Wikipedia:Political Spectrum Reconciliation Project

This is the home page of WikiProject: Political Spectrum Reconciliation Project, a politically multipartisan effort to improve collaboration on and coverage of topics that are politically controversal. This project has been inspired by the Sri Lanka Reconciliation project and the Israel Palestine Collaboration project. Everybody is invited to participate in discussions of the project on the PROJECT TALK PAGE and of specific articles on ARTICLE ISSUES PAGES. This project page can be edited by all members. To become a member, please write a short message in the Member statements section.

Purpose

The purpose of this collaboration project is to create a more hospitable editing environment when disputes arise on articles due to political differences. Including through a) actively seeking the cooperation of people who hold differing points of views as specified under membership and b) preventing and resolving politically motivated disputes, using both formal and informal methods, such as mediation, third opinions, etcetera. We provide various tools below to facilitate the project.

Subpages

• This Wikiproject's talk page for discussing how to improve the project.

Related projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject History

Dealing with disputes

This group is intended to be an extra, optional dispute resolution step for articles that are being contested by two politically different groups, as well as a source of neutral editors who can give second and third opinions about topics affected by political division. The topic need not be inherently political to fall within the scope of this project.

• Content disputes at specific articles, or similar problems with political spectrum issues, typically deserve a thorough discussion on an article's talk page and are best resolved in consensus among all participants. Despite strong emotions, there are several ways to get your point across while making it easy for people to stay cool. See Staying cool when the editing gets hot.

• Highly informal mediation and extra, neutral, opinions may be enough to resolve simple problems.

• If this does not resolve the issue, see the list of various remedies at WP:Dispute Resolution. This project aims to supplement these procedures when political issues are involved with the dispute.

• One of the Dispute Resolution remedies is to refer issues to noticeboards and there are a number on issues like reliable sources, point of views, biographies, etc. See See Noticeboard list.

• As described above, you can use Current Article Issues List to list articles currently experiencing disputes and Current Article Issues Discussion to report or discuss issues with specific articles.

Members

The group welcomes editors with differing points of view. Members should support the project's goals and be willing to engage in non-combative conversation. Otherwise, there are no specific criteria for membership at this time.

Members are encouraged, but not required, follow dispute-reducing principles or practices, such as 1:RR. If a member decides to pledge such a principle or practice, he or she can list it and other pledges.

Members of this project should state their political opinions if asked, as well as leaving a general description here. Keep in mind that having a position doesn't equate to bad editing. Revealing opinions allows everyone to see what kind of divide is forming and find ways to bridge the gap.

Current members

Member	Roles/Contribution	Pledges	Notes	Political Views
Irbisgreif | Talk	Founder	Confidentiality, PINOT, 0RR, Careful CSD's		Libertarian/Communist
Dc76 | Talk	Seeking mediation	Cool, NVC, Careful CSB's
Anderssl | Talk	Seeking mediation	Cool, NVC

Targets

The following are articles we wish to work on. Feel free to list the following: articles that have NPOV problems, articles with active disputes of a political nature, articles that could use a 3rd Opinion or mediator who is experienced with political issues.

List

1. Mass killings under Communist regimes
2. History of Falun Gong / Persecution of Falun Gong

Draft invitation to potential members

Variations on this can be put on article or user talk pages.

Dear _______: As a member of the WikiProject Political Spectrum Reconciliation Project I encourage you to consider joining our project. (Note any relevant specifics of individual or article situation.) The purpose of this collaboration project is to create a more hospitable editing environment for Category:Political Disputes related topics and preventing and resolving disputes about the application of Wikipedia policies to these articles. We provide various tools below to facilitate the project. Please check out the main page and Current Articles Issues pages and contact me if you have any questions.