User talk:Jacona

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Good work contributing articles from newspapers.com to the WP:HEY effort at Hancock County High School! – Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 23:00, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, back at you times 3! Jacona (talk) 23:14, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Adamant1 (talk) 04:50, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification, but I won't be participating.Jacona (talk) 17:29, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

• • Welcome to Wikipedia,Jacona. To quote a bad movie from the 80s,"Some of us citizens are with you" (Nick Nolte in 48 Hours). I'm so glad you stayed all those years ago. 174.212.212.163 (talk) 20:41, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

I looked it up. The ANI was closed and the editor who started it has been blocked. Jacona (talk) 23:46, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

• I know. Be well. 174.212.212.163 (talk) 01:30, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Lkspears (talk) 17:07, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

• Tipton-Rosemark Academy is largely a copyvio of an old school website (here). It's a big whitewash as well, as it plays a bogus "prayer in schools" story to explain why an all-white group of parents established an all-white school as the public schools integrated. A lot of work could be done here. Content needs to be updated for truth & pov/independence, sources need to be added, and copyright violations need to be removed/revdel'ed. Former names include Tipton Academy and Rosemark Academy.

— Jacona (talk) 14:06, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

There are a number of articles that use the term "antebellum", a romanticized latin phrase, to describe places, times, people or events that occurred in the United States before the American Civil War. One particularly annoying instance is Antebellum United States, which redirects to Antebellum South, as if the pre-Civil War history of the entire United States was that of the South. That's pretty nasty. — Jacona (talk) 18:57, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi Jacona, I have limited time today to work on Henry James Cambie Secondary School, and I restored your work from Oct. 17. I also repaired the links to articles on newpapers.com, as linking to the WPLibrary clippings has problems for viewers who cannot login to WPLibrary. See the discussion here for how to convert the links. It's clunky and painful, and there are rumors that a bot may be in the works to do the conversions, but for now it's a manual correction.

The shared history of Richmond HS and HJ Cambie until 1953 complicates the narratives for each article. I haven't figured out how to address it, so any suggestions you have would be welcome. Cheers! — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 16:55, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

• Grand'mere Eugene, I appreciate your help! Unfortunately I’m very tired right now, taking care of someone else. I’m sure a good bit of my earlier work is fine, I just don’t have the energy right now. I have seen someone changing the newspapers.com links with a bot, I’ve been meaning to get it-it requires some configuration. If I see it again I’ll share the link. Thanks! — Jacona (talk) 19:11, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
  • Grand'mere Eugene, Wikipedia:JWB is the tool I've seen others use to repair the newspapers.com links. I haven't tried it yet. — Jacona (talk) 23:29, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for flagging up the long-standing copyvio on Christian Academy of Madison. You seem to have got a bit confused with {{copyvio-revdel}} (not surprising, it's not the easiest to work out) but for future use,

the parameters starting |urlX= are for recording where the offending material was copied from (in this case https://web.archive.org/web/20090210023053/http://www.caofmadison.org/).

The parameters |start= and |end= are for identifying the revisions that need to be revdel'd. These only need to be numbers, not urls, so |start= here was 309995750 and not https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christian_Academy_of_Madison&oldid=309995750.

|end= should be the last revision before the final bit of offending material was removed. So if you removed it all in one go don't include you own edit. If it took several edits to remove it all, don't include you last edit in that series. In this case that would have been 1185160874. It doesn't actually matter if you do include that edit as most of us handling the request know what to look for and can easily unselect that last edit if needs be. Nthep (talk) 12:57, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

• Nthep, thanks, I really struggle with that template. On my browser (Firefox) the words start and end for the diffs appear-but there is no area that appears enterable. I’ll try moving to another browser next time. Thanks!! — Jacona (talk) 13:50, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
• Nthep, I really, really appreciate this explanation! — Jacona (talk) 13:56, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

  no problem. There's a script you can install (User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js) which helps you out on filling out the template. Nthep (talk) 14:19, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Special:Diff/1185299530 -- huh? jp×g🗯️ 21:34, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

• JPxG, I was going through my watchlist on my phone and somehow that happened. I reset it as quickly as I could. Sorry. — Jacona (talk) 01:49, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

