Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Franco-Mongol alliance

This Request for Mediation has been closed. This case was closed at 15:52, 4 December 2007 (UTC) The reason given for closure was: Participants' unwillingness to proceed with the mediation in good faith Parties: If you wish to resume this mediation, please file a new request.

[edit] Involved parties

• Elonka (talk · contribs)
• PHG (talk · contribs)

[edit] Articles involved

• Franco-Mongol alliance (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
• Mongol raids into Palestine (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
• History of Jerusalem (Middle Ages) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
• Mongol invasions of Syria (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

[edit] Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted

• Extensive (multiple archives of) discussion at Talk:Franco-Mongol alliance
• Comments requested at multiple talkpages and WikiProjects
  • Request to move article: Talk:Franco-Mongol alliance/Archive 2#Requested move
  • Talk:Palestine#Request for comment
  • Talk:Knights Templar#Request for comment
  • Talk:History of Jerusalem#Request for comment
  • Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Archive 63#Request for comment
• Formal RfC (RfCHist), at Talk:Franco-Mongol alliance#Request for comment

• ANI thread, and multiple sub-threads: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/POV-pushing by User:PHG
• ANI thread WP:ANI#Editorial and procedural abuses by User:Elonka

[edit] Issues to be mediated

The party filing this request uses this section to list the issues for mediation. Other parties can list additional issues in the section below.

• Deciding on a common understanding of Wikipedia's policy of balance and NPOV presentation of various scholarly sources: should one scholarly interpretation prevail, or should we present in a balanced way the major scholarly opinions on a given subject.
• Deciding which sources are reliable secondary sources, and which are not (example: back cover of a book, medieval historians, author interview, etc.)
• Deciding if or how to best split this article into manageable sections, WP:SUMMARY style

[edit] Additional issues to be mediated

Other parties can use this section to list any others issues they wish to include in the mediation. Please do not modify or remove any other party's listing. Please sign all additions to this section if there is more than two parties involved in this case.

• Additional issue 1
• Additional issue 2

[edit] 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 "agree" or "disagree" and signatures should appear here; any comments will be removed. Comments can be made at the talk page.

1. Agree. --Elonka 00:14, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
2. Conditional agree, see talk page. PHG 05:26, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

   I agree to PHG's terms. --Elonka 07:17, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Decision of the Mediation Committee

A member of the Mediation Committee will indicate acceptance/rejection/other relevant notes in this section. Non-Committee members should not edit this section.

Accept.

For the Mediation Committee, Daniel 02:07, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Note: I purged the issue list in line with the agreement (see notes on talk page). I was confident in my action with all but one - "Deciding how many and what type of primary source quotes should be used" - as I couldn't work out from PHG's comments if this was to be included or excluded. Please enlighten the Committee on the talk page to this effect.

For the Mediation Committee, Daniel 02:07, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

I'll accept this case. -- tariqabjotu 14:31, 8 October 2007 (UTC)