Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/The Spirit Level (book)

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The Spirit Level (book) Formal mediation case Article The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (talk)  Opened 24 Aug 2011 Mediator Sunray (talk) Status Open Notes None view talk edit delete watch Users involved in dispute Somedifferentstuff (talk · contribs), filing party OpenFuture (talk · contribs) Itsmejudith (talk · contribs) Articles concerned in this dispute The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Other steps of dispute resolution that have been attempted Talk:The_Spirit_Level:_Why_More_Equal_Societies_Almost_Always_Do_Better#Third_opinion Issues to be mediated All aspects of article content over which there is disagreement should be listed here. The filing party should define the scope under "Primary issues", which is used to frame the case; other parties to the dispute can list other issues under "Additional issues", and can contest the primary issues on the case talk page. Primary issues The primary issue is regarding whether or not to add the following material to the article: In July 2010, a debate hosted by the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), took place between Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson, Peter Saunders and Christopher Snowdon and was subsequently uploaded to the internet. (REFERENCE) http://www.thersa.org/events/video/vision-videos/rsa-debates-the-spirit-level "RSA Debates The Spirit Level", accessed 30 June 2011(REFERENCE) Additional issues (added by other parties) Additional issue 1 Additional issue 2 Parties' agreement to mediation All parties please indicate below whether they agree to mediation of this dispute; remember to sign your post. Extended comments should be made on the case talk page. Every party listed above will be automatically notified that this request has been filed. Agree. Somedifferentstuff (talk) 10:34, 24 August 2011 (UTC) Agree. OpenFuture (talk) 10:55, 24 August 2011 (UTC) Agree. (Am only editing very sporadically at the moment, though.) Itsmejudith (talk) 08:34, 27 August 2011 (UTC) Decision of the Mediation Committee A member of the Mediation Committee will indicate whether this request is to be accepted or rejected. Notes concerning the request and questions to the parties may also be posed by a committee member in this section. Due to the narrow scope of the request and the small number of involved editors, this case should be relatively simple to mediate, and so the request is Accepted. For the Mediation Committee, AGK [•] 10:57, 1 September 2011 (UTC)