Talk:Jonathan Allen (journalist)

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A fact from Jonathan Allen (journalist) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 September 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Jonathan Allen (pictured) left journalism for politics before quitting 40 days later?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jonathan Allen (journalist).

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet talk 14:24, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Allen during a 2014 Q&A with the Miller Center

... that Jonathan Allen (pictured) left journalism for politics before quitting 40 days later? Source: "[Allen] landed a contract job at POLITICO, but eventually itched to get into the political game, and accepted a position with the PAC of Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida. “She basically wanted me to plot her rise,” he said. Allen said he got along with her well, but after only 40 days he realized he wasn’t cut out for this line of work."
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Created by Pac-Man PHD (talk). Self-nominated at 15:01, 5 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Jonathan Allen (journalist); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Will review. Longhornsg (talk) 21:46, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Longhornsg: are you still going to review this article? Z1720 (talk) 15:17, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the ping, and apologies for the delay. Copyedited a bit, and meant to return to the nom. Impressively long and thorough new article that was created in time for nomination and far more than meets length requirements. Picture is free. No QPQ required. Fixed some prose in the article based on the lede's source. Article sourcing spot checks are ok. A lot of copyvio overlap, but it's almost all direct quotes properly attributed in the article or book titles. The rest I edited away as much as possible. Tightened the lede by removing "political journalist", as not four words later are the words "politics" and "journalism". Instead of saying "quitting", I think it would be more informative and interesting to say he boomeranged back to journalism. So something like:

* that Jonathan Allen (pictured) left journalism for politics, then returned to journalism 40 days later?

Article assessment

This biography article is well written and referenced throughout. A random check of a few citations shows no "dead links" or "failed verification". While I am not familiar with the topic, the Rater WP tool shows "Class B, or better" at 95-percent prediction. For now, I upgraded to Class C so that the Class-B evaluation checklist can begin. Hopefully, experts can "dig deeper" into the actual content. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 15:34, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Do I go back and ask for a reassessment? Pac-Man PHD (talk) 13:04, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Concur. I've reassesed as B. Pac-Man PHD, you can't really ask for a reassessment, assessments are voluntary and decentralized. CLYDE ^{TALK TO ME}/_{STUFF DONE} 18:06, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@ClydeFranklin I was unsure how that process worked. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks. Pac-Man PHD (talk) 18:29, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]