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We can assume he carries out his chronic USI in real life, however we can also assume he is bullshitting about his (lol, former) career.

link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (AKA Richard Symonds or simply Cavalry) is a Wikipedia admin known for frequent abuse of CheckUser, being a huge dick despite TOW policy, and claiming to be an officer for the Royal Navy. He tends to use CheckUser tools on any user who opposes his particular view points, a blatant violation of the CheckUser guidelines, as well as reverting legitimate edits he deems to be unconstructive. Of course, like any hypocritical Wikipedia admin, he himself operates a sockpuppet whose main function is to back up all arguments he makes. He is also known for engaging in HighInBC-like behavior by making COI complaints (and requesting bans) on known GNAA members, despite the fact that all of their edits have been referenced, NPOV, and in good faith.


   
 
Richard Symonds is one of the UK's top "Wikipedians" and spends up to eight hours a day working on the site.

He is currently unemployed, so is working full-time for free.
 


 
 

The BBC

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Panyd

WPFavicon.png Panyd is a sockpuppet of The Cavalry who he claims to he his wife. Countless hours have been spent by him trying to prove it to be a legitimate person. Going as far as to write a nice little back story for his alleged schizophrenic lover. This is all bullshit of course because Wikipedia users can't get any pussy.

However, his blatant sockpuppetry did not amuse his fellow Wikipedia aspies, who decided to file a sockpuppet investigation case. The evidence brought forth included:

 
 
-The Panyd account submitting a comment obviously from Chase Me, with a later explanation that they were together and he had accidentally used "her" laptop

- Inconsistencies in explanations of where they were, and when they were and were not together - Similarities in writing styles, most notably use of dashes - Absence of Chase Me from Wikipedia as Panyd was building resume for RfA - Absence of both accounts from Wikipedia since RfA failure
 


 

It should be noted that the user, who filed the report, was blocked one month later.

LiteralKa, as well as other GNAA members, were not invited to their wedding. They have yet to forgive The Cavalry for this atrocity.

Elena

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Panyd later opened a twitter account and chose to follow Cavalry. She listed her name as Elena Salvatore which may be a fake alias, as opposed to Cavalry who remained as Richard Symonds.

Unlike her boyfriend, who refused to follow her back, Jimbo Wales showed an interest in her, and paid her the attention she deserved, as an upcoming Arbcom member.

It is possible that he is too distracted by Angela following him.

Jimbo following Elena
Elena following Richard

His reaction

 
 
I'm quite happy to go through with a checkuser; I've done nothing wrong. As to the claims:
  • The Panyd account submitting a comment obviously from Chase Me, with a later explanation that they were together and he had accidentally used "her" laptop - Entirely true.
  • Inconsistencies in explanations of where they were, and when they were and were not together - I'd like clarification of these inconsistencies, I don't remember there being any, and if there are I can easily clean them up.
  • Similarities in writing styles, most notably use of dashes - we spend a lot of time together and have similar writing styles. I often proof-read Panyd's university work.
  • Absence of Chase Me from Wikipedia as Panyd was building resume for RfA - I was having a rather long break from Wikipedia, which I still intend to have. To be quite honest, fitting in OTRS, Wikipedia, my personal relationships, my new job and the Royal Navy is all a bit too much. I'd been absent for a much longer time than Panyd sorting out her RfA; in fact, I've only really worked on OTRS and CSDs since Panyd started using Wikipedia.
  • Absence of both accounts from Wikipedia since RfA failure - Being a long-serving administrator and editor, as well as OTRS volunteer, in good standing with the community, I'm quite shocked at the sockpuppetry claims. In any case, I've been absent for a very long time irregardless of the RfA. I believe Panyd's absence is down to her being told that she's too disabled to be an administrator, which tends to have a chilling effect.
     

 

—Here we learn that The Cavalry is either a sockpuppet owner, or controlling boyfriend.

Long story short, the Arbitration Committee decided that this was no concern, and the case was declined CheckUser. It is almost certain they figured him out in the process, but he is an honorary member of the Wikipedia hivemind (Archive), thus is above the law of the land.

Fiona

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The Panyd account later claimed to be named Fiona and revealed 2 sock accounts:

Panyd loves Wikipe-tan.

A Bristol Wireless article later wrote about her speaking at a "Girl Geek Dinner" held August 18, about why women don't edit Wikipedia. Pics were taken.

2011 concluding

2 things of interest happened recently.

