article_snippet.sent: Richard Symonds, who joined the Wikipedia project in 2004, says He was not being political .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Symonds decision was also criticised by other Wikipedia activists, who warned that the site should not be used to 'play politics' and referred the case to an internal arbitration committee.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Symonds joined other party members who signed a letter to The Guardian in January last year calling for Lord Rennard to have the Lib-Dem whip withdrawn over Mr Symonds refusal to apologise for making unwanted advances to female activists.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Symonds toned down Mr Symonds conclusions about Mr Shapps' possible connections to 'Contribsx', revisions to one of Mr Symonds Wikipedia pages show.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Symonds admitted that Wikipedia's top officials had 'chastised' Mr Symonds for Mr Symonds handling of the case, although Mr Symonds refused to back down yesterday.
article_snippet.sent: The first time we saw the story was in the Guardian, and the first time we know about Mr Symonds was when we were asked about Mr Symonds this afternoon,' Mr Symonds added.
article_snippet.sent: Wikimedia UK spokesman Stevie Benton said to the best of Wikimedia UK spokesman Stevie Benton knowledge Mr Symonds did not brief the Liberal Democrats about Wikimedia UK spokesman Stevie Benton actions. '
article_snippet.sent: I would be incredibly surprised if Wikimedia UK spokesman Stevie Benton had done and would say it's out of character,' Wikimedia UK spokesman Stevie Benton told the Daily Telegraph. '
article_snippet.sent: the Daily Telegraph rejected criticism that the Daily Telegraph story did not made its story plain that the Daily Telegraph had prompted the Wikipedia inquiry into alleged links between 'Contribsx' and Mr Shapps.
article_snippet.sent: A spokeswoman for the paper said: 'The article clearly states that this was a the Daily Telegraph investigation which brought to light some potential breaches of Wikipedia's own rules, which were then communicated to the site's administrators.'