Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-03-17 Donald Rumsfeld

Mediation: 2006-03-17 Donald Rumsfeld
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Request Information

 * Request made by: ka1iban 15:23, 17 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Where is the issue taking place?
 * Over edits for the Donald Rumsfeld page


 * Who's involved?
 * Myself and another anonymous wikipedian


 * What's going on?
 * Dispute over edits by other party, I believe the edits are not NPOV and are poorly formatted but he/she disagrees; talk page discussion is going no where


 * ''What would you like to change about that?
 * I wish the other party would get a Wikipedia ID (currently they're just random IP addresses) so we could talk via talk pages, I've encouraged him/her to move speculative additions to the US response to 9/11 page


 * If you'd prefer we work discreetly, how can we reach you?
 * I can be reached by talk page, etc

not just now
 * Would you be willing to be a mediator yourself, and accept a mediation assignment in a different case?
 * This is, following the Categorical Imperative, the idea that you might want to do
 * what you expect others to do. You don't have to, of course, that's why it's a question.



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