Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-09-11 Priština

Mediation Case: 2006-09-11 Priština
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Request Information

 * Request made by: -- int19h 08:46, 11 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Where is the issue taking place?
 * Article on Priština.


 * Who's involved?
 * User:Int19h, User:Robwingfield, User:Tonycdp, most likely also people who voted on Talk:Priština.


 * What's going on?
 * Dispute over spelling (Serbian: Priština - currently used in the article; "anglicised" Serbian (w/out diacritics): Pristina; or Albanian: Prishtina) of the city name in article title and elsewhere. After a poll on a request to move article from "Priština" to "Pristina" (result: do not move), User:Tonycdp disregarded poll results and edited the article to his preferred version anyway. This quickly escalated into an edit/revert war, and ultimately, page being protected from editing by admin User:Nlu until consensus has been reached. No attempts to reach consensus have been made by editors involved so far (presumably for the lack of options).


 * ''What would you like to change about that?
 * Definite agreement reached on article title so that page can be unprotected and work on it proceed. This could potentially serve as a precedent for similar disputes over other articles about places and organisations in Kosovo (see e.g. Talk:University of Prishtina, Talk:Peć, Talk:Uroševac).


 * Would you prefer we work discreetly? If so, how can we reach you?
 * I think this case would rather benefit from an open discussion. Either way, should you need to contact me directly, all means to do so are listed on my user page.

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