Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Skunk (weapon)

Skunk (weapon)

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

Editors involved in this dispute

1. Ashtul (talk · contribs) – filing party
2. Nishidani (talk · contribs)

Articles affected by this dispute

1. Skunk (weapon) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Other attempts at resolving this dispute that you have attempted

• Talk:Skunk (weapon)

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)

1. Overall, the article has very little information of Skunk itself but many reports of it's use. It makes it extremely biased and of very little use for actual information.
2. The Lead section has already subjective political information. For a piece of equipment, it may have place and time but not in the Lead section.
3. Mentioning and hyper-linking every place it was used in the article and pictures have clear political agenda. (It can be very legitimate but just show the effort was used to politicize the page).
4. Many quoted sources are questionable and biased.
5. All in all, I have never seen seen such biased page. Linked pages in other languages stuck to facts about the Skunk itself and possibly mention in controversy. In English, the article can almost be used as index for any time Skunk was mentioned in the media,

Additional issues (added by other parties)

• Additional issue 1
• Additional issue 2

Parties' agreement to mediation

If you are a named party, please sign below and indicate whether you agree or refuse to participate in mediation. Remember that all editors are obliged to resolve disputes about content through discussion, mediation, or other similar means. If you do not wish to participate in mediation, you must arrange another form of dispute resolution. Comments and questions should be made underneath the numbered list below, to avoid confusion.

1. Agree. Ashtul (talk) 13:31, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
2. Disagree. Please check the editor's talk page where he has been taken to task for edit-warring, copy and paste plagiarism, breaking 1R and several other matters in a small time period. I haven't complained because Ashtul is a newbie (but with a conflict of interest, having relatives who have settled in the West Bank on Palestinian territory) The editor requesting mediation does not appear to understand that (a) it is normative to mention the uses of such devices on pages dedicated to them (Long Range Acoustic Device,DIME,Crowd manipulation here, Pepper spray here etc.) In addition, the plaintiff (a)doesn't use the talk page (b) engaged in a revert war (c) has not contributed to the page in any substantial way and (d) has engaged in gross misrepresentation above: Skunk has been used with great regularity, almost on a weekly basis over the last several years, exclusively against Palestinians (as far as efforts to ascertain the facts have revealed), and therefore in usage has a political dimension that requires documentation. I have noted several instances of several hundred, a reasonable number given the extent of its deployment. Mediation is taken up when all reasonable recourses have been exhausted. This editor has not shown any interest in exploring even preliminary discussions of the disputed elements on the page.Nishidani (talk) 15:21, 23 December 2014 (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 for mediation #5 ,"A majority of the parties to the dispute consent to mediation." For the Mediation Committee, TransporterMan (TALK) 16:53, 23 December 2014 (UTC) (chairperson)