Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Rejected/19

Wikipedia is failing

This is a hard copy of a request for mediation which was rejected by the Mediation Committee. Rejected requests are substituted to these archives of rejected requests, then deleted. Please do not remove this tag or edit this request for any reason. To request mediation of this dispute, please submit a new request.

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Filed: 00:08, February 15 2007 (UTC)

Involved parties

• Heathhunnicutt (talk · contribs)
• Worldtraveller (talk · contribs)

Articles involved

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia is failing

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_is_failing#This_essay_should_be_a_candidate_for_Speedy_Delete Discussion on talk page.
• User_talk:Worldtraveller#Changes to your essay are not "talk" Discission w/ Worldtraveller.

Issues to be mediated

• Worldtraveller is maintaining an essay named Wikipedia:Wikipedia is failing. Today, this article was linked to from slashdot. The essay makes several claims about the development of Wikipedia. These claims are based on obviously disingenuous statistics.

I have attempted to add critical material to the essay, and Worldtraveller has promptly removed that material. In the meanwhile, thousands of outsiders are being directed to this authoritative-sounding essay. My feeling is that Worldtraveller's essay violates WP:SOAPBOX and should be speedily deleted.

Worldtraveller should allow the addition of balanced, critical material to his essay. Failing that, the essay should be deleted as a WP:SOAPBOX.

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. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed.

1. Agree. Heathhunnicutt 00:06, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
2. Disagree. I have no idea why mediation would be necessary or what Heathhunicutt is hoping to achieve. But plenty of very useful discussion is taking place on the essay's talk page. If he engaged in that, that would be useful. Worldtraveller 00:23, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

• Reject: All the parties do not agree to mediate.

For the Mediation Committee, Shyam ^(T/C) 05:17, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Network neutrality

This is a hard copy of a request for mediation which was rejected by the Mediation Committee. Rejected requests are substituted to these archives of rejected requests, then deleted. Please do not remove this tag or edit this request for any reason. To request mediation of this dispute, please submit a new request.

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Filed: 02:12, February 15 2007 (UTC)

Involved parties

• Wolfkeeper (talk · contribs)
• Stevertigo (talk · contribs)

Articles involved

• Network neutrality

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• backdated RFC link

Issues to be mediated

• Readability of the lede paragraphs/section, organization of the article.
• On the placement or inclusion of writing that depends on subjective qualifiers to make a point about a technical matter.

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. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed.

1. Stevertigo
2. Agree.

1. Wolfkeeper
2. Disagree.

Decision of the Mediation Committee

• Reject: All the parties do not agree to mediate.

For the Mediation Committee, Shyam ^(T/C) 13:04, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Network Neutrality

This is a hard copy of a request for mediation which was rejected by the Mediation Committee. Rejected requests are substituted to these archives of rejected requests, then deleted. Please do not remove this tag or edit this request for any reason. To request mediation of this dispute, please submit a new request.

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Filed: 07:19, February 15 2007 (UTC)

Involved parties

• Wolfkeeper (talk · contribs)
• Stevertigo (talk · contribs)

Articles involved

• Network neutrality

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• WP:RFC [1]

Issues to be mediated

• Whether Network neutrality should be defined in the Lead of the article as described in WP:LEAD, including in technical terms, or whether only political and economic and its nature as a debate are important enough to be in the lead
• Whether User:Stevertigo is following wp:assume good faith
• Whether User:Stevertigo is editing to WP:VERIFIABLE
• Whether User:Wolfkeeper is WP:OWNing the article

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. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed.

1. WolfKeeper.
2. Agree.

Decision of the Mediation Committee

• Reject: As Stevertigo did not agree in the same previous mediation, which was submitted few hours back. The issues mentioned by Wolfkeeper can be discussed on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents as an alternate in this case.

For the Mediation Committee, Shyam ^(T/C) 13:24, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Springfield Park Elementary School

This is a hard copy of a request for mediation which was rejected by the Mediation Committee. Rejected requests are substituted to these archives of rejected requests, then deleted. Please do not remove this tag or edit this request for any reason. To request mediation of this dispute, please submit a new request.

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Filed: 17:54, February 22 2007 (UTC)

Involved parties

• Alansohn (talk · contribs)
• Chriscf (talk · contribs)

Articles involved

• Springfield Park Elementary School

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• WP:Third opinion Talk:Springfield Park Elementary School#Third opinion

Issues to be mediated

• Application of "Importance" tag
• Inclusion of details on extracurricular activities and school administration

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. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed.

