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- Editors involved in this dispute
- Bharel (talk · contribs) – filing party
- Phantom147 (talk · contribs)
- 58.110.0.55 (talk · contribs)
- Collect (talk · contribs)
- Orthogonal1 (talk · contribs)
- Edelseider (talk · contribs)
- Articles affected by this dispute
- Malia Bouattia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Other attempts at resolving this dispute that you have attempted
What is this dispute about? What sections, sentences, or issues in the article(s) can you not agree on? If you are the editor who opened this request, list these issues to be mediated under "Primary issues". If you did not open this request, you can add additional issues to be mediated under "Additional issues". The issues to be mediated would be properly agreed upon later, if this request for mediation is accepted.
- Primary issues (added by the filing party)
- Does Malia Bouattia count as a black person or is it just political blackness?
- Should the Black British term classify her? And if so how to phrase it?
- Additional issues (added by other parties)
- Should the lead of the article state that Bouattia is black, although some dispute this view?
If you are a named party, please sign below and indicate whether you agree or refuse to participate in mediation. Remember that all editors are obliged to resolve disputes about content through discussion, mediation, or other similar means. If you do not wish to participate in mediation, you must arrange another form of dispute resolution. Comments and questions should be made underneath the numbered list below, to avoid confusion.
- Agree. Bharel (talk) 20:24, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Demur. This is not "ripe" at this point, and, frankly, any RfC should be widely advertised as this may be a recurring issue for other BLPs. Collect (talk) 20:52, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Agree. Phantom147 (talk) 21:03, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Agree. Orthogonal1 (talk) 22:09, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
This section should only be edited by a mediator. The Mediation Committee's representative will indicate in due course whether the request is accepted (meaning a mediator will be assigned) or rejected (meaning you will have to try a different type of dispute resolution). If the mediator asks you a question in this section, you may edit here.
- Reject. This is, at root, a contest of the closing of the RFC (which I recognize occurred after this case was filed) which states, "The content of the article should present a balanced point of view." that is, that both points of view should be represented in the article. This is, therefore, the wrong venue for this issue. Instead, follow the established procedure set out at Wikipedia:Closing_discussions#Challenging_other_closures. Since that process has not been exhausted, I'm going to reject this request under prerequisites to mediation #1 and #8, either of which would be alone sufficient to reject this case. For the Mediation Committee, TransporterMan (TALK) 03:08, 5 August 2016 (UTC) (Chairperson)[reply]
