User talk:Lukwam

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Happy editing, Isomorphic 04:39, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hello Lukwam, just wanted to thank you for writing a note at the New user log. Your interests are eclectic (one tends to see a lot of that around here :-), so I hope you enjoy adding content here as well as learning new things in the process. BTW you made a good edit to Akamai—it's perhaps needless for me to note that "Wikipedia" is itself partly derived from the Hawaiian "wiki wiki", meaning "fast". Chris Roy 09:33, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I was wondering why you got rid of the David Cross disambiguation page? I thought it made sense since there are two people named David Cross that are referenced in the Wikipedia. All such references were pointing to David_Cross, so I made the disambiguation page and fixed all the references to point to one or the other.

Did you think it wasn't appropriate to disambiguate them because of the fact that David Cross the actor is more famous?

Lukwam 16:57, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

The musician page didn't exist, and ever extant link to the disambiguation page referred to the actor. Since everyone would be basically clicking through to the actor, the page seemed only to serve as a waste of time.

--AaronSw 22:42, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Fox Lane High School

Would you mind expanding on what you hope to be added to Fox Lane High School, since you created its stub? I'm asking because its currently on VfD, and I'm trying to decide what I think about school page deletion, so I wanted to know what you hoped will come of this article. Thanks! JesseW 02:32, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

oberwiki

Hi there, you mentioned you're interested in Oberlin. I don't know if you've come across this but a little while ago I started a wiki site for Oberlin. The next time you're bored, visit http://oberwiki.net/ -- any contributions you feel like making would be greatly appreciated. —alxndr (t) 02:04, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

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Andy Merrill - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Speedy deletion nomination of Akamai (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on Akamai (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either

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