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This is the user page of Alex756 who was once a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. until December 2006 from its inception. Now W.M.F., Inc. does not have any members, so he is no longer a member. He has deleted the page history here because there is some personal information stored there. If you want to see these pages for historical research purposes they still exist and are accessible through administrator privileges. Alex756 wrote the original bylaws of WMF, helped get it tax exempt status, helped trademark the Misplaced Pages names and make a lot of suggestions regarding the area of dispute resolution. He also started the Misplaced Pages:Association of Members' Advocates, but now the status of this organization has been taken away because the Board of Directors unilaterally amended the bylaws and took away the status of Misplaced Pages "users" to be members of this entity. Getting rid of members also implies taking away their voice, the right to seek redress to their grievances (there was also a Disciplinary Board that the bylaws created) and to have some, if only minor, status in the WMF hierarchy. Apparently there was a mistaken belief that a membership organization could only have directors from amongst its members or that somehow a cabal of members would "takeover" the organization; or that a membership meant that the business activities of the organization had to be run by consensus (sometimes confused with democracy). Alex756 finds these points to be coming from individuals who have a naive point of view regarding not-for-profit corporate structures and does not agree with this kind of propaganda. How unfortunate that the original impetus for Wikimedia was to be run much like the rest of the wiki projects it started, now it is a holding corporation that is run in the dark without transparency or any clear idea of what is really going on amongst the powers that be. If you want to complain it appears that the only redress you have is through the courts since they do not want to give you any internal grievance procedure to follow.