User:Chase me ladies, I'm the cavalry, Another member of the military moonlights as an admin and makes a fool Options

[Heat]

User:Chase_me_ladies,_I'm_the_Cavalry is a member of "The Armed Forces of the Crown" (ie the Royal Navy) and a wikipedia admin on OTRS duty. He seems to have cocked this one up by taking at 100% face value an OTRS complaint by professional conspiracy theorist Isreal Shamir that User:RolandR was using Wikipedia to try to get him assassinated. Can you really enforce BLP by libelling an editor?

[Doc glasgow]

It is all utter nonsense.

The "officer claim" was not made before his RFA, so didn't influence that. He removed it two years prior to the arbitration election - so hardly used to bolster him there. Besides he clearly uploaded images of himself in a ratings uniform - so not a big attempt to deceive.

So, what have you got?

Only carbuncle finding a remark that he had concerns about uploading an image, and then SIX MONTHS later he changed his mind.

This is just the worst of Wikipedia Review's conspiracy nuttery. Wikipedia has many evils - many problems - many areas needing explored and exposed - this just isn't one of them.

(But then by posting this "defence", I'm obviously just a biased cultist. So, ignore me and just carry on).

[carbuncle]

It is all utter nonsense.

The "officer claim" was not made before his RFA, so didn't influence that. He removed it two years prior to the arbitration election - so hardly used to bolster him there. Besides he clearly uploaded images of himself in a ratings uniform - so not a big attempt to deceive.

So, what have you got?

Only carbuncle finding a remark that he had concerns about uploading an image, and then SIX MONTHS later he changed his mind.

This is just the worst of Wikipedia Review's conspiracy nuttery. Wikipedia has many evils - many problems - many areas needing explored and exposed - this just isn't one of them.

(But then by posting this "defence", I'm obviously just a biased cultist. So, ignore me and just carry on).

Doc, you might want to check your dates. The picture was uploaded 6 months ago, but Chase Me added it to an article eight days before wrote that message to theKohser.

So he is concerned about images of himself in unform because of the dangers of "real-life attacks" but he puts a picture of himself in full uniform on the fifth most popular website in the world. Also, there is a picture of him in uniform, on his userpage, which is likely the first place anyone trying to track him down would look. It just doesn't add up, which makes me question his credibility and therefore look at his actions with a jaundiced eye. (No offence intended to anyone with actual jaundice.)

Since Chase Me deleted previous versions of his userpage, I don't know how long the Royal Navy lieutenant version was up, or if it was there before his RfA.

[Giano]

It is all utter nonsense.

The "officer claim" was not made before his RFA, so didn't influence that. He removed it two years prior to the arbitration election - so hardly used to bolster him there. Besides he clearly uploaded images of himself in a ratings uniform - so not a big attempt to deceive.

So, what have you got?

Only carbuncle finding a remark that he had concerns about uploading an image, and then SIX MONTHS later he changed his mind.

This is just the worst of Wikipedia Review's conspiracy nuttery. Wikipedia has many evils - many problems - many areas needing explored and exposed - this just isn't one of them.

(But then by posting this "defence", I'm obviously just a biased cultist. So, ignore me and just carry on).

Doc, you might want to check your dates. The picture was uploaded 6 months ago, but Chase Me added it to an article eight days before wrote that message to theKohser.

So he is concerned about images of himself in unform because of the dangers of "real-life attacks" but he puts a picture of himself in full uniform on the fifth most popular website in the world. Also, there is a picture of him in uniform, on his userpage, which is likely the first place anyone trying to track him down would look. It just doesn't add up, which makes me question his credibility and therefore look at his actions with a jaundiced eye. (No offence intended to anyone with actual jaundice.)

Since Chase Me deleted previous versions of his userpage, I don't know how long the Royal Navy lieutenant version was up, or if it was there before his RfA.

In order to be open and honest, he has since restored the page's history fully. It's my view that he's been a silly prat, but I do think he's been a harmless prat and he will have learned from this. Compared to some of the villains editing Wikipedia, this is a non-story. He's not the only twit on the Arbcom and he's young enough to benefit from the experience. He's had his knuckles well and truly rapped I don't see the point of going for his blood over a foolish action that's actually only harmed him.

Giacomo

This post has been edited by Giano: Wed 19th January 2011, 6:31pm