Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2011-01-05/Humble Indie Bundle

Where is the dispute?
The matter is about the article Humble Indie Bundle with User:Masem reverting valid edits without sufficient reason.

The dispute is whether or not it is acceptable to to break out the list of games and their developers into bullet points out from the introductory sentences and paragraphs of the article for improved readability.

See Talk:Humble Indie Bundle

Who is involved?
It's mostly just
 * User:Object404 (myself)
 * and User:Masem who keeps reverting my edits

with the following chiming in:
 * User:Melodia keep inline
 * User:Hahnchen break out for readability

What is the dispute?
Given the long-winded discussion at Talk:Humble Indie Bundle, what it all boils down to is whether the article is more readable with the games involved broken out of their long sentences as per Manual of Style (embedded lists), specifically, the section on the second table which says: "In some cases, a list style may be preferable to a long sequence within a sentence, compare".

Please compare the following revisions/diffs:


 * A) Humble Indie Bundle participating games and developers broken out into list form as children
 * B) Humble Indie Bundle contents all written in-line inside the introductory sentences and paragraphs

Which version is more readable?

"@humble http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_Indie_Bundle Sure could use an update (list of games, formatting, etc) and I'm not clever enough" -bwibbwz
 * Even other people on the internet have complained about the current format of the article via Twitter:
 * with the organizer of the Humble Indie Bundle replying.

What would you like to change about this?
The article has become an edit tug-of-war with User:Masem not providing sufficient valid reason for his diff reverts.

I would like to have this matter soon as User:Masem keeps reverting article contributions wholesale, even those outside the scope of formatting. It's a bit distressing as time is spent crafting and contributing edits and User:Masem does away with all of them with the click of a button.

How do you think we can help?
This is actually pretty much the same as Third opinion, except User:Melodia and User:Hahnchen have chimed in.


 * Step in and simply indicate whether this diff of the article is acceptable as per Wikipedia standards.
 * Resolve whether it is alright to break the game list outside of the introductory paragraphs for improved readability of the article.
 * Indicate which version is more readable: The games + their developers inside the introductory paragraph sentences ("wall of text" in a number of peoples' opinions) or broken out into sentence child bullet points.

IMHO, User:Masem's the definition of the Humble Bundle and his reasoning on reverting to sentence only format of the article are only his personal opinions. In the view of several other users, reorganizing the article and some content into child list forms does not detract from the tone of the article and only improves its readability.

<+sonia> at irc.freenode.net #wikipedia-en-help has opined that the version with the humble bundle games + developers broken out as child bullet form is more readable.

It would be fantastic if you guys could weigh in.

Mediator notes
I'll take this case... This is my first case, so I'm taking a rather easy one (Its getting resolved on its own... I'll just try nudging it forward) Manish Earth Talk •  Stalk 07:53, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * It seems to have resolved itself. There have been no comments for a few weeks. Closing case. Manish Earth Talk •  Stalk 04:26, 5 February 2011 (UTC)