Wikipedia:Requests for mediation

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Rfm-header

Instructions

New requests should be listed at the top of the "New Requests" section, right below the template sample. All requests must use the template provided below.

• Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Guide provides an explanation for how to file a request.
• Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Sample shows the template with instructions.
• Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Common Reasons for Rejection has a description of common reasons for rejecting requests.

All parties to the mediation must indicate agreement to mediate by signing the "Parties' agreement to mediate" section; any request that has not been signed by all parties within 7 days will be rejected. Please watch this page during the time the case is listed here; if additional information is required, you will be asked here, and expected to respond within the 7 day period.

Case name (Sample)

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Involved parties

• Example (talk · contribs)
• Example (talk · contribs)

Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request: Provide diffs showing where {{RFMF}} was added to the talk page(s) of the involved article(s), and {{RFM-Request}} was placed on the talk pages of the other parties.

Article talk pages:

• Foo [1]

User talk pages:

• User:Example [2]

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• WP:RFC link
• WP:AN/I discussion

Issues to be mediated

• Issue 1
• Issue 2

Additional issues to be mediated

• Additional issue 1
• Additional issue 2

Parties' agreement to mediate

All parties should sign below, indicating that they agree to mediate the issue. If any party fails to sign, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected.

• Agree.

Decision of the Mediation Committee

• Accept/Reject/Extend: Reason for rejection (if rejected), additional required information (if extended.)

For the Mediation Committee, (Mediation Committee members only.)

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Your case should look just like this when you have finished filing;
no commentary, no extra information, just what is required in this template.
If you choose to ignore these instructions, your case will likewise be ignored. Caveat lector.

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New Requests

New requests immediately below this line.

Rules of war in Islam (in progress)

Involved parties

• Bless sins (talk · contribs)
• Pecher (talk · contribs)

Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request:

Article talk pages:

• Foo []

User talk pages:

• User:Example []

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• WP:RFC link
• WP:AN/I discussion

Issues to be mediated

• Should the article include matrial that is already covered extesivly in a dedicated (different) article
• Should Wikipedia endorse a specific interpretation of Islam or stick with what the Quran sais ?

Parties' agreement to mediate

All parties should sign below, indicating that they agree to mediate the issue. If any party fails to sign, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected.

• Agree.

Tatu vs t.A.T.u.

I am requesting a mediation as my page Tatu has been turned into a redirect for the RUSSIAN Pop Duo t.A.T.u. their name is not Tatu, it is t.A.T.u.

This could be solved easily by putting my information back as it was and leaving the note at the top leading to the disambiguation page. Instead your administrator moved my information without my permission to a page he made up with a title that makes no sense, nor could anyone find...

Thank you. I await your assistance.

~Tatu

Kven users POV

Involved parties

• Fred chessplayer (talk · contribs)
• Mikkalai (talk · contribs)
• Big Adamsky (talk · contribs)
• 217.30.179.130 (talk · contribs) (a.k.a 130.234.75.183 (talk · contribs))
• Digi Wiki (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Art Dominique (talk · contribs), Drow Ssap (talk · contribs), Ppt (talk · contribs), etc)

Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request: Provide diffs showing where {{RFMF}} was added to the talk page(s) of the involved article(s), and {{RFM-Request}} was placed on the talk pages of the other parties.

Article talk pages:

• Talk:Varangians [3]
• Talk:Kven [4]
• Talk:Kven language [5]

User talk pages:

• User:Big Adamsky [6]
• User:Digi Wiki [7]
• User:Mikkalai [8]
• User:217.30.179.130 [9]

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Kven users RfC link
• Wikipedia:Swedish Wikipedians' notice board [10]
• Wikipedia:Icelandic Wikipedians' notice board [11]
• Wikipedia:Notice board for topics related to the Netherlands [12]
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents [13]

Issues to be mediated

• User Digi Wiki's refusal to accept consensus to Kven-related articles

Additional issues to be mediated

• User Digi Wiki's general behaviour: the use of multiple sock puppets, using them to appear to be several users, abusive behaviour, abuse of talk pages.
• The insistence on conflating two separate but related topics into one messy discussion on one of them. To wit: The historical term "kven" refers to a group of people around the Baltic Sea; these may or may not be the descendants to contemporary kvens, an ethnic minority in the north of Norway. These should be separate articles, as only one topic is actually controversial. --Leifern 23:50, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Parties' agreement to mediate

All parties should sign below, indicating that they agree to mediate the issue. If any party fails to sign, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected.

• Agree. Fred-Chess 15:46, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. `'mikka (t) 17:01, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

• Accept/Reject/Extend: Reason for rejection (if rejected), additional required information (if extended.)

For the Mediation Committee, (Mediation Committee members only.)

