Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-07-19 Aircraft of the Battle of Britain

Who are the involved parties?
Minorhistorian (talk) 02:30, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

What's going on?
Constant editing and re-editing. There is contestable and unverified information (which does not follow the guidelines in Verifiability being placed in the article. This material is unsupported by any other source material, and is clearly contradicted by other cited information which is accessible, verifiable and supported by other evidence. It is my contention that Revised section on 100 octane fuel with more reliable and referenced information. is a subjective phrase. In whose opinion is the information more reliable? I would also contend that information by an eminent and well respected author, Dr Alfred Price, is more reliable than an anonymous report which only Kurfürst seems to know about. An explanation as to why the material provided by Kurfürst is contestable and unverifiable has been placed in the discussion page under References to 100 octane fuel, which seems to have been ignored or overlooked.

The use of phrases such as Removed wishful revisionist editing not backed up by any source by Kurfürst is unhelpful; the source material was provided, and can be found on the internet. Much of the article in question was originally a part of the Battle of Britain page: the information therein was accepted as being accurate by other editors and had remained stable for some time. I realise I may have inadvertently given some offence to Kurfürst by some of my comments; if so I apologise unreservedly.

What would you like to change about that?
I intend withdrawing from further edits on this page, to provide a "cooling off period" It would be better for other editors to take a critical, unbiased look at the information added by Minorhistorian and Kurfürst and decide what could be edited or weeded out. Personally, I don't mind if material I've added is deemed to be surplus to requirements.Minorhistorian (talk) 02:30, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * This really seems like something for this area of wikipedia we don't protect pages here.  M w w 1 1 3    (talk) 15:15, 19 July 2008 (UTC)


 * After watching the development of the article, I have to agree with Minorhistorian and now  Dapi89 in that an undue emphasis on German claims has now been incorporated into the article. I have also asked for experienced editors from the WP:Aircraft Project Group to take a look at the article. FWiW The issues that have been raised that were originally in the form of content dispute have now escalated into a heated revert war. Bzuk (talk) 18:00, 19 July 2008 (UTC).

Mediator notes
Case rejected. Page protection has been requested and will soon be done. Offending users have been blocked. Nothing to mediate here.  Mww113      (Talk)       (Review me!) 19:16, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * This case has only one user. Unless there are other parties who have agreed to mediate I will close this case.  M w w 1 1 3    (talk) 15:14, 19 July 2008 (UTC)