Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2009-05-15/Douglas Hogg

Where is the dispute?
The controversy over Disclosure of expenses of British Members of Parliament in relation to Rt Hon Douglas Hogg QC MP, which I have attempted to discuss at Talk:Douglas_Hogg.

Who is involved?

 * User:GrahamSmith (myself)
 * User:Rwendland
 * User_talk:81.158.209.124 (unregistered user via BT Broadband ISP)

and possibly also:
 * User_talk:81.152.122.80 (unregistered user via BT Broadband ISP)
 * User_talk:194.75.132.188 (unregistered user via BT Broadband ISP)
 * User_talk:81.105.181.49 Winchester College (shared account)
 * User_talk:86.138.184.58 (unregistered user via BT Broadband ISP)

What is the dispute?
In an attempt to put Douglas Hogg's Additional Costs Allowances (ACA) claims into context, I added a table showing the Total Expenses he had claimed using data from the independent TheyWorkForYou website. This was removed by Rwendland. After seeking comments via Talk:Douglas_Hogg I reinstated the table with a revised comment stating "Even though he claimed the maximum possible Additional Costs Allowance in five out of the seven years between 2001/02 and 2007/08, Douglas Hogg has consistently had one of the lowest total expenses claims." This revised comment and the table have now been removed by what appears to be an unregistered user accessing Wikipedia from a BT Internet broadband account.

What would you like to change about this?
I consider the table of total expenses meets WP:NPOV and also believe it helpfully puts the ACA claim into context; it should be allowed under WP:BLP as it is fair comment.

How do you think we can help?
Because the unregistered editor(s) and I cannot agree, I am posting this request for informal mediation. As this is relates in part to a national controvery, it would be very helpful if mediation from outside the United Kingdom could help us ensure all relevant information about this MP's expenses is included in a neutral way (i.e. without any political bias).

Mediator notes
I have started helping mediate this. Discussion will now be at the talk page.dottydotdot (talk) 17:11, 20 May 2009 (UTC)