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| ==Nominations for mediator== | ==Nominations for mediator== | ||
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| I've been thinking about nominating myself for a while now. I've been inspired by the response to MGM’s ideas (especially the committee's), and I've also been encouraged by wikipedians that I helped as an advocate. I enjoy mediating things, I'm a successful ]er, the City Commission in my ] endorsed a project I'm heading to get the city's factions to cooperate better, and I try to broker compromises when they occur in subjects I'm knowledgeable about (see ]). I believe in mediation, and its potential to avoid conflict, and I personally know of instances where ''POV warriors'' have agreed to compromise. I'm not a perfect person, I've had user conflicts in the past— though all of them have been cordially resolved. I've never been brought before ArbCom or Rfced, and I'm on good terms with virtually all wikipedians, (as far as I know). I believe I will make a good mediator if the committee and community will have me as one. -] 09:55, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| '''Mediation committee:''' | |||
| *'''Support''', looking over your record, I think you'd make a levelheaded addition. — ]\<sup>]</sup> 18:11, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *'''Support'''. ]] 20:36, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *'''Support''', we can always use people with real life experience on the committee. ]|] 12:15, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *'''Support''' - and I believe this was the deciding vote. ] 00:01, July 19, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| '''Outside opinions:''' | |||
| *Support. --] 17:11, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *'''Strong support''', generally a great administrator and editor, also be be a great mediator. ] 21:35, 18 July 2005 (UTC) | |||
| Jimbo : no veto MC : 4 supports, no neutral, no opposition<BR> | |||
| Community : 2 support, none neutral, no opposition | |||
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| I wandered into the arbitration area and saw the many cases that went there and then saw the backlog in mediation. I'm a big believer in trying to get the parties to resolve the issue themselves before escalating. By trade I was a claims adjuster for 10 years, I was on my local school board for 2 years (during a lengthy collective bargaining disagreement) so mediation and trying to find common ground is a big part of my life. I'm very logical in nature, try not to get emotional and have a way of cutting through the bad blood and attacks to get to the matter at hand. Please kindly consider my offer. Thanks!! --] 09:05, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC) | |||
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| *Support. ] (]) 20:14, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *Support. — ]\<sup>]</sup> 03:37, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *Support. ]] 00:33, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *Abstain: Why no since May 26th? ] ] 21:51, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| '''Outside opinions:''' | |||
| *Support. As a particularly competent advocate, however, he'll be missed there. ] 04:43, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *I have to oppose, I'm afraid. ] 23:26, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *: Hey interesting! What's the problem? ] 20:07, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *::I think that Wgfinley has an unfortunate tendency towards rules lawyering, and that this would be counterproductive in mediation. ] 19:14, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *::: I see. Though maybe rules lawyering is a bit what an advocate is supposed to do, if he's doing his work right. ] 21:10, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *::::Considering the degree to which the present arbcom seems to hate rules lawyering, I think an advocate who rules lawyers is manifestly not doing his work right. ] 23:07, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *:::::Of course you're free to your opinion Snowspinner (not that you needed my blessing) but regarding your point I would think the arbcom would speak for itself on that account and seeing as one of them already has here I'm a bit puzzled. If I have a difficult case that requires me to stick closely to the rules that's what I'm going to do, you might not like that (since you've been prosecuting most of the time) but that's what you have to do. Perhaps if you sat on the defense side more often as opposed to prosecution you would have a better feel for it. --] 23:48, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC) | |||
| * <s>Support I think, (unless Snowspinner elucidates perhaps). WGFinley is a pleasant advocate to deal with. I'm curious how he'll do as mediator. :-) ] 20:07, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)</s> Has shown himself to have excellent skills in the mediation cabal, should do fine as a more official mediator too. :-) ] 19:48, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *Support, a good advocate should a good mediator make. ]|] 01:35, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *Support - appears to have a similar "opposed-to-conflict" mentality to the one I feel I possess; thus I feel he'll do well as a mediator. -- ]] ] 23:53, 2005 Apr 16 (UTC) | |||
