Wikipedia:Dispute resolution requests

Dispute resolution requests provides a central compilation and easy-access overview of noticeboards for dispute resolution, and details the various different methods used at each of the Wikipedia dispute resolution pages.

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Third opinion ! Specialised noticeboards ! Requests for comment ! Dispute resolution noticeboard
style="vertical-align:top;" \|Request an outside opinion when there is a content dispute between only two users. \|Ask questions and request assistance from users familiar with the content policies and guidelines relevant to that noticeboard. \|Request input on a specific content issue from a broad number of uninvolved users. \|Have uninvolved volunteers facilitate a discussion about an ongoing content dispute.
colspan="4"\|Unsure which one to use? Check out our guide to dispute resolution, or ask at the talk page.

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dispute resolution requests

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Third opinion

! Specialised noticeboards

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|Request an outside opinion when there is a content dispute between only two users.

|Ask questions and request assistance from users familiar with the content policies and guidelines relevant to that noticeboard.

|Request input on a specific content issue from a broad number of uninvolved users.

|Have uninvolved volunteers facilitate a discussion about an ongoing content dispute.

colspan="4"|Unsure which one to use? Check out our guide to dispute resolution, or ask at the talk page.

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Edit warring noticeboard ! Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents ! Arbitration Enforcement
style="vertical-align:top;" \|Report editors who are repeatedly undoing others' edits to try to "win" a dispute. \|Request assistance from administrators and experienced editors regarding recent or ongoing misconduct by an editor. \|Request enforcement against a user who you feel is acting in breach of the remedies described in a closed arbitration case.
colspan="4"\|Unsure which one to use? Check out our guide to dispute resolution, or ask at the talk page.

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Edit warring noticeboard

! Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents

! Arbitration Enforcement

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|Report editors who are repeatedly undoing others' edits to try to "win" a dispute.

|Request assistance from administrators and experienced editors regarding recent or ongoing misconduct by an editor.

|Request enforcement against a user who you feel is acting in breach of the remedies described in a closed arbitration case.

colspan="4"|Unsure which one to use? Check out our guide to dispute resolution, or ask at the talk page.

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Arbitration Cases
style="vertical-align:top;" \|Apply to the Arbitration Committee for an examination and binding decision regarding a long-standing issue of misconduct after all other avenues of dispute resolution have been exhausted.

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Arbitration Cases

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|Apply to the Arbitration Committee for an examination and binding decision regarding a long-standing issue of misconduct after all other avenues of dispute resolution have been exhausted.

Wikipedia:Dispute resolution requests

See also