User talk:Jon698

Auto-patrolled?
Have you considered requesting the autopatrolled permission? You seem to meet the general criteria (only stumbling block being a couple of copyright notices) and this could be helpful in reducing the WP:NPP backlog. If you have questions or wish to discuss don't hesitate to ping me here or leave a comment on my talk page. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 03:54, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Autopatrolled granted
Hi Jon698, I just wanted to let you know that I have [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&page=User%3AJon698 added] the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! S warm  ♠  05:37, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

New page reviewer granted
Hello Jon698. Your account has been added to the " " user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia; if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various deletion criteria. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at page reviewer talk. The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. S warm  ♠  20:24, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
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May 2019
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. -- Scott Burley (talk) 03:45, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Unblock Appeal

 * Comment I understand. I am not good at apologies especially online and I have had the account since 2017. I rarely used it and did not use it for disruptive editing. I ask that it will be reconsidered and that I be limited to only editing or at least limited to editing only George W. Bush 2000 presidential campaign as it is close to completion, but I am the only one who edits it. Jon698 Jon698 14:52, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

However, you don't even seem to be that sorry for what you did... You've been using this sock of yours since at least 2017 (Diffs from : ). That is long term scrutiny evasiason. } Have you disclosed all your accounts publicly? &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 05:10, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment If I may chime in here and say that Jon has been incredible in improving our coverage of american politics.


 * I agree with MJL in that it looks like you've made some really significant contributions to the project and it would be a shame to lose you as an editor. This seems like a textbook case for WP:SO. Barring any substantive objections, I wouldn't have any problem unblocking you in six months. -- Scott Burley (talk) 17:20, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * But not likely to happen when you continue to sock with User:DailyVermonter. -DJSasso (talk) 14:59, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Jon, come on... you're really hurting the case here. &#8211;  MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 18:00, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Standard Offer

 * Comment I don't really understand how the standard offer process works and I hope that I am doing it correctly. Apologies in advance for any mistakes.

I am sorry about the ping, but I have noticed that there is a large backlog in Requests for unblock Jon698 (talk) 03:57, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * If you want your unblock request posted to the administrators' noticeboard, I could do that. Due to a quirk in policy, unblock requests that fail to get consensus at a noticeboard turn into a community site ban.  The difference is mostly academic, but site bans can only be appealed at noticeboards.  Noticeboard appeals are settled via the consensus of the community (more-or-less a vote), but standard unblock requests are resolved by unilateral action by a single administrator.  If you don't like the idea of a bunch of random people voting to ban/unban you, the alternative is to wait for a random administrator to get around to your unblock request.  That shouldn't take more than a few days, but it could potentially take several weeks.  If you want to speed up the process and increase the likelihood of success, you should list all the registered accounts you've used to edit Wikipedia. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:21, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the information. I would rather wait for some random administrator to get around to my request rather than putting it up to a noticeboard vote. The only registered accounts that I used were User:DailyVermonter and User:ImBadWithUsernames. Jon698 (talk) 04:28, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm willing to go forward with this unblock, if checkuser is clean (or you feel it's not necessary) and he agrees to the topic ban for AFDs that he originally proposed 6 months ago in his prior appeal. I would additionally add that he read about General Sanctions and acknowledge doing so by listing the active sanction he believes would apply to his preferred area of editing related to political topics. as info as blocking admin. -- ferret (talk) 23:37, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't see any obvious block evasion. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 23:50, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree to the topic ban for AFDs and as for General Sanctions sanctions could be placed on areas such as abortion, Eastern Europe, gun control, and other areas like those. Jon698 (talk) 03:00, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Jon, works for me. Also be mindful of American politics 2. This sanction is core to your editing areas. -- ferret (talk) 13:21, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

The WikiCup
Please note that the correct time to claim points for DYK in the WikiCup is after the hook has appeared on the main page. So you can claim for Ted Kennedy 1980 presidential campaign now, while some of your other submissions have been premature. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:34, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for telling me. I am new to Wikicup this year and I will remember to wait for the rest of my DYK hooks. - Jon698 (talk) 11:11, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

William Jefferson Hardin
Hi-I enjoyed reading your articles; thank you for writing them. I did have to make a change with the William Jefferson Hardin article; he served in the Wyoming Territorial Legislature not the Wyoming State Legislature. The territorial and state legislatures are two different legislative chambers serving different political divisions-territorial and state in Wyoming-many thanks-RFD (talk) 13:00, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Wyoming Legislature template
Hi-I have to remove the Wyoming Legislature template from the article about Cathy Connolly who served in the Wyoming Legislature. The Wyoming Legislature template place the Members of the Wyoming Territorial Legislature category on the the article. This happen on some other articles. I had to go through the members of the Wyoming Territorial Legislature category and there 2 or 3 others this happen. I am not sure why the Wyoming Legislature template is doing this-many thanks-20:23, 28 May 2020 (UTC)RFD (talk) 20:24, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I look at the Wyoming Legislature template; the template covers the Wyoming territorial and state legislatures. This would explained why he members of the Wyoming Territorial Legislatures were put on some articles that should not be put on some articles like the Cathy Connolly article many thanks-RFD (talk) 20:30, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Women in Red
Hi there, Jon698, and welcome to Women in Red. With the enormous experience you have of writing about politics and politicians, it's great to see you now intend to devote more of your time to women. If you haven't already done so, you might find it useful to look through our Ten Simple Rules and our Primer for creating women's biographies. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 09:48, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