1. Alansohn 17:54, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
2. Refuse, as a result of this. Chris cheese whine 18:01, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

Rejected, parties fail to agree to mediation.

For the Mediation Committee, ^demon^{[omg plz]} 20:18, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Ger toshav

This is a hard copy of a request for mediation which was rejected by the Mediation Committee. Rejected requests are substituted to these archives of rejected requests, then deleted. Please do not remove this tag or edit this request for any reason. To request mediation of this dispute, please submit a new request.

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Filed: 06:59, February 16 2007 (UTC)

Involved parties

• Dc-ijc (talk · contribs)
• SlimVirgin (talk · contribs)
• MPerel (talk · contribs)

Articles involved

• Ger toshav (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• Discussion at User talk:SlimVirgin

Issues to be mediated

• Repeatedly deleting paragraph due to "unreliable source" and "relevancy" though material is clearly relevant and source is an eyewitness. Opponents simply delete rather than provide sources providing alternate perspective.

Additional issues to be mediated

None presently

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. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed.

1. Agree. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dc-ijc (talk • contribs) 06:59, February 16, 2007

Decision of the Mediation Committee

A member of the Mediation Committee will indicate acceptance/rejection/other relevant notes in this section. Non-mediators should not edit this section.

• Reject: Parties do not agree to medaite.

For the Mediation Committee, Essjay (Talk) 02:27, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Ken Wilber

This is a hard copy of a request for mediation which was rejected by the Mediation Committee. Rejected requests are substituted to these archives of rejected requests, then deleted. Please do not remove this tag or edit this request for any reason. To request mediation of this dispute, please submit a new request.

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Filed: 14:57, February 25 2007 (UTC)

Involved parties

• ForrestLane42 (talk · contribs)
• Goethean (talk · contribs)
• Gadrane (talk · contribs)
• DSeer (talk · contribs)
• Eleuther (talk · contribs)
• Pro crast in a tor (talk · contribs)
• 271828182 (talk · contribs)

Articles involved

• Ken Wilber

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• Informal mediation by User:Eleuther
• Informal mediation by User:Larry V [2]
• WP:RFI [3][4]
• WP:ANI [5]

Issues to be mediated

• Allegations of biased editing at Ken Wilber
• Allegations of personal attacks and a lack of civility
• Allegations of harrassment
• Allegations of sockpuppetry

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. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed.

• Agree — goethean ॐ 23:38, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
• Agree — Grey 23:57, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
• Disagree ForrestLane42 00:32, 1 February 2007 (UTC)ForrestLane42
• Disagree Pro crast in a tor 00:48, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
• Agree Eleuther 02:43, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
• Agree --Dseer 03:42, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

Reject, parties do not agree to mediate.

For the Mediation Committee, ^demon^{[omg plz]} 14:58, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

George Galloway

This is a hard copy of a request for mediation which was rejected by the Mediation Committee. Rejected requests are substituted to these archives of rejected requests, then deleted. Please do not remove this tag or edit this request for any reason. To request mediation of this dispute, please submit a new request.

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Filed: 01:30, February 23 2007 (UTC)

Involved parties

• Shamir1 (talk · contribs)
• Felix-felix (talk · contribs)

Articles involved

• George Galloway (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• WP:RFC link
• WP:AN/I discussion

Issues to be mediated

• Is including George Galloway's allegedly inappropriate comments with sourced criticism considered smearing?

Additional issues to be mediated

None listed

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. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed.

1. Agree. --Shamir1 01:30, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
2. No, why has this been unilaterally taken to mediation without discussion on the talk page? Baffling.FelixFelix ^talk 08:37, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

Rejected, parties do not agree to mediation.

On behalf of the Mediation Committee, ^demon^{[omg plz]} 15:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Gerald Hannon

This is a hard copy of a request for mediation which was rejected by the Mediation Committee. Rejected requests are substituted to these archives of rejected requests, then deleted. Please do not remove this tag or edit this request for any reason. To request mediation of this dispute, please submit a new request.

