[WikiEN-l] Root and Branch - it's the only way.

[Ray Saintonge]

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:

> Let's review where the Mediation/Arbitration system currently stands
> in practice:
>
> *The genuine custom for mediation is somewhere between zero and zip.
>
>     *Mediation is requested as a method of trolling. So far only
>     once successfully.
>
>     *Mediation is requested and once it starts, one or both of the
>     disputants will insist on behaving as if it were arbitration.
>     (This has happened more than once, but which cases, I will not
>     disclose)
>
This suggests that they don't understand what mediation is about. 
 Perhaps each party to a mediation should receive an information page 
explaining what mediation is as soon as that process is initiated.

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