Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Amphetamine

Amphetamine

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

Editors involved in this dispute

1. Exercisephys (talk · contribs) – filing party
2. Seppi333 (talk · contribs)

Articles affected by this dispute

1. Amphetamine (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Other attempts at resolving this dispute that you have attempted

• Talk:Amphetamine/Archive_3#Statement_that_Amphetamine_is_not_Neurotoxic
• Talk:Amphetamine/Archive_4#Neurotoxicity...again
• [1] was the consensus version, which was then altered without notification.

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)

1. What is the current medical consensus concerning amphetamine's neurotoxicity?

I have very little time currently, as it's finals season at college. I'll be on break in a couple weeks.

Additional issues (added by other parties)

• MEDRS is required for a statement on neurotoxicity, as it is a medical claim (in particular, WP:MEDANIMAL (also - MEDMOS#Careful language bullet 8), WP:MEDDATE, WP:MEDPRI, and WP:MEDSCI must be satisfied).
• Information in a drug article is about humans, unless contained in veterinary section (per PHARMMOS) or insufficient clinical data exist (approx. 80 years of clinical data exist, starting with Benzedrine).
  • I think this issue has more or less been resolved as of today. Seppi333 (talk) 04:10, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
• The above two issues were added by Seppi333 (talk · contribs) and contain opinion/conflict (unlike mine, which was impartial), so I might as well add my own. The citations I added that contradicted their conclusion were MEDRS, but they decided that the only sources that are MEDRS are those that agree with them. Additionally, they insist on MEDRS outside of the scope MEDRS is intended for (when we're discussing speculation and opinions, non-MEDRS is okay).

Parties' agreement to mediation

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1. Agree. Exercisephys (talk) 17:33, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
2. Agree. Seppi333 (talk) 21:31, 8 December 2013 (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.

• Given Seppi333's comment that the issues are more or less resolved, should we close this request now? PhilKnight (talk) 02:05, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

• Directly pinging the parties. @Exercisephys: Is mediation of this dispute still necessary? AGK [•] 09:29, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

• @Seppi333: @AGK: @PhilKnight: I have absolutely no time to work on this right now (so little that I shouldn't even be posting this comment). The bad blood between us has indeed subsided. I may be adding more information to the neurotoxicity section sometime soon and if (god forbid) that kicks up more dust, I'll come back. I'm confident that we're at a mutual understanding now, though. Thanks. Exercisephys (talk) 20:51, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

• Reject. Mediation no longer needed. For the Mediation Committee Sunray (talk) 06:11, 19 December 2013 (UTC)