User talk:John Lake

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Contents 1 Picture 2 Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) AfD 3 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fishing for pike 4 I have an account. 5 Withdrawn 6 Thank you for voting 7 User:Westtexasman unblocked

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[edit] Picture

User:NawlinWiki got to it before I could. It's deleted now. - Mgm|^(talk) 20:47, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks to you both.--John Lake 21:08, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) AfD

The "non-notable business" that you thought was behind the Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) article turns out to be the International Telecommunications Union, an agency of the UN, which is both notable and not a business. I've rewritten the article to make this more clear, and I've added information about the index to the ITU article, and I'm suggesting merge or keep. I invite you to reconsider your vote. cheers --Xtifr _tälk 11:29, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fishing for pike

Could you clarify why you chose delete instead of Transwikification? The transwikification won't have any ill effects on the quality of the pike article and still removes the material from Wikipedia while putting it where it belongs (on WikiBooks). - Mgm|^(talk) 11:16, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I have an account.

Hello. I actually do have an account. However, it takes too long to log in, so I edit from my school IP. 66.214.220.134 15:42, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Well thanks again. I can see your point.--John Lake 15:46, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Withdrawn

I appreciate your support, but have decided to withdraw from consideration for a position as an arbitrator. The community has overwhelming found me to be too controversial to hold that position. Thanks again for your time.--MONGO 19:52, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for voting

Thank you for voting in my RfA which at 51/20/6 unfortunately did not achieve consensus. In closing the nomination, Essjay remarked that it was one of the better discussed RfAs seen recently and I would like to thank you and all others who chose to vote for making it as such. It was extremely humbling to see the large number of support votes, and the number of oppose votes and comments will help me to become stronger. I hope to run again for adminship soon. Thank you all once more. Wikiwoohoo 20:13, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Westtexasman unblocked

Another admin persuaded me to unblock User:Westtexasman because his edits appear to have been a mal-intentioned way of following WP:BLP, with a bunch of reversions and no edit summaries except for rollback. Alex's thinking is this confused the newbie more than anything. I have the article watchlisted and will attend to the situation if this turns sour again. Anyway, thanks for your help in reporting vandals and suspected vandals. We'll see how this one turns out.--Kchase T 05:41, 15 December 2006 (UTC)