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==Response to allegations of sexual harassment==
 
==Response to allegations of sexual harassment==
 
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 no action was taken 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 admnistrator 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 no action was taken 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 admnistrator 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]
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