The Cartesian materialism article has a POV dispute. A philosopher who is a recent opponent of Cartesian Materialism has developed a very particular definition of the concept which he then dismisses. The dispute is about whether such a definition should be included as part of the definition of the concept or discussed later in the text. For example, if a philosopher defines the earth as a ball of custard and then denies that the earth could exist would it be right for Wikipedia to begin the article on "Earth" with "Earth is a ball of custard"? Furthermore, if Wikipedia did include such a definition then it might become widely accepted by naive readers who would then be persuaded that the Earth does not indeed exist ie: including such definitions is a POV and perversion of Wikipedia. Surely the correct approach is to define Earth in the usual way then, if the philosopher's ideas are widely known, to mention in the article that some people think earth is a ball of custard.
The dispute that needs mediation is between User:Alienus and myself. I believe the following version of the article is fair: old version Alienus will not permit any version except [1] and has reverted to this endlessly or made minor edits and then demanded that people "contribute" rather than revert. loxley 10:17, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
This request for mediation has been put forward because Alienus and myself have been unable to come to any agreement and the debate disintegrates. There is a history to this dispute.
It was part of a request for mediation by User:Alienus the mediation is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/06_12_2005_Alienus_and_Loxley_edit_war_over_Dennett_and_Philosophy_of_the_Mind
We were unable to obtain any prolonged third party input so the debate disintegrated. Given that the problem was a single issue I pushed it to arbitration, hoping that the arbitrators would simply decide the point one way or another:
The result of the arbitration was:
"Despite what loxley says, I feel that this is to a large extent a content dispute. If an RfC doesn't help, we'll have to accept, I think, but until then, reject. James F. (talk) 20:23, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Reject as not a significant dispute, but I take the point that the article ought not to be about Dennett and his views, that stuff belongs in the article on Dennett. Fred Bauder 22:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)"
I have opened the issue at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/All#Religion_and_philosophy as the arbitrators suggested.
However, we do need mediation, please. loxley 09:35, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Everything below on this request is copies in from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Seemd like the most neutral approach. Sorry if it is too long.
I have already been through more than one month of a failed mediation over Significance of Venona and Harry Magdoff and espionage and several realted pages pages with Nobs01, which then turned into a weeks-long arbitration in which Nobs01 was banned for a year. I am currently in a content battle with an editor deleting my edits and pledging to defend all of Nobs01 text entries. I have twice filed RFC's on these pages. The current one has produced no comments. In the meantime, all the text I would like comments on gets deleted. What do you seriously suggest? I have been trying to edit these pages for three months. I keep trying different wording and rewriting text. All I get in return is deletions. If I request mediation, I will be told to try "dispute resolution." I have been in dispute resolution on these pages for months. Give me a concrete suggestion that deals with these facts, please. I am desperate.-- Cberlet 03:40, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Flcelloguy handled a previous mediation over these same pages. -- Cberlet 15:48, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Mediation is intended to further Wikipedia's overall objective of writing an encyclopedia, not to be forum for generating unsourced speculation that Prof. Harvey Klehr is part of a "Venona Posse" to "justify violations of civil liberties." [7] [8] [9] There may be a conflict of interest, given the citations at [10] and the fact that the Wikipedia entry un Chip Berlet states that he was is a former vice-president of the National Lawyers Guild and was managing editor of its publication during the time the National Lawyers Guild supported the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. A Request for Mediation should be entered into in good faith, and not be driven by what may appear as a personal agenda to discredit or silence one's professional critics.-- MONGO 06:23, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
OnWiki mediation is needed here, not of the editorial type, but of a policy type; because the article on Francis Schuckardt is more akin to tabloid journalism than a compilation of facts that should be indicative of an encyclopedia.
When I first started editing this article about 3 months ago, it was replete with factual errors and scurrilous accusations, but supported with only two slightly relevant sources. I did a major edit to the article and verified the corrections and additions I made with 60 endnotes along with some on-page references. I proceed in a twofold manner: I only removed/replaced factual inaccuracies with verifiable facts and I left everything else essential intact (despite the fact the much of it was/is unverified) and chose to answer the many accusations rather than to simply delete them. I thought that this would give the reader both sides of the story and enable the reader to make up his/her own mind. I also made some additions which I felt were relevant to the overall article.
