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WikieZach| talk 18:55, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Welcome

Hi! If you have any comments, please write them below this box, thank you! --WikieZach| talk 16:30, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Mediation

Yes, please do help me Wikizach. Here's the link to where it's taking place. I was just about to ask for help, thanks for showing up. | AndonicO 11:51, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello again Wikizach. I just wanted to tell you that I will be leaving for a few days, and I wanted to know if you would take charge of my mediation. If you can't do it, please tell me, and I'll look for someone else. |

Ok, thanks Wikizach. Do you need me to explain how things are going? | AndonicO 14:49, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Here is where we are discussing the topic. It seems that everyone involved has accused another of something; some have even had RFIs. They are arguing over the materiel in the article and the sources. The article was blocked from editing by User:Shell Kinney in order for mediation to run more smoothly; it worked for a while, but it seems they have abandonded it, and are now arguing on the main talk page. I have asked them to say their opinions on the matter, and they have all done so, exept for Edditor. I was waiting for him to respond in order to continue the mediation. My next step would be to suggest a way to fix the problem, addressing the most important points, and see if they liked it (by vote). Is this a good step? I'll still be helping until about 5:00PM (UTC) tomorrow. | AndonicO 15:02, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

<unofficial>Oh, and thanks for signing your name into my autograph book, as well as adding it to my friends list.</unofficial> :-) | AndonicO 15:10, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

I saw the vote being used here. | AndonicO 15:12, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Why template? I don't see any templates there. Is is a mediation word I should know? | AndonicO 15:20, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, that's what I was doing (or trying to), but like I said, I have to leave soon. | AndonicO 16:20, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Do you mean the vote? | AndonicO 16:27, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I will. | AndonicO 16:32, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll see if I can be there. | AndonicO 10:41, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Mountain Meadows massacre mediation

Excellent! I look forward to your leading us as mediator. Storm Rider 17:56, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

We recently have seen the participation of Gwen Gale, but he/she appears to already have been burned out and is leaving. Are you going to join in or was Gwen taking filling in for you? Initially, this will take a high degree of effort to enroll Duke53 and Sqrjn in the process. They are very resistant to anything that opposes their POV. However, with effort from a neutral party I think success is possible. Storm Rider 01:39, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I understand and expected as much. Of course, with the holiday it was also expected. I was just concerned when I saw Gwen Gale's seemingly to throw her hands. I was also confused thinking possibly the two of you were working together. It is not going anywhere and I am not aware that extending the time period hurts a positive outcome. Cheers. Storm Rider 01:48, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I just read your comment on the talk page; it may help if the page was aware of who you are and your purpose? If you already provided it or have already talked with the others; I apologize. I think the group will be cooperative and provide an itemized list of issues; however, I do not think it a long one. Please give it a day for responses and if possible provide a description, I am not sure that all of the editors understand the purpose and parameters of the mediation cabal. Storm Rider 01:55, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I apologize for not responding quicker, but I have been very busy with work. I will not be able to respond until tomorrow. Could you please wait for my response? If not, I understand; however, I do think the discussion has already highlighted conflicts. I will talk with you soon. Cheers. Storm Rider 00:14, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

A poll?

In regard to this edit... I don't think that your approach to reaching consensus, that is by declaring polls and conventions for specific times, is the right way to go about things. Discussion about Esperanza governance is fragmented right now, and it seems like it would be best to determine consensus once those discussions have centralized and run their course. Why give authoritarian-looking orders? -- SCZenz 21:54, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

My idea is that debate should be ended when it stops being productive (e.g. when it starts going in circles), rather than at an arbitrary time. -- SCZenz 01:43, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving Wikizach! | AndonicO 15:59, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

I wish you a happy Thanksgiving! Hope you and your family have a magnificent day! So, what are you thankful for? Hooray! | AndonicO 15:59, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

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Israeli Apartheid

Thank you, thank you , thank you. Thank you very much. The conduct of this POV group is disgraceful.

I'd like to focus on the edits. The liars and POV propagandists will focus on everthing but, expect accusations of the gamut of WP:Alpahbert Soup, etc. as a distraction.Kiyosaki 10:40, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Am I supposed to reply here?

Hi,

I thought I had already accepted the mediation case, perhaps I was supposed to reply on your talk page? I am fine with you mediating the case.

Thanks,

WLU 13:07, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Mediation

Hi Wikizach, I don't think I necessarily need mediation in my case. However I would appreciate any thoughts or observations you might have if you have the time to review things. I am coming to an understanding of how things work at Misplaced Pages, and I believe that generally the policies are pretty reasonable. However I believe that extensive outreach and education, both inside and outside Misplaced Pages, are called for. I am trying to determine how I might be able to contribute to, or maybe initiate, this kind of effort. Speaking as a newbie, one's introduction to Misplaced Pages can be extremely harsh. I see this as a system dynamic and not based on any evil intent. Most people seem to have good intentions at heart.