| *Support – I've been going over some of the previous advocacy pages, and he seems to be an excellent candidate. – ]] 17:20, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC) | |||
| * Definitely. ] ] 11:56, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *I think snowspinner does have a valid point about rules lawyering (I can tell you firsthand that several members of the arbcom, myself included, disdain rules lawyering). On the other hand, I don't really think that has relavance where the mediation commitee is concernced. While Wgfinley and I have disagreed before, from the Netoholic case I think I can say that Wgfinley would make a good mediator. Support. ] 21:45, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| Jimbo : no veto MC : 3 supports, 1 neutral, no opposition <BR> | |||
| Community : 7 supports, none neutral, 1 opposition | |||
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| I can stay calm, make parties that are throught to throught talk (IRL). I have been working with multiple controversial articles, some have very slow progress, but I think there is some progress. Best way to prove is if I get a case. That way I can show you what I am made out of. Thank you for your time. Preferably some article I never touched or people I've never met (for best results). --] ] 07:03, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC) | |||
| '''Mediation committee:''' | |||
| *Neutral: Didn't you just upload some copywritten material and make a fuss when people started treating it as GFDL? I think that ought to be cleared up before anything else. ] ] 21:49, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| '''Outside opinions:''' | |||
| ''Oppose''. Based on my experience today, this user advertises him/herself right now as a Mediator without qualifying that s/he is an informal one. Fails to even accord the most cursory research of disputes s/he intends to mediate; for e.g. aggregated my dispute with Sam Spade — to whom we already have an actual Mediator for, ], with another editor Sam Spade is in dispute with, without even checking to see that the disputes are unrelated and I, in fact, have never heard of the other respective party. Language and disposition appear, at best, lacking maturity, and at worse, abrasive and invasive. That said, Sam Spade has accepted this informal mediator, so if the other party that Sam Spade is currently in dispute with as well (but, again, entirely unrelated to myself), also agrees, then the Committee will be afforded a chance to observe the nominee's skills. ] 12:06, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *I was trying to help. The other party is listed in another dispute in Administrators noticeboard. I assumed you were related. -I do not have to be on the list to help people out. I am sorry I have wasted your time. -] ] 20:44, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC) | |||
| **No harm done. I, nonetheless, urge you to research future disputes you wish to involve yourself in intensively and extensively rather than 'assume' as the resulting errors (which are entirely and easily avoidable) significantly damage your credibility as a prospective mediator. ] 23:58, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ''Oppose''. Mr. Coolcat has attempted to establish himself as a mediator of disputes in which he has a very strong POV; examples include: ], ], and ]. Attempts to force format of talk and resists requests to cease. See current discussions on my ] page (and elsewhere, including archives of preceding talk pages), as well as ] which he likes to transclude into talk pages. ''Uncool.'' — ] 19:06, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC) | |||
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| *I know noting regarding Nagorno-Karabakh. I did not talk about Nagorno-Karabakh in discussion. --] ] 20:44, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *I voiced that opinions should not bet a part of ] article and establishing the article as a solid fact requires concrete documentation from archives. Just google for it and first 10 is pro anti genocide websites. Both sides of the conversation will dispute some of the top 10 pages. There is lots of propaganda on both sides that I do not want to be a part of the article. Apparently that makes me a horrible person. --] ] 20:44, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *As for talk, you are talking how horrible of a person I am, I am making suggestions how to improve the article. --] ] 20:44, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *Greco-Turkish relations my contributions are visible, non to article as it was locked before I arrived, my suggestions are out there. I lived in both countries and I know about their relationship somewhat. --] ] 20:44, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==Some external mediation organizations== | ==Some external mediation organizations== | ||
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- For an introduction to mediation, see Misplaced Pages:Mediation
The Misplaced Pages mediation committee was set up in January 2004 to assist in resolving disputes between users. It is part of the dispute resolution process on Misplaced Pages.
