Formal mediation is an advanced stage of Wikipedia's dispute resolution process. Requests for mediation is used by a party to a complex dispute to propose to the Committee and to the other parties of the disagreement that formal mediation be attempted. The Mediation Committee will only consider disagreements over encyclopedia content—rather than user conduct or actions—and that have remained unresolved after undergoing earlier processes of dispute resolution. (Further guidance is given later.) Mediation is a formal but voluntary process which does not impose resolutions to a dispute on the parties (arbitrates or adjudicates) but rather guides the parties through discussions towards a remedy acceptable to all (facilitates). To file a request for mediation, please skip to #To file a request. Mediation is a process which is only workable with a willingness on the part of all involved to participate; as such, after filing a request, every party must indicate his acceptance within seven days on the case page in order for the dispute to be eligible for mediation. For a guide to filing a request for mediation, see this page.
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[edit] New requests | New requests are listed in this section automatically by MediationBot. | | Please don't list your case by hand; the Committee has provided a Mediation request box for convenient listing above. (Even trivial changes to this page are liable to break the case management bot.) | [edit] Byzantine Empire [edit] Involved parties - Monsieurdl (talk · contribs), filing party
- Cody7777777 (talk · contribs)
- Future Perfect at Sunrise (talk · contribs)
- Tom harrison (talk · contribs)
- Cplakidas (talk · contribs)
- Dinkytown (talk · contribs) Self invited/served
- Deacon of Pndapetzim (talk · contribs)
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[edit] Articles involved - [1], consensus discussion in the talk page
- [2], RfC from other editors
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[edit] Issues to be mediated - The party filing this request uses this section to list the issues for mediation. Other parties can list additional issues in the section below.
- Consensus has been reached to remove the successor states from the infobox, and to include them in the article. Removing the successor states was accomplished, and enough time is needed to include all successor states in a section, but Cody7777777 refuses to accept the consensus, and has constantly reverted the removal in the infobox despite warnings not to do so on several occasions.
[edit] 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.
- Additional issue 1.
- Additional issue 2.
[edit] 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.
Agree. Monsieurdl mon talk 23:11, 14 November 2009 (UTC) - Postpone. I am going to postpone this RfM until the complaint over edit warring here is resolved, as it might render a mediation here moot. Monsieurdl mon talk 21:48, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
- Agree, though with reservations (see talk). Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:17, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry, but No. Tom Harrison Talk 14:06, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
- Agree (please see the talk page for more explanations). Cody7777777 (talk) 17:57, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
- Disagree, See talk page. Dinkytown (talk) 01:55, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
- Agree.Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 04:25, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
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[edit] Andrew Mango [edit] Involved parties - Kansas Bear (talk · contribs),
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- That Constantinople is historically accurate name of the city until 1930. Turkish Postal Law itself is used to indicate the change of name for the city.
- Andrew Mango is 1)Not a historian, 2)Is a writer intent on selling books within Turkey, therefore uses the historically incorrect name of "Istanbul" to garner sales.
[edit] 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.
- Additional issue 1.
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[edit] 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.
- Agree. --Kansas Bear (talk) 03:56, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
- Agree. Todd (talk) 19:45, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
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[edit] Zeno's paradoxes [edit] Involved parties - Steaphen (talk · contribs), filing party
- Ansgarf (talk · contribs)
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- Issue 1. Statements inferring or directly stating that infinite-series solutions are able to explain, or solve Zeno's Paradoxes. We now know that such methods cannot do so, and yet the main article still includes suggestions that this is relevant to the solution of the paradoxes.
- Issue 2. Continued intransigence of parties who suggest theories or statements that have no basis in fact.
- Issue 3. The failure to observe scientific and journalistic standards, and Wikipedian policies. For example, one of the main issues is the statement that "Using ordinary mathematics we can arrive at a specific time when and place where Achilles would be able to catch up to the tortoise." In the previous informal mediation, a request was made for reliable sources in support of this statement. None were provided, yet the statement remains on the main page. This is a clear and unambiguous breach of Wikipedia policy. As the initiator of this mediation, I provided reliable sources in support of my statements that provided a more accurate description of the subject. None were provided to support the arguments of those who assert that "Using ordinary mathematics we can arrive at a specific time when and place where Achilles would be able to catch up to the tortoise."
- Issue 4. Provision of a Reliable Source stating that using infinite-series, or any geometric expression, we may fully, precisely and correctly define and describe the movement of bodies (of any size, be they atomic, molecular, organic, or large-bodies). This Reliable Source would then need to explain how such an expression supersedes the Uncertainty Principle of quantum mechanics which denies the possibility of doing so.
