User:Barneca/RfA

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[edit] Dispute resolution

What started as a brief discussion on my RfA of some of the times I tried to resolve a dispute has turned pretty verbose. So I moved it here. This is some additional information on my attempts, with varying levels of success, at mediation/DR.

• User:24.195.205.252 was falsly accused of vandalism, and then edit warred with other editors to remove the incorrect warning (and subsequent deletion warnings) from his talk page. He stooped to using socks and was blocked. After the puppets appeared, but before the block, I tried to cool things down, but it was too late. The editor contributed 4 more legit edits after the block lifted, then quit; no idea if they lost interest, got an account, got a new IP, or if they felt mistreated and left.

  Relevant threads:

  • User talk:24.195.205.252 (due to reverting, a little hard to follow, so you might look thru the history of that page)
  • Special:Contributions/24.195.205.252.

• User:Careercornerstone was trying to add links to an engineering and technology career-related website across multiple articles. I wholesale reverted, then after discussion, decided they were appropriate, and re-added, only to be reverted by other spam-watchers. I then tried to mediate. In retrospect I was wrong about them being appropriate for that many articles, but it was an important lesson for me, as it was the first time I BIT a newbie, and it lead me to re-assess how I warn first-time editors. Also, I kept cool in spite of being threatened (politely and subtly, but a little unnecessarily, IMHO) with being blocked.

  Relevant threads:

  • User talk:Careercornerstone (main thread)
  • discussion with User:Avraham on my talk page and his.

• Lead Poisoning (LP) and Shooting ranges in the United States (SR): I tried to get a new editor and an established one to stop edit warring. They did stop, without the need for a block, and talk. I looked into the content and references of Lead poisoning a little to try to help. For a while it looked like the new editor might actually join a WikiProject with the established one, but he left instead. Oh well.

  Relevant threads (Note that 72.211.140.52 and Burk8 are the same person):

  • LP history
  • SR history
  • LP talk
  • SR talk
  • new editor IP talk and account talk
  • established editor talk
  • and my talk.

• Video Professor (VP): Stopped an edit war (sockpuppetry and some incivility too), sort of got the two sides talking. Still ongoing, with both sides now discussing on the talk page.

  Relevant threads:

  • depressing VP edit war history
  • depressing VP protection log
  • warning to one user, and warning to the other
  • reaction on my talk page parts one and two
  • RFCU.

  To see how it's going now, see the VP talk page.