Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Transcendental Meditation

Transcendental Meditation
 view edit delete watch Filed: 17:25, February 5 2007 (UTC)

Articles involved

 * Transcendental Meditation

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

 * WP:RFC

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
 * 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.


 * 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)

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)