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| In the experimental phase, acceptance of cases would be highly selective. This would be limited to disagreements between two users where no sockpuppet or meatpuppet allegations complicate the situation. Participants would acknowledge the experimental nature of community-enforced mediation and undertake this with the knowledge that the community may reject their solutions. | In the experimental phase, acceptance of cases would be highly selective. This would be limited to disagreements between two users where no sockpuppet or meatpuppet allegations complicate the situation. Participants would acknowledge the experimental nature of community-enforced mediation and undertake this with the knowledge that the community may reject their solutions. Participants would be established editors familiar with arbitration or promising newcomers who are capable of researching and understanding arbitration for themselves. | ||
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Community enforced mediation is a draft experimental alternative in dispute resolution to address persistent conflicts between established editors where content disputes include user conduct elements. In this special process participants would have the option to agree upon remedies and enforcement procedures modeled after some types of remedies the arbitration committee has used in similar cases. These solutions would be agreed upon by both parties, screened by the mediator, and then submitted for community approval.
This would have the advantage of resolving persistent disputes in a more streamlined and dignified setting than full arbitration. As of this writing, Misplaced Pages lacks an alternative to arbitration for content disputes with a user conduct component. The challenge of distinguishing policy enforcement from content discussion discourages administrative intervention in all but the most obvious calls, such as deletion of properly cited material without prior discussion. This effort strives to create a forum where responsible editors could select remedies for themselves, thus resolving more conflicts without arbitration involvement and reducing the amount of burnout among the site's productive contributors.
History
Ghirlandajo was one of Misplaced Pages's most prolific editors before he went inactive on 27 December 2006, the same day his arbitration case opened. According to Misplaced Pages:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits, he was twenty-sixth overall in total edits and the fourth most prolific nonadministrator at this site. The large number of Russian-related entries on Misplaced Pages's main page Did you know? section over the past couple of years was largely his work.
Ghirlandajo had embarked upon an experimental mediation shortly before he went inactive in which he and Piotrus would have imposed mutual civility parole upon themselves. Civility parole had never been tried before outside of arbitration decisions. The possibility of a special mediation with enforcement elements, agreed upon by the disputants, seemed attractive to the participants and to the observers.
Format
In the experimental phase, acceptance of cases would be highly selective. This would be limited to disagreements between two users where no sockpuppet or meatpuppet allegations complicate the situation. Participants would acknowledge the experimental nature of community-enforced mediation and undertake this with the knowledge that the community may reject their solutions. Participants would be established editors familiar with arbitration or promising newcomers who are capable of researching and understanding arbitration for themselves.