Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Sharabha

Sharabha

The filing party (the editor who opened this request) will add the basic details for this dispute below.

Editors involved in this dispute

1. Ankisur2 (talk · contribs) – filing party
2. Redtigerxyz (talk · contribs)

Articles affected by this dispute

1. Sharabha
2. Sharabha Shaivite views

Other attempts at resolving this dispute that you have attempted

• Talk:Sharabha#Removal_of_referenced_content.

Issues to be mediated

What is this dispute about? What sections, sentences, or issues in the article(s) can you not agree on? If you are the editor who opened this request, list these issues to be mediated under "Primary issues". If you did not open this request, you can add additional issues to be mediated under "Additional issues". The issues to be mediated would be properly agreed upon later, if this request for mediation is accepted.

Primary issues (added by the filing party)

1. There are different churches in christianity,various sects n hinduism and islam,even buddhism and jainism,etc as you are surely aware of.If a sect makes a deliberate citation in a scripture to undermine a rival sect,does that need to be vividly detailed in a common forum like wikipedia at the cost of debasing the religious psyche of the victimized sect?I am a devotee of Lord narasimha,and I feel violated reading such articles on my deity,it hurts my religious belief.Allowing such passages in a public forum would tantamount to religious persecution.
2. Further,Lord Narasimha is a popular deity in India with the list of temple dedicated to him listed in wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narasimha

As for sharabha,its a stray entity with obscure origin in some scriptures understandably incorporated by some sectarian fanatics under the pretense mentioned above.There is no temples dedicated to him,no following to the best of my knowledge.Now,please read the excerpt from the wikipedia page “sharabha” : "The Shiva Purana mentions:. Shiva then assumed the Sharabha form. Sharabha then attacked Narasimha and seized him up until he was immobilized. He thus quelled Narasimha’s terrifying rage. Narasimha became a devotee of Shiva after being bound by Sharabha.[18][19] Sharabha then decapitated and de-skinned Narasimha so Shiva could wear the hide and lion-head as a garment.[1][9][20] The Linga Purana and Sharabha Upanishad also mention this mutilation and murder of Narasimha. After the mutilation, Vishnu assumed his normal form and retired to his abode, after duly praising Shiva. It was from here on that Shiva came to be known as "Sharabeshamurti" or "Simhagnamurti".[10][20][21]" There seems to be no purpose to this passage other than the one previously mentioned.The whole article is partisan,and fumes hostility between two religious sects.However,since its referenced,i have not made any plea to pull off the article itself.If i were to read Shiva Purana and come across such lines,that would be a different issue.But suffering such articles in a neutral forum like Wikipedia is entirely different. I hope the mediators in wikipedia find wisdom in allowing the removal of the selected gory and grotesque passages unworthy of discussing deities and provide protection to prevent future reverts. Thanking You.

Additional issues (added by other parties)

• Additional issue 1
• Additional issue 2

Parties' agreement to mediation

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1. Agree. Ankisur2 (talk) 06:43, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
2. Disagree. The user has made hardly any attempt to discuss on Talk:Sharabha#Removal_of_referenced_content.. He has presented no WP:RS contradicting the references or proving the references are false. Only WP:CENSORSHIP and WP:CHERRYPICK is advocated. This is the wrong forum to discuss this. There are no experts of Hinduism here. WikiProject India or a RFC is the right forum to reach out too. Redtigerxyz ^Talk 11:29, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

This section should only be edited by a mediator. The Mediation Committee's representative will indicate in due course whether the request is accepted (meaning a mediator will be assigned) or rejected (meaning you will have to try a different type of dispute resolution). If the mediator asks you a question in this section, you may edit here.

• Reject. Fails to meet prerequisite for mediation #5, "A majority of the parties to the dispute consent to mediation". For the Mediation Committee, TransporterMan (TALK) 14:24, 15 December 2014 (UTC) (Chairperson)