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Case		Created		Last volunteer edit		Last modified
Title	Status	User	Time	User	Time	User	Time
Talk:Iranian presidential_election,_2017	1New	Reza Fariborz (t)	6 hours	Robert McClenon (t)	14 minutes	Robert McClenon (t)	14 minutes

Last updated by DRN clerk bot (talk) at 05:30, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Current disputes

Talk:Iranian presidential_election,_2017

– New discussion.

Filed by Reza Fariborz on 23:20, 9 April 2017 (UTC).

Have you discussed this on a talk page?

Yes, I have discussed this issue on a talk page already.

Location of dispute

• Talk:Iranian presidential election (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs)
• 2017 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Talk:Iranian presidential election, 2017 (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs) (added by Yashovardhan (talk) 04:10, 10 April 2017 (UTC). See comment below)

Users involved

• Reza Fariborz (talk · contribs)
• Pahlevun (talk · contribs)
• TheSimorgh (talk · contribs)

Dispute overview

Hello,

We have an user (TheSimorgh) who constantly adds an unsourced individual, as a candidate for the Iranian presidential election 2017.

This user claims that this individual has founded a political group related to Iran.

Two other editors (myself and Pahlevun) removed multiple times the said individual from this page, considering the information to be unsourced, and unreliable (and as for myself, as some sort of hoax/scam).

Please read the talk page to see the arguments from both side, and the edit page to see Pahlevun arguments.

I tried to open a mediation, but it seems the link was blocked by administrators (while the page itself isn't, which means that we'll all continue to edit the page).

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Have you tried to resolve this previously?

Tried to open a ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_mediation ) mediation for this page, but the link didn't worked.

How do you think we can help?

By asking user TheSimorgh to stop adding content to this page, unless proven by valid (and various) secondary sources.

Summary of dispute by Pahlevun

Please keep it brief - less than 2000 characters if possible, it helps us help you quicker.

Summary of dispute by TheSimorgh

Please keep it brief - less than 2000 characters if possible, it helps us help you quicker.

Talk:Iranian presidential_election,_2017 discussion

Please keep discussion to a minimum before being opened by a volunteer. Continue on article talk page if necessary.

• Volunteer note - There doesn't appear to have been any relevant discussion on either of the two listed article talk pages. Is there an article specifically about the 2017 Presidential election in Iran? Has there been discussion there? Either there has not been adequate discussion, or this case is not being filed with accurate information. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:15, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
  • Volunteer note - @Robert McClenon: i figured out the relevant discussion took place at Talk:Iranian presidential election, 2017. I've corrected it above. Yashovardhan (talk) 04:10, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
• Volunteer note - There has been discussion on the article talk page. It has mostly consisted of complaints about editor behavior. Comment on content, not contributors. Please resume discussion on the article talk page. The filing editor has not notified the other editors, and must do so after there has been adequate discussion. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:17, 10 April 2017 (UTC)