Editing Bogdanov affair (section)

===Disputes on French and English Wikipedias===

At the beginning of 2004, Igor Bogdanov began to post on French Usenet physics groups and Internet forums, continuing the pattern of behavior seen on ''sci.physics.research.'' A controversy began on the [[French Wikipedia]] when Igor Bogdanov and his supporters began to edit that encyclopedia's [[:fr:Igor et Grichka Bogdanoff|article on the brothers]], prompting the creation of a new article dedicated to the debate (''[[:fr:Polémique autour des travaux des frères Bogdanoff|Polémique autour des travaux des frères Bogdanov]]''—"Debate surrounding the work of the Bogdanov brothers"). The dispute then spread to the [[English Wikipedia]].<ref>{{cite news | last=Latrive | first=Florent |author2=Mauriac, Laurent | title=Dans les rouages de Wikipedia | work=Libération | pages=42–43 | date=2006-02-27 | url=http://www.liberation.fr/grand-angle/010140270-dans-les-rouages-de-wikipedia | access-date=2019-07-21|language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last=Lapirot | first=Olivier | title=Peut-on se fier à Wikipédia? | work=Micro Hebdo | pages=28 | date=2006-06-22 | url=http://www.01net.com/article/321982_a.html | language=fr | access-date=2009-07-17 | archive-date=2006-07-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060719144050/http://www.01net.com/article/321982_a.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> In November 2005, this led the [[Arbitration Committee (Wikipedia)|Arbitration Committee]], a [[dispute resolution]] panel that acts as the project's [[court of last resort]], to ban anyone deemed to be a participant in the external dispute from editing the English Wikipedia's article on the Bogdanov Affair. A number of English Wikipedia users, including Igor Bogdanov himself, were explicitly named in this ban.<ref>{{cite web
| title=Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Regarding the Bogdanov Affair| url =http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Regarding_The_Bogdanov_Affair&oldid=73602269| date = 2006-09-03| access-date = 2018-11-21}}</ref> In 2006, Baez wrote on his website that for some time the Bogdanovs and "a large crowd of [[sock puppet (internet)|sock puppets]]" had been attempting to rewrite the English Wikipedia article on the controversy "to make it less embarrassing to them". "Nobody seems to be fooled", he added.<ref name = "Baez web"/>