  Yeah, I figured it was something along those lines, so I resisted the urge to take offense. So it goes... if that were my worst accidental revert I'd be happy :) jp×g🗯️ 02:00, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi. My deletion nomination for Heritage High School (Brentwood, California) was reverted, citing WP:NEXIST by you. At the same time, my draft for a non-American high school Draft:İstiklal_Makzume_Anadolu_Lisesi was declined for the second time due to WP:GNG by another editor. The draft looks much stronger to me in terms of demonstrated notability, compared to the page in PROD. I got a feeling these decisions are not consistent and hurting Wikipedia's neutrality, by over-representing high schools with certain characteristics, e.g. English-speaking countries. If it is this difficult to prove notability, should we at least add something like "notability disputed" for Heritage High School? Gorkem80 (talk) 00:31, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

I'm sorry my truth about Boost Mobile was inconvenient to your ad. So, since you work for the company, I'd like to have a talk with you before I go to my media contact at Channel 7 Denver. You down? Or should we just go ahead without your side of the story? 73.78.200.61 (talk) 04:25, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

• 73.78.200.61, go for it! — Jacona (talk) 04:35, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

  Okay, but I would be remiss if I didn't remind you of the last time I was on the channel 7 news proving that you CAN fight city hall. LMK if you change your mind before I get around to it. 73.229.29.98 (talk) 04:41, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

  73.229.29.98, please proceed with all haste. — Jacona (talk) 10:41, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

You're doing an insane number of welcomes seconds after edits. You can't possibly have checked if my edit was vandalism before welcoming me. 95.80.28.44 (talk) 07:05, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Lol, I was cleaning up but decided to keep this one, because it made me laugh. Jacona (talk) 20:15, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	A barnstar for being so modest that you erase your well deserved barnstars and other awards. Thank you for being an awesome Wikipedian! gidonb (talk) 15:17, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

• Gidonb, Thanks. I'm really not here for credit, I believe I'm a net positive to the project. I'll leave this one up a few days. Thanks for all you do! — Jacona (talk) 19:46, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

I admire your modesty and self-containment! I'm not quite there yet do make it a point never to submit myself to any honors on Wikipedia. gidonb (talk) 23:50, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Nice work on that article! You did a lot of lifting to find material. By the way, I think I'm right behind you at 999,999,995,238th most active Wikipedian. --Hammersoft (talk) 13:16, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

• Hammersoft, Thanks! I need to update those activity stats, I think i've fallen back recently... — Jacona (talk) 13:18, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Jacona! Totally irrelevant to my purpose here, but I like what you do here at Wikipedia. (I'm just a newb, but I still like it!)

If you aren't doing so already, would you be willing to track down the beginnings and early history of Port Tampa Negro School? I'm working through a backlog and that's how I came across the article. If it weren't for the backlog, I'd do it myself. If it weren't a pre-segregation black school, I'd just ignore the issue. But these schools matter, and you can bet your paycheck that every cotton forced-labor farm in Leon county, Florida gets its story told here.

I'm NOT trying to pretend to have any Wikipedia authority. I'm just a small Wikier, but you seem like someone any decent, respectful person could approach.Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 21:08, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Not trying to be a jerk, but I added a notability tag because I couldn't find reference to it, beyond what you had listed. No in-depth analysis of it. Poor baby needs more attention than I can give it. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 21:18, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Oona Wikiwalker, try accessing the Wikipedia library, especially newspaper sources and you’ll find more. Sorry I’m so busy right now. — Jacona (talk) 13:01, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Lol, me too. I'm working through a backlog of things that have been languishing there as far back as 2006.

Best! <3 Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 20:10, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

OMG whitest staff I've ever seen. I know that area a bit; none of this is surprising. Drmies (talk) 02:43, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

• The account name matching the name of a member of staff whose title is "webmaster" is a bit on the nose, Drmies. I'd be inclined towards a partial block, per Project:blocking policy#Disruption-only, if the behaviour reoccurs after the warning.
  On the other hand: Jacona, those {{cite book}}s that are not books have needed fixing since 2022. If you want an actual book, moreover, try Newman 2001, p. 192. Just don't ask Drmies where the University of Alabama Press is. ☺
  Uncle G (talk) 07:40, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
  • Newman, Mark (2001). "An Overview: Southern Baptists and African Americans, 1972–1995". Getting Right With God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945–1995. Religion and American Culture. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817310608.

• • • Thanks, Drmies, Uncle G. I've mostly taken a break from editing, but I do occasionally check in to revert these COI edits to seg academies. Thanks for all your help and encouragement and all the work you put in! Jacona (talk) 15:20, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

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• This looks like a really poor nomination, so much so that one might reasonably question the competency of the nominator, who seems to dismiss USA Today, The Tennesseean, The Commercial Appeal, the Tennessee State Activities Association as either "primary database sources" or "community newspaper postings". — Jacona (talk) 19:53, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

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