Jimmy Wales, the socialite co-founder of Wikipedia, dumped girlfriend, Canadian neoconservative TV personality Rachel Marsden, via Wikipedia entry. But the story just gets more and more absurd, to the point where every twist and turn is sure to be a "disputed" and possibly "removed" entry one day...
First, a quick rundown of the facts and the rumors:
1) Jimmy met Rachel via the interwebs when her Wikipedia entry became a battleground for her supporters and detractors.
2) Valleywag claims Jimmy told Rachel, via IM, that he had to finish cleaning up her page before they got naked: "Because the last thing I want to do is take a break from f***ing your brains out all night to work on your Wikipedia entry :)"
3) After their first conjugal visit, the two exchanged these gag-inducing messages:
Wales: "I am supposed to be designing a Google-killing search engine so I can buy a jet."
Marsden replied: "Yes!!! So we have something else to have sex on!"
4) They continued pursuing each other, again via IM:
“btw, i am recovered from 24 hours of marathon sex. lol.”
“When you talk about megabits and broadband, you have no idea what that does to me.”
5) Now it's weeks later and Jimmy dumps her via Wikipedia entry, now since moved to his personal blog. Traffic much? According to the Sydney Morning Herald:
Marsden told The Canadian Press that "[i]t didn't really help matters that Jimmy chose to announce the breakup to the entire world via Wikipedia."
6) A scorned woman, i.e. Rachel, posted the following e-bay auction of Jimmy's clothes:
Both of these items have been washed, twice, with Tide extra-strength liquid detergent. Otherwise, they would not be in salable condition. I took them out of GitMo style isolation from a plastic bag in my closet (where they were placed to prevent the ongoing terrorism of my olfactory senses) and washed them out for the purposes of this auction.
7) As of "press time," the sweater has a high bid of $857.47. The bidder? "s***t."