It went on far too long 

Hello there,

Yes it went on too far and I got my dander up. I am sorry about that. I notice nobody else has apologised to me that was not an edit war but an admin war: have your own admin wars but I got caught in the flak and if you fight, I will fight back. I am usually very well-mannered but some of the things being fired at me were just disgusting. Anyway let's put that in the past can we?

I still think it was unreasonable of Bishonen to demand my email address so that he or she can then abuse me privately rather than in the open on Wikipedia. Which is what I got in my emails. You only saw one side of it. That is why I left Wikipedia, got heated, and wanted to be taken off. I have contributed a lot to Wikipedia over the years – and if you take out you should put back – and that is what I try to do. I have made Hitchin Flyover from a section into a stub article for example. Not the best article, but it's a start.

I don't want the abuse any more than anyone else: but I didn't start it. Thank you for finishing it.

In the meantime there has been an investigation for sockpuppetry on this range of addresses of which I am one in Hungary. I'll try to find it for you cos my IPconfig just gives me the address of the gateway (as you'd expect) and not the landing address. But I can assure you it is not me: I have edited under IP not to avoid any ban (I had a WP:WIKIBREAK anyway while things cooled down) but it is certainly not me socking. Or if they think it is me, well the problem is solved: most of my contribs on the edit tags say SimonTrew editing as IP. I wasn't trying to avoid anything except the flak which – I think like you – I thought better to stay away and let it cool down, but still wanted to contribute to this excellent encyclopaedia which is free to everyone. It's all right for us in the first world but this is SO important to people who can't afford an encyclopaedia.

So I get it wrong sometimes but I think as we all are, I am aiming in the right direction. This should not have got so heated but I tried to cool it.