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The '''Wikipedia Red Faction''' was disbanded by its creator, [[English Wikipedia User Plato]], and deleted, under pressure from [[Abe Sokolov]] and [[English Wikipedia User Guanaco]]. Upon its disband, Plato was complimented by the fundamentalist Christian [[English Wikipedia User Jrosenszweig]] who was evidently pleased that [[faction]]s of [[Reds]] were not allowed at Wikipedia - while factions such as his own remained welcome to push their POV constantly. | The '''Wikipedia Red Faction''' was disbanded by its creator, [[English Wikipedia User Plato]], and deleted, under pressure from [[Abe Sokolov]] and [[English Wikipedia User Guanaco]]. Upon its disband, Plato was complimented by the fundamentalist Christian [[English Wikipedia User Jrosenszweig]] who was evidently pleased that [[faction]]s of [[Reds]] were not allowed at Wikipedia - while factions such as his own remained welcome to push their POV constantly. | ||
[[Abe Sokolov]] listed it on votes for deletion, which is not supposed to apply to user pages, but no matter - consensus during the VfD vote was to leave the page alone. However this made it clear to Plato that [[sysop power structure]] was inalterably opposed to [[m:factionalism]] or [[representative democracy]] of any kind - despite the fact that a large majority of those who took interest in the page were ''against'' its deletion. ''For more on this, see [[w:User:RichardChilton|an account by English Wikipedia User Richardchilton]], detailing [[EPOV]], [[Fox News point of view]], [[infrastructure | [[Abe Sokolov]] listed it on votes for deletion, which is not supposed to apply to user pages, but no matter - consensus during the VfD vote was to leave the page alone. However this made it clear to Plato that [[sysop power structure]] was inalterably opposed to [[m:factionalism]] or [[representative democracy]] of any kind - despite the fact that a large majority of those who took interest in the page were ''against'' its deletion. ''For more on this, see [[w:User:RichardChilton|an account by English Wikipedia User Richardchilton]], detailing [[EPOV]], [[Fox News point of view]], [[infrastructure owners trust]], [[systemic bias]], [[heroic trolling]] and [[technological escalation]] issues, among others.'' | ||
The faction's page was formerly at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Plato/red_faction] and listed various current and honorary members. | The faction's page was formerly at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Plato/red_faction] and listed various current and honorary members. | ||