Wikipedia:AMA Requests for Assistance/Requests

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Knowledge for All (talk) on Destiny (NEW)

Brief: Made edits to the article which were reverted by Zeusnoos. Reverted back after correcting the entry as per suggestion given in edit summary but article was again reverted by Zeusnoos. Invited Zeusnoos to voice concerns in Talks page before reverting. Instead of doing so he reverted back once more, giving IMO biased reasoning. Could someone help us sort it out (read full description) -- Knowledge for All 20:59, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Typing_monkey (talk) on Stephen Colbert (pending)

Brief: dispute involving link extortion and bias / inconsistent application of the External Linking guidelines (read full description) -- Typing monkey 16:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pending on Advocate General Eisenhower. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 19:27, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Advocate General Eisenhower has not responded.

Now pending on Advocate Pedant. אמר Steve Caruso _{(desk/AMA/vote for me)} 02:35, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Waiting for response from advokee, glad to help if response is positive. User:Pedant 03:30, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Margana (talk) on Psephos (under investigation)

Brief: User:Snottygobble is abusing his adminship to win an edit war. He protected the page once on his version and later twice blocked me for "edit warring" (there was no 3RR violation in either case). I believe he violated both protection and blocking policy. I'd like to bring this to an RfC but need a second editor who has tried to resolve the dispute. Maybe someone could just ask him not to do this again and, if he refuses, certify this on RfC. (read full description) -- Margana 18:08, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now pending on Advocate David.Mestel. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 15:01, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted. David Mestel^(Talk) 18:52, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This advocate was not helpful and has abandoned the case. Someone else please come forward. Margana 15:48, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please rest assured that David has not abandoned you. He has voiced some concerns about the case to me, which I have tried to articulate on your talk page and I would be most grateful if we could discuss them. אמר Steve Caruso _{(desk/AMA/vote for me)} 02:25, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RandomGalen (talk) on Military and economic aid in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict (open)

Brief: User Tewfik engaged in edit warfare over a brief summary of foreign aid to Israel appearing in the article. Cites WP:V/WP:OR for United States Congress reports, a World Policy Institute report, and DCSA requests which all establish a connection between foreign aid and makeup of the IDF force operating in Lebanon currently. Would like to go to arbitration as he is ignoring the wishes of many editors concerned with balance in the article. (read full description) -- RandomGalen 18:36, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pending on Advocate WormwoodJagger. אמר Steve Caruso _{(desk/AMA/vote for me)} 02:29, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted -- glad to be of service. WormwoodJagger 16:25, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cybertrend (talk) on Peter F. Paul and Wikipedia:Dispute resolution (open)

Brief: Biographical facts are being distorted, mischaracterized and asserted without proof to discredit a Clinton whistleblower. see discussion for Peter F. Paul and Peter Paul disambiguity page. (read full description)

Pending on Advocate Royalguard11. אמר Steve Caruso _{(desk/AMA/vote for me)} 02:52, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted, I hope I'll be able to help. -Royalguard11^Talk 04:12, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Apocalypse cow (talk) on Feral House (open)

Brief: I need help in explaining to User:Farstriker why I remove his/her unsourced, unverifiable edits. He/she will discuss but I believe needs arbitration to understand the problems with his/her edits. (read full description) -- Apocalypse cow 20:31, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pending on Advocate DPeterson. אמר Steve Caruso _{(desk/AMA/vote for me)} 02:47, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ACCEPTED DPeterson^talk 13:38, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zephyrad (talk) on Second-class citizen (open)

Brief: I have been personally attacked by another user, who insists on repeatedly reverting a particular edit, instead of trying to improve on it if he disagrees with my changes. This person appears to have a history of antagonism, and it's no less true in my case. (read full description) -- Zephyrad 10:20, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted by Wikiwoohoo 20:00, 12 August 2006 (UTC).[reply]

diabolos (talk) on Doc Hammer Talk:Doc Hammer (open)

Brief: problems have arisen on this page. A few people have stated that it is an article of poor quality and I have tried to fix it. One user, who does not have a username, has repeatedly gotten rid of a statement made only to be reverted by User:Hazelflo. I have attempted to bring the article to a better quality only to be reverted by Hazelflo (read full description) -Diabolos 06:23, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted by אמר Steve Caruso _{(desk/AMA/vote for me)} 23:55, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aktornado (talk) on Talk:Golfers_with_most_major_championship_wins (open)

Brief: Help with a dispute over whether or not amateur wins should be included for some people while not including it for others in a statistical chart.

