Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/26 April 2012/African American

Where is the dispute?
African American

Who is involved?
Many different

What is the dispute?
In the African American article there is a large emphasis on their African ancestry but none at all on their Native American/Asian/European ancestry (even though studies state that around 30% of African American ancestry is non-African). I view this as racist and they are resisting all attempts at including more about the other ancestries of African Americans.

When I first found the article I was extremely shocked at the complete lack of mention of any African American non-African history/ancestry. This is comparable, to, for example, an article about mulatto's without any mention of their black ancestry whatsoever.

What steps have you already taken to try and resolve the dispute?
Lots, talk page, help page, Admin ANI request, etc.

What issues needs to be addressed to help resolve the dispute
I don't know.

What can we do to help resolve this issue?
Block the editors from editing out non-African ancestry information. Place more emphasis on their non-African ancestry.

Mediator notes
Coordinator's note: I'm one of the Mediation Cabal coordinators. There are several problems with your request: First, I cannot see that any other form of actual content dispute resolution has been used, which is a prerequisite to filing here. Second, you've not listed the other editors involved in the dispute. Mediation takes place between editors, trying to help them come to compromise and consensus and when you choose not to list the other editors in the dispute then there's no one else to mediate with. It's not a forum to just get help, in general, with an article or with some dispute you feel is with the community as a whole. Third, the fact that you don't know the issues that need to be addressed in order to resolve the dispute makes it difficult to address or come to compromise or consensus on them. Finally, when you ask that other editors be blocked, that's beyond the power or authority of this venue, all we can do here is to try to help editors who are open to working together to do so. In sum, I'm not at all sure this is the right place for the help that you want, but neither is it entirely clear what the proper place might be. I wonder if what you are really looking for might not best be done with a well-framed request for comments placed on the article talk page, or perhaps by a more general discussion at the village pump. I'd ask that you either re-edit this request to fill in the gaps or indicate that you're no longer interested in pursuing it. Regards, TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 17:33, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Discussion
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