Talk:John Flynt

Stub Classification
This article is classified as a stub. It needs more details of Flynt's career to be classified as a start. Capitalistroadster 01:53, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Requested move 21 June 2017

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The result of the move request was: moved to Jack Flynt. (non-admin closure) —Guanaco 09:32, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

John James Flynt Jr. → John Flynt – WP:COMMONNAME, because Flynt's full name only returns around 2,000 google results, in contrast to "John Flynt Jr." returning 44,000+ and "John J. Flynt Jr." returning 2,500+. Also, WP:PRIMARYTOPIC - because there are no other notable people by this name.

A more "common" name is difficult for me to decide, because both Georgia's Virtual Library and the Associated Press  use "John 'Jack' Flynt". The US Congress website uses "John J. Flynt Jr." as does the Atlanta Journal-Constitution obituary. Yet per PRIMARYTOPIC the "Jr." seems unnecessary. Arbor to SJ (talk) 03:24, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Move to Jack Flynt. This appears to be the common name. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 09:37, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Additionally, Flynt campaigned as "Jack Flynt" at one point . Arbor to SJ (talk) 18:03, 29 June 2017 (UTC)


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Requested move 13 August 2018

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 01:58, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Jack Flynt → John Flynt – I'm starting this to follow up to last year's page move to Jack Flynt, because I realize it was probably a mistake. Based on the evidence below I'm convinced "John" is the more WP:COMMONNAME, because US national media used "John" far more often during his political career.
 * The Vanderbilt Television News Archive has zero results for "Jack Flynt" but 56 results for "John Flynt", all during the last four years of his Congressional career in news coverage from the US national daily evening news shows ABC Evening News, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News from 1975 to 1978.
 * The Washington Post has only ONE article using "Jack Flynt" during his career, this 1977 story quoting him self-identifying as "Jack Flynt" while introducing him as "John J. Flynt Jr." In contrast "John J. Flynt" site:washingtonpost.com has over 50 results.
 * The New York Times: "John J. Flynt" site:nytimes.com has over 180 results, with an addition 20 (mostly from wire service stories) for "John Flynt" site:nytimes.com.

While Flynt might have been affectionately known as "Jack" within his congressional district and state of Georgia, such as "Elect Jack Flynt your Congressman" posters and the 2000 book The Gentleman from Georgia: The Biography of Newt Gingrich published by Mercer University Press in Georgia, "Jack" didn't catch on as a nationally known nickname unlike Ted Kennedy, Ted Cruz, Johnny Isakson, etc. Arbor to SJ (talk) 00:19, 13 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Support John, by why not use his more common John J. Flynt or John J. Flynt Jr. even? The precision is helpful, and the others can can be redirects unless or until they are ambiguous. Dicklyon (talk) 03:27, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
 * The politician is the only notable person named John Flynt so far. As I showed earlier, during his political career the three major US TV newscasts used "John Flynt" in reporting about him. Also, there have been plenty of uses of "John Flynt" (without the middle initial) in other media during his career, like this 1959 photo by The Denver Post, this 1977 article by United Press International, and this 1975 article by the Associated Press.


 * "John flynt" site:news.google.com/newspapers returns 21 results, but there are none for "John J. Flynt" within the same site. That indicates that the wire services during his political career preferred omitting his middle initial. However, The New York Times and The Washington Post frequently used his middle initial, as they do for most members of Congress (for instance, "Edward M. Kennedy" has 9x more results than "Ted Kennedy" searching within nytimes.com). Arbor to SJ (talk) 01:05, 14 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Support Per nom — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.71.249.229 (talk) 17:23, 16 August 2018 (UTC)


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