Wikipedia:Association of Members' Advocates/Requests/January 2007/billbrock

Case Filed On: 23:06, 27 January 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: Hmm, it's a policy violation (notably WP:NPOV), a content dispute (a convicted felon and a person who has boasted of past sexual relations with minors is using WP to aggrandize himself), and a personal attack--the person in question, Mr. Sloan, and I have no love lost for each other in "real life." No question he's a very bright man as well....

The Sam Sloan article is written largely by sockpuppets of banned user User:amorrow, who is himself a meatpuppet of Sloan.

'''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: Sloan's word is worthless.

What do you expect to get from Advocacy?
 * Answer: Guidance as to how to handle this situation. I have recently edited this article, after having refrained from correcting the misstatements for more than one year.  In real life, Sloan is aggrandizing himself by attacking the integrity of others in the United States Chess Federation.  Sounds rather pathetic, I know.  I don't really blame Sloan (who I believe is not fully responsible for his own actions) but others.  I don't want to use WP for any anti-Sloan vendetta of my own; I don't want to see a child-molesting felon (I am not judgment-proof and mean those words very literally) to use WP to make himself appear more important than he is, either.

However inflammatory my recent edits of Sam Sloan may appear, trust me, it's completely true. And there's a lot I could have put into the article that I didn't; not all the misstatements of fact have been corrected.

I don't expect any closure via WP, but would appreciate counsel.

Discussion:
I will be your Advocate. If you can prove that the user is indirectly related to Sloan, then you can post at AN/I. G e  o. 18:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

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AMA Information
Case Status: closed

Advocate Status:
 * G e  o . 18:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * User needs to put this on hold. G  e  o .  Talk to me  03:31, 12 February 2007 (UTC)