FRAM: Ten Pounds of Shit in a Five Pound Bag

Where do we begin with FRAM? I'd never heard of the guy until the drama over banning him for a year boiled over this summer, but then, as a non-Wikipedian who is on the global ban list anyway, I don't know all the idiots. He's a Smurf fanboy from Belgium who has hidden his real identity very well, almost a European tarantino.

The Background

FRAM showed up at en.Wikipedia in August of 2005 and was mostly editing Belgian subjects like the Smurfs, bios of Francophone comic authors, and astronomical subjects. According to Eric Barbour's notes, FRAM is from Buggenhout, Belgium, which is a couple of miles north of Brussels and north-west of Brabant, where the "Nijvel gang" ("Brabant killers") went on a murder/property destruction spree from 1982-85. We only mention it here because of the insane black comedy Man Bites Dog (1992); directors Poelvoorde, Bonzel, and Belvaux seemed to be drawing energy from those crimes, which were completely "violence for violence's sake" and deliberately illogical. People seem to think para-politics was involved. But back to FRAM - we know that the "FRA" is the first three letters of his given name and the "M" is his family name, so possibly his actual name is François Morane. If you have a phonebook for Buggenhout, start looking through the "M"s.

By June, 2006 he had become an gnomer/patroller and a voter in Articles for Deletion actions....his Request for Adminship went through in February of 2007. It was here that he began to truly show his colors: he was a prime deletionist, a blocker of Wikipedia critics, and a person hiding in anonymity willing to out anybody on Wikipedia.

                                                     Possible portrait of FRAM, 2019.


The amount of articles FRAM deleted ran into the thousands and he would get Cuddlyable3 blocked in late November of 2011 for "disruptive editing" and alleged sockpuppetry. He also blocked and unblocked Kiefer.Wolfowitz more than once, but then so did a number of people, as seen here. Why were they blocked? Because both were critics of Wikipedia. The name "Fram" is accredited special favor by him - anybody writes an article about a thing with that name gets to watch as FRAM will delete it or kajigger the disambiguation page so that Fridtjof Nansen's ship Fram ("Forward" in Norwegian) is always at the top - even the automobile filter firm is at the bottom.


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