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Fram incident on the English Wikipedia
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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>

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 C(contracted; show full)* [[:Category:Wikimedia]]

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