P.S. Whip position
I completely agree with you about your position on the position of whip. Seems obvious to me. Activist (talk) 21:50, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

FWIW
Your 6 months ban was a travesty, IMO. It's absurd that such a good editor was hit with such awful sanctions. This is an example of why I totally regret having started WP:AN, which led to the farce that is WP:AN/I. - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 19:41, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Editor of the Week
User:Vami IV submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:
 * I nominate Jon698 for Editor of the Week because of their outstanding contributions to our coverage of American politics, but especially US State legislatures. I have personally bore witness to their dedication to the topic, trawling through thousands of Newspaper.com clippings, and their obvious interest and openness about the topic through conversing with them on the Discord server. On-wiki, he has several Good Articles to speak to the quality of his work, such as David Duke 1988 presidential campaign. He has made it his mission in the two years he's been actively editing to vastly improve our coverage of US State legislators, and has not disappointed. For that and his level-headed and humorous conducting of himself I wish to commend him.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week: Thanks again for your efforts! &#8213; Buster7  &#9742;   14:14, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Jon698!


Happy New Year! Jon698, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Scott Ratliff
Hi! Just wanted to give you a heads up of a Wyoming-related state legislator article that I recently created, as I recall you are active in the Wyoming Wikiproject and with American state legislator bios. I unfortunately don't have much more time to expand it further, but there are a number of Newspapers.com clippings that I came across and think offer some good material, if you ever feel the urge to expand it! Connormah (talk) 05:07, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Explanation
Could you explain why the police stopped Moran in the first place? Thank you. DS (talk) 03:49, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
 * The book They Came From Within: A History of Canadian Horror Cinema on page 38 does not give a reason for why he was initially stopped, but I have looked through the author's sources and they corroborate most of his claims. I ordered Filmfax #25 which was the only source I couldn't find online and will check that one out. Jon698 (talk) 15:55, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Apologies for the time it took me to finally get around to editing the article using the Filmfax source. I was unable to find anything about why they stopped it so I removed it. However, the magazine did have a lot of other, more useful, information. This was back on December 7. Jon698 (talk) 17:47, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red 8th Anniversary
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2023 Seattle City Council election
You did a fantastic job with the 2019 Seattle City Council election page! If you have time, could you please help me bring the 2023 election page up to the standard of the one you made? C. W. Edward (talk) 04:53, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the invitation to edit. I loved making some of those local election pages and I would love to do it again. I just need to finish a few bookmarks on a book I've been reading recently and I'll be able to get to it. Jon698 (talk) 17:51, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Policing the Plains: published cast list from premiere program
Filmhunter (talk) 02:48, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Hello!
Thanks for the like on my post. I also have autism. How do I add the ASD tag to my profile? I mostly edit Wikimedia content and then put it on Wikipedia pages. So I might put it up there as well. Thanks again for the like. MonkeyBBGB (talk) 02:35, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I put it up on your page for you. BTW would you like to have it formatted to be right-adjusted so that it fits nicely next to your text? Jon698 (talk) 02:40, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * wow thanks! I appreciate that. Yeah it would be cool if you did that. I'm going to tag you on my Wikimedia page, because your stuff is cool. What about my edit of adding that poster caught your attention? Right place at the right time? MonkeyBBGB (talk) 02:42, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah right place at the right time. I previously made a large edit to the page and have it on my watchlist. Jon698 (talk) 02:43, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * that's cool. i also look at pages I used to edit too. but most of my wikipedia edits of more substance are from the first few months here. I enjoyed editing about Oswald Rabbit when he became public domain. I made a page with him. MonkeyBBGB (talk) 02:47, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * The only real page I maintain is this one. But it gets my local politics interest and keeps me up to date on cannabis laws in Virginia. And then that benefits others! MonkeyBBGB (talk) 02:52, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

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Wholesale deletion of content
Hello. I'm reaching out because I saw that countless election articles have had huge amounts of sourced (or easily sourceable) material removed. This is information that innumerable other editors have objected to the removal of, and your defense is either that it's unsourced (in many cases against WP:CALC practices) or irrelevant (which I and many others would argue is a contentious assertion in many of these cases). Notable instances that come to mind are various state articles on the 1964 presidential election or the 1972 election in the Deep South. Please let me know your thoughts, as I'm fairly inclined to reverse (in part or in full) a large number of these edits. Best, Cpotisch (talk) 21:40, 14 January 2024 (UTC)


