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| − | [[Image:Kirill TAPS.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Kirill Lokshin, coordinator of Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee.]]
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| − | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kirill_Lokshin Kirill Lokshin] is the coordinator of Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbcom#Coordination] Under his watch, the Committee has endured scandal after scandal, from the pseudonymous FT2's zoophilia edits to David Boothroyd's exposure and resignation.[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/18/zoophilia_wikiscandal/][http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/26/wikipedia_westminster_councillor/][http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/wikipedia-sentinel-quits-after-using-alias-to-alter-entries-1698762.html][http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191474/Labour-councillor-David-Boothroyd-caught-altering-David-Camerons-Wikipedia-entry.html]
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| − | Kirill was 22 years old in December 2006, when Jimbo Wales appointed him to Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2006/Candidate_statements/Questions_for_Kirill_Lokshin][http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-December/059361.html]
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| − | In 2005, Mr. Lokshin stated that he was "shamelessly stealing [a] userbox idea from Essjay," a fraud who was dismissed from all positions of authority after having been caught claiming false credentials to both the Wikipedia editing community and the New Yorker.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Kirill_Lokshin&diff=25519852&oldid=prev][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Essjay/RFC][http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/31/060731fa_fact] Nine hours later, he added that he was "an engineer living in the state of Maryland."[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Kirill_Lokshin&diff=25556744&oldid=25539585] Mr. Lokshin was 21-22 years old at this time.
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| − | In December 2006's Arbitration Committee elections, Kirill said, "I'm an electrical/computer engineer by profession."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2006/Candidate_statements/Questions_for_Kirill_Lokshin] Sixteen months later, he made a minor change to his userpage statement: "Professionally, I'm an engineer…"
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| − | [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Kirill_Lokshin&diff=111697210&oldid=110966406] On August 10, 2008, the Washington Post’s Tom Dunkel described him as a "24-year-old ''software'' engineer from Rockville" [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/08/07/ST2008080701685.html?sid=ST2008080701685&s_pos=list][http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/05/AR2008080502169_2.html?sid=ST2008080701685&s_pos=]
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| − | As recently as October 2008, he gave his address as that of his parents.<ref>Society of Military History, membership directory, October 2008, http://www.smh-hq.org/directory/Directory.pdf</ref>
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| − | ==Predecided cases==
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| − | According to Wikipedia's written arbitration policy, "The Committee will not hear disputes where they have not been requested to rule."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Policy#Scope]
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| − | In one well-known case, documents have surfaced which show that Mr. Lokshin himself solicited this "request to rule" from former Arbitrator [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dmcdevit Dmcdevit], who has been forced to resign in early 2007 after being caught scheming against volunteer contributors on Wikipedia's administrators' internet chat channel.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-02-19/Arbitrator_resigns][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration&diff=prev&oldid=103556143] These emails also show Lokshin and his associates deciding both the duration and the outcome of the case before any evidence had been presented.[http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcv3jwr5_61f7d44dgj]
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| − | Another case, which targeted a female Wikipedia administrator who had forwarded complaints about sexual harassment, was "requested" by then-active arbitrator FT2.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Motion:_re_SlimVirgin#Motion:_re_SlimVirgin]
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| − | ==Response to allegations of sexual harassment==
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| − | 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]
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| − | ==Infiltration by political operatives==
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| − | …[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/26/wikipedia_westminster_councillor/][http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/wikipedia-sentinel-quits-after-using-alias-to-alter-entries-1698762.html][http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191474/Labour-councillor-David-Boothroyd-caught-altering-David-Camerons-Wikipedia-entry.html]
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| − | ==Zoophilia scandals==
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| − | …[http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=r_7krLEiThNhWAbQHaVSlvA&hl=en]…[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/18/zoophilia_wikiscandal/]
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| − | The association between Kirill Lokshin's Arbitration Committee and advocacy for bestiality became controversial again in May, when his colleague "Coren," Marc-André Pelletier of Montreal, was challenged on Wikipedia Review for publishing and administering a website which hosts stories appearing to advocate this practice, as well as incest between fathers and underaged sons, alongside hardcore gay pornography.[http://gai-eros.org/][http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=24588] Pelletier remains an active arbitrator in good standing.
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