The problem lies in the fact that some, but two people in particular - James Reyes and George Wagner - continually remove verifiable statements and facts that do not suit their bias. Time and again I have had to reinsert verifiable facts they removed without explanation, only to find them removed again, without explanation (and in the process they would always inadvertently or intentionally cause the endnotes to be misplaced). I encourage to you read the discussion page to see my efforts to have them deal only with verifiable facts (they even edited the discussion page to remove statements/headings they didn't like).
A good example of this is to look at what they did after I made another edit on January 17th. They just wholesale removed vast portions, even entire sections, of whatever they opposed, without explanation; this is not editing, this is vandalism.
What they will not admit to, but what is obvious from an objective look into their "editing," is that they are hateful of Bishop Schuckardt and want to put forward their theories and biases without opposition or regard for the facts. I object to the idea of an encyclopedia being used for this purpose and I think they are harming the reputation of Wikipedia by such conduct and doing a disservice to the public in general. Let the facts speak for themselves, they can peddle their propaganda elsewhere.
I've just finished yet another reinsertion session of wrongfully removed facts and would suggest to use this as a starting point for any further revisions.
Thank you.
Frater John 1/19/06
On the Nietzsche page, I added the link "Santayana's Criticism of Nietzsche"( http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Santayana's%20Criticism%20of%20Nietzsche.htm), and someone (I believe "Goethean") keeps deleting it. Santayana was one of the most important philosophers of the last 2 or 3 centuries, and his book "Egotism In German Philosophy" was very influential. I keep putting the link back under "Criticism." Today (1/24) I was accused by "Goethean" of "vandalism" -- rather funny, considering that it is he who has a penchant for deleting links. If anyone from the Mediation team can be of assistance, I would be grateful.
I have been trying to break up the Abraham Lincoln article into smaller and more managable sections. I started out with an article on Lincoln's Early Life and Career. Since I started that the user JimWae has been removing all of my working and continually reverting to previous versions of the work. First time he said to condense the early life and career section, which I started to do when my laptop's battery ran low and I saved the work so that I wouldn't lose it. I also decided to move to a more comfortable location in my home, and I opened up the Abraham Lincoln page to continue what I had started to find that once again every last change I had made had been removed once again by JimWae. Not even the link to the new article about Lincoln's early life was left in. I would like to proceed with this condensation, but get the feeling that no matter what lengths I go to that JimWae is just going to swoop in and erase every change I make and not even let me finish my work. JesseG 23:38, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
A section entitled "Scientist?" was introduced originally to attempt a compromise with another editor. With further exposure to Wikipedia, I have recognized that this section not only constitutes original research, but relies on weasel words for its entire backbone. I removed the section and supported all my reasons in talk. One editor who disagreed (I assume) kept reverting, then blocked me inappropriately. Two of his (I can only assume) friends, have now joined, and instead of addressing the issues, they have mounted a revert campaign coupled with (mild) personal attacks (calling me obsessive, accusing me of being other editors {aka sock puppets, even though they are located in a different state}, telling me to stop repeating what others tell me to say, etc.). I am asking for review of the talk pages, as well as article's section (now added back by another editor who also attacks and says he can't see my arguments, rather than trying to resolve the matter). When I contacted one of the editors in question, s/he removed my query with a "troll" comment. I believe that a consensus cannot be made with these three as they are determined to push a POV that is based on weasel words. Please review and mediate. Thank you agapetos_angel 19:24, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
User/admin has repeatedly moved a comment discussing the inappropriate nature of the user comment RFC Wikipedia:Requests for comment/United States Congress out of the Response section and into another section against the wishes of the poster, User:DrWitty. The relevent instructions in the Response section state:
User:Philwelch believes that only "Congress" may post in the Response section per the instructions, and has reverted the submitted comments 3 times. User:Philwelch also unilaterally blocked the IP and account of the submitter for 1 hour for "disruption and incivility" after having been warned that he would be reported for repeatly moving the submission contrary to the Response instructions, in an attempt to prevent the user from raising this dispute with any third party in a timely manner.
