Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Covert United States foreign regime change actions

Covert United States foreign regime change actions

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


 * Articles affected by this dispute
 * 1) Covert United States foreign regime change actions


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

Issues to be mediated

 * Primary issues (added by the filing party)
 * 1) The primary issue here is a long-term and rising disagreement over the criteria of which sections (referring to countries and times that were the potential subject of a US covert attempt or action at regime change).
 * 2) This issue has predated my involvement as evidenced in the heavily politicized talk pages above as multiple sections have been blanket reverted as discussions continue.
 * 3) The scope has receded from the deletion of nearly 10 national sections as cleanup and sourcing has improved to 3 specifically.
 * 4) I made the case for why this content was relevant and sourced in the Edit Summaries for my edits and later in the talk page for these 3 sections below.
 * 5) The Soviet Union section was deleted and while still short, is obviously needed as covert actions to affect or entirely change the Moscow government was a goal the United States pursued for the duration of the Cold War.
 * 6) The Iraq 2002-2003 section refers to actions that the US government awarded Intelligence stars for and while the leadup to a public military operation, predates Wikipedia's own agreed upon date for the Iraq War. Dismissing any covert action that preceded a visible policy action would disqualify clearly covert attempts for much longer in other countries, especially Vietnam which had a far less visible ramp-up to the Tonkin Gulf escalation.
 * 7) The Somalia 2006 section also refers to actions in which the CIA worked covertly to oust the de facto government in Somalia through multiple methods resulting in a clear regime change especially in comparison to their previous level of authority and control
 * 8) There are also accusations of personal bias as shown in the talk links above
 * 9) I've been accused of going against consensus. However, not only have other users disagreed with the earlier blanket reversions and the current one, I submit that there has been a clear political bias in deleting any sections possible from this article, even to the point of removing relevant sourced content.
 * 10) While I've only recently updated the Talk page, I've noted the reason for all of my edits and my only personal accusation has been towards the timing of aforementioned users in cooperating to revert and target this article after other editors have given up, to the detriment of its content and benefit.


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

Parties' agreement to mediation

 * 1) Agree. Taospark (talk) 02:57, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

 * Reject. Failed to satisfy prerequisite for mediation #5, "A majority of the parties to the dispute consent to mediation." For the Mediation Committee, TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 17:09, 26 February 2015 (UTC) (Chairperson)