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On June 10, 2019 the Trust and Safety Team of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] banned a [[Wikipedia admin|Wikipedia admin]] named "Fram" from the [[English Wikipedia]] for one year. They also removed Fram's administrator status on the English Wikipedia<ref>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=rights&user=WMFOffice&page=User%3AFram%40enwiki&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype=</ref>. People on and outside Wikipedia have talked about this a lot. 

The Wikimedia Foundation did not say right away what Fram did that made them want to issue the punishment.  They said they couldn't tell because there were privacy issues.  In a public statement, Fram said the Wikimedia Foundation had sent Fram one warnings about breaking the English Wikipedia's rules about [[WP:POLITE|being polite]] and a separate warning telling Fram to stay away from another person called Laura.<ref name="FramSaid">{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_response_to_the_Wikimedia_Foundation%27s_ban_of_Fram/Summary#What_has_Fram_told_us?|title1=Community response to the Wikimedia Foundation's ban of Fram|title2=What has Fram told us?|publisher=English Wikipedia|accessdate=December 14, 2019|author=}}</ref>⏎
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According to an article in the magazine ''BuzzFeed News'' said that meant Wikipedia had stopped being [[neutral]]. Some people were worried that the Wikimedia Foundation might make Wikipedia [[Bias|biased]] by choosing what kind of person they allow to make changes to Wikipedia.<ref>[https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/elaminabdelmahmoud/morning-update-the-culture-war-comes-for-us-all-eventually The Culture War Comes For Us All Eventually]</ref>

(contracted; show full)=rights&user=WMFOffice&page=User%3AFloquenbeam%40enwiki&wpdate=&tagfilter=</ref> Later on June 12 at 7:20 am, an administrator called Bishonen unblocked Fram again<ref name="wheelwar1"></ref> and made Floquenbeam an admin again<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=rights&user=&page=User%3AFloquenbeam&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype=</ref>. This banning and unbanning made some people worried, because when two more admins go
ing back and forth reversingand undo each other's actions, whichit doesn't help Wikipedia grow.  This is called [["wheel warring]], it doesn't help" on the English Wikipedia grow. .

==Background==
[[Wikipedia]] was founded in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales. In 2003, Jimmy Wales gave control of Wikipedia to the Wikipedia Foundation, which was formed as an umbrella group for all Wikipedias and other wiki-projects. Wales kept the tools that allow him to control content on all wiki-projects just in case he wants to use them.

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