I will accept this one. Æon ^{Insane Ward} 00:06, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Carbonate (talk) on Talk:List of concentration and internment camps List of concentration and internment camps Internment (open)

Brief: Help with a dispute over the lable of the Gaza Stripe as a concentration camp. This dispute has been refered to arbitration by a third part. One page has already been locked by an admin. (read full description) -- Carbonate 10:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now pending on Advocate Fred Chess. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 15:02, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I accept the case. / Fred-Chess 16:39, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiWoo (talk) on Roger Maloney (open)

Brief: This page and others before it have been deleted. An individual and a group have been stalking my work in what appears as organized and directed vandalism attempting to get my goat. In reading some comments I caught that each left on others talk pages with comments like "he's back" and "we need to do this the hard way" suggests inaproprote motives. In a prior occasion my IP address was broad cast widely initiating personal attacks. This page in question was deleted without warning. Generally I can see games being played by one or more specific individuals (read full description) -- WikiWoo 13:23, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pending on Advocate Oliver Keenan. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 16:18, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Advocate Oliver Keenan has not responded. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 18:41, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now pending on Advocate TheronJ אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 14:56, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted. TheronJ 15:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lee_Bailey (talk) on Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report and related (open)

Brief: I've been involved in a bit of a dispute over the placement of a link on Stephen Colbert related pages. I haven't pursued dispute resolution yet, but would simply like if someone could look over the case and offer their "legal" advice on how (or whether) to pursue it. One editor is repeatedly adding a link to a site, www.tekjansen.com, where the site's author strongly implies, but does not directly state, that he is Stephen Colbert. I'm uncomfortable with this because the site apparently sells memberships to access content supposedly written by Colbert. The user who keeps adding link is a user of their forum, and s/he seems to be interested in adding the link to generate traffic there. What makes this complicated is that I'm not sure the site doesn't belong to Colbert. I'm just not sure what the correct thing is to do. Note: I've moved my full description location to a subpage of my talk because I'd like to handle this semi-privately until I've figured out what to do. Things are already somewhat tense. I can also be contacted via email. (read full description)

Now pending on Advocate Wisd e n17. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 15:18, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted --Wisd e n17 15:50, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Joehazelton (talk) on Peter Roskam (open)

Brief: It is my humble opinon that the recent editing on this page is very bias. Futher more, one of the active editors also edits on the Tammy Duckworth pages as well and is less agressive in adding negative spin on that page vers on Roskams page. Both Roskam and Duckworh are now running for Nov 2006 for this hotly contested seat for the Illinois 6th house distict. My edits get wiped with mumbo jumbo and theats to me. I can read and these guys are spinning this article in a negative way. There is also a wiki admin, a self described Democrat, over see this right now. I need help with the wiki process to make sure this article is truly NPOV which, in my humble opinon is not right now. thanks (read full description) -- Joehazelton 05:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pending on Advocate Longhornsg. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 18:09, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Advocate Longhornsg cannot take case due to other commitments. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 22:26, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now pending on Advocate Joe. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 02:32, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted. Joe 00:08, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

bongo1234 (talk) on Cake_Media (open)

Brief: A link to a website critical of this companys CEO has been repeatedly removed, probably by members of the company itself. Michael Mathieson, the CEO of the company, threatened to sue for rightful ownership of the domain name http://www.michaelmathieson.co.uk through Nominet and had a wiki satirising him and his business taken down. In the interest of the public, I think a link to latest domain name http://www.michaelmathiesonsucks.com should not be removed from this page.(read full description) -- Bongo1234 02:06, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pending on Advocate Wally. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 16:26, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Advocate User:Wally cannot take case due to other business. Searching for another. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 15:42, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now pending on Advocate Computerjoe. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 02:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted. Computerjoe 's talk 15:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

84.56.50.181 (talk) on Lance_Armstrong (open)

Brief: on july 31 between 21:57 and 22:52 i made some comments on the discussions page concerning the Lance_Armstrong article being POV, but three users deleted my postings immediately various times just stating "this is trolling". In my opinion this is improper censorship, against http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith and happened just for the reason that they couldn't stand the critical view from an 'outsider'. What can i do about that? (read full description)

Now open on Advocate Matthew Platts. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 02:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'll take this. Matthew Platts 03:08, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Historian2 (talk) on Sanhedrin and Talk:Sanhedrin (open)

