Wikipedia:AMA Requests for Assistance/Requests/November 2006/Hkelkar 2

Wikipedian filing request:

• Hkelkar (talk · contribs)

Other Wikipedians this pertains to:

• BhaiSaab (talk · contribs)
• Dmcdevit (talk · contribs)
• TwoHorned (talk · contribs)
• TerryJ-Ho (talk · contribs)
• Street_Scholar (talk · contribs)
• hornplease (talk · contribs)

Wikipedia pages this pertains to:

• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Hkelkar (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)}
• Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Hkelkar/Evidence (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

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: Other:Arbitration Case

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, the case was not opened by me but by User:BhaiSaab

What do you expect to get from Advocacy?

• Answer: I need an impartial but experienced wikipedian who would listen to my concerns regarding this matter and advise me on formulating arguments and/or advocate for me there if possible.

Summary:

I am a relatively new user who has been on wikipedia for a couple of months. I have been editing some controversial articles and adding sourced information woefully lacking in those articles most of which had a specific ideological bias against specific ethno-religious groups. This bias was carefully placed by a loose group of users (represented as my opponents above) who immediately started reverting and revert-warring my edits and attacking me on talk pages. Finally, one of them filed an ArbComm against me. As you can see by the heated debates going on in the Evidence Page I have linked above, the situation is getting out of hand and the users are deliberately misrepresenting events as part of a campaign to skew the evidence against me. As you can see from my posts there, I have become too emotive about this matter to objectively handle my case or present my evidence and I would like some help from an experienced wikipedian who can guide me as to how I should present my case properly. It is a daunting task that involved analyzing the contribs of several users over the course of the last two months. Nonetheless, I would like the help of a wikipedian who would take the challenge to guide me on this matter.

Followup:

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AMA Information

Case Status: closed

Advocate Status:

• I'll take it. TheronJ 17:25, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I am closing this case, subject to reopening on request. Martin and I have been advising HKelkar by e-mail and will remain available to him regarding any future steps. However, in light of the recent ArbComm decision banning both HKelkar and the parties he was in dispute with, see Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Hkelkar#Remedies, there is probably not too much more to be done. TheronJ 16:53, 11 December 2006 (UTC)