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A barnstar for you!

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

ANI complaint

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Information icon 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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

ANI

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Information icon 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)[reply]

Here's your very own Bluegrass Barnstar!

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The Bluegrass Barnstar
For nearly single-handedly saving Trimble County High School from deletion. Your resourcefulness is a great asset to Kentucky and the Wikipedia. Stefen Towers among the rest! GabGruntwerk 03:42, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

White flight/segregation academies needing work

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  • 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)[reply]

Lost-cause terminology in Wikipedia: Antebellum

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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)[reply]

A Barnstar for you!

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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Quick at reverting vandalism, reverted vandalism before I could! Thank you for your contributions! Keith McKenzie (talk) 13:12, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Henry James Cambie Secondary School / citing newpapapers.com

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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)[reply]

copyvio-revdel template

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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)[reply]

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

High School notability discussion

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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)[reply]

Precious anniversary

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Precious
Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:53, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year, Jacona!

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Boost Mobile

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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)[reply]

Excessive welcomes

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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)[reply]

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

A barnstar for you!

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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)[reply]
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)[reply]

Hillview High School (Orange County, California)

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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)[reply]

Edit

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Hi, the edit was supposed to help distinguish the difference between the term as i have heard people use the terms interchangeably. I think it should remain on the page 2001:1970:5E9E:A500:781B:6315:B42:BDF2 (talk) 15:38, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Port Tampa Negro School

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]