Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Shakespeare authorship question

Dispute specifics

 * Involved users
 * , filing party
 * 1)  - now topic banned

As well as many others.
 * Articles concerned in this dispute

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chronology_of_Shakespeare%27s_plays#Fringe_chronology
 * Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hamlet#Political_.22context_and_interpretation.22_section

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shakespeare%27s_plays#Explanation_of_WP:ONEWAY_and_why_it_disallows_the_insertion_of_the_Shakespeare_authorship_question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shakespeare%27s_plays#Is_a_section_about_the_Shakespeare_authorship_question_appropriate_for_this_article.3F

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard/Archive_13#Shakespeare_authorship_WP:ONEWAY_violations

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Smatprt&oldid=355582268#WP:ONEWAY_violations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tom_Reedy#Not_one-way

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:ScienceApologist&oldid=365611010#WP:ONEWAY_violations.3F

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Smatprt&oldid=374276992#Goal.3F

Issues to be mediated

 * Primary issues
 * Whether including the Shakespeare authorship question into other articles about Shakespeare or other articles is a violation of WP:ONEWAY and WP:UNDUE.
 * This dispute has gone on for many months and spread over many pages.
 * Currently the discussion is centred on the Shakespeare's plays article talk page.


 * Additional issues (added by other parties)
 * Concerning the pages listed, and several others, whether a pattern of deletionism is emerging.
 * Whether the Shakespeare Authorship Question is notable, and can be mentioned in certain articles.

Parties' agreement to mediation

 * All parties please indicate below whether they agree to mediation of this dispute; remember to sign your post. Extended comments should be made on the talk page of this request.


 * 1) Agree. Tom Reedy (talk) 21:38, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Agree. Nishidani (talk) 12:44, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) Agree. ScienceApologist (talk) 19:13, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) Agree. Xover (talk) 18:34, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 5) I do not oppose, but I am too busy to be involved. Verbal chat  21:31, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 6) Agree. Smatprt (talk) 14:48, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 7) Added myself. I have only participated in respect of Shakespeare's plays SamuelTheGhost (talk) 14:46, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 8) Agree. Bertaut (talk) 23:49, 4 September 2010 (UTC)


 * A note to mediators. Since Smatprt is topic-banned, and, almost simultaneously, I will be incommunicado on another continent (as I had said over a month ago before this complication arose), with no computer connections for at least three months, perhaps the remaining editors should drop a note as to their intentions, in order to clarify before the mediators what is to be done at this point. Regards Nishidani (talk) 23:01, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

 * A member of the Mediation Committee will indicate whether this request is to be accepted or rejected. Notes concerning the request and questions to the parties may also be posed by a committee member in this section.


 * We are awaiting a response from User:Smatprt, who I have just now notified that this request has been filed. For the Committee, AGK   20:07, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Accept request. Parties, please see WP:RFM/G for a guide to the process from here on in; and also please do watchlist this page. For the Committee, AGK   14:54, 26 August 2010 (UTC)