Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Racism in Italy

Racism in Italy

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


 * Articles affected by this dispute


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

Issues to be mediated

 * Primary issues (added by the filing party)
 * 1) Users are WP:POV pushing/not allowing Cesare Lombroso to be properly identified as "Jewish-Italian" as most biographers and authors describe him as noted in the MANY citations I have provided. Also, user UnequivocalAmbivalence is now reverting any edits of mine, specifically calling-out a form of racism prevalent under the Fascist regime of Mussolini, namely anti-Sicilianism.


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

Parties' agreement to mediation

 * 1) Agree. Trinacrialucente (talk) 01:36, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Disagree. One user @Trinacrialucente is going against the consensus established by at least three others, misrepresenting sources and edit warring. This will be a case for the 3PR board quite soon if he does not stop. I would like to [WP:DENY]] him this opportunity to waste the time of mediation committee and other editors. FreeatlastChitchat (talk) 06:16, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

 * Reject. Fails to satisfy prerequisites to mediation numbers 3 "the dispute is not exclusively about the behaviour of a Wikipedia editor" and 4 "the parties must have first engaged in extensive discussion of the matter in dispute at the article talk page." "POV pushing', "not allowing", and reverting are behaviors. Moreover, when the discussion at the article talk page is stripped of conduct allegations and comments about editors rather than edits, the discussion which is left cannot be considered to be "extensive", so even if this case had been filed without references to conduct, it would still have been rejected under prerequisite #4. For the Mediation Committee, TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 15:55, 8 January 2016 (UTC) (Chairperson)
 * Then what are next steps here? There is no room left for discussion as these specific editors will not allow anything that in their view seems inflammatory to Jews.  Mentioning that this person was Jewish is not inflammatory, it is a fact of history and relevant to the discussion, since he wrote on Jewish topics, in Jewish publications, wrote a book on anti-Semitism and is characterized as "Jewish" in biographies by most scholars.  How can we get past this impasse?Trinacrialucente (talk) 18:24, 8 January 2016 (UTC)