You shouldn't remove request templates until the request has been resolved. Doing is very bad form and is considered an obstruction of the normal working process of Wiktionary.
Alright, I'll leave it. You didn't have a problem with it till I made edits though, and the etymology without references was added in May 2014. Also, removing the template was a separate edit, so you could've just undid that instead of my correct edits too.