, 17 September 2009 (UTC) 

 :::::::For the record, I am not a meat-puppet of Scuro. I have addressed this in the Talk page for the Arbitration request, and I feel no need to go into it further here. I sincerely wish that LG had chosen to come to me on my talk page if she wished to discuss that particular matter. Given that emotions (and dramahz) seem to be running high over this issue, and given that things have devolved into personal arguments, I think that mediation is probably the best option. All that Arbitration will accomplish is "All Are Punished" to quote the Bard. I think that mediation, with a chance for everyone to step back, take a deep breath, etc, and actually discuss the issues related to the article itself, would be a good thing. 

 :::::::Arbitration is going to just focus things even more on these tangential issues of who said what to whom, who took offense at what, etc. There are actually issues of substance, disagreements over the makeup of the article, that I think are far more important. Mediation and discussion, with third parties trying to keep everyone focused, would probably be far better than any adversarial solutions. After all, isn't this about improving the article (and lord knows it needs some improvement). ~   22:34