All I can say is that you can go to http://boards.wikimedia.org/viewtopic.php?t=60 and judge for yourselves what took place.

Brian (Bcorr)

At 03:31:20 UTC Wed Mar 31 2004 A [name omitted for privacy reasons] wrote:

As Anthere noted, most attempts at mediation have failed. This is because the mediation committee is rude and elitist -- it refuses to "dirty its hands" or make any genuine efforts to facilitate mediation.

After I accumulated several wasted hours of petitioning the committee, they have refused to even attempt to leave some posts (at relevant article talk pages) and invite users to accept or embark upon mediation. In short, THEY HAVE NOT EVEN TRIED TO MEDIATE.

I hope you all have a great deal of fun with your edit wars. You will only have more and more, more and more -- you can ban trolls all day long, there will always be more people to disagree with you. The mediation committee is not doing its job, and the next time someone reverts you without explanation -- you can thank them.

I propose that everyone on the mediation committee be awarded the Barnstar of Banal Bureaucratic Pride.