Wikipedia talk:Mediation

Need info on informal mediation

I was offered and took some informal mediation and when had problems asked on Mediation Request if it went by the same rules, etc. But got no response. Since evidently people DO offer informal mediation here, don't you need something about that? Thanks. [Also asking at dispution.] CarolMooreDC (talk) 02:14, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Proposed as a policy

I think this could be a useful addition to the dispute-resolution process policy family. This page previously contained Wikipedia:Mediation Committee/Policy; now that it is free, and this brief outline of the mediation policy exists, we have a very relevant and concise summary of the mediation process generally (rather than in the context of specific organisations, as, say, the pages Wikipedia:Mediation Committee/Policy and Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal are written). My proposal is that we mark this as a policy on the grounds that it documents current community practice for content-dispute resolution. AGK [•] 12:09, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

• Agree - this can be marked as policy. PhilKnight (talk) 13:09, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
• Agree. I especially like the "Each mediator is granted the freedom to develop his or her own method of mediating a dispute they are called into." bit :-) Xavexgoem (talk) 13:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

• Thanks, guys. Any more opinions? If this becomes one of those RFC's that receives almost no attention, I'm going to be bold and mark this as policy on the basis of silent consensus :P. AGK [•] 18:04, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Control of mediation

Though I don't want to make the additional change until the mediation community has the opportunity to mull over the new Control of mediation section, a corresponding change also needs to be made to WP:OWN to include an exception for mediation pages. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 18:24, 10 February 2012 (UTC)