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None
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None. The articles are or have been placed on AfD, and the discussions there and the changes to talk pages are the open discussion that have been had (including some administrators).
Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request: Provide diffs showing where {{ RFMF}} was added to the talk page(s) of the involved article(s), and {{ RFM-Request}} was placed on the talk pages of the other parties.
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Rosicrucian Order of A+O), The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc., The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn, Ordo Stella Matutina, The Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn, Sodalitas Rosae Crucis et Solis Alati, Cipher Manuscripts, Stella Matutina
Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request: Provide diffs showing where {{ RFMF}} was added to the talk page(s) of the involved article(s), and was placed on the talk pages of the other parties.
Incessant discussion, in which neither parties can achieve a coherent consensus. There have been repeated attempts at discussions on the disputation with relevant parties, but thus far, is without success or agreement. Editing and Revert warring mainly taking precedence over discussion.
I have tried on many occasions to contact administrators and left messages on the administration board and asked for the articles to be locked down so that edit/revert wars could cease and proper discussion and proposals could begin.
Note to parties: Per the instructions, issues should be listed as bullet statements of actual issues to be mediated. Commentary on the nature of the conflict should be reserved for after the request has been accepted. Please provide the issues to be mediated in the form required. Essjay ( Talk • Connect) 05:58, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Over at the alcoholism article we have a psychiatrist User:drgitlow who is removing any cited references that are critical of the AMA, APA. He has been asked (and told) to stop removing relevant, cited material and he has refused. He alone is deciding which authors/sources can be used and which ones should be deleted. He insists on writing the entire article from the AMA's POV. He removed several cites because a) the authors do not fit his criteria (they are not doctors) and b) what they have to say is critical of the AMA's promotion of alcoholism as a disease. Things have gotten very out of control in the article. The previous consensus was we would write the article from a NPOV and not take sides on the debate of whether alcoholism is a disease and show both sides of the debate. As it is now, drgitlow is controlling what gets cited and removing cited references he doesn't like. I have notifed the editors that I am formally requesting help on the talk page. Mr Christopher 13:58, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Involved parties Gunbolt (talk • contribs) Karmak (talk • contribs) Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request: Provide diffs showing where {{RFMF}} was added to the talk page(s) of the involved article(s), and {{RFM-Request}} was placed on the talk pages of the other parties.
Article talk pages: Beverly Hills High School [1] User talk pages: User:Gunbolt[2] [edit]Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted: WP:RFC link WP:AN/I discussion [edit]Issues to be mediated Beverly Hills High School article's use of a satirized article reference (Joel Stein) Issue 2 [edit]Additional issues to be mediated Additional issue 1 Additional issue 2 [edit]Parties' agreement to mediate All parties should sign below, indicating that they agree to mediate the issue. If any party fails to sign, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed. Agree. Gunbolt 20:26, 29 June 2006 (UTC) [edit]Decision of the Mediation Committee Accept/Reject/Extend: Reason for rejection (if rejected), additional required information (if extended.) For the Mediation Committee, (Mediation Committee members only.)
Involved Parties:
I posted several external links on several different action figure subjects (GI Joe, action figures, Roadblock action figure, Shipwreck action figures, etc. to specific website pages that have photos and information regarding those specific action figures.
Malo mass-deleted all of the specific individual links on the various action figure Wiki pages without looking at any of the links, and claiming that they are all spam in spite of the fact that those pages all had similar links from the websites of other collectors. The website in question is not commercial, and it does not sell anything. It just has photos relating to the topics that I posted external links to.
The actions by Malo seem to be in conflict with the evidence that I saw with my own eyes of numerous other similar collector links at the action figure and GI Joe pages. Many of those links were in fact commercial, unlike the links that I posted, and yet Malo only deleted the links that I posted. Spider63
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User talk pages: Bibigon Bhouston ChrisO CJCurrie HOTR Humus sapiens Isarig Jayjg KimvdLinde Leifern Nagle 6SJ7 Zeq IZAK FayssalF Xed
article talk pages: Talk:Allegations of Israeli apartheid Talk:Apartheid outside of South Africa Talk:Crime of apartheid Talk:Gender apartheid Talk:Sexual apartheid Talk:Apartheid (disambiguation) Hafrada Talk:History of South Africa in the apartheid era
On or around May 29, HOTR created the series of apartheid-related articles listed above, including Israeli apartheid, which appears to have been his primary purpose. It has caused a lot of ill feeling and content/naming disputes across multiple articles, with renaming polls taking place on various pages, including user subpages, and everyone losing track of where they're supposed to vote and comment. KimvdLinde acted as an informal mediator.
The basic issues are whether (a) the separate articles should exist at all or should be subsumed under one title, such as Allegations of apartheid, and (b) if they do exist as separate articles, what each should be called (e.g. Israeli apartheid, or Allegations of Israeli apartheid, or Israeli apartheid (term). There is also the issue of which articles should be placed on Apartheid (disambiguation). This is a high-profile page because History of South Africa in the apartheid era links to it. There are also content issues, and disagreement about which sources to use and how to interpret them. The informal mediator believes that users on both sides of the dispute were trying to use Wikipedia as a soapbox. There have been violations of several policies, personal attacks, and pages have been protected for extended periods.
It would be helpful if an experienced mediator could lend a structure to the dispute, so that those involved know where to offer their opinions. There is a degree of urgency to this request, as someone has filed an RfAr. [37] Three arbitrators have voted to accept, although Fred Bauder has written that he agrees to the case being mediated if a mediator can be found. [38] Mediation would be preferable to arbitration because of the complexity of the case, and because it's largely a content dispute.
Reject:
The matter is hereby formally referred to the Arbitration Committee for resolution.
Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request:
Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request:
None
Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request:
None. The articles are or have been placed on AfD, and the discussions there and the changes to talk pages are the open discussion that have been had (including some administrators).
Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request: Provide diffs showing where {{ RFMF}} was added to the talk page(s) of the involved article(s), and {{ RFM-Request}} was placed on the talk pages of the other parties.
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Rosicrucian Order of A+O), The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc., The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn, Ordo Stella Matutina, The Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn, Sodalitas Rosae Crucis et Solis Alati, Cipher Manuscripts, Stella Matutina
Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request: Provide diffs showing where {{ RFMF}} was added to the talk page(s) of the involved article(s), and was placed on the talk pages of the other parties.
Incessant discussion, in which neither parties can achieve a coherent consensus. There have been repeated attempts at discussions on the disputation with relevant parties, but thus far, is without success or agreement. Editing and Revert warring mainly taking precedence over discussion.
I have tried on many occasions to contact administrators and left messages on the administration board and asked for the articles to be locked down so that edit/revert wars could cease and proper discussion and proposals could begin.
Note to parties: Per the instructions, issues should be listed as bullet statements of actual issues to be mediated. Commentary on the nature of the conflict should be reserved for after the request has been accepted. Please provide the issues to be mediated in the form required. Essjay ( Talk • Connect) 05:58, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Over at the alcoholism article we have a psychiatrist User:drgitlow who is removing any cited references that are critical of the AMA, APA. He has been asked (and told) to stop removing relevant, cited material and he has refused. He alone is deciding which authors/sources can be used and which ones should be deleted. He insists on writing the entire article from the AMA's POV. He removed several cites because a) the authors do not fit his criteria (they are not doctors) and b) what they have to say is critical of the AMA's promotion of alcoholism as a disease. Things have gotten very out of control in the article. The previous consensus was we would write the article from a NPOV and not take sides on the debate of whether alcoholism is a disease and show both sides of the debate. As it is now, drgitlow is controlling what gets cited and removing cited references he doesn't like. I have notifed the editors that I am formally requesting help on the talk page. Mr Christopher 13:58, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Involved parties Gunbolt (talk • contribs) Karmak (talk • contribs) Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request: Provide diffs showing where {{RFMF}} was added to the talk page(s) of the involved article(s), and {{RFM-Request}} was placed on the talk pages of the other parties.
Article talk pages: Beverly Hills High School [1] User talk pages: User:Gunbolt[2] [edit]Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted: WP:RFC link WP:AN/I discussion [edit]Issues to be mediated Beverly Hills High School article's use of a satirized article reference (Joel Stein) Issue 2 [edit]Additional issues to be mediated Additional issue 1 Additional issue 2 [edit]Parties' agreement to mediate All parties should sign below, indicating that they agree to mediate the issue. If any party fails to sign, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed. Agree. Gunbolt 20:26, 29 June 2006 (UTC) [edit]Decision of the Mediation Committee Accept/Reject/Extend: Reason for rejection (if rejected), additional required information (if extended.) For the Mediation Committee, (Mediation Committee members only.)
Involved Parties:
I posted several external links on several different action figure subjects (GI Joe, action figures, Roadblock action figure, Shipwreck action figures, etc. to specific website pages that have photos and information regarding those specific action figures.
Malo mass-deleted all of the specific individual links on the various action figure Wiki pages without looking at any of the links, and claiming that they are all spam in spite of the fact that those pages all had similar links from the websites of other collectors. The website in question is not commercial, and it does not sell anything. It just has photos relating to the topics that I posted external links to.
The actions by Malo seem to be in conflict with the evidence that I saw with my own eyes of numerous other similar collector links at the action figure and GI Joe pages. Many of those links were in fact commercial, unlike the links that I posted, and yet Malo only deleted the links that I posted. Spider63
Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request:
User talk pages: Bibigon Bhouston ChrisO CJCurrie HOTR Humus sapiens Isarig Jayjg KimvdLinde Leifern Nagle 6SJ7 Zeq IZAK FayssalF Xed
article talk pages: Talk:Allegations of Israeli apartheid Talk:Apartheid outside of South Africa Talk:Crime of apartheid Talk:Gender apartheid Talk:Sexual apartheid Talk:Apartheid (disambiguation) Hafrada Talk:History of South Africa in the apartheid era
On or around May 29, HOTR created the series of apartheid-related articles listed above, including Israeli apartheid, which appears to have been his primary purpose. It has caused a lot of ill feeling and content/naming disputes across multiple articles, with renaming polls taking place on various pages, including user subpages, and everyone losing track of where they're supposed to vote and comment. KimvdLinde acted as an informal mediator.
The basic issues are whether (a) the separate articles should exist at all or should be subsumed under one title, such as Allegations of apartheid, and (b) if they do exist as separate articles, what each should be called (e.g. Israeli apartheid, or Allegations of Israeli apartheid, or Israeli apartheid (term). There is also the issue of which articles should be placed on Apartheid (disambiguation). This is a high-profile page because History of South Africa in the apartheid era links to it. There are also content issues, and disagreement about which sources to use and how to interpret them. The informal mediator believes that users on both sides of the dispute were trying to use Wikipedia as a soapbox. There have been violations of several policies, personal attacks, and pages have been protected for extended periods.
It would be helpful if an experienced mediator could lend a structure to the dispute, so that those involved know where to offer their opinions. There is a degree of urgency to this request, as someone has filed an RfAr. [37] Three arbitrators have voted to accept, although Fred Bauder has written that he agrees to the case being mediated if a mediator can be found. [38] Mediation would be preferable to arbitration because of the complexity of the case, and because it's largely a content dispute.
Reject:
The matter is hereby formally referred to the Arbitration Committee for resolution.