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Formal mediation is an advanced stage of Wikipedia's dispute resolution process. Requests for mediation is used by a party to a complex dispute to propose to the Committee and to the other parties of the disagreement that formal mediation be attempted. The Mediation Committee will only consider disagreements over encyclopedia content—rather than user conduct or actions—and that have remained unresolved after undergoing earlier processes of dispute resolution. (Further guidance is given later.)
Mediation is a formal but voluntary process which does not impose resolutions to a dispute on the parties (arbitrates or adjudicates) but rather guides the parties through discussions towards a remedy acceptable to all (facilitates). To file a request for mediation, please skip to #To file a request. Mediation is a process which is only workable with a willingness on the part of all involved to participate; as such, after filing a request, every party must indicate his acceptance within seven days on the case page in order for the dispute to be eligible for mediation.
For a guide to filing a request for mediation, see this page.
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File a request
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- To file a request for mediation
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- Go to Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/File, and use the request creation box.
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- Before filing a request
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- Please read the guide to filing a case and list of common reasons cases are rejected before filing a request.
- Check that the dispute has already been through prior informal dispute resolution (e.g., an article request for comment, a Mediation Cabal case, or similar) before requesting formal mediation.
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- After filing the request
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- Notify all the parties to the case of the Request for mediation (using the text {{Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/OpenNote}} or this utility). All parties must agree to the mediation within seven days or it will not be accepted.
- Please consider watchlisting the case page, as a member of the Mediation Committee may put queries to the parties or submit further suggestions.
New requests
| New requests are listed in this section automatically by MediationBot. |
| Please don't list your case by hand; the Committee has provided a Mediation request box for convenient listing above. (Even trivial changes to this page are liable to break the case management bot.) |
Platypus Ortho Flosser
Involved parties
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- Filing party: you must serve all of these editors with notifications. See here for instructions.
Articles involved
Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted
- Example link 1.
- Example link 2.
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- Filing party: Please ensure you have fully read this guide before filing.
Issues to be mediated
- The party filing this request uses this section to list the issues for mediation. Other parties can list additional issues in the section below.
- Issue 1.
- Issue 2.
Additional issues to be mediated
- Other parties can use this section to list any others issues they wish to include in the mediation. Please do not modify or remove any other party's listing. Please sign all additions to this section if there are more than two parties involved in this case.
- 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 within seven days, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected. Only "Agree" or "Disagree" and signatures should appear here; any comments will be removed, but can be made at the talk page.
Decision of the Mediation Committee
- A member of the Mediation Committee will indicate acceptance/rejection/other relevant notes in this section. Non-Committee members should not edit this section; all comments should go on the talk page, unless a party is specifically requested to reply here by a Committee member.
Human height
Involved parties
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- Filing party: you must serve all of these editors with notifications. See here for instructions.
Articles involved
Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted
- Discussion on the article talk page, and attempt negotiation Talk:Human height.
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- Filing party: Please ensure you have fully read this guide before filing.
Issues to be mediated
- The party filing this request uses this section to list the issues for mediation. Other parties can list additional issues in the section below.
- The issue here is the deletion of entries in the "Average height around the world" table that include data for anyone under the age of 18 due to 'this age range not done growing yet'. The problem is that they have no problem adding folks over the age of 65 in this list who have shrank, but have a problem adding those they claim aren't yet growing. The solution is, then, to either include all or include neither of these groups. I'm airing on the side of including all heights (16+) as 'adults'.
It also appears that he's had quite a few other dubious edits to that page which have raised the ire of other contributors (User_talk:Italodal).
Additional issues to be mediated
- Other parties can use this section to list any others issues they wish to include in the mediation. Please do not modify or remove any other party's listing. Please sign all additions to this section if there are more than two parties involved in this case.
- 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 within seven days, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected. Only "Agree" or "Disagree" and signatures should appear here; any comments will be removed, but can be made at the talk page.
- Agree. Criticalthinker (talk) 06:56, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
- Agree.--Italodal (talk) 01:41, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
Decision of the Mediation Committee
- A member of the Mediation Committee will indicate acceptance/rejection/other relevant notes in this section. Non-Committee members should not edit this section; all comments should go on the talk page, unless a party is specifically requested to reply here by a Committee member.
Recently rejected requests
- Requests that have been recently rejected by the Committee will be linked below. All rejected cases are eventually moved to a separate archive, which can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Archives (under "Rejected requests").
Eurymedon vase
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- Rejected 16 July 2009
Rorschach test
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- Rejected 27 July 2009
Bishonen-Jimbo Wales
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- Rejected 27 July 2009
Dr. Denzil Douglas
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- Rejected 13 August 2009
Chetniks
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- Rejected 26 August 2009
4chan
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- Rejected 26 August 2009
United States presidential election in Vermont, 2008
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- Rejected 1 September 2009
Jesse James
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- Rejected 1 September 2009
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Previous requests for mediation are indexed on the box on the right.
