User:Mediator/tactics
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The User:Mediator Wikipedia:role account is a collective work. Anyone voluntarily listed as one of the User:Mediator/candidates may edit this page on an equal-status basis with the incumbent. Other edits will be considered but may be reverted without notice. Anyone may list themselves as one of the User:Mediator/candidates. Doing so indicates support for this role account and position. It need not indicate support for the current incumbent doing the job. Comments to or about them should go to User_talk:Mediator. Other collectively authored pages are role, spam, handoff, best practices, strategy, watchlist, benefit of the doubt and User:Mediator/candidates.
A current User:Mediator/policy is to record tactics that work as part of its best practices:
- When a user in conflict feels they are part of a persecuted or under-represented group, suggest that they write a biography of some specific prominent person, or heroic event, associated with that group or nation.
- When someone is overly focused on classifying or using some characterization from a particular scientific theory, ask them to include links to a broader article on more than just that one theory, and to attribute the narrower view to the experts who apply that theory. Coax them to write a separate article on that theory if it does not already exist.
- Create a Wikipedia:WikiProject to focus on concerns that more than one user seems to share, to assure them that they are being heard. Encourage them both to join it, rather than focus on fighting those who oppose them.
- Make jokes.
- Encourage self-examination, self-critique and self-assessment.
- Distract.
- If comments are in very poor English, add this:
- Unfortunately, this comment is not in English. The Simple English Wikipedia (http://simple.wikipedia.org) may be a better place to learn the language. In the meantime, please trust the judgement of the others who have commented on your work. They know English usage very well. Thanks - the Mediator.
- Simple English Wikipedia is not a place to learn English! Knowledge of "English usage" is not an indication that one's judgement is to be trusted. Angela 11:23, Oct 11, 2003 (UTC)