Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-03-11/Aesthetic Realism

Where is the dispute?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Aesthetic_Realism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Aesthetic_Realism/drafts

Who is involved?
Just a list of the users involved. For example:


 * User:Michaelbluejay
 * User:Trouver
 * User:LoreMariano
 * User:71.224.206.164
 * User:Will Beback

What is the dispute?
IP 71 was acting as mediator in rewriting the article. He/she became absent on March 1st and since then has not responded to numerous inquiries nor has he/she made any edits. The delay in the rewrite process, namely posting the drafted sections for comment on the talk page for the purpose of finalizing and then posting into the article, is causing great stress. The article has again become unstable.

What would you like to change about this?
We would like a new, neutral editor to assist in getting the editing process rolling again in an organized way. Ludwigs2 has offered his assistance.

How do you think we can help?
We would like to prevent the article from becoming unstable and work through the rewrite using the process IP 71 set up. The process was working quite well until IP 71 became missing on March 1st. Trouver has 3 new sections ready to post for comment on the talk page: Poetry, History, and Race. A committed, neutral editor is urgently needed to begin again the process of finalizing and posting into the article.

Mediator notes
Ok, I've opened the mediation. I need to acclimate myself to the current discussion, but what I'd like in the meantime is if the interested parties could make some opening statements about the problems being encountered. I'll open a section for it on the discussion page, and I'd ask you all to please refrain from cross-talk or from making responses to each other as much as possible - just simple statements at this point are best. it will help me see what's going on.

There will be opportunities for discussion later, no worries. -- Ludwigs 2 23:33, 13 March 2010 (UTC)