Directory:Proabivouac/User:Kirill Lokshin

This is not a biography, but an critical evaluation of a Wikipedia user's performance in office.

Kirill Lokshin, coordinator of Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee.

Kirill Lokshin is the coordinator of Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee.[1] Under his watch, the Committee has endured scandal after scandal, from the pseudonymous FT2's zoophilia edits to David Boothroyd's exposure and resignation.[2][3][4][5]

Credentials

Kirill was 22 years old in December 2006, when Jimbo Wales appointed him to Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee.[6][7]

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.[8][9][10] Nine hours later, he added that he was "an engineer living in the state of Maryland."[11] Mr. Lokshin was 21-22 years old at this time.

In December 2006's Arbitration Committee elections, Kirill said, "I'm an electrical/computer engineer by profession."[12] Sixteen months later, he made a minor change to his userpage statement: "Professionally, I'm an engineer…" [13] On August 10, 2008, the Washington Post’s Tom Dunkel described him as a "24-year-old software engineer from Rockville" [14][15]

As recently as October 2008, he gave his address as that of his parents.

Predecided cases

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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, User:Lar, had made inappropriate sexual advances towards Wikipedia's female volunteers.[17] 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.[18] 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."[19]

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Infiltration by political operatives

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Zoophilia scandals

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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.[25][26] Pelletier remains an active arbitrator in good standing.