Explanation My revdeleted comment was a bad tempered response to a deliberately needling statement from someone who has a bit of history when it comes to doling out such statements I explained this when contacted by on Sunday in my message to him at 10 32 UTC I emphasised that my words were figurative and in the context of what had been said by the other contributor I also asked Philippe to reassure that contributor of various things including that I know nothing about them that I neither have nor have access to any weapons beyond the sort of thing usually found in a UK home and that there was no intent to do anything in particular except leave in utter frustration of the bad faith etc flying around I assume that message had been passed on by around 19 55 UTC latest which is when Philippe replied to me I haven t looked at Wikipedia since that bad tempered retort and would not have looked at it now if it were not for someone asking me to post some sort of comment I m not reading through the stuff above nor looking at the ANI thread that I m told was opened Until certain things happen some on wiki and some involving an issue that the WMF are looking at off wiki I m gone from here I m pretty sure that those certain things will happen but I doubt that they will do so soon and it may be that I decide not to return anyway Frankly and I know this will seem arrogant that would be Wikipedia s loss not mine If when I do return I ll be notifying quite a few people that I would rather they stayed away from my talk page which is something I ve always been reluctant to do in the past I m fed up of lynch mobs and gangs here so anything that helps to reduce the baiting is A Good Thing As a rule of thumb if you ve baited in the past you can assume that you ll be on the list because although often I do not publicly support him that seems to be the common denominator among those who bait me The gang can go elsewhere while I hope that Eric and myself will continue to agree agree to differ as and when appropriate and in an adult manner We can get on with improving content the baiters can carry on doing whatever it is they want to do elsewhere My thanks to everyone who has contacted me It was just a bad tempered response I m perfectly happy in life if slightly miffed at the increased distances I m having to travel due to some unfortunate Wiki related events