In October of 2008, Mr. Lokshin and his committee were informed of allegations that a senior Wikipedia functionary and Lokshin ally, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lar User:Lar], had made inappropriate sexual advances towards Wikipedia's female volunteers.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/SlimVirgin-Lar/Proposed_decision#Motion_to_close] The Committee chose to keep this complaint a secret from Wikipedia's editing community, and took no action to address the situation. Instead, the female administrator who brought this problem to the attention of the committee was admonished in a decision written primarily by Kirill himself.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/SlimVirgin-Lar#Findings_of_fact] One month later, Lokshin led the nearly all-male Committee to remove her from her position as Wikipedia administrator over an unrelated dispute, calling it the "proverbial straw that broke the camel's back."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Motion:_re_SlimVirgin#SlimVirgin_desysopped] | In October of 2008, Mr. Lokshin and his committee were informed of allegations that a senior Wikipedia functionary and Lokshin ally, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lar User:Lar], had made inappropriate sexual advances towards Wikipedia's female volunteers.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/SlimVirgin-Lar/Proposed_decision#Motion_to_close] The Committee chose to keep this complaint a secret from Wikipedia's editing community, and took no action to address the situation. Instead, the female administrator who brought this problem to the attention of the committee was admonished in a decision written primarily by Kirill himself.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/SlimVirgin-Lar#Findings_of_fact] One month later, Lokshin led the nearly all-male Committee to remove her from her position as Wikipedia administrator over an unrelated dispute, calling it the "proverbial straw that broke the camel's back."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Motion:_re_SlimVirgin#SlimVirgin_desysopped] |