Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Maine gubernatorial election, 2018

Maine gubernatorial election, 2018

 * Editors involved in this dispute
 * 1) – filing party


 * Articles affected by this dispute


 * Other attempts at resolving this dispute that you have attempted

Issues to be mediated

 * Primary issues (added by the filing party)
 * 1) Should two independent candidates be included in the infobox? I say no, because we've had no polling in this race, so we don't know if either is above the 5% threshold for infobox addition. Namibia believes that that isn't a policy and therefore is irrelevant to the discussion, as the two independent candidates have both qualified for the ballot. We've been reverting each other's reversions back and forth. User:331dot thanked me for this edit, my first one reverting Namiba's addition of the independent candidates.
 * 2) This isn't the first time Namiba and I have run afoul of each other on this page; I believed that donations to candidates should count as endorsements of that candidate, while Namiba did not. After a brief talk page discussion, and the input of another editor who agreed with Namiba that donors should not count as endorsers, I relented as a consensus had formed. User:331dot agreed with Namiba in that case, and in fact was the first one to bring it up on the discussion page.
 * 3) Finally, I believe Namiba's edits lack a certain finesse, for lack of a better term. Their addition of the independent candidates does not follow protocol for infoboxes with more than three candidates (for example, compare the infobox Namiba added and the one in the Maine gubernatorial election, 2010 article.) During our previous dispute involving including donors as endorsers, Namiba deleted endorsers who were not added just for donating a candidate (for example, the DSA's endorsement of Betsy Sweet and Representative Stephen Stanley's endorsement of Adam Cote, which he wrote on the editorial page of a major statewide newspaper), which also had references to back it up. This lack of care in editing is incredibly frustrating, and has made me question whether or not Namiba is acting in good faith.


 * Additional issues (added by other parties)
 * Additional issue 1
 * Additional issue 2

Parties' agreement to mediation

 * 1) Agree. MAINEiac4434 (talk) 02:49, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

 * Reject. Fails to satisfy prerequisite for mediation #4, "The parties must have first engaged in extensive discussion of the matter in dispute at the article talk page and discussion only through edit summaries will not suffice." For the Mediation Committee, TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 19:03, 10 July 2018 (UTC) (Chairperson)