No, because what goes on in mediation, good or bad is inadmissable in arbitration. Posturing as "willing to mediate" will do you no good, nor will "piss on that phoney shit" do you any harm. The reason for this is that mediation is about actually trying to solve problems between users, not building a record to bash each other with.
Fred
From: Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:11:28 -0800 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Jimbo's political theory
If either party refuses mediation, that fact should prominently influence the work of the arbitrators.