Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Shakespeare authorship question

{{Medcombox

| article = Shakespeare authorship question

| mediator = Seddon

| mediator2 = PhilKnight

| opened = 18 Aug 2010

| status = closed

}}

; Involved users

1. {{user|Tom Reedy}}, filing party
2. {{user|Smatprt}} - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ASmatprt&action=historysubmit&diff=394669419&oldid=394468947 now topic banned]
3. {{user|Xover}}
4. {{user|Nishidani}}
5. {{user|Verbal}}
6. {{user|ScienceApologist}}
7. {{user|SamuelTheGhost}}
8. {{user|Bertaut}}

; Articles concerned in this dispute

• {{la|Shakespeare's plays}}
• {{la|Chronology of Shakespeare's plays}}
• {{la|George Gascoigne}}
• {{la|Mary Sidney}}
• {{la|Shakespeare's sonnets}}
• {{la|Martin Marprelate}}
• {{la|Hamlet}}
• {{la|Francis Meres}}
• {{la|Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship}}

As well as many others.

; Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chronology_of_Shakespeare%27s_plays#Fringe_chronology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hamlet#Political_.22context_and_interpretation.22_section

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shakespeare%27s_plays#Explanation_of_WP:ONEWAY_and_why_it_disallows_the_insertion_of_the_Shakespeare_authorship_question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shakespeare%27s_plays#Is_a_section_about_the_Shakespeare_authorship_question_appropriate_for_this_article.3F

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard/Archive_13#Shakespeare_authorship_WP:ONEWAY_violations

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Smatprt&oldid=355582268#WP:ONEWAY_violations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tom_Reedy#Not_one-way

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:ScienceApologist&oldid=365611010#WP:ONEWAY_violations.3F

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Smatprt&oldid=374276992#Goal.3F

; Primary issues

• Whether including the Shakespeare authorship question into other articles about Shakespeare or other articles is a violation of WP:ONEWAY and WP:UNDUE.
• This dispute has gone on for many months and spread over many pages.
• Currently the discussion is centred on the Shakespeare's plays article talk page.

; Additional issues (added by other parties)

• Concerning the pages listed, and several others, whether a pattern of deletionism is emerging.
• Whether the Shakespeare Authorship Question is notable, and can be mentioned in certain articles.

: 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 talk page of this request.

1. Agree. Tom Reedy (talk) 21:38, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
2. Agree. Nishidani (talk) 12:44, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
3. Agree. ScienceApologist (talk) 19:13, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
4. Agree. Xover (talk) 18:34, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
5. I do not oppose, but I am too busy to be involved. Verbal chat 21:31, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
6. Agree. Smatprt (talk) 14:48, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
7. Added myself. I have only participated in respect of Shakespeare's plays SamuelTheGhost (talk) 14:46, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
8. Agree. Bertaut (talk) 23:49, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

:A note to mediators. Since Smatprt is topic-banned, and, almost simultaneously, I will be incommunicado on another continent (as I had said over a month ago before this complication arose), with no computer connections for at least three months, perhaps the remaining editors should drop a note as to their intentions, in order to clarify before the mediators what is to be done at this point. Regards Nishidani (talk) 23:01, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

: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.

• We are awaiting a response from User:Smatprt, who I have just now notified that this request has been filed. For the Committee, AGK 20:07, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
• Accept request. Parties, please see WP:RFM/G#Accepted requests for a guide to the process from here on in; and also please do watchlist this page. For the Committee, AGK 14:54, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

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