Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-09-12/Bigfoot

Where is the dispute?
The dispute involves the articles Cryptozoology and Bigfoot. Both articles are suffering from POV edits by users who are opposed and ardently for the article topics. The POV edits include inserting unsubstantiated claims of the psuedoscientific nature of the subjects, and IP editors responding with rude comments on the article talk page in return.

Who is involved?
A list of the users involved:
 * On Bigfoot:


 * User:Gniniv
 * User:Timpicerilo
 * User:ClovisPt
 * User:75.166.179.110
 * User:Sean7phil
 * User:McGeddon
 * User:LuckyLouie
 * On Cryptozoology:


 * User:Gniniv
 * User:LuckyLouie
 * User:DreamGuy
 * User:Dougweller
 * User:Aircorn

What is the dispute?
The dispute is between editors who favor Bigfoot and Cryptozoology theories and those who don't. The result is POV edits by inserting unsubstantiated claims of the psuedoscientific/proven nature of the subjects (depending on the editor's POV), and IP editors responding with rude comments on the talk page in return-This last only on Bigfoot.

What would you like to change about this?
The editors involved need to be WP:CIVIL and hold to WP:V and WP:NPOV, and find a good compromise solution.

How do you think we can help?
I would appreciate if WP:General sanctions are applied to both articles (Perhaps Page protection if the situation warrants it), and if all the editors involved are alerted on how they should behave when editing.

Please sign Your agreement or disagreement to this mediation here
''Remember, one disagreement is enough for me to drop the case and send it to RFC or Arbitration Enforcement, whichever seems more appropriate. If mediation is dropped, please do not open another case unless you are sure that you have 100% approval from all involved parties to begin a mediation.''
 * It's already been disagreed to twice on the discussion page. DreamGuy (talk) 16:45, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Mediator notes
Hello, my name is Ronk01, I have mediated several controversial articles, including heated discussions on Prem Rawat (case) and Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (case). I try to keep my mediations neat and clean in terms of discussion space, so you will notice that I am rather picky about what statements go where, this is so that I can accurately judge the direction and flow of the mediation. I do not tolerate personal attacks, edit warring or sock puppeteering. I do also ask that no user talkpage messages regarding this topic be sent until the conclusion of this mediation. If you need to contact me discretely, please use my E-mail at wp.ronk01@gmail.com. Thank you; Ronk01   talk ,

Opening Statements
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Discussion
All discussion relevant to this case other than opening statements will take place on the talkpage of this casefile.