Left-leaning website Wikipedia took the drastic action of blocking one of its founders from editing pages on Monday — after he had campaigned to make it more balanced and fair.

The campaign to oust him was instigated by one of the most combative editors on the platform, who goes by the handle TarnishedPath. The same editor was a driving force behind one of the most controversial maneuvers in Wikipedia’s recent history: a 12-month “moratorium” that froze the lead of the site’s “Zionism” article, locking in a sentence that critics — and this reporter, in [Tablet Magazine](https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/wiki-wars) — have documented as effectively equating the movement for Jewish self-determination with ethnic cleansing.

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Just weeks ago, Wikipedia’s own administrators banned TarnishedPath banned TarnishedPath [banned TarnishedPath](https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/wikipedia-bans-anti-israel-editor-from-editing-articles-on-israeli-palestinian-conflict/article_0c62f631-6527-5dc6-a8c0-ca204f04a023.html) from editing in the entire Israel-Palestine subject area on account of the editor’s problematic behavior.

This didn’t stop the anonymous editor from playing a key role in the ban of Sanger — indicating the kind of palace intrigue that Sanger has critiqued as being detrimental to the open exchange of ideas on Wikipedia.

Which is why they will never get a nickel from me.

Not a huge Steven Crowder fan, but his video on Wikipedia is top tier.

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