User:Georgewilliamherbert/TSMed

Tony Sidaway editor abuse

Involved parties

• Tony Sidaway (talk · contribs)
• Georgewilliamherbert (talk · contribs)

Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request: Provide diffs showing where {{RFMF}} was added to the talk page(s) of the involved article(s), and {{RFM-Request}} was placed on the talk pages of the other parties.

Article talk pages:

• Foo [1]

User talk pages:

• User:Example [2]

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Tony Sidaway 3
• Various discussions on Wikien-L:
  • [3] and related thread
    • insert particular articles
  • [4] and related thread
    • insert particular articles
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Tony Sidaway again

Issues not disputed

• Excessive signatures are bad for Wikipedia

Issues to be mediated

• Is widespread refactoring of excessive signatures editor abuse
• Should editors refactoring signatures simultaneously engage in good faith discussions to convince long-signature-editors to modify their behavior, rather than simply refactoring

Additional issues to be mediated

• N/a

Parties' agreement to mediate

All parties should sign below, indicating that they agree to mediate the issue. If any party fails to sign, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed.

• Agree. Georgewilliamherbert 19:51, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

• Accept/Reject/Extend: Reason for rejection (if rejected), additional required information (if extended.)

For the Mediation Committee, (Mediation Committee members only.)