UnNews:Wikipedia co-founder banned from Wikipedia
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
SOMEWHERE, AMERICA—Larry Sanger, one of Wikipedia’s cofounders and half of its shining mugshot, was just yesterday perma-banned from editing the site after a coalition of hybrid Reddit/Wikipedia mods determined that he was calling for his followers to go to Conservapedia.
Sanger has spent more than a decade complaining about Wikipedia's more leftist leanings and how it tends to keep calling Trump an "orange" and Kamala a "goddess." On X, shortly before the ban, he warned his followers that "they" would be coming for him, armed with a powerful ban that even he could not fight against.
"The general consensus amongst us moderators here is that he spent too much time engaged in off-site canvassing, and when he was here, he would only add non-constructive edits, such as making the background of the Obama article a giant naked Black man," said an editor in a note closing the ban discussion.
"I mean, he even violated Wikipedia:BITE[1] by biting the newcomers, and he even put his punctuation before the reference, with the punctuation representing the rest of Wikipedia and the reference representing him. There is concern shared by me and all my fellow neckbea–I mean, gentlemen, that his actions call for a coup."
What few know is that the real reason for the ban was a result of Sanger's failed "Wikipedian Intellectual Diversity Project," which proposed that every single article must have an "opposing version". This calls for articles to have another version explaining why the first one is wrong for "diversity".
The project was unfortunately cancelled after Sanger wrote a mad version of gravity, explaining why it doesn't exist, and how birds shouldn't exist either.
It went down over the course of last week, wherein Sanger had been railing loudly against Wikipedia's lack of diversity in politics and had been pushing to allow more equality into the site. His mistake came when replying to a Twitter user, where he called the Wikipedia mods "a bunch of playground moms."
The ban came almost immediately after that comment, along with a $2.50 fine (the amount that Wikipedia begs of each viewer). He was then unbanned for approximately 5 seconds and then re-banned, which remains his current and permanent status. Followers of the Sanger Cult believe that he will pull an Elon Musk-style trick and buy Wikipedia for the $1,004,402,014,706,180,966.56 it is being sold for and turn it into something more his style.
Out of annoyance, Sanger filmed himself shoving beans up his nose, purposely violating Wikipedia:Don't stuff beans up your nose, earning him two permabans so if he somehow gets blocked, he has to spend his time getting unblocked a second time.
UnNews has contacted Sanger for a comment on the state of affairs but could only get garbled screeching and angry bubbling noises over the phone. It's possible that the Wikipedia mods also put Dawn dish soap in his phone, which could explain the odd gurgling noises. This was presumably done to prevent him from screaming slurs at the mods who banned him.
When asked about how he felt, co-founder Jimbo Wales said that he was "two [sic] bizy [sic] bagning [sic] wikipeediatan [sic]," and didn't really care about what happened to "old Turb0-forehead."
Our take? This is the beginning of the end for Wikipedia: the internal power cabal revolts against its very makers, removing key elements and structures that make up the very site itself. Uncyclopedia may see a raise in viewership and editors shortly.
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- FergusArgyll "Larry Sanger Gets the Big Ban" ', June 23, 2026
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