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Hello I have responded to your request on Talk:Andrew Thomas (prosecutor) please list your concerns with which information you find biased and feel free to provide Reliable Sources to support anything you would like added. - McMatter (talk)/(contrib) 01:27, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
Formal mediation has been requested
editThe Mediation Committee has received a request for formal mediation of the dispute relating to "Andrew P. Thomas, Prosecutor". As an editor concerned in this dispute, you are invited to participate in the mediation. Mediation is a voluntary process which resolves a dispute over article content by facilitation, consensus-building, and compromise among the involved editors. After reviewing the request page, the formal mediation policy, and the guide to formal mediation, please indicate in the "party agreement" section whether you agree to participate. Because requests must be responded to by the Mediation Committee within seven days, please respond to the request by 29 October 2014.
Discussion relating to the mediation request is welcome at the case talk page. Thank you.
Message delivered by MediationBot (talk) on behalf of the Mediation Committee. 21:00, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
Request for mediation rejected
editThe request for formal mediation concerning Andrew P. Thomas, Prosecutor, to which you were listed as a party, has been declined. To read an explanation by the Mediation Committee for the rejection of this request, see the mediation request page, which will be deleted by an administrator after a reasonable time. Please direct questions relating to this request to the Chairman of the Committee, or to the mailing list. For more information on forms of dispute resolution, other than formal mediation, that are available, see Wikipedia:Dispute resolution.
For the Mediation Committee, User:TransporterMan (talk) 15:10, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
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Your request
editI am responding to this request made at the rejected mediation page. It would be inappropriate to continue the discussion there so I am taking the liberty of replying here. If you wish to refile, you must do so through the regular request process as you did before, but if you do so in order to mediate your allegations of bias against Fearofreprisal, your request may well be fruitless. Mediation will not be undertaken about user conduct and biased editing is a question of conduct. While bias may affect content, biased editing is a conduct matter not a content matter. (I do not mean to imply that it is or is not prohibited conduct, but only that it is conduct not content.) If bias is the only issue brought forward in the request for mediation, it will be rejected under Prerequisite for mediation #3, "The dispute is not exclusively about the behaviour of a Wikipedia editor;" if substantial content issues are also alleged the case will be accepted if all the other prerequisites are met, but the actual mediation will be limited to the content issues and the conduct issues will not be mediated or discussed. The only places in Wikipedia to seek assistance on conduct issues are with an individual administrator which can be requested on the adminstrator's talk page or through Administrator's noticeboard, through Request for comments/user, or to complain about a specific incident, through Administrator's noticeboard/incidents. Similarly, a mediator cannot ensure that an article will be deleted. Wikipedia has specific procedures for article deletion which you may wish to consider. It may also be possible to simply remove most of the content, perhaps to the article talk page or a subpage, leaving only a stub, but such removals are subject to the ordinary editing processes and must have consensus if anyone objects to the removal. Please note that nothing I've said here is intended to reflect upon or imply anything about the merits of your complaints; I am only providing information about procedure, not recommending for or against its use. For the Mediation Committee, TransporterMan (TALK) 23:19, 31 October 2014 (UTC) (Chairperson)