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Formal mediation has been requested

The Mediation Committee has received a request for formal mediation of the dispute relating to "Indiscriminate Removal of Relevant External Links in Canadian Charter Articles". 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 13 November 2013.

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. 22:47, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

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Can you activate your email options when you have a chance? (If you are concerned about not wanting to use your personal email address, you can set up a new from Gmail and I can show how to change your Wikipedia settings to that email address). I need to discuss something privately with you. Singularity42 (talk) 01:04, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

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Feel free to contact me at jeremymaddock (at) hotmail.com Jrjm (talk) 05:32, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

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Just so you know, the "About the Author" page at CharterCases.com has been updated, as it was woefully out of date. I have absolutely no desire to brag or make this about me, although given your statements about my qualifications it may be relevant to note that I have been actively involved in litigation before the BC Supreme Court, BC Court of Appeal, Federal Court of Canada, Federal Court of Appeal, Alberta Court of Queen's Bench, Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench, Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, Ontario Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court of Canada.

If anyone thinks that the external links in question are somehow inadequate, I invite them to replace them with better links. If I add relevant links to Wikipedia which are (in your words) "often correct" and other people replace those links with better links, Wikipedia will be much improved as a result.

Simply out of respect for Wikipedia's mediation team and their valuable time, I suggest that we don't make this about each individual link and whether it is the best link in the circumstances. If I place a link which is not relevant or appropriate, individual editors can and should replace it with a better link. I respect such editorial decisions and realize that Wikipedia is continually changing, hopefully for the better. The only thing I take issue with is the indiscriminate removal of relevant links, and their replacement with either dead-end red links or direct links to the raw text of cases which may not be accessible to the lay reader.

Request for mediation accepted

The request for formal mediation of the dispute concerning Indiscriminate Removal of Relevant External Links in Canadian Charter Articles, in which you were listed as a party, has been accepted by the Mediation Committee. The case will be assigned to an active mediator within two weeks, and mediation proceedings should begin shortly thereafter. Proceedings will begin at the case information page, Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Indiscriminate Removal of Relevant External Links in Canadian Charter Articles, so please add this to your watchlist. Formal mediation is governed by the Mediation Committee and its Policy. The Policy, and especially the first two sections of the "Mediation" section, should be read if you have never participated in formal mediation. For a short guide to accepted cases, see the "Accepted requests" section of the Guide to formal mediation. You may also want to familiarise yourself with the internal Procedures of the Committee.

As mediation proceedings begin, be aware that formal mediation can only be successful if every participant approaches discussion in a professional and civil way, and is completely prepared to compromise. Please contact the Committee if anything is unclear.

For the Mediation Committee, User:AGK (talk) 13:25, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
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