DrWitty 01:03, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm requesting Mediation on the article 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Please go to the talk page, and scroll all the way down to the bottom. This anonymous user, always starting with the IP 84.59, has been harassing multiple users on this page with personal attacks, violating the 3RR many times reverting any edits, disputing any change to the page as POV, etc. He then takes anyone who disagrees with him, and threatens to bring a RfC for them, which is a violation of WP:POINT. The anon claims factual and historically indisputable information (to wit: that the official name of the 2003 invasion operation was Operation Iraqi Freedom) is propoganda, and reverts any efforts to show otherwise. He singlehandedly brought on the +protection of the page. User:Pookster11 has been trying to clean up that entry, which is several times the recommended size, and has a size warning on the top. Pookster11 used content forking to cut large sections out of the current article and give them their own article, leaving a link to the new one in their page. This is common Wikiquette, and good editing policy. However the anon continually reverts Pookster's efforts, then accuses him of deleting things, and finally tries to lecture EVERYONE on the proper use of Wikipedia, when he isn't even doing it himself. Anyone who disputes with him is the butt of personal attacks on their talk pages: I am no exception. This user has repeatedly attacked me on my talk page. Please come to the talk page, and mediate this guy, so we can do something about him, before I have to submit a RfA. Thanks. Swatjester 16:14, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
On the irreducible complexity entry it is claimed that the concept comes from comes from Ludwig von Bertalanffy. This material has been challenged and a citation has been requested. A month after the citation request was made, no citation was provided and so I removed the challenged material under WP:CITE. It has triggered a revert war and the subsequent RfC seems to have failed to resolve the matter, since editor FeloniousMonk insists on reinserting the uncited challenged material, claiming that no citation is necessary despite my quoting of Wikipedia policy to the contrary. -- Wade A. Tisthammer 19:19, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Several users, e.g. Benne, Sargonious and Assyria 90, are busy renaming Assyrian(s) into Syriac(s) in several articles, even creating an erroneous "Syriacs" box ( Template:Syriacs) abusively including Lebanese in this category, deleting the content of the Assyro-Chaldeans article, or trying to put back non-accurate mentions of an Ancient Assyrians ancestry of modern Assyrians into the Assyrian people article. It seems impossible to stop them reverting some articles and adding nonsense into some others. -- Pylambert 20:21, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I have nothing to do with the renaming since I myself is against it to be honest. Since Syriacs are Suryoye and Suryoye is translated into Suryani in Turkish and that can not be used for all Assyrians according to me. Your insulting the whole Assyrian people by calling the Assyrians today having nothing to do with the ancient Assyrians. Its proved that the Assyrians had two kingdoms after their empire falled, those kingdoms were Osroene and Adiabene. There are evidents that the Persians let 400 Assyrian "politicans" executed because they tried to establish a reborned Assyria in those Assyrian kingdoms who were left. I think its really insulting what you are doing, Pylambert.-- Yohanun 20:39, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
What in God's name are you talking about Pylambert? I am not in favor of renaming anything Assyrian into Syriac. I did the exact opposite. Syriac means Syriac Language. Assyrian means belonging to the Nation of Assyria. Get your facts straight. Sargonious
Requesting mediation between Eggster 01:03, 5 February 2006 (UTC) and user User:Atari2600tim for the purpose of stopping a perpetuating revwar that User:Atari2600tim is perpetuating. He is also bothering me on the article online creation and refuses to contact the author of the software about this despute. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eggster ( talk • contribs)
I posted here to seek fairness- the cabal mediator was a sock puppet. Eggster 13:59, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Seth believes there should not be a link to the net's oldest page on Nihilism. He hasn't given a reason for this except that he disagrees with the viewpoints on the page. I consider this abusive and would like to to know if others agree. He's now deleted the link 8-10 times and has still not given a reason. I'd like to have a clear reason for (a) the deletion and (b) why Seth's unprofessional, destructive and worryingly vengeful behavior is tolerated. Thank you in advance. www.anus.com 02:18, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Seth, I don't believe you've said why counterorder is allowed to be linked to but not ANUS. In fact, why does counter order link to ANUS if ANUS doesn't qualify in your little drama? Counter order, in your mind, clearly qualifies, but if they too feel ANUS is worth linking to then perhaps it isn't ANUS or counterorder that is at fault. -- Iconoclast 05:10, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Where the parties are not willing to even engage in civil discussion, there can be no mediation. I'm sorry if you misunderstood the nature of what we do here: We