[WikiEN-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

[Fred Bauder]

> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> 2009/6/27 stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Thomas Dalton
>>> <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 2009/6/27 stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hm. Well, as for myself, I was striving for unanimity.
>>>>>
>>>> You won't get it. Dispute resolution is too controversial a topic for
>>>> that. You might manage consensus on some fairly minor proposals, but
>>>> I
>>>> can't see unanimity happening for anything non-trivial.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Well we can count on your support at least. That's called progress, in
>>> my
>>> humble opinion.
>>>
>>
>> No, you can't. I don't support any proposal for a new mailing list for
>> dispute resolution. However, I won't object to one for discussion
>> *about* DR (that's the difference between consensus and unaminity -
>> for consensus you just need people to not object, for unanimity you
>> need their support). I do object to a mailing list where DR is
>> actually intended to happen.
>>
>>
> Needs saying that "dispute resolution" is an ambiguous term. What it
> means in an RfC is not what it means in Arbitration. What it means in an
> edit war is an iterative process by which troublesome points get ironed
> out. What it means in Mediation is some effort to define the grounds of
> a dispute in personal terms. There is long-running dispute at
> [[humanism]] for which one solution would be to make that a dab page,
> and my recent contribution was to prompt the creation of [[humanism
> (disambiguation)]] so that we could see what such a page would look
> like. That dispute might need to be taken to [[Wikipedia:Mergers for
> discussion]], for example. About the only common factor, really, is that
> people in a dispute should be required to say in their own words what
> the content of the dispute is.
>
> So that anywhere where people do so state their view of the actual
> content of an onsite dispute really is a locus of "dispute resolution".
>
> Charles
>

An example of the sort of thing we might discuss on a dispute resolution
mailing list.

Fred