:To knowledge what you just did was wrong is proof that you really should not have done it, but, since you have asked for your tools to be removed, there is little reason to pursue that matter, or give a speech about misuse of admin access.  That was one of the most blatant acts of wheel warring I've seen on this project, so I do hope you keep your promise on BN to see your resignation as under a cloud. Really, the block should be restored, not because I'm married to it, but because you undid it while knowing you were flying in the face of the rules on the use of admin tools. In broad terms, you can't claim baiting as a defense to personal attacks.  You are always responsible for what comes out of your keyboard. Lord knows I ddon't want to see Malleus leave (or be kicked off) the project, WP:NPA is policy, and no personal attack is ever helpful to our goals here. Lets recap yesterdays timeline.  Malleus was asked to remove his attack.  He refused.  It was removed from AN, he reverted, removed again, and he reverted it back in again.  I actually went to Malleus' talk page yesterday to remind him of the Civility Enforcement case, and to please stop this, then I noticed the refused request, and the edit warring. If this isn't a case of a time where blocking for NPA is justified, then there may as well be no such situation, and the policy of NPA needs to be seriously adjusted (I'm not a huge fan of personal attack blocks, in 90,000+ admin actions, I believe this is the first one I've ever made, but eventually they can be necessary.)  Malleus' block log, we had a chart in the evidence of the Civility case, you may want to look through it, the blocks on him are neither all good or all bad, my rough feeling from reading that evidence was that it fell at about 60/40, but only one or two of the blocks were actually outlandishly bad.  Whatever, two days of a three day block isn't worth fighting about, and one hopes the message has been received that personal attacks, whatever the perceived provocation, are not acceptable.