Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Harvey W.Scott (sculpture)

Harvey W.Scott (sculpture)

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

Editors involved in this dispute

1. MrX2077 (talk · contribs) – filing party
2. MrX2077 (talk · contribs)
3. Another Believer (talk · contribs)

Articles affected by this dispute

1. Harvey W. Scott (sculpture) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Other attempts at resolving this dispute that you have attempted

• Talk:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Another_Believer#Harvey_W._Scott_.28sculpture.29

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. I added phrase "of Mount Rushmore fame" with respect to "Gutzon Borglum", other party states that it is not needed. He further states if "someone seeking information about either Borglum or Mount Rushmore can do so at the appropriate articles." I raised a concern that readers may not be aware of the connection of sculpture creator to Rushmore, and would have no incentive to read further on borglum or rushmore.

The whole mission of Wikipedia is to increase human knowledge,inspire learning, or to raise awareness of a subject matter,. For example when presented with a work of art, there are two categories of people, there are those who want to be challenged, who don't want to be told what to believe, and there are others who ask what are they looking at and why should they care?. I believe most people are the latter, you only have a small window of opportunity draw a person's attention to the subject matter. I had concerns that Mr Borglum may have been overlooked if it was not known he had a connection to the Rushmore. By his own admission, the other party readily admits he was not aware of said connection.

Furthermore, I do not believe I committed any social harm (acted in good faith, nor did I vandalize or break any copyright laws). Also, any digression from the article subject matter was minor,not a whole paragraph or a multi-page excursion just four words. If anything at all I hoped to create a deeper appreciation of the scott sculpture, the creator,and mt rushmore

Additional issues (added by other parties)

• Additional issue 1
• Additional issue 2

Parties' agreement to mediation

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1. cancel/ it seems a resolution was found. MrX2077 (talk) 01:28, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
2. I am not refusing to participate, but I don't believe this mediation is necessary. We can simply discuss the article's content on the talk page. Besides, I think a solution has been determined, and I have way more things to worry about than this one small clause. Thanks. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:59, 12 January 2016 (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. As withdrawn by filing party. Kudos to the parties for working out their differences. For the Mediation Committee, TransporterMan (TALK) 19:27, 12 January 2016 (UTC) (Chairperson)