Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/3D Printing

3D Printing

 * Editors involved in this dispute
 * 1) – filing party


 * Articles affected by this dispute


 * Other attempts at resolving this dispute that you have attempted
 * Talk:Balloon

Issues to be mediated

 * Primary issues (added by the filing party)
 * 1) A couple of apparently illiterate users recklessly and repeatedly reverted my contribution, which is very important as it points out a linguistic flaw in using (abusing) the term "3D Printing". That is actually well known in the 3D Printing medium.

This is what they keep reverting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3D_printing&oldid=583087059&diff=prev


 * Additional issues (added by other parties)
 * Additional issue 1
 * Additional issue 2

Parties' agreement to mediation

 * 1) Agree. Sorein (talk) 16:57, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Agree, but this is foolish. The editor has not attempted to discuss their addition, which is completely unsourced WP:OR, and even if true is trivia as the entire industry uses the allegedly "incorrect" term. Certainly not suitable for the lede. Gaijin42 (talk) 17:46, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Agree, but this is foolish. The editor has not attempted to discuss their addition, which is completely unsourced WP:OR, and even if true is trivia as the entire industry uses the allegedly "incorrect" term. Certainly not suitable for the lede. Gaijin42 (talk) 17:46, 26 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Disagree, if he can't be bothered to reference his additions, or at least discuss it on the talk page, and if he's going to harrass me on my talk page, I'm not going to be do any of this, and I don't see that anybody else should either.GliderMaven (talk) 17:51, 26 November 2013 (UTC)


 * 1) Disagree. Sorein (talk) 16:21, 12 December 2013 (UTC) Those two offenders cannot understand the matter because they seem to have no knowledge, either linguistic or technical. Linguistically, they don't understand the origin of the word "print". Otherwise, it is striking that the process has absolutely nothing to do with "printing". Even in the larger article, there are terms on which the described industry still debates to replace the silly "3D printing". It is strikingly obvious that what the crowd names "3D printing" is not any printing. That is only a vulgar term and it is a shame that Wikipedia put up with it. Such destroyers are a plague to Wikipedia and to any such collective project.

It is true that the 2 offenders foolishly deleted my contribution without any reason and any discussion, as if they were the only masters of the page. They showed no interest in the linguistic matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sorein (talk • contribs) 16:27, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

 * Recommend rejection: No discussion of issue at article talk page (or elsewhere), which is a prerequisite for a request here (and indeed for all other forms of mediated content dispute resolution at Wikipedia). — TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 17:43, 26 November 2013 (UTC) (Committee member)
 * Administrative note: I changed this request title from Linguistical contribution on 3D Printing deleted. to 3D Printing. AGK  [•] 23:57, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Based on TransporterMan's recommendation, and the lack of agreement by the parties, I am rejecting this request. PhilKnight (talk) 01:56, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Sorein's note: Wikipedia mediators, please be more responsible. Don't treat matters with torpor.