Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/African American Vernacular English

African American Vernacular English[edit]

Mediation of this dispute has been completed. The case pages should not be edited.

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Resolved:

Inactivity.

This mediation case is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this case page.

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Filed: 03:31, February 8 2007 (UTC)

Involved parties[edit]

Articles involved[edit]

African American Vernacular English

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:[edit]

WP:RFC [[1]]

Issues to be mediated[edit]

Addition of Bill Cosbys poundcake speech in the article as well as other published social criticism of the use of AAVE in professional contexts.

Parties' agreement to mediate[edit]

All parties should sign below, indicating that they agree to mediate the issue. If any party fails to sign, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed.

Agree.Wikidudeman ^(talk) 03:31, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. Æµ§œš¹ _{[aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi]} 13:39, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. Makerowner 20:33, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. Hoary 04:05, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Decision of the Mediation Committee[edit]

Accept:

For the Mediation Committee, Shyam ^(T/C) 07:05, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ill take it. We will use the article talk page instead of here. -Ste|vertigo 09:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.