  1. November 22: Panyd announced she would be running for ArbCom.
  2. November 24: Cavalry announces he was hired as "Office & Development Manager for Wikimedia UK" and will step down at end of term (when "Panyd" will hopefully get his seat, naturally). This was due to a potential conflict of interest between having this job and holding an administrative position. Though it's apparently okay if your girlfriend has that position. Sort of like Hillary Clinton marrying Vladimir Putin, what could go wrong?

London "meetups"

Panyd allegedly attended multiple Wikimedia events in London prior to her trip with her "husband" to Wikimania. EdSaperia, one of the main voices in the IRC meeting, was registered shortly before Cavalry's "resignation", and uses the same obscure ISP, Be Unlimited, as the Cavalry.

GNAA COI

   
 
Blocks all round, then? The Cavalry (Message me) 23:08, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
 

 
 

Like most AN/I complaints, it is simple, yet manipulative.

One day while TOW admins were brainstorming on what to do with the Gay Nigger Association of America article, The Cavalry decided to file a Conflict of Interest complaint on AN/I. He created a list of all known Gay Niggers and requested a topic ban (which later progressed into full bans). Immediately, floods of replies asking for these users to be banned spammed up the page, proving that most Wikipedians in fact do not assume good faith. Particularly Diego Grez who went on to make a slew of personal attacks on Twitter, despite it being a bannable offence. The Cavalry then decided to close the discussion, thinking that the consent of two users would be enough to give out topic-bans to multiple editors. This itself was enough for the shit to hit the fan, and a large argument quickly broke out. Seeing as several of the admin hopefuls were supporting him, he decided to gather his friends together and make them agree upon a community consensus that would allow him to further abuse his e-power. Unfortunately for him, there were more opposing view points than he had expected, and began to go about finding ways to remove these. Checked comments include:

   
 
Oppose Can someone explain to me where edits from either LiteralKa or Murdox have been BAD to Wikipedia in any sort of way. This is seeming more and more of personal opinion rather than an actual violation of WP:COI.
 

 
 

   
 
Oppose you people are just looking to cause trouble. I see nothing wrong with what these editors have done with the article. They have kept a NPOV and cited all information added to the article. If we went around preventing anyone who had anything to do with a certain topic from editing, there would be nothing on this site.
 

 
 

   
 
Oppose I've watched developments on the GNAA article for a long time without knowing that LiteralKa or Murdox were connected to the organization, largely because their contributions to that article were not outwardly partisan or promotional. In fact, they are exemplars of what Wikipedians should be, in that they cited every statement, strictly adhered to NPOV, and calmly addressed the concerns of fanatical anti-GNAA people on the talkpage. Apparently there is some bad blood between old-time Wikipedians and the GNAA, and as a result, many Wikipedians tend to assume the worst in every action from these two users (such as their AfDs of obviously anti-GNAA articles created in bad faith). However, to uninvolved editors like me, looking at the presumed evidence with no prejudice against these two users, I see no egregious violations of COI policy or anything else that would warrant this proposed ban. These editors, probably because of their outside involvement with the organization, are the only editors who would edit an article on such an unpopular group constructively. As long as they strictly adhere to WP:V and WP:RS as they have been doing so far, LiteralKa and Murdox's presence on GNAA articles is crucial to maintaining NPOV against the legions of users who would like nothing more than to have the articles deleted.
 

 
 

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Further bullshit

The Cavalry accused this of Canvassing, although it did nothing to "influence the outcome" of the discussion at hand. Anyone else thinking bad faith?

The Cavalry soon decided that a link to the discussion on Twitter was a violation of WP:CANVASS, despite the definition of the policy being "the intention of influencing the outcome of a discussion in a particular way is considered inappropriate." Apparently, linking to a discussion board is attempting to influence its outcome.


   
 
And you attribute... a tweet to a sockpuppetteer noticing something controversial on a large, public noticeboard and a guy deciding to create a cross-wiki article?
 

 
 

This lead to WPFavicon.png LiteralKa, head of GNAA public relations, receiving an indefinite ‎block for "Exhausting the community's patience". He was also credited for sockpuppetry after editing Simple Wikipedia under a different name, despite this not being a ban-worthy as WP:SOCK says nothing about "cross-wiki sockpuppetry".

Minions

Cavalry is not limited to a single meat puppet. He always has some (or perhaps socks) in reserve to do his bidding. Ignoring his girlfriend, this includes, but is not limited to:

See also

External links

  • E-mail: [email protected]
  • Twitter-favicon.png ImTheCavalry
  • Twitter-favicon.png Panyd
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