Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Andy Whitfield

Andy Whitfield

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


 * Articles affected by this dispute
 * 1) Andy Whitfield


 * Other attempts at resolving this dispute that you have attempted
 * Multiple subheads on Talk: Andy Whitfield about his date of birth.

Issues to be mediated

 * Primary issues (added by the filing party)
 * 1) A couple of users, but primarily, refuse to allow a birth date to be added to the article because they have found some fringe sources that contradict the majority of reliable sources on the matter.


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

Parties' agreement to mediation

 * 1) Agree. Krychek (talk) 21:51, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

 * Reject. I'm going to reject this case under the discretion granted to the Chairperson under prerequisite to mediation #9 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." In this particular case, this dispute first needs to seek advice from the Reliable Sources Noticeboard on the reliability of sources and then, if that does not resolve matters, to file a request for comments and, then, if that still doesn't work, to consider filing at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard before coming back here. If I had not rejected this case on that basis, I would have nonetheless have probably rejected it on prerequisite #4 for lack of extensive recent talk page discussion on this matter; I mention that because unless there's more recent discussion on it via RSN and RFC then there's a pretty good chance that the case will also be rejected at DRN. For the Mediation Committee, TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 13:16, 15 September 2015 (UTC) (Chairperson)