User:KimvdLinde/SV-RfAR/IA mediation

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

During the Israeli apartheid ArbCom case, SlimVirgin tried to organize a request for mediation. I added my opinion what should be mediated [1], and I indicated that I wanted to stay neutral because I had been the informal mediator [2] and add my name with a small comment explaining my position and the odd category (normally accept or reject). So far so good.

Next thing, SlimVirgin removes my comment [3] after which I remove my signature [4]. because I felt it was not her position as the requester to determine what can and cannot be done. After some more comments were added by other participants, she removes most of them removing comments that are not about issues needing to be mediated, after which she refractors my and her statements refactored issues section; please do not change this; it is only intended to guide the mediator after which I decide that the trust needed for mediation is absent and object against the mediation [5] and before I can explain it, she already responds at the talk page [6] clearly aware why I changed to oppose. I then indicate my motivation [7]. At he same time, an e-mail conversation is already ongoing between me and SlimVirgin. (see http://www.kimvdlinde.com/wikipedia/SV_KvdL_Email.html). In the last e-mail, she states:

We don't need your agreement, because you say you were there as a mediator and not as an editor, but it would be good to have you on board, because you have a good grasp of the issues and you made constructive suggestions.

Which sounds perfectly clear to me as that I am not an obstacle to the mediation.

However, after the case was turned down, she repeatedly at the ArbCom case pages (some example here, here and here) as well as else where (WP:ANI example and here) has accused me of being the cause for the failure of that mediation case. Let's just leave it at that these accusations in light of her own admission in an e-mail to me are utterly hollow and false.

Aside of that, two other users, BHouston and Nagle (who filed the ArbCom case) opposed to the mediation, so making it sound as if I was the main obstacle is a form of scapegoating (see also Bhouston's reaction).