From: Angela sloog77@yahoo.co.uk Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 05:57:12 +0000 (GMT) To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How and When is Arbitration Invoked?
Fred Bauder wrote: First, is hope of mediation abandoned in this case?
I think mediation has already been tried. Both Ed Poor and I have e-mailed him and many users have tried communicating with him on his talk page, but he now seems to make no contributions other than comments on talk pages criticising and provoking RK.
Yes, informal attempts have been made, but that is not mediation as we envision it. I suggest we try it if the parties are willing.
Third, who invokes arbitration?
Perhaps if anyone suggests it be invoked and no-one objects then it just is. There are numerous calls on the "conflicts between users" page for this user to be banned, so it seems clear that arbitration should be invoked.
Angela.
So, who would decide and what are the procedures then? (Understanding that the mediation-arbitration scheme is not effective until January 1)
You all seem to define the question as "Should Mr. Natural Health be banned" But larger questions exist regarding the scientist point of view and the behavior of his opponents.
Fred