Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Somaliland - Clan System

Somaliland - Clan System

The filing party (the editor who opened this request) will add the basic details for this dispute below.

Editors involved in this dispute

1. Xargaga (talk · contribs) – filing party
2. Koodbuur (talk · contribs)
3. Kzl55 (talk · contribs)

Articles affected by this dispute

1. Somaliland (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
2. Sool (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
3. Dhulbahante (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Other attempts at resolving this dispute that you have attempted

• Talk:Somaliland
• Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Talk:Somaliland.23Clans_sub-section

Issues to be mediated

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)

1. The parties are disputing wether to include the phrase "the Sool region is almost Exclusively inhabited by the Dhulbahante clan" in the article.
2. I believe its an accurate and appropriate phrase to include. To substantiate this I provided reliable sources which explicitly use the phrase, which can be found hereand almost exclusively at P.7, P.10, P.405 respectively.
3. The other two editors however, disagree with this because they believe that it would be not neutral to use this phrase since other groups also settle in the region
4. However, these other groups are numerously insignificant in the region and therefore, I believe it would be correct to use the phrase.
5. Nonetheless, I am willing to compromise and instead use the word predominantly for the article in exchange for the term almost exclusively.

References

Additional issues (added by other parties)

• Additional issue 1
• Additional issue 2

Parties' agreement to mediation

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.

1. Agree. Xargaga (talk) 04:41, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

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. Failed to satisfy prerequisite for mediation #5, "A majority of the parties to the dispute consent to mediation." For the Mediation Committee, TransporterMan (TALK) 16:03, 6 December 2017 (UTC) (Chairperson)