[WikiEN-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/6/28 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:
> 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.

I don't think the term is ambiguous, it's just broad. It means the
same thing in all those contexts - an attempt to end a dispute in a
way that best serves the project. Different venues have different ways
of achieving that, but they are all trying to do the same thing.