Withdrawal statement
Let me thank all of you for your participation in this process. I especially want to thank my nominators for their help and support throughout and all the contributors who supported my nomination below. It was hard for me to stay and stomach the false accusations in the controversial discussion a few weeks ago about beautiful Indian smoking pipes and racism. It is even harder to stay and see good people at each other's throats because of me. Vicar Jack, I just started to work on your questions in one of my sandboxes and will continue until it's done – save it for next time maybe. Just to be clear, I don't mind answering questions about my editing history; it's actually fun to go over past discussions and feel the nostalgia. What I do mind is when I've pitted good people against each other in ways that I wouldn't have expected due in an underlying way to something as insidious as racism. I won't have that, and if it is bad now, it might get even worse, and I won't have that either. Again, thank you all, and see you again maybe in a few months or so. Joys! and Best of Everything to You and Yours! – Painius 00:36, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]