Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-10-21 Poe Toaster


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Who are the involved parties?
Midnightdreary, Wikipedian1286 (talk)

What's going on?
An edit was made to the article, to include a mugging that occured during the vigil for the Poe Toaster in early 2008. The edit was made in the in the events section of the article, which covers events surrounding the Poe Toaster. Midnightdreary, and I (Wikipedian1286 cannot agree if it should be left in or not. There has been prolonged discussion, but little has been agreed upon.

What would you like to change about that?
Since we are deadlocked, the discussion is growing heated, and no one else has offered any opinion, I think an outside and unbiased observer may be able to help. It would be unfair for either of us to solicit help from friends, so I come to you. Please take a look at the main article Poe_Toaster, and the discussion under the 2008 Mugging section here: Talk:Poe_Toaster

I am very interested in an outside opinion.

Discussion
Midnightdreary has withdrawn, but JayHenry has entered the discussion, and has made immediate edits to the disputed section. Discussion continues. --Wikipedian1286 (talk) 04:25, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I disagree that I am a party to this dispute. I saw a minor content dispute about an uncited piece of information involving an incidental mugging that occurred at an event involving the Poe Toaster (it has since been cited to a police blotter).  I then went to the talk page to note my outside opinion that this is really incidental information.  The Baltimore Sun police blotter literally contains thousands of items a year, and I'm unconvinced there's any significance to this particular item.  I've never edited, nor even read, the article prior to this single pair of edits.  I do not intend to participate in mediation; I will offer my unbiased outsiders opinion--this is an open-and-shut situation.  The (literally) millions of items in America's police blotters this year are not the stuff of which encyclopedias are made. --JayHenry (talk) 04:34, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Dispute settled, edit removed. Case should be closed. Comments always welcome. Thanks! --Wikipedian1286 (talk) 18:36, 22 October 2008 (UTC)