Wikipedia:Association of Members' Advocates/Requests/February 2007/Wolfgang Borman

Case Filed On: 02:58, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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Questions:
Have you read the AMA FAQ?
 * Answer: Yes

'''How would you describe the nature of this dispute? (policy violation, content dispute, personal attack, other)'''
 * Answer: policy violation, content dispute

'''What methods of Dispute Resolution have you tried so far? If you can, please provide wikilinks so that the Advocate looking over this case can see what you have done.'''
 * Answer: none

What do you expect to get from Advocacy?
 * Answer: Rebecca will stop censoring articles

Summary:
I am the official spokesperson for the Australian Union of Students, an association formed in 1993. Recently I became aware of an article in Wikipedia purporting to be about our association. Today I updated the article to make it more informative and factually correct. About half an hour after I had updated the article, Rebecca changed the article back to what it had been. This was done, not with the intention of helping internet users, but with the intention of preventing internet users from finding out information and ideas. I have looked in the Wikipedia policies, and they specifically forbid changing an article back to what is was. For example, if she wanted to show that there used to be an association of the same name, before our association was formed, she should have done this by adding another paragraph to what I had written. If Rebecca considers that, say, Moslems are crackpots, and I have no doubt that she does, that does not give her the right to delete articles about Moslems. According to Rebecca's page, she has special privileges for editing pages, and it is of concern that a person with special privileges should commit a clear violation of a policy.

Discussion:
I would have to notice that 's edit summary "rv crackpottery" is quite uncivilized. I will ask her to explain herself in the talk page.

On the other hand, in wikipedia there is a rule that an article about an organization cannot rely solely on its website. In order for your text to survive, you must provide references from reliable independent sources, see policies Verifiability and "reliable sources". Surely, you are aware that you may create a very fancy website run by 3 guys based in a student's dorm. Mukadderat 18:06, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

appears not to have responded or made another edit to Wikipedia since February 11. Am closing case for nonresponse. Best, --Shirahadasha 00:56, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Followup:
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AMA Information
Case Status: closed

Advocate Status: Case closed for nonresponse -- requester has not made an edit on Wikipedia since February 11 and has not responded to queries. --Shirahadasha 00:57, 22 March 2007 (UTC)