Group 2 Dispute Results

Proposed Idea

This is what I propose to write on HD Format Talk Page. If anyone has any objections to this, or using this page to discuss it please let me know.

Hi, I am one of a group of students at Harvard Law School who has been given an assignment to become involved in a dispute on wikipedia and help resolve it. We wanted to let you know this to allay any fears that we were alter egos of other parties already involved in this dispute since we have low levels of contributions to wikipedia. Wouldn't one solution to this problem be to create several graphs, showing the historical and future breakdowns of the blu-ray vs. HD-DVD market? That way, not only can you account for future changes but readers will also be able to see how the market developed over time.

I think this is a good way to get people talking, since the main issue seems to be how to address the future change of Warner Bros. to Blu-Ray only, without being misleading. Other suggestions could be to simply have the graph with a caveat (right now the text mentions the change but the graph still lists Warner Bros. as supporting either). The other option, is obviously, the status quo and wait to change it until June. Lk37 12:13, 6 January 2008 (EST)

I agree with Lindsay that we should use this spot to collaborate on this assignment, and she was already doing so as I tried to save the text below. Unless Brad has some radically different idea about how to approach our introduction on the talk page, I'm fine with Lindsay's proposed intro. Do we want, though, to make a suggestion about the multiple graphs right away in the first posting? My only thought is that we might want to have several options to lay out, possibly even with pros and cons. Or that we devise a plan for sequencing our mediation, based on what we believe the reactions may be. Giving all the variants of the graphs in a time progression seems like a common sense solution, although one that might be objected to by readers of the article (vice the discussion of it) as being too confusing or cluttered. (Although a link to a series of graphs with changes over time could reduce clutter and just be an option for those sufficiently interested.) I would also think that this may have been suggested earlier and rejected for some reason, although I've not yet been able to thread my way through the arguments to see if that's the case. I'll do so this afternoon. --Tseiver 12:29, 6 January 2008 (EST)

I'm fine with Lindsay's introduction, although I agree with Tom that maybe we'd like to have a few different ideas to float around. Brad suggests two, either making a series of graphs to account for changes over time or leaving the status quo and making a footnote to the graph. I'd also add the option of leaving the graph but making a heading about the future changes and putting in all the reliable information that's been collected through press releases and newspapers so far.

Also, I know Brad can't meet today, but does tomorrow before class work for everyone? --Anna