My fault... As Mike stated it is the "merge vertices" If you go into the options box next that option you can adjust the tolerance. I.e. merger vertices that are within a certain distance range. Select the vertices you want to merge limits this action to only the selected vertices rather than all vertices in the mesh. Sorry for the confusion.
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