Axel-
I am thankful for your handling sysop requests on Wikipedia. This does not include your unsysoping people with whom you had a conflict, without prior discussion on this list.
It is hardly accurate to describe my actions as "unsysoping people with whom I had a conflict." As a matter of fact, I made explicitly clear in my mail that I agreed with 172's assessment of the changes to [[Catholicism]]. What I did is try to enforce our existing Protected Page policy. I will not do this in the future unless there is a real emergency (a sysop protecting hundreds of pages without need etc.). Instead, I will send a mail to Jimbo and he will then inform the list if he thinks a decision is necessary.
Regards,
Erik