UDWiki:Administration/Arbitration
While the wiki community attempts to work on the basis of encouragement and cooperation, there are occasions where wiki users find themselves unable to reach accord. In the event of this happening, the Arbitration Team may be called upon to intervene, and attempt to find a reasonable compromise that, while perhaps not satisfying both parties, may at least assist in defusing the situation, thanks to the unbiased third party.
Guidelines for Arbitration Requests
In assisting in Arbitration, we generally suggest that both parties agree to the Arbitration. This is not, by any means, a requirement, but we do require that both parties be represented in proceedings.
Any Arbitration request should provide at least the following:
- The aggrieved parties. Either person vs person, or [list of people] vs [list of people].
- The reason for the arbitration. This should very specifically be without reference to people, as that information has already been provided. It should be a short paragraph indicating the causes of the aggrievement, and why both parties feel it requires arbitration
- Any pages affected by the aggrievement. This should be a simple list of links.
Once the Arbitration commences, the Arbitrator will request statements from all parties involved. Any evidence to back up one's statement should be provided in link form. Each party will then have an opportunity to rebut their opponent's statement. After these two steps, the Arbitrator will then consider the case, and reach a conclusion, and determine the outcome that is required. It's the duty of the Arbitrator to move a case he accepted to a subpage of UDWiki:Administration/Arbitration, and to update the status of the arbitration case in the Arbitration Cases in Progress section.
As a note, by requesting an Arbitration, all parties are thus obliged to accept the outcome of the Arbitration. Not doing will be considered Vandalism, and such vandalism attempts will be treated as if the vandal has already received two warnings.
After the Arbitration is over, it will then be moved to an archive page. As publicly accessible pages, they may be used to establish precedent in further, applicable cases.
Current Arbitrators
- For guidelines on how to arbitrate, see Arbitration Guidelines.
The following users have placed their hand up as users who are willing to be contacted to act as an Arbitrator. The role of Arbitrator is not restricted to the Administration Team; any user can be contacted as an Arbitrator and use this page for the arbitration, so long as both parties agree to the Arbitrator. Users who wish to place their hand up as an Arbitrator should place their name below on the list, using *{{usr|YourUserPage}}
Also note that not all listed Arbitrators are active on the Wiki.
| Available Arbitrators in Alphabetical Order | |||
Arbitration Cases Currently Under Consideration
| Administration Notice |
| Use this header to create new arbitration cases. Once all sides have chosen an arbiter, move the case to a sub-page of UDWiki:Administration/Arbitration and update its status in the Arbitration Cases in Progress section. |
Iscariot and The Order of Philosophe Knights versus Sarah Aline and The Upper Left Corner
This case is being brought over the location page for Southall Mansion. There is a dispute to the content of that page. The Order of Philosophe Knights have attempted to establish a consensus for the page and enter into dialogue to resolve the dispute. The Order has been ignored by the Upper Left Corner and its addition either summarily reverted or altered into a derogatory format.
Given the history of automatic reversions by the ULC and the lack of response to our attempts to amicably resolve the situation, the Order has decided to pursue arbitration in order to prevent the inevitable edit war and disruption to the community.
I am the Order's designated representative in this matter.
The Order will await the initial ULC response before beginning the arbitrator selection process, however given past dealings, the Order will not accept any member of the Administration team. -- 
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- As the Upper Left Corner seem to show no interest in debating this in any form and thus ensuring harmony on this wiki, I have rendered the page in question as a basic entry, removing all content that caused arguments.
- I will leave this case open if ULC decide to respond. --
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. <== DDR Approved Editor 17:38, 4 September 2008 (BST)
- Thank you for the offer Ashley, but looking through your edit history I cannot see enough edits to procedural pages to entrust this case to you. -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 10:50, 25 September 2008 (BST)
- Thank you for the offer Ashley, but looking through your edit history I cannot see enough edits to procedural pages to entrust this case to you. --
The edit history clearly shows that ULC is aware of this case, it must be assumed then that they are deliberately ignoring wiki procedure and attempting to force an edit war. -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 10:50, 25 September 2008 (BST)
Ok, I'm here. What exactly do you want? The "drama" causing bit has been removed, and I've reworded a section of the page so it sounds nice... Note that there is NO drama in it. Yet you people continue to change it for NO reason. Stop trying to cause drama. Also, I approve of Ash being the arbitrator. Your condescending attitude is not appreciated, Iscariot. -S Aline 05:03, 26 September 2008 (BST)
The next stage is to select an arbitrator. I reject Ash for the reasons already given. The Order will accept Gus Thomas or J3D. -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 07:25, 26 September 2008 (BST)
- Seems fairly straight fwd, i'll do it if Sarah is fully willing to participate as it seems that she's been reluctant to come to arbies about the issue, so sarah if you aren't - don't choose me as the arby-er please. --xoxo 07:41, 26 September 2008 (BST)
- I honestly don't see the point in an arbitration since the part under discussion has been removed from the page, but J3D is fine by me. -S Aline 14:31, 26 September 2008 (BST)
Iscariot, a confirmation please then i'll fire this baby up.--xoxo 15:12, 26 September 2008 (BST)
Arbitration Cases in Progress
Jorm and the MOB versus Zeug and Extinction
| Involved Users | Jorm versus Zeug |
| Arbitrator | Cheese |
| Created | 21:32, 22 September 2008 by Jorm |
| Status | Awaiting Jorm's Opening Statement |
| Summary | Jorm wants all references to the MOB removed from Zeug's United Zombies of Malton portal and from aforementioned portal's wiki page. |
Grimch vs. Conndraka
| Involved Users | The Grimch versus Conndraka |
| Arbitrator | Honestmistake |
| Created | 03:32, 29 May 2008 by The Grimch |
| Status | In progress |
| Summary | Grim wants the ruling Conndraka made against him removed and for Conndraka to cease ruling on adminitrative matters he brings. |
