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Arguments opposing Wikipedia's basic principles, suggesting a massive cabal of rogue admins, or holding the process to be an end in itself will not work.
It is mistaken to argue on the assumption that an RFC functions like a court of law. See [[Wikipedia:Wikilawyering]].
Arguing about flaws in the Mediation and RFC process is usually a waste of time and will make editors, admins and eventually Arbitrators look dimly upon you. Take the time that you could spend arguing about the details of process and apply it to trying to gather useful evidence. The first to try to rules-lawyer the arbitration process invariably loses — because they wouldn't be rules-lawyering if they had a case, and th esame may be taken to be true of RFCs, with the addition that rules-lawyering an RFC tends to predict the progression of the case to ArbCom, and might reasonably be used as a cue to take it there rather than waiting for tardy responses to be completed.
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