Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Single-payer health care

Single-payer health care

The filing party (the editor who opened this request) will add the basic details for this dispute below.

Editors involved in this dispute

1. CartoonDiablo (talk · contribs) – filing party
2. EllenCT (talk · contribs)
3. Nbauman (talk · contribs)
4. North8000 (talk · contribs)
5. Thargor Orlando (talk · contribs)
6. VictorD7 (talk · contribs)

Articles affected by this dispute

1. Single-payer health care (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Other attempts at resolving this dispute that you have attempted

• First DRN
• Second DRN
• NPOV Noticeboard
• Third DRN
• RfC
• ArbComm attempt
• Med attempt

Issues to be mediated

What is this dispute about? What sections, sentences, or issues in the article(s) can you not agree on? If you are the editor who opened this request, list these issues to be mediated under "Primary issues". If you did not open this request, you can add additional issues to be mediated under "Additional issues". The issues to be mediated would be properly agreed upon later, if this request for mediation is accepted.

Primary issues (added by the filing party)

1. What constitutes whether a poll is measuring opinion of single-payer or not?
2. Should the polls be expressed as a table or prose?

Additional issues (added by other parties)

• Additional issue 1
• Additional issue 2

Parties' agreement to mediation

If you are a named party, please sign below and indicate whether you agree or refuse to participate in mediation. Remember that all editors are obliged to resolve disputes about content through discussion, mediation, or other similar means. If you do not wish to participate in mediation, you must arrange another form of dispute resolution. Comments and questions should be made underneath the numbered list below, to avoid confusion.

1. Agree. CartoonDiablo (talk) 23:07, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
2. Decline. We've done the dispute resolution route numerous times ([1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]) and the result is the same: CartoonDiablo dislikes the results and shops for a new forum. Not seeing how this will be any different. Thargor Orlando (talk) 23:50, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
3. Agree. Nbauman (talk) 00:27, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
4. I am NOT a party to this dispute. I have just been trying to help have a rational process in place, including using Wikipedia guidelines and processes. My recollection of the history is not clear and thorough but the gist of it is as Thargor Orlando describes. North8000 (talk) 03:16, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
5. Decline per Thargo Orlando. Also, since this merely involves excluding frivolous, contentious material rather than dealing with policy violating material currently present in an article, arbitration isn't required. The lack of consensus for adding it should be enough to settle the issue. VictorD7 (talk) 08:40, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

This section should only be edited by a mediator. The Mediation Committee's representative will indicate in due course whether the request is accepted (meaning a mediator will be assigned) or rejected (meaning you will have to try a different type of dispute resolution). If the mediator asks you a question in this section, you may edit here.

• Reject. Several parties do not agree with mediation. There would need to be agreement of the parties to mediate in good faith before we could proceed. For the Mediation Committee Sunray (talk) 08:29, 10 January 2014 (UTC)