Brief: Rabbis called evil and poisonous, I claimed slander and reverted, blocked on 3RR, looking for guidance (read full description)

Open on Advocate K-UNIT. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 19:26, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sholom (talk) on Thelma Drake (open)

Brief: user insists on having his way, violations of 3RR (he was already locked out for a 3RR violation once, and has since done it again), refuses to talk, refused offer of mediation, using mulitple IP addresses (one at home and one from work, it seems). This is, admittedly, nowhere near as severe as other cases here listed, but seems to need mediation and/or arbitration nonetheless (read full description) -- Sholom 19:13, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pending on Advocate Bobcheezy. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 16:19, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted by אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 18:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DrL (talk) on User:Hillman/Dig/Langan (open)

Brief: Hillman was denied a checkuser on me due to insufficient cause. He subsequently has erected a dig page on me that contains conjecture wrt my identity, including links to where I am supposed to work and other irrelevant personal information. I would like this personal information removed per WP:BLOCK (Posting Personal Information). Thanks. (read full description) -- DrL 18:41, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pending on Advocate David.Mestel. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 12:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted by David Mestel^(Talk) 13:05, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

HappyApple (talk) on Hwacha (open)

Brief: I request assistance on Hwacha article (a historical weapon), because i believe some users are deleting substantial information that was written on the article in aims of "having their personal and own professionalism". Specifically User:Wikimachine states that Hwacha article version as of 25 June 2006 was too confusing because got Repetitive contents, i tried to get an agreement with him or her, but he or she didn't liked that, and started to delete information and revert and started to use offensive words like "don't write here.." "...I am frustrated, " GAME MANIACS GO AWAY" and so on. I think this is not civil and i wish someone can help me on this.(read full description) -- HappyApple 05:24, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Attempting to further contact Advocate Pedant. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 16:11, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted by Advocate Pedant. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 18:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Danbarnesdavies (talk) on many British royalty articles (open)

Brief: I have recently been contributing a lot to the British royalty articles, and all of my edits have been reverted - primary discussion has not gone well (ref: User talk:Berks105#Royals_template; User talk:Danbarnesdavies#Reverts) (read full description) -- D B D 21:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Computerjoe cannot due to prior commitments. Looking for alternate advocate... אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 16:10, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now pending on Advocate Savidan. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 16:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be glad to help. I'll start looking through the dispute immediately. Feel free to contact me whenever it's convenient on my talk page or though the email user function. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 19:25, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Justforasecond (talk) on User_talk:Justforasecond Kwanzaa (open)

Brief: I was blocked for a month in what, as far as I can tell, was violation of wiki blocking policy. I would like to pursue arbitration against the blocking admin. Justforasecond 00:10, 26 July 2006 (UTC) (read full description)[reply]

Accepted by Geo. 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Bakemono (talk) on Neurofunk (open)

Brief: A malicious and extremely uncivil vandal, that's continually editing anonymously under a changing IP address (usually starting with 84.44.*.*), has been purposefully removing factually sound information from the listed Wiki-article. I've tried amicably engaging said user/IP address numerous times regarding the dispute, but to no avail -- the only responses I get are insults and excuses as to why they won't logically engage me on the issue at hand. This back-and-forth has gotten nowhere, instead becoming worse -- the user's only grown increasingly hostile (to the point of actual threats against me). Moreover, in an apparent attempt to 'get me back,' he also went and blatantly vandalized two articles I'd had previous involvement with: Cryptic Audio & Kouta Hirano. I ask you, please, for immediate involvement before this escalates any further. (read full description) -- Bakemono 14:03, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted by WormwoodJagger 11:01, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ryorye (talk) on Chaguanas (open)

Brief: A user keeps on reverting my page even after I posted my side on the discussion page. I tried reasoning with him, I requested a RfC, a solution was given and he still chose to ignore the solution. I ask for help that my information may stay on the article. (read full description) -- Ryorye 22:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted by David Mestel^(Talk) 05:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cobaltbluetony (talk) on Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses (open)

Brief: User:Truthwanted continues to POV push a notion that Jehovah's Witnesses actually tried to curry favor with the Nazi government with their Declaration of Facts in 1933. Other editors besides myself seem to be unable to convince him to seriously address the style, tone, POV, or appropriateness of his proposal; what is more, it is contended that the edit itself will not survive a broader base of scrutiny. (read full description) -- CobaltBlueTony 18:10, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted by Benon. אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 02:20, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]