However it seems there is an inherent adversarial nature that is built into the system. I would like to see a Misplaced Pages grow based on a dynamic of co-creation rather than debate. Do you agree? How might we achieve this? Now that I wrote this I think I'll put it on my user page as a thought starter. I look forward to your response.Dgray xplane 01:20, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Esperanza/Admin coaching

Oops! Double-check where you put your request on the Misplaced Pages:Esperanza/Admin coaching page. I think it's supposed to at the bottom in a new section instead of as a numbered entry. --Brad Beattie 03:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Mediation

Hiya, I'm looking for someone with mediator experience to help out in a dispute at a guideline page. Would you be interested in helping? :) --Elonka 21:23, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Excellent! There are a few pages of discussion thus far... If you'd like to dive in cold, c'mon in to Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (television). Or, I can give you a nickel summary -- let me know how you'd like to proceed? --Elonka 10:01, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Okay here are things in a nutshell, as neutrally as I can manage: There is a dispute about how to name television episode articles, which boils down to whether or not some series can choose to use a consistent suffix such as (<seriesname> episode). Some editors think that all episodes of all series should use this format; some think that no episodes should ever use a suffix, unless specifically required for disambiguation purposes; and some editors feel that it makes sense to look at things on a "by series" basis. For example, the Star Trek WikiProject debated this many months ago, and decided on a consistent system (see the subcategories in Category:Star Trek episodes). A few other WikiProjects chose consistent systems as well, so the "consistent" method has been used on thousands of Misplaced Pages articles, though the majority of television episode articles on Misplaced Pages choose the "Disambiguate only when needed" method.

A few weeks ago, when one of the "consistent method" projects filed a routine move request to move one of the articles to a suffix, this caught the attention of one of the "disambiguate only when needed" editors, and a dispute started. It's gradually escalated from that one episode page, to the WikiProject level, and now to the Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (television) page, where the debate has been raging hot and heavy for weeks now, and the guideline page itself has been the victim of edit wars.

The "disambiguate only when needed" camp is adamant that the guideline should be enforced as policy, and any "consistent method" series should be changed. The WikiProject side says that the WikiProjects should be allowed to set their own guidelines, to use what makes the most sense for their series.

A poll was started on October 30 to try and bring in further comment, but since there was not agreement on how the poll was to be worded, the poll's wording was being drastically changed during its run, such that multiple people complained that the things they were "voting" for were changed around, and others said that they weren't going to participate in the poll until it was re-run in a clean manner. However, the (biased) poll ended with a seeming majority for the "disambiguate only when needed" camp, who now of course are refusing to consent to a new poll.

The situation is further confused by the fact that some editors participating are only able to post an opinion once every few days, while other editors seem to be on a more 24-hour schedule, and the "fast-posting" editors are frequently drowning out the comments of the slower editors. This has been exacerbated by a great deal of incivility and personal attacks, ranging from name-calling to deleting other editors' posts off the page. Dissenting voices are routinely attacked as being a "lone voice", "sore loser", "whiner," etc. Additional stress has been added by some editors who have (in my opinion prematurely) declared "consensus", and launched into massive moving sprees, where hundreds of articles in what had previously been stable categories are now being moved to a different format.

Repeated attempts to run a new poll have been blocked, and multiple offers of compromise have been rejected. So, it's time to call in a mediator, and see if we can break the logjam. It's my hope that things might be helped considerably by bringing in an informal mediator first, but if that doesn't work, we may have to proceed to more formal mediation or ArbCom.

Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.  :) --Elonka 12:10, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Elonka has been very good at manipulating summaries of the situation at hand.

The fact of the matter is that no rational reason for exception from said guideline has even been demonstrated in the first place. The vast majority of editors involved in this situation have agreed with the standard case to disambig only when necessary, and all with good and rational reasons to do so.

The poll in question was changed twice by Elonka herself, where I had to revert the poll back (before anyone had voted). I even went step by step to see who who voted under what poll format and found that only three editors might have not been clear on what they voted on. This was later re-enforced by User:Wknight94 going to everyone's talk page and asking them to confirm what opinion they had about the matter. The more and more we looked, the more we saw that there was no major confusion. In addition, we've noted several times that the poll is only one method to find people's opinion on the matter, and that discussion far outweighs the poll itself.

Elonka has also directly and deliberately misrepresented statements made by other editors about their support for "another poll", including myself. (see Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (television)#Requests for a new poll, for just one example of this).

There have also been two requested moves regarding the naming conventions that are used in this dispute: Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (television)#Moving lost articles, and Talk:Fire + Water (which was before there was a dispute).

The consensus has become clear, but Elonka continues to try to create the illusion that there is anything else to discuss on the matter. It has gotten to the point where both Elonka and another user, User:MatthewFenton, have become down right disruptive, in this matter and others. The naming conventions of episode articles is not what needs mediation, but rather the few editors who are still causing a disruption despite a rational consensus. -- Ned Scott 02:59, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Concerning the matter of disruption, I would point to User talk:Ned Scott, where polite reminders about civility have been deleted by him with such edit summaries as "rm trolling". See also other civility warnings on the page: . Many other diffs available upon request.  :) --Elonka 03:07, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Elonka has left several civility messages on editors in the discussion. Most have disagreed with her assessment of their comments. I can find many, many examples of this if you wish. Also note that three of the four users who left me these notes are directly involved in the Lost dispute, and the fourth seemed to tag along for the ride when he was involved in an unrelated discussion with me. These messages are just another attempt by Elonka to discredit those who disagree with her. I have yet to receive any valid examples of incivility, or be "warned" by someone who was not in direct disagreement with what I was saying (i.e., 3rd party, or maybe one of the five administrators who were involved, etc). -- Ned Scott 03:14, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Glad to have you aboard! Strap in and hang on, it'll be an interesting ride.  :) --Elonka 04:01, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Recommendations on how to proceed at this point? --Elonka 03:02, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-12-05 Naming conventions (television). --Elonka 03:31, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

What should happen now? Should I tell people the link? Or is that something that you want to do? --Elonka 05:22, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Single-party state mediation

I have, and he's agreed to it. But the other parties must agree too. Only problem is if they reject it, since ArbCom by design does not handle content. – Chacor 22:55, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Alright, thanks for the info. I'll see if I can join in the discussion. | AndonicO 01:38, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

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