Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Japanese Macrons

Japanese Macrons

Involved parties

• Freshgavin (talk · contribs)
• Mitsukai (talk · contribs)
• Nihonjoe (talk · contribs)
• Neier (talk · contribs)
• Endroit (talk · contribs)
• CES (talk · contribs)
• BrianSmithson (talk · contribs)
• Nightstallion (talk · contribs)

Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request:

Article talk pages:

• Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(Japan-related_articles) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_%28Japan-related_articles%29&diff=next&oldid=40354133

User talk pages:

• user talk:Mitsukai [1]
• user talk:Nihonjoe [2]
• user talk:Neier [3]
• user talk:Endroit [4]
• user talk:CES [5]

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Macron_dispute_.28Japanese_pages.29

Issues to be mediated

• Whether the use of macrons in article titles (as the title for the actual article), specifically those covering Japanese topics should be standardized, or if the macroned titles should function only as redirects to their non-macroned counterparts.  freshgavinΓΛĿЌ  01:31, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

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.  freshgavinΓΛĿЌ  01:13, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. Neier 01:40, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. Endroit 01:41, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. nihon 02:23, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. — BrianSmithson 03:28, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. I wasn't part of the initial discussion, but I'm highly interested in the outcome of this and would like to take part; hope that's okay. —Nightstallion (?) 10:46, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Agree.--み使い Mitsukai 01:28, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. I also was not part of the initial discussion but I have encountered similar problems, e.g., in an article I recently created on Yushima Seido -- or should that be Seidō? Bathrobe 02:46, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. CES 20:04, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

• Accept: Mediator TBA.

For the Mediation Committee, Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 21:51, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

• I am willing to take the Japanese Macrons case, if the parties are amenable to it. I know nothing about Japanese spelling so I feel I'd be unbiased. pschemp | talk 21:19, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

It's yours. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 11:24, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Parties have been notified and discussion will take place on the talk page of this request.pschemp | talk 16:28, 9 March 2006 (UTC)