User:Tristessa de St Ange/Advocate Cabal frontpage v2

The Advocate Cabal is a completely informal Wikipedia initiative for requesting the assistance of an advocate to help you.

What is an advocate?
An advocate is a person who works on your behalf to advise and assist you in solving disputes and difficulties encountered in Wikipedia article editing, discussion and processes. An advocate may also talk with other users on your behalf where you do not feel comfortable or able to do so yourself. This is in contrast to a mediator, who is required to be impartial and unbiased when dealing with a dispute, as advocates work personally for you and are able to give their opinions on the issue itself.

However, advocates are not lawyers, and are required not to behave like them; instead, consider an advocate as an assistant who is knowledgeable about Wikipedia and can apply that knowledge to help you as an adviser.

If you require an impartial person to act as an independent third-party to bring a dispute involving multiple editors to a mutual resolution, please request assistance from a mediation initiative such as the Mediation Cabal or the Mediation Committee.

How do I request assistance?
It's very easy - copy the following text:



and paste it into a new section on your talk page.

Below this template, write a short description of the following:
 * the problem you would like help with;
 * who is involved in the problem, if it involves multiple users;
 * and how you would like your advocate to help.

Regretfully, requests that are excessively long (over 500 words), incoherent, or lacking the above information will be rejected.

An advocate will then come to your assistance. We aim to ensure all requests are dealt with within 48 hours, but please be patient if there is a delay.

I want to help!
Click here for information on how to be a volunteer advocate >>

Control panel

 * List of requests >>
 * Completed requests >>
 * Advice on how to perform advocacy >>
 * History of this initiative, and of former systems on Wikipedia >>
 * Leave a message for the Coordinator, who is User:NicholasTurnbull. Contact him if you have any questions about this initiative, how to be an advocate, or if you wish to make a complaint about the service you have received.