Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-05-26/Marcial Maciel

Where is the dispute?
If Bisexual should be included in the opening paragraphs of Marcial Maciel Bio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcial_Maciel

Who is involved?
Just a list of the users involved. For example:

Antique Rose
 * emegt
 * tbhotch

What is the dispute?
emgt believes that bisexual should be included in the opening paragraphs of the bio of Marcial Maciel.

Based on two Wikipedia guidelines: 1. "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—whether readers can check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true." In this case of the lagrest Newspaper in Mexico is referenced for determinig Marcial Maciel as Bisexual

2. "Ethnicity or sexuality should not generally be emphasized in the opening unless it is relevant to the subject's notability." It is practically impossible to find an article published in the last year about Marcial Marcial that does not make reference to their sexuality.

The other parts think that Bisexual should not be included, however they provide no valid reference to undo this change

A calm explanation of what the problem is. Be as precise as you wish, but avoid general statements such as "User:X has a POV regarding article Y", as that's usually unhelpful. Provide diffs if possible, but try to keep the description brief. A list of issues that need to be addressed, such as this, would also help.

What would you like to change about this?
to let bisexual stay in the opening description about Marcial Maciel

Here, tell us what you would like to changed. Does the conversation need better structure? Are folks having difficulty communicating? Are they talking past each other? Stuff like that.

How do you think we can help?
If wikipedia guidelines are not being met, in including Bisexual in the opening lines of Marcial Maciel, to highlight them to emegt

If Wikipedia guidelines are not being met by removing bisexual in opening lines, as well as deleting the link to the nationwide newspaper that refers to Marcial Maciel as bisexual, to notify the fault to tbhotch Antique Rose

We are here to help you, but we need to know how. Sometimes mediators will look at a dispute and have no idea where to start, so please help us out. Do note that we will not "take sides" in any dispute.

Mediator notes
Requestor has only made edits on this article and his last edit was this mediation request neary two months ago. Don't believe it was made in good faith. Closing the case. --Wgfinley (talk) 23:04, 24 July 2010 (UTC)