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The Wikimedia Foundation who own Wikipedia have, for the first time ever, personally stepped in to ban a veteran administrator from just Wikipedia for one year. No public explanation given, no option for appeal, and not even local admins were warned it was coming. Image
At the moment there is pretty much universal condemnation of the action from Wikipedia's community, who feel Foundation involvement undermines the normally self-regulating nature of Wikipedia. The Foundation have also left an unsatisfying "explanation":

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Other sites exist under the Wikimedia Foundation and they previously banned users from all sites, including Wikipedia, in exceptional cases. Temporary, localized bans were not done before this year and this is the only one to target an admin, let alone one with a clean record.
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