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This page will never be Wikipedia policy. It is, by design, entirely informal. The Mediation Cabal provides informal mediation for disputes on Wikipedia. We cannot confirm or deny our existence. Actually the "Cabalists" of the Mediation Cabal do wish to help you, but problems are much easier to solve when you can laugh about them. |
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The Mediation Cabal is a bunch of volunteers providing unofficial, informal mediation for disputes on Wikipedia. We do not impose sanctions or make judgments. We at MedCabal are not at all official and are just ordinary Wikipedians. We facilitate communication and help parties reach an agreement by their own efforts.
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If you want to help mediate, just pick a case from the list and adopt it. Please join our IRC channel for mediation advice. Be sure to read our suggestions for volunteers. Also check out WP:Catalysts, which provides some sound advice and a framework for informal assistance of any kind.
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[edit] Submit a request
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The instructions are pretty intuitive. Fill out the case request page, giving specific details on what the issue is, and how you want our help. If you want more discretion, you can email our coordinators or go to our #wikipedia-medcab IRC channel.
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Add the name of the main article after the last forward slash.
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[edit] Coordinators
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Cases needing mediators
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If you volunteer to help out a case, please change the template status field to "open." New cases are also listed on the Community Portal page in the opentasks section, which can be updated here.
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Open cases
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To put cases on this list, you must change the template status field to "open." Put all comments on the case pages themselves or in the template comment field.
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Old Cases
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- Volume I - Cases closed prior to December 2005
- Volume II - Cases closed in December 2005
- Volume III - Cases closed January to early July 2006 (partially overlaps Closed cases category)
- Closed cases category - Cases closed from July 2006 to present (organized by dates the cases were opened due to the naming convention).
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