Talk:James John Parker

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This page is about an active politician who is running for office, is in office and campaigning for re-election, or is involved in some current political conflict or controversy. Because of this, this article is at risk of biased editing, talk-page trolling, and simple vandalism.

Please do not use this page as a campaign biography. Do that on your own site. This is meant as an objective, factual account of Parker's candidacy. PedanticallySpeaking 17:38, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

An unregistered user whose IP belongs to Qwest keeps making a series of changes to the article on a candidate for Congress in Ohio that are the sort of things one would say on a campaign site. I keep reverting and have posted a notice on talk pages of the article and of the IP addresses, but it appears every new session gets a new number. Therefore I semiprotected the article on January 30, 2006, because a series of unregistered users keep making changes. This is a candidate for congress in Ohio and the changes are of the sort more appropriate to a campaign site. I've posted notices on the talk page and the user page of several of these addresses. My protection was removed after six hours without explanation and almost immediately the same thing I was trying to prevent happened again. I'm again semi-protecting it. My suspicion is that the changes are being made by someone associated with the campaign as the campaign site asks "Who is Jim Parker?" and links to this article. PedanticallySpeaking 17:37, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

The candidate himself is rewriting his own article. There was a posting made on the Help Desk e-mail system, as follows.

"From: Jim Parker <parker309@msn.com> Mailed-By: wikimedia.org

To: helpdesk-l@wikimedia.org"

"I would like to have this page unlocked so that I can perform one final edit. Then we can lock it again. Somebody keeps changing it. Thanks."

"Jim Parker"

User:Marudubshinki was kind enough to point this out to me. If you check his official site (linked on the bottom of James John Parker) you'll see that e-mail address is his. Further, on his campaign site he links to us from "Who is Jim Parker?" making it appear that something he's writing is an independent source. PedanticallySpeaking 18:19, 31 January 2006 (UTC)