Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-01-13 Refusal of edits to tribal pages

Request Information

 * Request made by: Kcordina 10:22, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Where is the issue taking place?
 * Principally on the articles Salarzai and Tarkani pages, also see correspondance on user_talk:McKhan and user_talk:Khoikhoi


 * Who's involved?
 * Initial User:McKhan and user:Khoikhoi, now also involving me user:Kcordina after I tried to resolve it.


 * What's going on?
 * User:McKhan has created pages Tarkani, Salarzai, Wur and Mamund, which (in my opinion) are not written in the highest quality of English. User:Khoikhoi has been trying to add  tags to the articles, but McKhan has been removing them, and that has gone around in circles repeatedly.  I stumbled across a tagged article and copyeditted it, leaving messages to McKhan and Khoikhoi saying what I had done, and could they please check it for accuracy, as I wasn't an expert.  This led to the edits being reverted, and a tirade from McKhan here (you can see my note to him here).  Recently someone has edited Mamund (in a good way) and had their edits reverted by McKhan.  So, in summary, McKhan is refusing to let anyone touch their articles.


 * ''What would you like to change about that?
 * Mediate with McKhan to explain why a copyedit is needed to improve the articles and get them to allow the edits to remain.


 * If you'd prefer we work discreetly, how can we reach you?
 * The debate is already public, so there is no need for discreetness.

Mediator response
I think this is just a violation of Ownership of articles by the user. I will try to talk to him. Olorin28 00:36, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Since Mcclan has not been active for 10 days, it seems that the dispute had died down. Olorin28 03:09, 23 January 2006 (UTC)