Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-08-15 Mark Kimmitt

Who are the involved parties?
User:raineybt and User:Gregorywill

What's going on?
User:Gregorywill posted a significant amount of negative information on Mr. Kimmitt, stemming from an investigation done in response to his nomination for Assistant Secretary of State, along with additional information. I removed much of the information, which I have detailed on the talk page, for the following reasons:
 * Information was poorly sourced (WP:BLP)
 * Information was original research (WP:NOR)

The main reason I edited the section was in accordance with WP:BLPSTYLE, which states "Criticism and praise of the subject should be represented if it is relevant to the subject's notability and can be sourced to reliable secondary sources, and so long as the material is written in a manner that does not overwhelm the article or appear to take sides; it needs to be presented responsibly, conservatively, and in a neutral, encyclopedic tone. Be careful not to give a disproportionate amount of space to particular viewpoints, to avoid the effect of representing a minority view as if it were the majority one." I left in a well sourced summarization of the issue and findings from the investigation, which I still feel is disproportionate to the size of the entire article, but which is both NPOV and succinct. In the end, this investigation did not block Mr. Kimmitt's nomination.

What would you like to change about that?
Subsequent to multiple reverts, I put the article back to the more succinct version of the investigation that I had originally edited to. While I think this is still too much space in the article for this issue compared to its importance to the subject, I feel it is the fairest way to summarize the issue.