Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Iraq War

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Iraq War

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Filed: 02:22, October 7 2007 (UTC)

Involved parties

Articles involved

Iraq War (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
2003 invasion of Iraq (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Rationale for the Iraq War (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted

Discussion at Talk:Iraq War#WMDs found in Iraq.
WP:BRD. Relevant diffs: [1][2][3][4][5][6]
RFC was bypassed because of the number of people who have already commented.

Issues to be mediated

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Wording of lead statement about WMD's.

Additional issues to be mediated

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~~Whether the issues to be mediated should be submitted as an RFC instead~~ ~~withdrawn 1of3 17:22, 17 October 2007 (UTC)~~[reply]

~~Whether chemical weapons in a degraded state ("less toxic than most things that Americans have under their kitchen sink") and produced before 1991 [7] were part of the rationale for the Iraq War~~

~~Whether such weapons should be mentioned in the lead of the Iraq War article as having been found in Iraq~~
- ~~Above by 1of3 02:14, 12 October 2007 (UTC)~~[reply]

Parties' agreement to mediate

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Agree. -- I. Pankonin (t/c) 02:22, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. -- Wayne 07:30, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. --Rise Above The Vile 11:15, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. Dwtray2007 13:49, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. 1of3 16:32, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. Ursasapien (talk) 06:41, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. Sideshow Bob Roberts 19:26, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. smb 23:32, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Decision of the Mediation Committee

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Accept.

For the Mediation Committee, Daniel 11:07, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take this one if it's ok with everybody involved. --דניאל - Dantheman531 23:44, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.