I've never been good at this so I will keep this as short as possible. For the errors I have committed on this project, I humbly, formally, unreservedly and sincerely apologise. It is difficult to promise the community that such will not happen again, so shortly after the incident, but this is what I mean. Regarding my absence from the discussions that inevitably ensued, I've never been fond of drama, and with the off-wiki priorities that I had coming up, "sticking it out" would not have sat well with me. Regarding the loss of my adminship, I will not be re-applying, either through RfA or ArbCom. I fully deserve to have those tools removed indefinitely. Adminship itself was never a concern for me, it was the loss of the community trust that has kept me here for nearly three years. Plus the drama that such a request would be an unnecessary waste of time for the editors that I value.
I hope to get back to editing articles; I have 5 FAs I need to write. :) Again, I sincerely apologise. --PeterSymonds (talk) 21:09, 27 September 2008 (UTC)