User:Seraphimblade/Draft petition to WMF

Summary

On 10 June 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation desysopped and banned editor and administrator Fram as an office action for a period of one year. Fram's statement[1] indicates that the ban was solely for on-wiki conduct; as of this writing, the Wikimedia Foundation has not contradicted this assertion. It is the sense of the English Wikipedia community that:

• The desysopping and topic ban were ostensibly based upon a rationale where the WMF would handle issues that the community could not. However, the issues presented in the statement were never presented to the English Wikipedia community, or its Arbitration Committee, for consideration at all. Therefore, the decision violated WMF's own policy on the matter.
• The desysopping and topic ban, being presumably based upon only on-wiki actions, usurped the authority of the English Wikipedia community to decide what actions or sanctions (including none) should be taken in regards to behavior on the project.
• The desysopping and ban are, therefore, invalid and must be reversed.
• Regardless of the appropriateness of the specific ban of Fram, the WMF must refrain from intervention in future on-wiki matters, or off-wiki matters which could be handled by the project's Arbitration Committee, with the exception of matters traditionally handled by WMF such as child protection, threats of violence, threats of suicide, and actual legal matters.

Timeline of events

• On 10 June 2019, an announcement was posted to the Bureaucrats' Noticeboard that Fram had been banned and desysopped. The proposal was discussed by the community there.