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