old lefty is not a personal remark it is a political categorisation the old left is a political category and is not related to the age of the person belonging to it when the anon editor denied he was an old lefty i accepted that as the above exchange shows stupid deletion is not a personal remark either it is a characterisation of the editor's action you may disagree with me but that's another matter why don't you mediate if that's what you're here to do on the substance of the matter the deletion of factual material from the article rather than wasting your and my time on trivia