--- Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
The simplest thing that comes to mind is to put the Mediation Committee in charge of the Requests for comments page. I think this would, if we can get enough mediators with enough energy, help address structural issues with both processes.
There are two major complaints made about RfC. One is that the page is poorly maintained and regularly swells to an unwieldy size. The other is that it's not terribly effective, because many requests do not succeed in drawing much comment from people outside the dispute. Each of these problems also tends to exacerbate the other.
Well, there's a couple of use who check and prune the requests quite often, but there's a lot of active disputes at any one time so the page is always quite large :-).
There's nothing to prevent anyone who wants to 'have a go' at mediation jumping in and doing it on RfC and 3rd opinion. I do it. It would be nice if more people did it, too. Perhaps the wording of the pages could be altered to encourage people to try and mediate, rather than make "you're right/he's wrong" type comments.
Dan
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