Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Maryam Mirzakhani

Maryam Mirzakhani

The filing party (the editor who opened this request) will add the basic details for this dispute below.

Editors involved in this dispute

1. Rezameyqani (talk · contribs) – filing party
2. David Eppstein (talk · contribs)

Articles affected by this dispute

1. Maryam Mirzakhani (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Other attempts at resolving this dispute that you have attempted

• Talk:Maryam Mirzakhani#On the issue of residence...

Issues to be mediated

What is this dispute about? What sections, sentences, or issues in the article(s) can you not agree on? If you are the editor who opened this request, list these issues to be mediated under "Primary issues". If you did not open this request, you can add additional issues to be mediated under "Additional issues". The issues to be mediated would be properly agreed upon later, if this request for mediation is accepted.

Primary issues (added by the filing party)

• The disagreement stems from this particular sentence:"Maryam Mirzakhani (Persian: مریم میرزاخانی‎; born May 1977) is an Iranian[1] mathematician in the United States."

Maryam Mirzakhani's Wiki page states that she resides in US,without providing any hint that whether she's a permanent resident of US or she just has some other form of US residency.Based on this.I edited her Wiki page,change the first sentence so that it includes her residence,but David reverts my edits,without providing clear explanations.I don't intend to rise some "nationalistic"rhetoric,as what David Eppstein (talk · contribs) claims below.Besides,Does David Eppstein (talk · contribs) have any solid proof that she's a permanent resident of US?I agree that she's a tenured Professor of math at Stanford,but does it mean that she's a permanent resident of US??Certainly not!The current sentence uses "in United States",which clearly implies that she's a permanent resident of US.we don't have any solid proof on that.Rezameyqani (talk) 23:47, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Additional issues (added by other parties)

• From my point of view, the article appears to be under attack by Iranian nationalists who wish to downplay the fact that Mirzakhani (as a tenured professor at a US University) is clearly based in the US. Zappatoyed12 (talk · contribs) has been removing mentions of the US from the article outright (mostly reverted by Ymblanter (talk · contribs)), and now Rezameyqani (talk · contribs) is trying to move the same information out of the lead and change US-based to saying that she "currently resides" in the US. But this is purely a content dispute that appears to be resolvable by the usual WP:BRD process, and there is an existing discussion of this on the article talk page, so I don't see the point in Rezameyqani's rush to take this to mediation. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:18, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
• Additional issue 2

Parties' agreement to mediation

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1. Agree. Rezameyqani (talk) 21:52, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

This section should only be edited by a mediator. The Mediation Committee's representative will indicate in due course whether the request is accepted (meaning a mediator will be assigned) or rejected (meaning you will have to try a different type of dispute resolution). If the mediator asks you a question in this section, you may edit here.

• Reject. Fails to satisfy prerequisite to mediation #5, "A majority of the parties to the dispute consent to mediation" as David Eppstein's comments above are plainly not an agreement to participate. However, even if this had not been rejected under #5 it would have been rejected under prerequisite #9, "the Committee has the discretion to refuse or refer back to other dispute resolution venues (e.g. dispute resolution noticeboard, third opinion, request for comment, or additional talk page discussion) a dispute which would benefit from additional work at lower levels of the dispute resolution process." For the Mediation Committee, TransporterMan (TALK) 20:09, 30 August 2015 (UTC) (Chairperson)