Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Black Egyptian Hypothesis

Black Egyptian Hypothesis

 * Editors involved in this dispute
 * 1) – filing party-WITHDRAWN I WISH TO PROCEED WITH AN OR ANI


 * Articles affected by this dispute


 * Other attempts at resolving this dispute that you have attempted
 * Talk:Black Egyptian Hypothesis and earlier discussions on the talk page between the same parties.

Issues to be mediated

 * Primary issues (added by the filing party)
 * Proposed Edit #1-The addition of this sentence: /ref> However, the question of the phenotypical characteristics (skin color, facial features, hair texture) and genetic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians in relation to Black Africans remains a point of study, discussion, and debate.[11] because currently it does not indicate that even if race is seen as a social construct and that is all well and good, the phenotypical characteristics and genetic affiliations are still highly important to many people, especially in African scholarship. The UNESCO conference said just as much.


 * Proposed Edit #2 (see above discussion)-Removing the information of the UNESCO conference-which was 40 years ago before the proliferation of DNA and other archeological studies and as a vote of a non-professional non-Egyptology or Historical association political body on a historical subject hardly representative of current consensus of scholars or the general population today out of the lead an into its own section under "History"


 * Proposed Edit #3-Adding a section on the recent DNA studies of the Ancient Egyptians from 2011 and 2012 which was not available to earlier scholars of the Black Egyptian hypothesis


 * Proposed Edit #4- Adding photos of Ancient Egyptian Art that is specifically used by proponents of Black African hypothesis in the "Art" section and in the "Sculptures and Sphinx" section and in the "Artifacts" section.


 * Proposed Edit #5-(from earlier discussions)-including this in the lead:"Thus, by modern American standards it is reasonable to characterize the Egyptians as "blacks", while acknowledging the scientific evidence for the physical diversity of Africans.”ref name="Donald Redford 2001 p. 27-28">Donald Redford (2001) The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt, Volume 3. Oxford University Press. p. 27-28"


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

Parties' agreement to mediation

 * 1) Agree. Andajara120000 (talk) 00:14, 5 January 2014 (UTC)-Yes I agree.-WITHDRAWN 1/5/2014 I WISH TO PROCEED WITH AN OR ANI

Decision of the Mediation Committee

 * I note that a request has also been made at WP:DRN on this same issue. I have asked the filing party to clarify their intentions. Sunray (talk) 08:38, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note the filing party's withdrawal of this application, above (diff). He's now made an application at ArbCom. Though I rather suspect that he's going to get bounced back to content dispute resolution, this ought to be closed for the time being. — TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 17:51, 6 January 2014 (UTC) (Committee member)
 * And the requesting party has now also been indefinitely blocked. — TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 20:52, 8 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Reject. Substantial attempts at prior dispute resolution are a precondition of formal mediation. This case would have been rejected due to inadequate attempts to resolve the matter via other means. However, as the filing party has been blocked indefinitely, this is now moot. Sunray (talk) 08:25, 10 January 2014 (UTC)