User:Mediator/strategy
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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, tactics, watchlist, benefit of the doubt and User:Mediator/candidates.
A current User:Mediator/policy is to discuss strategy here openly and avoid freezing it into best practices yet. It is simply not a mature enough role yet for that to happen.
Elements of the incumbent User:Mediator strategy
- Engage user in conflict only where they can be requested to do something seemingly within their own qualifications. Avoid engaging those who are already a subject of Wikipedia:bans and blocks attention, which is another process.
- Encourage a Wikipedia:WikiProject to focus on mediation and related issues like transformative justice, mindful mediation, consensus democracy and other topics. Keep these on the same User:Mediator/watchlist as the current day to day issues requiring mediator attention, so theory and practice never get too far out of step.
- Mock authoritarian attitudes, especially from those proven incompetent. Make sure it costs something to engage User:Mediator with trivia or raise concerns relevant only to the incumbent.
- Abandon the role when there are at least three fully qualified and willing User:Mediator/candidates ready to do it, and improve it.
- Rely only on Wikipedia:itself to guide decisions about the role of the mediator, including especially Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not.
