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Mediation Case: 2006-04-10 Cuba

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Request Information

Request made by: BruceHallman 15:44, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Where is the issue taking place?

Cuba

Who's involved?

Many people, see article and talk page. The essence of the problem comes from a failure to respect opposing points of view, and user User:Adam Carr, though he is not alone, refuses to comply with WP:NPOV policy, see his statement on the Talk:Cuba page.

After looking at this more, another facaet of the problem is that a few users are trying to edit in and edit out "truth", as they personally believe it to be, as opposed to respecting WP:V. User User:Comandante repeatedly exercises personal editorial policy contrary to Misplaced Pages policy. Also, though not quite as egregious, so does User:Bletch.

What's going on?

Ongoing edit war, with layers of dispute, but the top dispute is the definition of the word 'democracy' related to Cuba.

Also, a revert war of the issue Government Type. Cycling between Republic and Communist State, perhaps hundreds of times.

Four hours later, things might be calming down, a small truce in the revert war may be developing. BruceHallman 19:56, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Eight hours later, the government type edit war is renewed. BruceHallman 23:52, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

What would you like to change about that?

I would like the group's editors to reach concensus to include both (or all) points of view of this subject in the article.

I suggest that the Government Type be shown as both types, or not shown in the country box at all and instead being described in a section of the article, with both opinions itemized and explained.

If you'd prefer we work discreetly, how can we reach you?

I am willing to work this out openly and compromise, or concede if I am wrong.

Would you be willing to be a mediator yourself, and accept a mediation assignment in a different case?

Perhaps.

This is, following the Categorical Imperative, the idea that you might want to do

what you expect others to do. You don't have to, of course, that's why it's a question.

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Mediator response

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Discussion

There are, of course, deep rooted and complicated POV issues concerning Cuba and Misplaced Pages. Given the geographical balance of Misplaced Pages I have grave concerns whether Cuba can be consistently represented in a NPOV manner, free from systemic bias.I believe that these issues may warrant a Wiki-project in it's own right, such edit wars cannot address the problem sufficently. A proper project / study and page protection needs to be implemented. I would be willing to participate in any moves towards this. --Zleitzen 20:41, 10 April 2006 (UTC)