Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2009-06-8/Sammy Gravano

Where is the dispute?
Sammy Gravano

Who is involved?

 * User:Trilobyte fossil
 * User:PassionoftheDamon
 * User:Radio lone ranger

What is the dispute?
It's not really a problem yet, but I'd appreciate some advice and maybe mediation. I did some fairly drastic pruning on this article. PassionoftheDamon reverted it. Both of us in good faith. I left a note on the article talk page suggesting we find some middle ground.

Radio lone ranger has now reverted the page to my version.

A quick look at PassionoftheDamon talk page suggests he or she has been involved in some disputes on other pages. It looks as though Radio lone ranger may be a single purpose editor (possibly from some previous edit war).

I'd like to avoid an edit war and reach some reasonable compromise on the article.

How do you think we can help?
Some advice on how to handle this? Maybe you'd contact the other two editors to defuse the situation?

Mediator notes
Well, without going into this into too much detail, it seems the issue here with the article is too much unsourced or poorly sourced information, in this revision I see a lot cited to this reference, and a lot of the content completely unsourced. Remember that this is a Biography of a living person, and, as policy states, contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced, whether the material is negative, positive, or just questionable—should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion. However, this seems to have caused some issues. I'd recommend discussing the content that has been removed, and determining whether the material can be properly sourced. If so, then perhaps it can be re-added, but if not, it should probably stay out. Note that I'm just providing drive-by advice, rather than a formal offer to mediate the case. Best wishes, Steve Crossin   Talk/Help us mediate! 22:08, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that, seems like a good summary to me. I'll note it on the article talk page (if you haven't already).  Hopefully, we can avoid escalating this.  Trilobyte fossil (talk) 01:05, 9 June 2009 (UTC)