Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Transcendental Meditation

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Contents 1 Transcendental Meditation 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] Transcendental Meditation

[edit] Involved parties

• Andries (talk • contribs)
• TimidGuy (talk • contribs)
• Tanaats (talk • contribs)
• Sethie (talk • contribs)
• Duedilly (talk • contribs)
• Littleolive oil (talk • contribs)

[edit] Articles involved

• Transcendental Meditation

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

• WP:RFC [1] [2]

[edit] Issues to be mediated

• Article is a battleground between those who practice Transcendental Meditation and those who oppose it
• Preceived conflict of interest among all parties
• Undue weight in terms of the amount of criticism and controversy; also, undue weight regarding critical studies
• Whether sources meet guidelines for WP:RS
• Extensive use of quotations
• Whether specific Criticism sections violate wp:nor#Synthesis_of_published_material_serving_to_advance_a_position
• Citing opinion in the article
• Civility on the part of one editor

[edit] Additional issues to be mediated

• Allegation of undue weight in terms of the amount of criticism and controversy; also, claims of undue weight regarding critical studies ((Restatement of third issue by User:Timidguy)
• Whether or not citations for or a list of all 600 studies that have shown positive results for TM belong in a wikipedia 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.

1. Agree. Andries I am only involved in the dispute on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Andries 16:39, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
2. TimidGuy 17:25, 5 February 2007 (UTC) Agree.
3. Agree. Tanaats 20:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
4. Agree.(olive 23:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC))
5. Agree. Sethie 17:51, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
6. Agree. Duedilly 04:50, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Decision of the Mediation Committee

• Accept:

For the Mediation Committee, Shyam ^(T/C) 07:01, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I can take this case as well. Proceed on the article talk page rather than here. -Ste|vertigo 08:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)