Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Transcendental Meditation

Transcendental Meditation

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Resolved:

Inactivity.

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Filed: 17:25, February 5 2007 (UTC)

Involved parties

Articles involved

Transcendental Meditation

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

WP:RFC [1] [2]

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

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.

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

Decision of the Mediation Committee

Accept:

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

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

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.