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This page will never be Wikipedia policy. It is, by design, entirely informal. The Mediation Cabal provides informal mediation for disputes on Wikipedia. We cannot confirm or deny our existence. Actually the "Cabalists" of the Mediation Cabal do wish to help you, but problems are much easier to solve when you can laugh about them.


The Mediation Cabal is a bunch of volunteers providing unofficial, informal mediation for disputes on Wikipedia. We do not impose sanctions or make judgments. We are just ordinary Wikipedians who help facilitate communication and help parties reach an agreement.

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If you want to mediate, pick a case from the list and adopt it. For advice, join our IRC channel or head to our talk page; we firmly believe that there are no stupid questions, so don't hesitate to ask for help. Be sure to read our suggestions for volunteers, which has instructions on opening cases.

Submit a request

file a request

The instructions are pretty intuitive. Fill out the case request page, giving specific details on what the issue is, and how you want our help. For more discretion, email one of our coordinators.

Request informal mediation
Add the name of the main article after the last forward slash.


Coordinators

Cases

Cases needing mediators

If you volunteer to help out a case, please change the template status field to "open." New cases are also listed on the Community Portal page in the opentasks section, which can be updated here.
Cases are listed oldest to newest

Open cases

To put cases on this list, you must change the template status field to "open." Put all comments on the case pages themselves or in the template comment field.

Closed cases
  • Volume I - Cases closed prior to December 2005
  • Volume II - Cases closed in December 2005
  • Volume III - Cases closed January to early July 2006 (partially overlaps Closed cases category)
  • Closed cases category - Cases closed from July 2006 to present (organized by dates the cases were opened due to the naming convention).

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