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I was offered and took some informal mediation and when had problems asked on Mediation Request if it went by the same rules, etc. But got no response. Since evidently people DO offer informal mediation here, don't you need something about that? Thanks. [Also asking at dispution.] CarolMooreDC ( talk) 02:14, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
I think this could be a useful addition to the dispute-resolution process policy family. This page previously contained Wikipedia:Mediation Committee/Policy; now that it is free, and this brief outline of the mediation policy exists, we have a very relevant and concise summary of the mediation process generally (rather than in the context of specific organisations, as, say, the pages Wikipedia:Mediation Committee/Policy and Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal are written). My proposal is that we mark this as a policy on the grounds that it documents current community practice for content-dispute resolution. AGK [ • 12:09, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Though I don't want to make the additional change until the mediation community has the opportunity to mull over the new Control of mediation section, a corresponding change also needs to be made to WP:OWN to include an exception for mediation pages. Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 18:24, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
I'd like to propose making this page a guideline rather than a policy. I would like to note a few things:
If there is material here which is suited to policy, perhaps we could redraft the page with this in mind. Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 17:18, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Oppose. — If nothing else, the provisions of this policy which empower administrators to assist in the control of enforcement of rules established by mediators need to be policy, and I suspect that there's more than that, but I haven't looked at it with that in mind. I also feel that your analysis of guidelines as advice and policy as rules may or may not be true in theory, but in practice the line is not that sharp. I appreciate that you may be trying to move back to the ideal, but the genie's out of the bottle. Essays give advice; policies are policies and guidelines are junior policies, ones that you can't get sanctioned for violating quite as quickly as you can the "real" policies. Regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 01:06, 11 August 2012 (UTC)