User:Steven Crossin/MedCom

The Mediation Committee (or MedCom) is a panel of editors who resolve disputes about the content of Wikipedia articles by providing formal mediation. The MedCom was established with the Arbitration Committee in January 2004 by Jimmy Wales and is the last stage of content-dispute resolution on the English Wikipedia. Formal mediation and the Mediation Committee are governed by the mediation policy.

Members

1. Andrevan (talk · contribs)
2. Anthony Appleyard (talk · contribs)
3. Feezo (talk · contribs)
4. Tristessa de St Ange (talk · contribs)
5. Sunray (talk · contribs)
6. Xavexgoem (talk · contribs)
7. Wgfinley (talk · contribs) – Chair

Emereti members of the Mediation Committee are here. Former chairs of the Committee, as well as the role that the chair serves, can be found at User:Steven Zhang/MedCom/Chair.

Prerequisites

Please read before requesting formal mediation

Formal mediation is the last step in content dispute resolution on the English Wikipedia. For that reason, before filing a request, the following conditions should be met. The dispute concerns the content of a Wikipedia article, template page, or image; The dispute does not relate directly to the conduct of a Wikipedia contributor; There has been substantial previous discussion of the disputed content; Have a look at this page, which lists other dispute resolution forums available for the resolving of disputes. Ensure you've tried using them first without success before coming here, because except in extraordinary cases, a request will be declined if other methods have not been attempted first. ; The parties to the dispute are contesting the relevant content with genuine motives to better the involved articles; There is no pending request for arbitration which relates to the dispute; There is no open Arbitration case which relates to the dispute. Every party is approaching mediation open-mindedly, with a view to compromising (for no mediation can be successful without compromise by all sides).

Request mediation

Cases

Cases pending acceptance

The following cases are pending acceptance by the Mediation Committee.

Unassigned (new) cases

Any cases that have been accepted are listed here. Any member may take an unassigned case

Active cases

Cases that have been accepted by a mediator are listed here, along with the date that it was opened. Cases that have not been edited in two weeks will be marked as inactive and moved to the inactive cases section.

Inactive cases

Cases that have been inactive for two weeks will be listed here. Our bot will post a message to the involved parties as well as the mediators talk page with a reminder.

Closed cases

Cases that have either been inactive for one month or have been resolved successfully will be closed. Closed cases can be searched below.

Nominations

Membership of the Mediation Commitee is determined by a formal nomination process, where existing members will ask questions and examine the background of the candidate before deciding. You can find details of this process at User:Steven Zhang/MedCom/Nominations.

Contact

To contact the Committee privately see this page.

The Committee maintains a private mailing list, called mediation-en-l (abbreviated to medcom-l), for internal discussion between its members. Editors who wish to contact the committee in private should direct their messages to the mailing list through the form at User:Mediation Committee.

See also

• Wikipedia:Mediation Committee/Policy, the Mediation policy by which the Committee operates.
• Wikipedia:Requests for mediation, the page on which requests for the Committee to mediate a dispute are presented.
• Wikipedia:Dispute resolution requests, a dashboard page that lists all methods of dispute resolution available and their purposes.
• Wikipedia:Resolving disputes, Wikipedia's page describing the process by which disputes are to be resolved on-wiki.
• Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee, the MedCom's sister Committee. The ArbCom handles user conduct issues, as opposed to content disputes.