hi john thank you very much for your exceptionally kind words and for all the wonderful things you say about my work on wikipedia i am pleased to say that i have absolutely no recollection of any previous dispute between us and am happy for it to stay way online discussions omit so many of the cues which we use to make face to face communications workable and it's horribly easy for misunderstandings to develop tempers to flare and for any of to be far less than our best i too have shown less than my best at times i hope that i have learned from that as you have let bygones be bygones thank you for suggesting me as a possible arbcom candidate i did briefly consider it but realised that responsibility for arbcom's important role is an incredibly time consuming job there is no way that i would want to commit that much of my time especially since i think i would find a lot of it rather depressing for example years ago i had some tussles with the obsessive longevity tag team long before they got to arbcom the sheer volume of repetitive discussion was exhausting and i don't currently want to commit myself to having to engage with that sort of drama maybe at some point in the future my life will be less busy and i may feel up to offering my services but not now best wishes talk contribs