Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2011-02-01/Ramachandra Guha

Where is the dispute?
Dispute involved in use of words uttered by a living personality quoted by me(chimesmonster)in that living personality's biography.The person in question bing Mr Ramachandra Guha, a noted historian.

Who is involved?

 * (signing as RAA Ra Ra your Boat)

What is the dispute?
There is a dispute as to use of a comment made by a living person as his View on a religious goup / civilization(Hindu).Words such as "polluted from source to sea" in a similie to a river(again considered sacred) were used by the personality whose page was being edited by yours truly.

It was then advised that such a source (words uttered by the personality to a major online news portal(www.rediff.com))shall not be used and further discussion was declined by the otehr party who then reverted the edit.Refer to the article here(page 3)

What would you like to change about this?
I believe we are talking past each other.I also believe that the person has a fixed preconcieved idea about something and i could be wrong, but i think it affects this case adversly.

How do you think we can help?
Resolution, I am an interesrted party , and aggreived .I also am unable to understand why the source cannot be used and why inspite of my capitulations , the other party has unilaterally decided to stop communicating.

I also would like to understand the logic behind the prevention of words uttered by the living personality in an article about that very same person.

Mediator notes
It looks like administrator Spaceman Spiff is off-wiki for a while. I will contact the editor filing this request directly and see if I can help. Carrite (talk) 18:22, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Hello there. This is Nicholas Turnbull, one of the mediators here at the Mediation Cabal. I notice this has been hanging around for a while (since 01 February) and in the meantime another case mentioning, Mediation Cabal/Cases/2011-02-26/Ambarish Srivastava, was filed and closed due to no contact from him. Can you please tell me whether these two cases are related and if so, whether anything has changed that may make SpacemanSpiff interested in participating? It may be the case that, if there is a systemic problem on these articles relating to Indian authors and this group of editors, a request for comments may be more appropriate as a next step. --NicholasTurnbull &#124; (talk) 16:20, 3 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Closed. Mediation declined by . NicholasTurnbull &#124; (talk) 17:08, 3 April 2011 (UTC)