 * @Cpotisch Please allow me a few hours to look through the 1964, 1972, and 1988 pages. Jon698 (talk) 22:09, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I appreciate it. Cpotisch (talk) 00:10, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Have you taken a look? Cpotisch (talk) 00:48, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Cpotisch Yes. Jon698 (talk) 02:05, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Ok, I appreciate you reviewing it and restoring some, but I still see a very large amount of sourced and important material that got taken out with your purges. One of the most egregious examples being the 1964 United States presidential election in Georgia, where, despite your restorations the other day, now does not even acknowledge that this is the first time *ever* that the state voted Republican. That's covered in multiple sources and it's very historically significant. Also, along the way, that article ended up with a very incomplete sentence in the "Results" section.
 * Another (less problematic) example is the 1964 United States presidential election in Indiana, which now acknowledges that one particular county did not vote Democratic again until 2008, but not that the whole state did too.
 * Another example was the 1972 United States presidential election in Georgia, which carved out huge amounts of easily verifiable material, such as the fact that this was the best ever Republican performance in the state.
 * All of which is to say, while I understand where you were coming from with these edits, I think it completely goes against the recommendation that editors try to WP:FIXTHEPROBLEM before doing wholesale removals. Cpotisch (talk) 20:58, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Cpotisch all classes for my university have been canceled today and tomorrow (and quite likely Thursday). if you want, you could go through the pages and list what should be added back in and I'll personally go through with finding sourcing. Jon698 (talk) 21:43, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a plan, thanks. Cpotisch (talk) 22:06, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Welcome to the drive!
Welcome, welcome, welcome Jon698! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles. CactiStaccingCrane (talk)18:52, 1 February 2024 UTC //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jon698&action=purge refresh via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

1984 U.S. Presidential Election Exit Polls
Hello! I'm TheApex150. I saw on the page for the 1984 U.S. Presidential Election that you added additional info to the national exit poll. I wanted to ask if you have access to exit poll info from certain states? For example, an exit poll from California or one from Texas. I know the election was a landslide, but I'm curious to see if there were differences among the states themselves. If you have access to that info, can you please link it to me here? Or you can link it to my talk page. Thank you! :-) TheApex150 (talk) 09:19, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I could do some research to see if there are exit polls at the state level. It would be interesting to see them. Jon698 (talk) 09:21, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Alrighty, sounds good! I'm curious as well. TheApex150 (talk) 10:16, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Have you found anything yet? TheApex150 (talk) 05:39, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I have not started yet. I will notify you when I find something. Jon698 (talk) 07:03, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks! Sorry if I sounded impatient. TheApex150 (talk) 07:07, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Don't worry. I am interested in finding this information as well. Jon698 (talk) 07:46, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Awesome! TheApex150 (talk) 08:01, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello, I have found an exit poll for Utah. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/7R1OON/67MMQU&version=1.0&toolType=PREVIEW Jon698 (talk) 01:47, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Nice! That's great you found that. Did you find info on other states? TheApex150 (talk) 05:11, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Do you have access to any of the ones here? https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/search?end=1984-12-31&org=a58eef63-ee8d-4636-b321-36f5763c51c9&q=election%20day%20survey&start=1984-01-01&tab=STUDY They're also available through here: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/08368/summary TheApex150 (talk) 05:27, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Trying to add some additional info to "Policing the Plains" article
I having trouble inserting a new paragraph without screwing up the footnotes. You can see the proposed text on the article's talk page. Talk:Policing the Plains Filmhunter (talk) 21:29, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I add the text and references to the page using a cite news template, which I usually use for Newspapers.com clippings. Jon698 (talk) 22:26, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help. I was at the point where I couldn't add a word without starting an avalanche! Filmhunter (talk) 23:51, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

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2024 Seattle City Council special election
Hello again! Thank you for your work on the 2023 election page. There's going to be a city council special election this year. Would you mind making the page for it? I would, but my summer is going to be extremely busy. I have some links for the article. https://crosscut.com/politics/2024/01/seattle-city-council-appoints-tanya-woo-fill-district-8-seat https://crosscut.com/briefs/2024/01/here-are-8-finalists-seattle-city-councils-vacant-seat https://crosscut.com/politics/2024/05/three-progressives-take-tanya-woo-seattle-city-council-race https://crosscut.com/politics/2024/01/72-people-applied-seattle-city-councils-vacant-seat https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/tanya-woo-launches-race-to-retain-seat-on-seattle-city-council/ C. W. Edward (talk) 06:03, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for informing me of that. I am interested in doing it. Jon698 (talk) 14:14, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2024 July newsletter
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 * with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
 * with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on Worlds (Porter Robinson album) and I'm God, 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
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 * with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Great cuckoo-dove, with a high number of bonus points from that article.

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Election edits
Hi, I saw that you reverted my edits. Can you direct me to the page where I can get a consensus regarding my changes to the election pages? If you could help me with this part, that would be great. Interstellarity (talk) 23:30, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
 * You can start a discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums. Jon698 (talk) 23:37, 15 July 2024 (UTC)