do not hear evidence and issue rulings. We assist parties in coming together to agree on a compromise. I see no reason to belive either side has any interest in compromising. It is not the place of the Mediation Committee to determine who is right and who is wrong, or to decide which version of a page is the correct one, or to decide what information is correct and what is not. That is simply not what we do here. The more I look at it, the more I believe it is an issue for the Arbitration Committee. Essjay Talk • Contact 22:23, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Thats fine, request all you want, but you'll have to do it somewhere other than here. The Mediation Committee is not the place for this; take it to RfC or to Arbitration, but this is not the place. There is no agreement to mediate, we can not involve ourselves. Essjay Talk • Contact 01:46, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Redlink Reduction
Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request:
Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#I_want_my_page_deleted
I do not agree. The user is making a WP:POINT, and is trying to cover blatant vandalism. Please see the deletion discussion page on GBWR's talk page. Note: user's comment about "extra page" is funny because user deleted any attempts to disagree on that page, blantant vandalism. ⇒ SWATJester Ready Aim Fire! 22:45, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Dispute regarding the relevance of the article. Factual accuracy and neutrality tag is placed on the article while no specific concerns abut the content were presented. Research was presented stating the relevance of the article and common use of the term in media and academia. Dispute between User:Dado User:Zvonko and User:Asim Led. For more see talk.-- Dado 18:28, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Dianetics (Link rather than transclude; page is over 85KB)
Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request:
No formal dispute resolution attempted
Here's the sequence of events as I reconstructed it. I'm guessing that User:Ati3414 and anonymous IP 67.170.224.36 ( contribs) are the same person. It would be nice if we could test this hypothesis, but it seems very likely, so I'm going to treat these two users as a single person in this outline.
2. Correction: there were a few members in favor of merging it in the Age of the Earth. See the lost history of How to calculate Earth's Age Ati3414 01:06, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
5. Correction: each of the quoted articles underwent 3 reversions . Ati3414 01:06, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request:
Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request:
The Cartesian materialism article has a POV dispute. A philosopher who is a recent opponent of Cartesian Materialism has developed a very particular definition of the concept which he then dismisses. The dispute is about whether such a definition should be included as part of the definition of the concept or discussed later in the text. For example, if a philosopher defines the earth as a ball of custard and then denies that the earth could exist would it be right for Wikipedia to begin the article on "Earth" with "Earth is a ball of custard"? Furthermore, if Wikipedia did include such a definition then it might become widely accepted by naive readers who would then be persuaded that the Earth does not indeed exist ie: including such definitions is a POV and perversion of Wikipedia. Surely the correct approach is to define Earth in the usual way then, if the philosopher's ideas are widely known, to mention in the article that some people think earth is a ball of custard.
The dispute that needs mediation is between User:Alienus and myself. I believe the following version of the article is fair: old version Alienus will not permit any version except [1] and has reverted to this endlessly or made minor edits and then demanded that people "contribute" rather than revert. loxley 10:17, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
This request for mediation has been put forward because Alienus and myself have been unable to come to any agreement and the debate disintegrates. There is a history to this dispute.
It was part of a request for mediation by User:Alienus the mediation is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/06_12_2005_Alienus_and_Loxley_edit_war_over_Dennett_and_Philosophy_of_the_Mind
We were unable to obtain any prolonged third party input so the debate disintegrated. Given that the problem was a single issue I pushed it to arbitration, hoping that the arbitrators would simply decide the point one way or another:
The result of the arbitration was:
"Despite what loxley says, I feel that this is to a large extent a content dispute. If an RfC doesn't help, we'll have to accept, I think, but until then, reject. James F. (talk) 20:23, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Reject as not a significant dispute, but I take the point that the article ought not to be about Dennett and his views, that stuff belongs in the article on Dennett. Fred Bauder 22:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)"
I have opened the issue at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/All#Religion_and_philosophy as the arbitrators suggested.
However, we do need mediation, please. loxley 09:35, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Everything below on this request is copies in from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Seemd like the most neutral approach. Sorry if it is too long.
