Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Republic of China 2

Republic of China 2
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Filed: 11:10, May 14 2009 (UTC)

Involved parties

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Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted

 * Undoing changes
 * Discussion on talk page: Talk:Republic_of_China
 * Request for comment
 * Third opinion
 * Mediation Cabal


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Issues to be mediated

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 * Whether the demonym(s) of the people of the Republic of China are "Taiwanese", "Chinese" OR "Taiwanese and Chinese"
 * Whether the capital of the ROC is Taipei or Nanking.
 * Whether Taipei should be listed as "provisional" and Nanking as "official" (related to previous issue).

Additional issues to be mediated

 * Other parties can use this section to list any others issues they wish to include in the mediation. Please do not modify or remove any other party's listing. Please sign all additions to this section if there are more than two parties involved in this case.


 * Whether Wikipedia's mediation process is appropriate to determine political questions relating to the identity of a state when in reality the identity is disputed (as shown in various reliable sources). The mediation process should be dismissed because these issues are not appropriate for mediation, in particular, on the grounds of:-
 * the issues involved are political questions, not questions determinable by Wikipedia or its editors;
 * conflicting reliable soruces based on their own various points of view and vested interests;
 * the edit wars relating to these issues have essentially come to a deadlock and no further intervention is necessary; and
 * the mediation process is not a Wikipedia policy making forum and these issues are political questions, the mediation will not prevent future edit wars, and in particular, the process will not affect any editors outside this process. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pyl (talk • contribs)

Parties' agreement to mediate

 * All parties should sign below, indicating that they agree to mediate the issue. If any party fails to sign within seven days, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected. Only "Agree" or "Disagree" and signatures should appear here; any comments will be removed, but can be made at the talk page.


 * 1) Agree. Laurent (talk) 11:10, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) Agree.Huang Sir (talk) 12:47, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) Agree.Readin (talk) 13:59, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 4) Agree.Liu Tao (talk) 20:22, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 5) Agree (but I'm not very available for long discussions for at least a week, see my entry on the talk page of the last mediation for a short sweet position) SchmuckyTheCat (talk) 15:00, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 6) Agree--pyl (talk) 06:39, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

 * A member of the Mediation Committee will indicate acceptance/rejection/other relevant notes in this section. Non-Committee members should not edit this section ; all comments should go on the talk page, unless a party is specifically requested to reply here by a Committee member.


 * Accept. For the Mediation Committee, AGK 18:35, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I can mediate. Andre (talk) 17:50, 16 June 2009 (UTC)