"I was trying to inject some humour (as evidenced by my winky face) in this ridiculous, overblown, and unnecessarily dramatic situation. If you took the time to familiarize yourself with the situation, you would see that the person I insulted was attacking my cited and factual contributions by actively censoring them no explanation; which I retaliated with by insulting him. I thought that his conduct was insult-worthy at the time, as would any sane individual who was not familiar with Wikipedia's ""no-insult"" rule, however I have since realized that what I did was wrong because this site does not allow for harsh words: which is why I will not use them again even if they are used against me, which they were during this ordeal.

Wikipedia is the place for me because my edit was constructive and brought a greater knowledge to the subject's topic. But, the fact that I insulted another user in the edit summary is regrettable, and I know that now.

If you seriously think the edit linked above constitutes a ""better"" insult, "