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Transcendental Meditation

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Resolved:

Inactivity.

This mediation case is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this case page.

Involved parties

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Articles involved

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Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted:

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Issues to be mediated

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  • 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

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  • 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

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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)[reply]
  2. TimidGuy 17:25, 5 February 2007 (UTC) Agree.[reply]
  3. Agree. Tanaats 20:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Agree.(olive 23:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC))[reply]
  5. Agree. Sethie 17:51, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Agree. Duedilly 04:50, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Decision of the Mediation Committee

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  • 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.