WormwoodJagger

User Advocacy Requests

Please place advocacy requests here.WormwoodJagger 02:51, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

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Upper Canada College

Please accept my welcome, as well. With all possible fingers crossed, I have lifted semi-protection. I would appreciate any assistance you can provide in keeping things cool. Regards, Ground Zero | t 18:10, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the well wishes. I'll certainly do my best to help out with the UCC page. For the time being, I am not going to contribute to the page until I'm sure everything's settled. Thanks for your hard work on it. WormwoodJagger 22:40, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Fair use images on user page

Hi! Please can you update your user page to remove all images that are used in wikipedia under 'fair use'. Fair use only applies when an image is being used to illustrate the subject of an article and therefore these images cannot be used on user pages. JeremyA 01:40, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

AMA Roll Call

There is currently an AMA Roll Call going on. Please visit the page and sign next to your name to indicate whether or not you're still active. :-) אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/poll) 18:46, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Speedy tag on user page

Why do you have a speedy deletion tag on your user page? —Wknight94 (talk) 00:07, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Advocacy request

Heyo, Steve Caruso here. There is a Request for assistance by Bakemono (talk) on Neurofunk. Would you be willing to take their case? If you will, please leave a note and sign under the entry on WP:AMARQ and change "(pending)" in the heading to "(open)." When you're finished with the case, set it to "(closed)". If you're not able to take the case, please leave me a message on my talk page so I can continue searching for a willing Advocate. Many thanks! אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 16:27, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Advocacy Acceptance On Neurofunk

I just wanted to say thanks for taking my case, and doing so in such a snappy manner. (I know that's what you AMA guys/gals are here for, but I appreciate it nonetheless.) In any case, I'm just letting you know that I've replied -- possibly in a more detailed fashion than you wanted =P -- to your question(s) on the Neurofunk discussion page. I hope this is satisfactory. If not, however, let me know. Thanks again!

P.S. Also, as I said towards the end of my reply, I truly wouldn't expect much from this guy. It wouldn't surprise me if he doesn't reply at all.

Bakemono 03:44, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

84.44* Is Continually Removing The Cleanup Tags Placed (By You) In Neurofunk

Jagger, I sincerely hope you're starting to get as fed-up with this guy/IP as I've been for weeks now =P. Not only has he not ceased in his personal attacks and unconstruction/vandalizing edits, he's also explicitly ignored your requests to not edit out the cleanup tags until a consensus has been reached and has provided no references to support his subjective, false opinions. Meanwhile, btw, I've been working hard on gathering references for my own future rewrite of the article, digging around damn near everywhere. I would just really like some other knowledgeable members of the DnB community to get involved in the rewrite too, that way it would be entirely even-handed and would take a lot of the burden off of me, because I am a full-time college student. But I think a lot of those people (e.g. Steve) are a bit apprehensive about doing so because this vandal is still around and they feel any and all efforts put into a prospective new article would be for naught. In my opinion, something really needs to be done about this person -- but at this point, I'm sure you're much more familiar with the proper formal, procedural steps than I am -- what do you suggest be done? Obviously threats of action being taken aren't fazing him, and I'm having to rollback his vandalizing edits every single day. I mean, he won't even sign his name properly when posting his ad hominem responses. Anyway, I'll wait for your suggestions.

Bakemono 16:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Advocacy request

Heyo, Steve Caruso here. There is a Request for assistance by RandomGalen (talk) on Military and economic aid in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. Would you be willing to take their case? If you will, please leave a note and sign under the entry on WP:AMARQ and change "(pending)" in the heading to "(open)." When you're finished with the case, set it to "(closed)". If you're not able to take the case, please leave me a message on my talk page so I can continue searching for a willing Advocate. Many thanks! אמר Steve Caruso _{(desk/AMA/vote for me)} 02:28, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for accepting the case. Any help you can give in preparing the arbitration would be great as the dispute on the talk page is still being pushed. RandomGalen 10:19, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Neurofunk Semi-protection

Jagger, this is getting nowhere (please see discussion thread). If you still intend to request protection for Neurofunk, please do it as soon as you can. Otherwise, if not, let me know and I will.

Bakemono 05:45, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

84.44* Is Registered Now As Kridian

...Which is, coincidentally, an old Ed Rush & Optical track -- imagine that. (Seems it's either Ed Rush & Optical, Matrix, Noisia or Miles Davis with this guy =P.) In any event, I don't know if this is a good or bad thing. However, if taken to a Wiki-admin, I suppose it's a good thing, since all he'll see is his long history of non-useful edits and constant reverts. Regardless, due to the fact that nobody seemed to care about the issue at hand, and no sources were ever cited in support of the Neurofunk material, I went ahead and appropriately redirected the page to Techstep (which he promptly reverted). So, I suppose I'll go ahead and request Semi-protection too. Will they protect a redirect page?

