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This page will never be Wikipedia policy. It is, by design, entirely informal. The Mediation Cabal provides informal mediation for disputes on Wikipedia. We cannot confirm or deny our existence. Actually the "Cabalists" of the Mediation Cabal do wish to help you, but problems are much easier to solve when you can laugh about them. |
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The Mediation Cabal is a bunch of volunteers providing unofficial, informal mediation for disputes on Wikipedia. We do not impose sanctions or make judgments. We at MedCabal are not at all official and are just ordinary Wikipedians. We facilitate communication and help parties reach an agreement by their own efforts.
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If you want to help mediate, just pick a case from the list and adopt it. Be sure to read our suggestions for volunteers. Feel free to ask for advice and assistance at the MedCab talk page or our IRC channel. Also check out WP:Catalysts, which provides some sound advice and a framework for informal assistance.
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[edit] Submit a request
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The instructions are pretty intuitive and have been recently updated to a better design. If you want more discretion, you can email our coordinators or go to our #wikipedia-medcab IRC channel.
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Instructions:
- Add {{subst:medcab-request}} to the section of the disputed article's talk page that requires mediation and save the page.
- The resulting template will contain a link to create the request. Click that link to create the article's case page. There is a preloaded form with instructions.
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[edit] Coordinators
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Cases needing mediators
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If you volunteer to help out a case, please change the template status field to "open." New cases are also listed on the Community Portal page in the opentasks section, which can be updated here.
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Open cases
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To put cases on this list, you must change the template status field to "open." Put all comments on the case pages themselves or in the template comment field.
- 2008-10-01 Sveta Gera — Mediator(s): PhilKnight (talk)
- 2008-11-05 Antony Flew — Mediator(s): Xavexgoem (talk)
- Comment: keeping on talkpage.
- 2008-11-27 Proclamation of Ukrainian statehood, 1941 — Mediator(s): ReluctantPhilosopher (talk · contribs)
- 2008-11-30 Petals Around the Rose — Mediator(s): Wikipedian2 (talk · contribs)
- Comment: Mediator advising
- 2008-12 R&R Partners
- 2008-12/Bates method — Mediator(s): Xavexgoem (talk)
- 2009-01/Adi Shankara
- 2009-01/Baby Boomer — Mediator(s): User:Corruptcopper
- 2009-01/Clarence Thomas — Mediator(s): --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 06:43, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
- 2009-01/Family Foundation School — Mediator(s): PhilKnight (talk)
- Comment: Discussion on case page
- 2009-01/Harold Pinter — Mediator(s): Delaque (talk) 09:48, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
- 2009-01/Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
- 2009-01/Leopard tank — Mediator(s): ErikTheBikeMan (talk)
- 2009-01/List of Avengers members — Mediator(s): ErikTheBikeMan (talk) 18:37, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- Comment: (slowly) getting around to a resolution.
- 2009-01/Media Matters for America — Mediator(s): Xavexgoem (talk)
- Comment: discussing on talk.
- 2009-01/Mudvayne — Mediator(s): Mononomic (talk)
- Comment: opening, waiting for agreement
- 2009-01/PKR.com — Mediator(s): PhilKnight (talk)
- 2009-01/Shell to Sea — Mediator(s): — Twinzor Say hi! PhilKnight (talk)
- Comment: This is a very wide spread dispute. More mediators requested. Discussion on the case page.
- 2009-01/Steinway & Sons — Mediator(s): Theseeker4 (talk) 20:06, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
- Comment: Discussed and made changes with one involved editor, lack of other editors active on page means there is really no dispute to resolve.
- 2009-02/Paul Watson — Mediator(s): Trusilver
- Comment: Progressing, working through article language proposals.
- 2009-02/Wikipedia:Non-free content/RFC on use of sports team logos — Mediator(s): Tealwisp (talk)
- Comment: I have begun a poll to determine support for moving to formal mediation
- 2009-02/World War II Online — Mediator(s): PhilKnight (talk) 19:30, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
- Comment: Discussion on talk page
- 2009-03/Aspartame controversy — Mediator(s): Tealwisp (talk)
- Comment: As per community agreement, we are on hold for a user conduct RFC, and hopefully for everyone to cool down a bit, so we can get to more constructive discussion
- 2009-03/ER (TV series) — Mediator(s): Jd027 (talk)
- 2009-03/Foam takeout container — Mediator(s): iAdem (talk)
- Comment: In active debate.
- 2009-03/Laibach (band) — Mediator(s): Trusilver
- Comment: Waiting for statement from disputing parties.
- 2009-03/Mehmed Talat — Mediator(s): Tealwisp (talk)
- Comment: compromise approached, editors are looking toward higher levels of mediation
- 2009-03/Narcotics Anonymous — Mediator(s): Firestorm Talk 01:28, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
- Comment: opeining case, waiting for parties to respond
- 2009-03/Nicole Scherzinger — Mediator(s): Wikipediatoperfection (talk) 19:27, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
- Comment: Discussion on talk page
- 2009-03/Sindhi people — Mediator(s): PhilKnight (talk)
- 2009-03/Yazidi — Mediator(s): Tealwisp (talk)
- Comment: I think the editors are working quite amicably on their own, so I may no longer be needed
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Old cases
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- Volume I - Cases closed prior to December 2005
- Volume II - Cases closed in December 2005
- Volume III - Cases closed January to early July 2006 (partially overlaps Closed cases category)
- Closed cases category - Cases closed from July 2006 to present (organized by dates the cases were opened due to the naming convention).
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