I have already been through more than one month of a failed mediation over Significance of Venona and Harry Magdoff and espionage and several realted pages pages with Nobs01, which then turned into a weeks-long arbitration in which Nobs01 was banned for a year. I am currently in a content battle with an editor deleting my edits and pledging to defend all of Nobs01 text entries. I have twice filed RFC's on these pages. The current one has produced no comments. In the meantime, all the text I would like comments on gets deleted. What do you seriously suggest? I have been trying to edit these pages for three months. I keep trying different wording and rewriting text. All I get in return is deletions. If I request mediation, I will be told to try "dispute resolution." I have been in dispute resolution on these pages for months. Give me a concrete suggestion that deals with these facts, please. I am desperate.-- Cberlet 03:40, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Flcelloguy handled a previous mediation over these same pages. -- Cberlet 15:48, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Mediation is intended to further Wikipedia's overall objective of writing an encyclopedia, not to be forum for generating unsourced speculation that Prof. Harvey Klehr is part of a "Venona Posse" to "justify violations of civil liberties." [7] [8] [9] There may be a conflict of interest, given the citations at [10] and the fact that the Wikipedia entry un Chip Berlet states that he was is a former vice-president of the National Lawyers Guild and was managing editor of its publication during the time the National Lawyers Guild supported the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. A Request for Mediation should be entered into in good faith, and not be driven by what may appear as a personal agenda to discredit or silence one's professional critics.-- MONGO 06:23, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
OnWiki mediation is needed here, not of the editorial type, but of a policy type; because the article on Francis Schuckardt is more akin to tabloid journalism than a compilation of facts that should be indicative of an encyclopedia.
When I first started editing this article about 3 months ago, it was replete with factual errors and scurrilous accusations, but supported with only two slightly relevant sources. I did a major edit to the article and verified the corrections and additions I made with 60 endnotes along with some on-page references. I proceed in a twofold manner: I only removed/replaced factual inaccuracies with verifiable facts and I left everything else essential intact (despite the fact the much of it was/is unverified) and chose to answer the many accusations rather than to simply delete them. I thought that this would give the reader both sides of the story and enable the reader to make up his/her own mind. I also made some additions which I felt were relevant to the overall article.
The problem lies in the fact that some, but two people in particular - James Reyes and George Wagner - continually remove verifiable statements and facts that do not suit their bias. Time and again I have had to reinsert verifiable facts they removed without explanation, only to find them removed again, without explanation (and in the process they would always inadvertently or intentionally cause the endnotes to be misplaced). I encourage to you read the discussion page to see my efforts to have them deal only with verifiable facts (they even edited the discussion page to remove statements/headings they didn't like).
A good example of this is to look at what they did after I made another edit on January 17th. They just wholesale removed vast portions, even entire sections, of whatever they opposed, without explanation; this is not editing, this is vandalism.
What they will not admit to, but what is obvious from an objective look into their "editing," is that they are hateful of Bishop Schuckardt and want to put forward their theories and biases without opposition or regard for the facts. I object to the idea of an encyclopedia being used for this purpose and I think they are harming the reputation of Wikipedia by such conduct and doing a disservice to the public in general. Let the facts speak for themselves, they can peddle their propaganda elsewhere.
I've just finished yet another reinsertion session of wrongfully removed facts and would suggest to use this as a starting point for any further revisions.
Thank you.
Frater John 1/19/06
On the Nietzsche page, I added the link "Santayana's Criticism of Nietzsche"( http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Santayana's%20Criticism%20of%20Nietzsche.htm), and someone (I believe "Goethean") keeps deleting it. Santayana was one of the most important philosophers of the last 2 or 3 centuries, and his book "Egotism In German Philosophy" was very influential. I keep putting the link back under "Criticism." Today (1/24) I was accused by "Goethean" of "vandalism" -- rather funny, considering that it is he who has a penchant for deleting links. If anyone from the Mediation team can be of assistance, I would be grateful.
