> Thomas Dalton wrote: >> 2009/6/27 stevertigo <stv...@gmail.com>: >> >>> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Thomas Dalton >>> <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>> >>>> 2009/6/27 stevertigo <stv...@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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
