Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Romanization of the Russian language

Romanization of the Russian language

Involved parties

• Ezhiki (talk · contribs)
• Kuban kazak (talk · contribs)

Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request:

• Kuban kazak was notified.
• An announcement on the Cyrillic naming conventions project talk page was posted.
• {{RFMF}} is inapplicable as the issue concerns more than one article.

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

Discussions between these two users with occasional involvement of third parties took place at:

• User talk:Kuban kazak/2005#Moscow Metro
• User talk:Kuban kazak/2005#Transliteration
• User talk:Kuban kazak/2005#Metro :(
• User talk:Kuban kazak/2005#A bit more on the metro
• User talk:Kuban kazak/2005#Translit
• User talk:Kuban kazak/2006 1#Новогириво
• User talk:Kuban kazak/2006 1#Okhotny Ryad/Ploshchad Revolyutsii
• User talk:Kuban kazak/2006 1#Your edit summary
• Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)#Proposal of another system of transliterating Russian
• Talk:Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line
• User talk:Camerafiend#Transliteration (Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaja Line)
• Talk:Moscow Metro#Language
• User talk:Ezhiki#Mediation update

Issues to be mediated

• Should the Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Russian names policy (which prescribes using Wikipedia:Romanization of Russian for transliteration of the Russian language) be amended?
• Can that policy be ignored because it does not mirror "common English usage"?
• Should editors be able to ignore that policy because they do not believe it to be correct?
• Can a unilateral exception from that policy be made for the articles pertaining to the Moscow Metro stations (e.g., Template:Sokolnicheskaya Line)?

Explanations, details, and examples will be provided upon request of the Mediation Committee.

Additional issues to be mediated

• Additional issue 1
• Additional issue 2

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.

• Agree.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 15:36, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. --Kuban kazak 13:45, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

• Accept: Mediator to be assigned.

For the Mediation Committee, Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 22:33, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

• I accept an assignment to this mediation, and will contact the parties. -Will Beback 20:01, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

• A new mediator has been requested due to inactivity on the case. I am asking the parties to reconfirm their interest in the mediation, and if they do so, reassigning the case. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 01:51, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

• I am willing to take this case on. --Wisden17 15:33, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

• Assigned to Wisden17. Please keep me informed of the status. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 02:37, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Parties reconfirmation Parties: Please sign below that mediation is still requested/required.

• Agree --Kuban Cossack 10:46, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
• Agree—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 13:24, 31 March 2006 (UTC)