Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Forever Young (Bob Dylan song)

Forever Young (Bob Dylan song)

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

Editors involved in this dispute

1. Martindo (talk · contribs) – filing party
2. egghead06 (talk · contribs)
3. richhoncho (talk · contribs)
4. sionk (talk · contribs)

Articles affected by this dispute

1. Forever Young (Bob Dylan song) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Other attempts at resolving this dispute that you have attempted

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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)

{{{undue weight given to a recent contest winner who merely recorded a cover of this song}}}

{{{possible attempt by an agent to piggyback on this page in order to promote the cover artist for profit}}}

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. Martindo (talk) 13:19, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
2. Agree. --Richhoncho (talk) 13:46, 16 February 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: Fails to meet prerequisite for mediation #4, "The parties must have first engaged in extensive discussion of the matter in dispute at the article talk page and discussion only through edit summaries will not suffice". For the Mediation Committee, TransporterMan (TALK) 20:42, 19 February 2016 (UTC) (Chairperson)