Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-02-12 Schizophrenia

Request Information

 * Request made by: Mihai cartoaje 03:08, 12 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Where is the issue taking place?
 * The Schizophrenia article.


 * Who's involved?
 * Vaughan and me.


 * What's going on?
 * I don't think a violence section adds tons of value to the article. I remove it and Vaughan re-adds it.


 * ''What would you like to change about that?
 * No violence section.


 * If you'd prefer we work discreetly, how can we reach you?

Comments by Vaughan
Hi there,

The 'Schizophrenia and Violence' section is relevant and fully referenced by articles from peer-reviewed scientific journals. It was addded in direct response to someone attempting to propogate the 'people with schizophrenia are violent criminals' myth (see section on discussion page entitled 'Medication skipping schizos murder people everywhere') so accurate and up-to-date information on this issue seems relevant.

A search on Google will show that this topic is widely covered by a large number of websites providing public information on schizophrenia, and a search on PubMed shows the issue has been heavily researched and discussed in the medical literature.

Mihai kindly picked up a referencing error and some some minor inaccuracies in the original text in this section, which have now been corrected (see 'Changes' section on Talk page) but so far has provided no justification for the removal of the Violence section except that it doesn't add "tons of value to the article". So far, no-one else has objected substantially to its presence.

I hope this helps makes things clearer.

All the best, - Vaughan 10:16, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Mediator response
Case closed at request of initiator. - FrancisTyers 21:27, 19 February 2006 (UTC)