User:John from Idegon

Idegon is my made up name for the Ontario, Oregon micropolitan area, an area in Eastern Oregon and Western Idaho, not quite in the Boise metropolitan area, and politically and philosophically as far away from Portland as you can possibly get.

History
In October of 2013, I changed my name from Gtwfan52 to John from Idegon. Although the Gtwfan52 name had served me well for nearly two years, I feel that as long as I am going to continue doing this, I should have a proper name for people to address me by. I've been answering to John for a long while IRL, so why not here too? By the way, "Gtwfan" referenced one of my two all time favorite railroads, the Grand Trunk Western. The other is the South Shore.

From June 10, 2016 to June 14, 2016, someone impersonated me using the name John from Idegon Backup. I am indebted to Administrator for noticing and blocking the sock, related to a long term kerfuffle at some high school article. Although the child tried to embarrass me, our crack administration team caught it and ended it before much damage was done.

Early on the morning of February 3, 2020, I got a thank you for my 100,000th edit. Three weeks short of my 8th anniversary here.

On paid editing
...can one be paid to edit Wikipedia? Well, under certain conditions at this time, yes you can. But think about this: Can one be paid to sing? The answer is of course yes. But the applicable question really is, "Can one market their singing?" That is much more difficult to accomplish, requiring native talent, much hard work, years of practice and a considerable amount of lucky breaks. However, unfortunately for one enquiring, a more on point analogy might be, "Can one be paid to have sex?" Again, the answer is yes. But then there are those pesky moral and legal issues to deal with, aren't there? These two analogies illustrate what one embarking on a path of editing Wikipedia for pay is really looking at. - John from Idegon (talk)