I have been trying to break up the Abraham Lincoln article into smaller and more managable sections. I started out with an article on Lincoln's Early Life and Career. Since I started that the user JimWae has been removing all of my working and continually reverting to previous versions of the work. First time he said to condense the early life and career section, which I started to do when my laptop's battery ran low and I saved the work so that I wouldn't lose it. I also decided to move to a more comfortable location in my home, and I opened up the Abraham Lincoln page to continue what I had started to find that once again every last change I had made had been removed once again by JimWae. Not even the link to the new article about Lincoln's early life was left in. I would like to proceed with this condensation, but get the feeling that no matter what lengths I go to that JimWae is just going to swoop in and erase every change I make and not even let me finish my work. JesseG 23:38, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
A section entitled "Scientist?" was introduced originally to attempt a compromise with another editor. With further exposure to Wikipedia, I have recognized that this section not only constitutes original research, but relies on weasel words for its entire backbone. I removed the section and supported all my reasons in talk. One editor who disagreed (I assume) kept reverting, then blocked me inappropriately. Two of his (I can only assume) friends, have now joined, and instead of addressing the issues, they have mounted a revert campaign coupled with (mild) personal attacks (calling me obsessive, accusing me of being other editors {aka sock puppets, even though they are located in a different state}, telling me to stop repeating what others tell me to say, etc.). I am asking for review of the talk pages, as well as article's section (now added back by another editor who also attacks and says he can't see my arguments, rather than trying to resolve the matter). When I contacted one of the editors in question, s/he removed my query with a "troll" comment. I believe that a consensus cannot be made with these three as they are determined to push a POV that is based on weasel words. Please review and mediate. Thank you agapetos_angel 19:24, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
User/admin has repeatedly moved a comment discussing the inappropriate nature of the user comment RFC Wikipedia:Requests for comment/United States Congress out of the Response section and into another section against the wishes of the poster, User:DrWitty. The relevent instructions in the Response section state:
User:Philwelch believes that only "Congress" may post in the Response section per the instructions, and has reverted the submitted comments 3 times. User:Philwelch also unilaterally blocked the IP and account of the submitter for 1 hour for "disruption and incivility" after having been warned that he would be reported for repeatly moving the submission contrary to the Response instructions, in an attempt to prevent the user from raising this dispute with any third party in a timely manner.
DrWitty 01:03, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm requesting Mediation on the article 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Please go to the talk page, and scroll all the way down to the bottom. This anonymous user, always starting with the IP 84.59, has been harassing multiple users on this page with personal attacks, violating the 3RR many times reverting any edits, disputing any change to the page as POV, etc. He then takes anyone who disagrees with him, and threatens to bring a RfC for them, which is a violation of WP:POINT. The anon claims factual and historically indisputable information (to wit: that the official name of the 2003 invasion operation was Operation Iraqi Freedom) is propoganda, and reverts any efforts to show otherwise. He singlehandedly brought on the +protection of the page. User:Pookster11 has been trying to clean up that entry, which is several times the recommended size, and has a size warning on the top. Pookster11 used content forking to cut large sections out of the current article and give them their own article, leaving a link to the new one in their page. This is common Wikiquette, and good editing policy. However the anon continually reverts Pookster's efforts, then accuses him of deleting things, and finally tries to lecture EVERYONE on the proper use of Wikipedia, when he isn't even doing it himself. Anyone who disputes with him is the butt of personal attacks on their talk pages: I am no exception. This user has repeatedly attacked me on my talk page. Please come to the talk page, and mediate this guy, so we can do something about him, before I have to submit a RfA. Thanks. Swatjester 16:14, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
