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Yep, the someones are the other participants in a long-standing dispute on a key aspect of music theory, which has been in (content) mediation for about six months. Instead of stalling the mediation, faced with inevitable compromise and my requests for a time-line to resolve the dispute and unlock the page, they've chosen to walk out of the mediation, thus killing it, and to transform it into a personal dispute. The (ex-)mediator is encouraging negotiation of the text that will resolve the dispute, on the talk page of the locked article; I will attempt to move the issue forward there by writing a compromise text that might gain consensus. Strange situation.  (talk) "