What is this dispute about? What sections, sentences, or issues in the article(s) can you not agree on? If you are the editor who opened this request, list these issues to be mediated under "Primary issues". If you did not open this request, you can add additional issues to be mediated under "Additional issues". The issues to be mediated would be properly agreed upon later, if this request for mediation is accepted.
Primary issues (added by the filing party)
Is the use of "vulture" to describe an individual adequate, and if so what weight should be ascribed to each instance of the word in the lede and the article's body?
If you are a named party, please sign below and indicate whether you agree or refuse to participate in mediation. Remember that all editors are obliged to resolve disputes about content through discussion, mediation, or other similar means. If you do not wish to participate in mediation, you must arrange another form of dispute resolution. Comments and questions should be made underneath the numbered list below, to avoid confusion.
Decline. The failure to accept consensus on multiple occasions by a small minority doesn't warrant mediation. Policy is clear and it should be followed. Everything that can be said about this article has already been said in multiple discussions by multiple editors so count me out. SegataSanshiro1 (talk) 22:21, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. I don't have much time to devote to this, but I see no reason to not try to work things out in this way. LK (talk) 01:18, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Decline -- the previous RfCs are entirely sufficient in sorting this out. Mediation would be appropriate for a dispute involving a smaller number of people, where it hasn't been possible to get wider community input. The RfCs have attracted wider input and the view of the community is already clear. Not a situation where mediation is appropriate. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 08:03, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
This section should only be edited by a mediator. The Mediation Committee's representative will indicate in due course whether the request is accepted (meaning a mediator will be assigned) or rejected (meaning you will have to try a different type of dispute resolution). If the mediator asks you a question in this section, you may edit here.
Chairperson's comments: In light of the number of listed parties, I'd like to try to prevent confusion and unnecessary discussion by making some things clear before everyone starts weighing in.
First, in determining whether prerequisite to mediation #5 has been met conditional "accepts" will almost always be counted as rejects unless the condition is something which is always done in mediation. If the reason for conditioning your "accept" is to contest the way the issue to be mediated is stated or to insure that your additional issue is considered, bear in mind that if the case is accepted for mediation and a mediator accepts the case that the mediator will negotiate the exact issues to be mediated with the parties; if you are not satisfied with the outcome of that process you may withdraw from the mediation at that time. Based on the party list at this time, we will need at least 9 accepts before the case can be accepted.
Second, with this many people involved, if many fail to accept or reject acceptance it is possible for the case to be accepted but the mediator determine that there aren't enough parties or aren't enough appropriate parties for the mediation to succeed (see the next subsection) and close it.
Third, please understand what mediation can do. It will not hear the arguments and make a judgment as to what is correct. What it will do is to attempt to provide a moderated and guided environment where discussion can continue with a view to reaching consensus. While mediators work diligently towards coming to a negative or positive consensus, they also realize that "no consensus" is a perfectly acceptable result under Wikipedia's wiki concept.
Fourth, realize that mediations typically take weeks and sometimes months to complete.
Fifth, if you have been listed as a party but do not care to participate in the mediation and you do not intend to edit the article or continue discussion at the article talk page on the matter in dispute you may say so rather than accepting and rejecting and your withdrawal will reduce the party account.
Sixth, please do not engage in discussion or reply to other users on this acceptance page. Either just accept or reject (or withdraw, see above) and, if you care to do so, add additional issues in the appropriate section above.