On the irreducible complexity entry it is claimed that the concept comes from comes from Ludwig von Bertalanffy. This material has been challenged and a citation has been requested. A month after the citation request was made, no citation was provided and so I removed the challenged material under WP:CITE. It has triggered a revert war and the subsequent RfC seems to have failed to resolve the matter, since editor FeloniousMonk insists on reinserting the uncited challenged material, claiming that no citation is necessary despite my quoting of Wikipedia policy to the contrary. -- Wade A. Tisthammer 19:19, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Several users, e.g. Benne, Sargonious and Assyria 90, are busy renaming Assyrian(s) into Syriac(s) in several articles, even creating an erroneous "Syriacs" box ( Template:Syriacs) abusively including Lebanese in this category, deleting the content of the Assyro-Chaldeans article, or trying to put back non-accurate mentions of an Ancient Assyrians ancestry of modern Assyrians into the Assyrian people article. It seems impossible to stop them reverting some articles and adding nonsense into some others. -- Pylambert 20:21, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I have nothing to do with the renaming since I myself is against it to be honest. Since Syriacs are Suryoye and Suryoye is translated into Suryani in Turkish and that can not be used for all Assyrians according to me. Your insulting the whole Assyrian people by calling the Assyrians today having nothing to do with the ancient Assyrians. Its proved that the Assyrians had two kingdoms after their empire falled, those kingdoms were Osroene and Adiabene. There are evidents that the Persians let 400 Assyrian "politicans" executed because they tried to establish a reborned Assyria in those Assyrian kingdoms who were left. I think its really insulting what you are doing, Pylambert.-- Yohanun 20:39, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
What in God's name are you talking about Pylambert? I am not in favor of renaming anything Assyrian into Syriac. I did the exact opposite. Syriac means Syriac Language. Assyrian means belonging to the Nation of Assyria. Get your facts straight. Sargonious
Requesting mediation between Eggster 01:03, 5 February 2006 (UTC) and user User:Atari2600tim for the purpose of stopping a perpetuating revwar that User:Atari2600tim is perpetuating. He is also bothering me on the article online creation and refuses to contact the author of the software about this despute. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eggster ( talk • contribs)
I posted here to seek fairness- the cabal mediator was a sock puppet. Eggster 13:59, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Seth believes there should not be a link to the net's oldest page on Nihilism. He hasn't given a reason for this except that he disagrees with the viewpoints on the page. I consider this abusive and would like to to know if others agree. He's now deleted the link 8-10 times and has still not given a reason. I'd like to have a clear reason for (a) the deletion and (b) why Seth's unprofessional, destructive and worryingly vengeful behavior is tolerated. Thank you in advance. www.anus.com 02:18, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Seth, I don't believe you've said why counterorder is allowed to be linked to but not ANUS. In fact, why does counter order link to ANUS if ANUS doesn't qualify in your little drama? Counter order, in your mind, clearly qualifies, but if they too feel ANUS is worth linking to then perhaps it isn't ANUS or counterorder that is at fault. -- Iconoclast 05:10, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Where the parties are not willing to even engage in civil discussion, there can be no mediation. I'm sorry if you misunderstood the nature of what we do here: We do not hear evidence and issue rulings. We assist parties in coming together to agree on a compromise. I see no reason to belive either side has any interest in compromising. It is not the place of the Mediation Committee to determine who is right and who is wrong, or to decide which version of a page is the correct one, or to decide what information is correct and what is not. That is simply not what we do here. The more I look at it, the more I believe it is an issue for the Arbitration Committee. Essjay Talk • Contact 22:23, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Thats fine, request all you want, but you'll have to do it somewhere other than here. The Mediation Committee is not the place for this; take it to RfC or to Arbitration, but this is not the place. There is no agreement to mediate, we can not involve ourselves. Essjay Talk • Contact 01:46, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Redlink Reduction
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Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#I_want_my_page_deleted
I do not agree. The user is making a WP:POINT, and is trying to cover blatant vandalism. Please see the deletion discussion page on GBWR's talk page. Note: user's comment about "extra page" is funny because user deleted any attempts to disagree on that page, blantant vandalism. ⇒ SWATJester Ready Aim Fire! 22:45, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Dispute regarding the relevance of the article. Factual accuracy and neutrality tag is placed on the article while no specific concerns abut the content were presented. Research was presented stating the relevance of the article and common use of the term in media and academia. Dispute between User:Dado User:Zvonko and User:Asim Led. For more see talk.-- Dado 18:28, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Dianetics (Link rather than transclude; page is over 85KB)
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No formal dispute resolution attempted
Here's the sequence of events as I reconstructed it. I'm guessing that User:Ati3414 and anonymous IP 67.170.224.36 ( contribs) are the same person. It would be nice if we could test this hypothesis, but it seems very likely, so I'm going to treat these two users as a single person in this outline.
2. Correction: there were a few members in favor of merging it in the Age of the Earth. See the lost history of How to calculate Earth's Age Ati3414 01:06, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
5. Correction: each of the quoted articles underwent 3 reversions . Ati3414 01:06, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
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