- Issue 5. The need for setting clear guidelines that disallow statements concerning the motion of physical objects (e.g. Zeno's runner, arrow or tortoise) that cannot be correlated with observable experimental evidence. That is, the setting of guidelines which disallow speculative ideas (e.g. application of infinite-series to 'solve' Zeno's Paradoxes), irrespective of however many respondents might wish were true.
- Issue 6. Correction to the misunderstandings of quantum mechanics, by which the respondent then attempts to reassert the applicability of infinite-series/geometric expression as being valid or relevant to solving Zeno's Paradoxes. In particular JimWae's misunderstanding that the Uncertainty Principle limits measurement (of the movement of physical things) due to technological or physical limitations. There are Reliable Sources who affirm that Uncertainty (or more correctly, possibility) is embedded in nature to such an extent that the underlying ground, or true nature will not be fully revealed by any mathematical expression, or physical experimentation. Thus, any definitive mathematical or geometric expression, when applied to the subject of Zeno's Paradoxes is invalid, and needs to be clarified as such on the main page. Unless a Reliable Source can state otherwise.
- Issue 7. Clear guidelines for those contributors who rely on conjecture in support of their statements, as exemplified by Ansgarf and others who "hope to expect a mechanical world down there" (below Planck distances and times). An encyclopaedia is no place for hoping "to expect", and certainly no place for then offering theoretical solutions based on said hopes and expectations. Reliable Sources can be provided who assert that there is simply no fully identifiable, measurable, mechanical world "down there" as any such identification and measurement violates the Uncertainty Principle of quantum mechanics.Steaphen (talk) 23:40, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] 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.
- Additional issue 1. The offering of ideas, suggestions or theories relating to Zeno's Paradoxes that are not able to be verified in fact. Particularly, the continued practice of citing infinite-series/arithmetic/mathematical solutions while knowing that such treatments fail at increments in movement that are well covered and confirmed by quantum theory and experiment.
- Additional issue 2. The continued refusal to accept that nobody cites infinite-series solution as solution for the case that space and time are not dense, i.e. if time and space increase in minimal non-zero increments.Ansgarf (talk) 04:10, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Additional Issue 3. Mathematical correctness of infinite-series solutions in a dense time/space model, even though this might not apply to a particular physical problem.Ansgarf (talk) 04:10, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Additional Issue 4. Acknowledge the fact that if time and space increases in minimal non-zero increments, Zeno would be unable to construct an infinite series of distances between Achilles and tortoise, or Homer and the bus. Ansgarf (talk) 04:10, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Additional Issue 5. Suitability of mathematical theories that involve infinite-series solutions, such as differential equations, integrals, and limits, to describe physical phenomena.Ansgarf (talk) 04:10, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Additional Issue 6. The question whether Zeno's paradox is a thought experiment, aiming to show that the observation of physical motion is an illusion. Ansgarf (talk) 04:10, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Additional Issue 7. Recognition that mathematical calculations are part of the history of the paradoxes, and so are relevant to the article. There is no need to bring quantum mechanics in as the primary source of uncertainty in whatever calculation comes from mathematics. All calculations involving measurements are limited by the precision of the measurements they start with. --JimWae (talk) 10:29, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Additional Issue 8. Recognition that Quantum theory is silent on whether space and time are in fact discrete. Most physicists do not maintain that objects really "jump" through space and time - even if they sometimes find that model useful. QM places theoretical limitations on how small a space or time can be measured or physically distinguished, not on how small a space and time there can be. QM does not stop us from wondering what happens between Planck units, even though that question cannot be answered by science.--JimWae (talk) 10:29, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Additional Issue 9. Recognition that the article does not currently state that the paradoxes are resolved, nor should it. It does state that the mathematical issues are resolved (at least as far as nearly all mathematicians are concerned). The article presently notes that philosophers remark that finding the sum is not the same as completing the run. --JimWae (talk) 09:46, 8 November 2009 (UTC)--JimWae (talk) 10:29, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Additional Issue 10. Recognition that the talk page is not a place to carry on endless musings about "scientific proofs" one has made regarding the paradoxes, nor to repeatedly request that people would be enlightened if they would but read one's "take" on some other site--JimWae (talk) 09:54, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Additional Issue 11. Initiator seems to maintain that QM defeats the mathematical approach, and so preserves the paradoxes. But initiator's version of QM (that space "really is" discrete) itself defeats the paradoxes, for then there is no infinite series to complete. I have seen no reliable source for this position. The paradoxes are not about finding the precise point in space and time at which Achilles completes the task (nor do we need QM to remark there are limits to how precise we can be about that). They ZPs are about, given the model of space and time in which between any two points there is still another point, whether the task can be completed at all.--JimWae (talk) 10:27, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
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- Agree. Steaphen (talk) 02:05, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Agree.Ansgarf (talk) 02:23, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Agree. --JimWae (talk) 09:54, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
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