Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Skunk (weapon)

Skunk (weapon)

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


 * Articles affected by this dispute


 * Other attempts at resolving this dispute that you have attempted
 * Talk:Skunk (weapon)

Issues to be mediated

 * Primary issues (added by the filing party)
 * 1) Overall, the article has very little information of Skunk itself but many reports of it's use. It makes it extremely biased and of very little use for actual information.
 * 2) The Lead section has already subjective political information. For a piece of equipment, it may have place and time but not in the Lead section.
 * 3) Mentioning and hyper-linking every place it was used in the article and pictures have clear political agenda. (It can be very legitimate but just show the effort was used to politicize the page).
 * 4) Many quoted sources are questionable and biased.
 * 5) All in all, I have never seen seen such biased page. Linked pages in other languages stuck to facts about the Skunk itself and possibly mention in controversy. In English, the article can almost be used as index for any time Skunk was mentioned in the media,


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

Parties' agreement to mediation

 * 1) Agree. Ashtul (talk) 13:31, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) Disagree. Please check the editor's talk page where he has been taken to task for edit-warring, copy and paste plagiarism, breaking 1R and several other matters in a small time period. I haven't complained because Ashtul is a newbie (but with a conflict of interest, having relatives who have settled in the West Bank on Palestinian territory) The editor requesting mediation does not appear to understand that (a) it is normative to mention the uses of such devices on pages dedicated to them (Long Range Acoustic Device,DIME,Crowd manipulation here, Pepper spray here etc.) In addition, the plaintiff (a)doesn't use the talk page (b) engaged in a revert war (c) has not contributed to the page in any substantial way and (d) has engaged in gross misrepresentation above: Skunk has been used with great regularity, almost on a weekly basis over the last several years, exclusively against Palestinians (as far as efforts to ascertain the facts have revealed), and therefore in usage has a political dimension that requires documentation. I have noted several instances of several hundred, a reasonable number given the extent of its deployment. Mediation is taken up when all reasonable recourses have been exhausted. This editor has not shown any interest in exploring even preliminary discussions of the disputed elements on the page.Nishidani (talk) 15:21, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

 * Reject: Fails to satisfy prerequisite for mediation #5 ,"A majority of the parties to the dispute consent to mediation." For the Mediation Committee, TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 16:53, 23 December 2014 (UTC) (chairperson)