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Filed: 00:04, February 22 2007 (UTC)

Involved parties

• Bearcat (talk · contribs)
• Alaric the Goth (talk · contribs)

Articles involved

• Gerald Hannon (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

None listed

Issues to be mediated

• NPOV issue: Article is overly hostile to people who have criticised the article's subject and is heavily biased towrd controversial subject.
• Article is unsourced.

Additional issues to be mediated

None listed

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. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed.

1. Agree. Alaric the Goth 00:04, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

A member of the Mediation Committee will indicate acceptance/rejection/other relevant notes in this section. Non-mediators should not edit this section.

User talk:Daniel.Bryant/Archive/25#Gerald Hannon is related to the preliminary stages of this request. Daniel.Bryant 01:52, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

• Reject: Parties do not agree to medaite.

For the Mediation Committee, Essjay (Talk) 00:38, 27 February 2007 (UTC)==Housecleaning==

This is a hard copy of a request for mediation which was rejected by the Mediation Committee. Rejected requests are substituted to these archives of rejected requests, then deleted. Please do not remove this tag or edit this request for any reason. To request mediation of this dispute, please submit a new request.

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Filed: 21:20, February 26 2007 (UTC)

Involved parties

• Chuck Marean (talk · contribs)
• Gwernol (talk · contribs)

Articles involved

• Housecleaning (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• Wrote to User:Gwernol
• Added to Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 February 26 because an unknown party deleted three illustrations of the article.

Issues to be mediated

• The artilce should be called Housecleaning to reserve the title and should not be a sandbox. It's good enough already to have a name.
• The illustrations should be undeleted because they are needed for the article, which is a good article.

Additional issues to be mediated

None listed

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. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed.

1. Agree. Chuck Marean 21:20, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
2. Disagree Gwernol 00:59, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

Additional Information Requested: As the deletions appear to be within policy, the only issue that remains is whether or not the article should be moved back to the mainspace or kept in userspace for further development. Is this correct?

For the Mediation Committee, ^demon^{[omg plz]} 21:43, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Reject, parties do not agree to mediate.

For the Mediation Committee, ^demon^{[omg plz]} 13:35, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Dutch (ethnic group)

This is a hard copy of a request for mediation which was rejected by the Mediation Committee. Rejected requests are substituted to these archives of rejected requests, then deleted. Please do not remove this tag or edit this request for any reason. To request mediation of this dispute, please submit a new request.

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Filed: 13:28, March 2 2007 (UTC)

Involved parties

• Rex Germanus (talk · contribs)
• Paul111 (talk · contribs)
  • Arnoutf (talk · contribs)
  • Skeptic77 (talk · contribs)

Articles involved

• Dutch (ethnic group) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• Cooling down period of 14 days proposed and kept by myself. Paul111 and Rex a bit later did not keep it. Arnoutf 13:38, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
• Discussion Skeptic77 13:40, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
• Survey (but too few respondents) Skeptic77 13:40, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Issues to be mediated

• Accusations of hidded extreme right agendas / nazism.
• Unwiki-like behaviour, for example authoritarian behaviour with "deletion lists" and the refusal to discuss matters and accept proof.
• Repeated unilateral deletions —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Skeptic77 (talk • contribs) 13:38, 2 March 2007 (UTC).

Additional issues to be mediated

• Plain discussing. However user Paul111 refuses to debate properly.

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. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed.

1. Agree. Rex 13:28, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
2. Agree. Skeptic77 13:36, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
3. Agree. Arnoutf 13:40, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
4. Disagree. Paul111 14:11, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

Reject: Parties do not agree to mediate.

For the Mediation Committee, Shyam ^(T/C) 16:28, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

List of Muslim converts

This is a hard copy of a request for mediation which was rejected by the Mediation Committee. Rejected requests are substituted to these archives of rejected requests, then deleted. Please do not remove this tag or edit this request for any reason. To request mediation of this dispute, please submit a new request.

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Filed: 20:14, March 3 2007 (UTC)

Involved parties

• Wraith12
• Sefringle
• Carlossuarez46

Articles involved

• List of Muslim converts (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• Avoidance
• First step: Talk to the other parties involved

Issues to be mediated

• Deletions
• Citations

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. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed.

1. Agree.Wraith12 20:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)Wraith12
2. Agree.

Decision of the Mediation Committee

Reject, article in question does not exist, and issues to mediate do not give a clear definition of what is to be done.

For the Mediation Commitee, ^demon^{[omg plz]} 21:01, 3 March 2007 (UTC)