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If mediation fails, the dispute will normally be refferred to the Arbitration Committee for binding resolution. The role of the mediation committee is explicitly to try to resolve disputes to the mutual satisfaction of all, and not simply a first step towards banning or for vetting candidates for the Arbitration Committee to ban. Mediation is instead an honest attempt to resolve the problem. The parties in dispute should understand that any concerns they have will be given a fair hearing.
- The specific ways in which this committee serves the community is continuously developing, as the work proceeds and the needs of the community change.
Members of the mediation committee
Active
(As of June 16, 2005)
- Andrevan - andrevan AT gmail.com
- CatherineMunro - catherine.munro AT gmail.com
- Ed Poor - uncle_ed_poor AT yahoo * com
- Improv - pgunn@dachte.org
- MacGyverMagic - chairman
- Stevertigo - Email
- JCarriker
Inactive
- ClockworkSoul - clockworksoul AT optonline D0T net
- TUF-KAT - tucci528 AT yahoo.com
- Danny 20:53, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC) - daniwo50 AT aol DOT com
- Bcorr - Bcorr AT umich dot edu
- Angela - beesley AT gmail.com - (not currently taking on long cases. Willing to do short term mediations on IRC).
- Anthere - anthere9 AT yahoo.com - unlikely to have time to mediate while on the board, but still interested of course.
- Dante Alighieri dalighieri "at" digitalgrapefruit "dot" com - on sabbatical as of Nov 16, 2004
- Jwrosenzweig - my username (which appears to the left) @yahoo.com - making sense of his own life before he tries to mediate the lives of others
Former members
- Ambi - elected to the Arbitration Committee in December 2004
- Grunt - elected to the Arbitration Committee in December 2004
- Neutrality - elected to the Arbitration Committee in December 2004
- sannse - elected to the Arbitration Committee in December 2004
- llywrch - Geoff Burling - llywrch AT agora.rdrop.com - resigned
- moink - resigned
- Cimon 08:03, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC) - resigned
The first members were appointed by Jimbo Wales in December 2003. VancouverGuy was also appointed, and Alex756 agreed to be the committee's advisor, but both later left Misplaced Pages, Alex756 temporarily. Ldan is not currently active on the committee.
Who is the chair?
User:MacGyverMagic is the elected chairman, but he got so busy that he asked Uncle Ed to chair for a while.
The role of the chair, or co-chair, is one of coordination and facilitation, not of supervision. The role does not imply hierarchy or authority within the committee but allows a sufficient degree of formality so that we have a way of saying "Here's the outcome of the mediation". Appointment to the chair position is rotating every few months. Any member of the committee can apply to be co-chair, and will have be approved by the other members.
All mediators can participate in any committee-related tasks, not only the chairs. Mediators are independent in their choice of whose case to mediate, and how to mediate. Typical roles of the chairs include ensuring that mediators are trained and standards upheld, that mediation requests are answered and that everyone is consulted on important decisions. They may also act as spokesperson for the committee for formal announcements (for example, to announce the failure of a major mediation and the transfer of the case to arbitration).
Former chairs have been Jwrosenzweig, Bcorr, Danny, TUF-KAT and sannse.
How does one become a member of the committee?
- Read through the Misplaced Pages:Mediation pages and familiarise yourself with the procedure of mediation to see if it is something you would like to do.
- Add your name in the nominations section below.
- There is no strict voting procedure, but other users may comment on the nomination if they wish.
- A user shall become a mediator after an unspecified period of time as long as there is no opposition from the Mediation Committee, no veto from Jimbo, and general agreement from the community.
Once accepted, the mediator is welcome to join the mediation mailing list.
Nominations for mediator
Some external mediation organizations
- The Association for Conflict Resolution
- US Dept. of Agriculture Mediation Program
- National Association for Community Mediation
- New York State Dispute Resolution Association
- Conflict Resolution Network Canada
- Mediate.com
- Online Journal of Peace & Conflict Resolution