Sonic the Hedgehog etc

Involved parties

• RandyWang (talk · contribs)
• Xino (talk · contribs)
• Shadow Hog (talk · contribs)
• BlazeHedgehog (talk · contribs)

Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request:

Article talk pages:

• [Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 game)]

User talk pages:

• User:Xino: [14]

• User:RandyWang: [15]
• User:Shadow Hog: [16]
• User:BlazeHedgehog: [17]

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• WP:RFC [18]
• Various ineffectual attempts to mediate, including from at least one administrator, listed on the RfC page.

Issues to be mediated

• Is Xino's behaviour toward other users unreasonable?
• Should Xino revert the edits regarding various rumours, made to Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 game)?

Additional issues to be mediated

• Additional issue 1
• Additional issue 2

Parties' agreement to mediate

All parties should sign below, indicating that they agree to mediate the issue. If any party fails to sign, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected.

• Agree. RandyWang (^raves/_rants) 10:11, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. Shadow Hog 12:37, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. BlazeHedgehog 08:01, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

• User:Xino has indicated that he does not wish to take part in mediation.[19] Please remove this request. RandyWang (^raves/_rants) 12:45, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

• Reject: Unfortunately, Xino refuses to particpate, so we cannot intervene. Having reviewed the matter, and in particular Xino's responses to others, I believe the matter should be referred to Arbitration.

For the Mediation Committee, Essjay (Talk • Connect) 12:50, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Anti-Americanism

Involved parties

• Christinam (talk · contribs)
• Marskell (talk · contribs)
• Rkrichbaum (talk · contribs)
• Tfine80 (talk · contribs)

Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request:

Article talk pages:

• Anti-Americanism [20]

User talk pages:

• User:Christinam [21]
• User:Marskell (posting request)
• User:Rkrichbaum [22]
• User:Tfine80 [23]

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• Massive discussions on Talk that are leading nowhere.
• Two disinterested admins contacted: [24] [25]. The first was reverted when he attempted to intervene on the page

Issues to be mediated

• Two alternate and essentially incompatible intros are being reverted over.
• Secondarily, does picture of Guantanamo Bay belong? [It seems that a photo (a protest against torture in US prisons) has now been agreed upon Cadr 17:08, 16 May 2006 (UTC)]

Parties' agreement to mediate

All parties should sign below, indicating that they agree to mediate the issue. If any party fails to sign, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected.

• Agree. Marskell 17:40, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
• Agree.

Decision of the Mediation Committee

• Accept/Reject/Extend:

For the Mediation Committee,

Neo-Tech

Involved parties

• RJII (talk · contribs)
• Bi (talk · contribs)

Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request:

Article talk pages:

[26]

• User talk pages:

[27]

• ===Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:===

• discussion on Talk page

Issues to be mediated

• This concerns the article, Neo-Tech. Bi claims that books published by Integrated Management Associates (a company that publishes material about a philosophy called Neo-Tech) cannot be used as references for the article about Neo-Tech ("Incidentally, the rules also say that "self-published books" are unacceptable as sources. Well, I think I'm going to throw out lots of stuff that come only from Neo-Tech's self-publications. Bi 10:03, 4 May 2006 (UTC)"), which is bizarre becase it's the only sources on the philosophy. Lest there be any doubt, WP:V plainly says: Self-published sources, and published sources of dubious reliability, may be used only as sources of information on themselves, and only in articles about them. For example, the Stormfront website may be used as a source of information on itself in an article about Stormfront, so long as the information is notable, not unduly self-aggrandizing, and not contradicted by reliable, third-party published sources. Self-published sources may never be used as sources of information on another person or topic. Of course you can use the books as sources about the philosophy, in the article about the philosophy! Otherwise, the article would be blank! (As an aside, I'd like to note that the company also publishes the work of other writers not associated with the company as well). Also, he sources "criticism" of Neo-Tech from web forums, self-published web pages, etc rather than from credible published sources. [28] He expressed a desire for form dispute resolution, as have I. Please assist enforcing the Wikipedia policies on sourcing. It should be pretty simple and straightforward to mediate this. Thank you. RJII 01:58, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Additional issues to be mediated

• Thank you. In addition to being self-published, the Neo-Tech literature can be considered to be "unduly self-aggrandizing", which WP:V does not allow. Besides, given that Neo-Tech literature is self-published and self-aggrandizing, it would seem unfair to use a different standard for admitting views opposed to Neo-Tech. Bi 06:07, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Parties' agreement to mediate

All parties should sign below, indicating that they agree to mediate the issue. If any party fails to sign, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected.

• Agree. RJII 03:03, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. Bi 06:08, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

• Accept/Reject/Extend:

For the Mediation Committee,

• Chairman's note: Recuse from involvement. Another member of the committee will need to accept/reject the case and assign a mediator. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 06:38, 16 May 2006 (UTC)