User talk:Kevin McE

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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Kevin McE and TFA. ——SN54129 15:49, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Colchester infobox

So please explain how it was bad editing to remove the nonsense italic script and removal of image. Your apology is awaited. Kevin McE (talk) 11:04, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

The italic script reference was somehow introduced into two of my edits by error, I still have no idea how. It was reintroduced once because I erroneously thought it was part of your revert. However, these errors do not warrant the apology you seek because they have no bearing whatsoever on the edit summary, "You lazily revert every change instead of a single number, terrible reverting", and the fact that you have not, or cannot be, bothered to work out to what it referred simply emphasises that point. 82.14.227.91 (talk) 07:05, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

So you made a mistake, didn't notice, reintroduced it, and blame me. That says a lot more about your laziness than mine.

Please explain why you have repeatedly removed a reference that gives evidence to the town population figure of 111k in favour of a reference that does not even mention that number. That is not "unnecessary pettiness", it is providing relevant proof rather than spurious irrelevant links. Kevin McE (talk) 09:32, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Please explain, why more pettiness after I readily admitted it was an error, using the term blame when none was attached. Please explain, for someone so blasé, why have you made so much out of something you, "didn't notice".

Please explain why you refer to a single revert as if it were something "repeated". Please, please explain how, after all this time you've had to open the "spurious irrelevant" link, you still insist it "does not even mention that number", when undeniably, it does. E07000071,Colchester,177993,192523,8.163242375

What began as "unnecessary pettiness" on your part, you have now escalated to something that befits the mountain molehill metaphor. Well done. 82.14.227.91 (talk) 16:36, 17 December 2019 (UTC)