Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Falun Gong

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Contents 1 Falun Gong 1.1 Involved parties 1.2 Articles involved 1.3 Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted: 1.4 Issues to be mediated 1.5 Additional issues to be mediated 1.6 Parties' agreement to mediate 1.7 Decision of the Mediation Committee

[edit] Falun Gong

[edit] Involved parties

• Tomananda (talk • contribs)
• Yueyuen (talk • contribs)
• Mr.He (talk • contribs)
• Miborovsky (talk • contribs)
• Samuel Luo (talk • contribs)
• Mcconn (talk • contribs)
• Fnhddzs (talk • contribs)
• Dilip rajeev (talk • contribs)
• Cj cawley (talk • contribs)
• Fire Star (talk • contribs)
• Sumple (talk • contribs)
• Omido (talk • contribs)*
• HResearcher (talk • contribs)
• Kent8888 (talk • contribs)
• Yenchin (talk • contribs)
• Olaf Stephanos (talk • contribs) Olaf has been a long time contributor to the discussions and it was an oversight on my part that he wasn't on the original list. I strongly agree he should now be included. --Fire Star 火星 19:41, 8 August 2006(UTC)
• Andres18 (talk • contribs)
• Otomo (talk • contribs)*
• Colipon (talk • contribs)
• Jsw663 (talk • contribs)
• HappyInGeneral (talk • contribs)

[edit] Articles involved

• Falun Gong (FLG)
• History of Falun Gong
• Teachings of Falun Gong
• Criticism and controversies about Falun Gong
• Suppression of Falun Gong
• Theoretical and Epistemological studies on Falun Gong
• Falun Gong outside China
• Epoch Times
• Li Hongzhi

[edit] Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

• WP:RFC [1]
• Also, most of the editors involved have previously agreed to informal mediation by an outside editor, CovenantD, who has since left the FLG project.

[edit] Issues to be mediated

• Long standing and seemingly intractable differences about how the article should be presented and worded between pro- and anti-FLG editors (for example, how to contextualise direct quotes from the founder of FLG, Li Hongzhi) that has led to the article being protected since 27 June 2006.
• Disagreement on validity of sources for citations in the articles, Chinese government, FLG websites, Epoch Times, Rick Ross, etc.
• Organ harvesting allegations.

[edit] Additional issues to be mediated

• Daughter articles; amount of, titling of, POV intent or not of their creation
• Discussion on editing the article at Talk:Falun Gong often devolves to acrimonious argument on FLG itself, not the article

[edit] Parties' agreement to mediate

All parties should sign below, indicating that they agree to mediate the issue. If any party fails to sign, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected. Only signatures and "agree" or "disagree" should appear here; any comments will be removed.

• Agree. --Fire Star 火星 14:09, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree --Tomananda 17:22, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. ---Olaf Stephanos 17:34, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. -----Yueyuen 18:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. -- Миборовский 21:28, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. ----Kent8888 21:44, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. --Sumple (Talk) 22:44, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. ----Cj cawley 01:31, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. -- Fnhddzs 04:51, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. --Yenchin 14:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. ----Samuel Luo 22:53, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. ----Mr.He 04:28, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. --Mcconn 17:13, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. ---Dilip rajeev 18:59, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree.-----Andres18 21:28, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. --HResearcher 03:23, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. --Colipon+(T) 20:48, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. --alanmorney 5 October 2006
• Agree. --Jsw663 14:05, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
• Agree. --HappyInGeneral 04:14, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Decision of the Mediation Committee

• Accept:

For the Mediation Committee, —Guanaco 03:32, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

I'd be willing to mediate this, assuming it's not a stale issue. Since there are so many of you, I hope you won't mind if I assume you all agree to me mediating until I am told otherwise. I'm also going to assume public mediation is fine, unless one of you asks for private mediation, or I come to the conclusion that private mediation might be best. Anyways, I'd appreciate it if a few of you let me know if you still need a mediator, or if this has come to some kind of resolution. Thanks! Armedblowfish (talk|mail) 02:09, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Note: I see that you all went to ArbCom, but that your request there was rejected. Armedblowfish (talk|mail) 03:29, 7 November 2006 (UTC)