thanks agk for clarifying what you meant by partisan editing the primary matter at issue as stated in my mediation request concerned partisan editing so i surmised on that basis that your comment was a direct reference to the issue of partisan editing and not the now clarified approach to partisan editing i agree with your disappointment that mediation was not allowed to take its natural course viz was blocked by those who did not want impartial mediation to occur if mediation had indeed proceeded as intended by me you might have become better acquainted with the different points of view that exist on the article in question you might further have understood how and why there is no discernable desire on the part of those who are opposed to mediation to consider alternatives or compromise relative to partisan editing as complained of by me