13:28Z")
Yeah, I wouldn’t even recognize the guy from picture to picture. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jimmy-wikipedia-wales-handsome/561096/27 "2010-11-19T13:48:43Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > He’s from my hometown, Huntsville, AL. By Huntsville standards, he’s handsome. That’s cool. I had no idea! Huntsville is one of those places where there are apt to be some really unusual people. I know a few of them myself, but had no idea there was a Wikipedia connection there! That’s almost as noteworthy as Harper Lee and Zelda Fitzgerald. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jimmy-wikipedia-wales-handsome/561096/28 "2010-11-19T13:57:39Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > He looks a little like a poor man’s Daniel Craig, doesn’t he? C’mon, I can’t be the only one to see that, right? I think he looks like Kevin Spacey, if Kevin Spacey smiled. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jimmy-wikipedia-wales-handsome/561096/29 "2010-11-19T23:27:07Z")
Even though I’ve seen that shot of him a million times I could not tell you if he’s handsome or not (without checking it right now). All I recall is fear. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jimmy-wikipedia-wales-handsome/561096/30 "2010-11-19T23:59:49Z")
As a heterosexual male I don’t really know if he’s handsome or not. But I’m agreeing with the other posters who found the picture of him above Wikipedia pages frightening. Sort of like the picture of Glenn Beck that **Shot** posted. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jimmy-wikipedia-wales-handsome/561096/31 "2010-11-20T15:40:23Z")
He’s decent enough looking. I wouldn’t kick him out of bed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jimmy-wikipedia-wales-handsome/561096.md?page=1)