Bakemono 20:08, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Neurofunk

Do you still need assistance with Neurofunk? I'm sorry I didn't catch your post earlier (being without the internet is like not having a limb for me, it seems :-) ). אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) 15:28, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Regarding Association of Members' Advocates

Hi, you are receiving this message because you have listed yourself as an active member of WP:AMA. If you aren't currently accepting inquiries for AMA, or if you have resigned, please de-list yourself from Wikipedia:AMA Members. If you are still active, please consider tending to any new requests that may appear on Category:AMA Requests for Assistance. We're going to put AMA on wheels. :) Sorry for the template spamming - we're just trying to update our records, after we had a huge backlog earlier in the week (if you've been taking cases, then sorry, and please ignore this :)). Again, sorry, and thanks! Martinp23 21:11, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Upper Canada College

Could you help mediate or advocate on the latest controversy in the Upper Canada College article? G2bambino keeps deleting content out of the article that reflects poorly on the school. Thanks. Magonaritus 18:57, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Information

Wormwood-

If I am to be implicated in interlocking investigations (one of which I am completely unaware of), then I feel I'm fully within my rights to ask for answers to questions that currently plague me, and which might better enable me to handle all the issues that are currently going on.

1) If you are an administrator, why are you not listed at Wikipedia:List of administrators?

2) Why did the same IP address you used to add a comment to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Jonawiki and sockpuppetry also made derisive comments towards me, and in support of the user(s) in question within my desired sockpuppet investigation, at Talk:Upper Canada College#Neutral POV??

3) How is it that you've been contacted by one of the/the user(s) I named as a suspected puppetmaster, as well as been requested to take on my request, when there's no evidence of any communication about these matters in either the user histories of Jonawiki (talk · contribs) or Magonaritus (talk · contribs), nor here on your talk page?

Please forgive my apparent paranoia if it is unsubstantiated, but my experiences over the past year have made me strongly suspicious of one user causing disturbance at numerous articles from behind various user names as well as anonymous IPs. When you make claims that seem to have no supporting evidence, on top of the facts that your IP address has made attacks ([1] [2]) on me before, and you've been named in a previous sock puppet investigation pertaining to the disruptors at Upper Canada College, I don't think it's ridiculous to be uncomfortable with the situation. --G2bambino 01:59, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. While I'm aware that I have my detractors out there, that isn't particularly what concerns me; I'm pretty sure that, when it comes down to it, I may crack down hard on those who attempt to make baseless, inflammatory or NPOV edits to pages I've sunk a lot of work into, but remain open to those who have constructive and insightful criticisms.

What is of concern to me is this ongoing case of one particular user who has done nothing but attempt to inject as much of his personal, negative biases into Wikipedia as he can, and does so in a demanding, unhelpful, uncooperative, insulting manner - and I'm sure you know full well who I'm talking about. It was bad enough that he caused disruption, twice, and much of it, at Upper Canada College, using what I suspect to be sock puppets to push his case; but, in the course of my trying to figure out if he was indeed using sock puppets, I noted that he started displaying the exact same behaviour at Star Wars Galaxies. That he's been acting like this, and seemingly getting away with it for over a year, doesn't make me angry, but it does make me frustrated, and he needed to be caught in the act; ergo, I acted quickly. If investigating someone I suspect to be a sock puppet is wiki-stalking, then so be it; but, I have no idea how one would gather evidence otherwise.

Of course, as I noted earlier, you, me, and the other(s) in question have crossed paths before, in circumstances caused by the user I speak of above, and derogatory comments were previously directed at me from your IP address; hence, I still can't help but see a conflict of interest here. I also still haven't received an adequate explanation as to why you're not listed as a Wikipedia administrator, and therefore, I don't know what jurisdiction you have in these matters. Frankly, covertness seems to be ruling the day here, and it is that which makes me, and I imagine would anyone, suspicious; transparency is what is necessary, and what I desire. The longer nothing is explained to me, the more I will suspect ulterior motives. Thus, purely for beneficial reasons, I await your update. (Apologies for the long post) --G2bambino 14:07, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

WormwoodJagger, I would like some clarification. Please respond at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Jonawiki and sockpuppetry. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 00:16, 18 March 2007 (UTC)