Talk:John Flynt

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Stub Classification

This article is classified as a stub. It needs more details of Flynt's career to be classified as a start. Capitalistroadster 01:53, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 21 June 2017

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The result of the move request was: moved to Jack Flynt. (non-admin closure) —Guanaco 09:32, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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- because there are no other notable people by this name.

A more "common" name is difficult for me to decide, because both Georgia's Virtual Library [1] and the Associated Press [2] use "John 'Jack' Flynt". The US Congress website [3] uses "John J. Flynt Jr." as does the

Atlanta Journal-Constitution obituary [4]. Yet per PRIMARYTOPIC the "Jr." seems unnecessary. Arbor to SJ (talk) 03:24, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply
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Requested move 13 August 2018

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 01:58, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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, because US national media used "John" far more often during his political career.

While Flynt might have been affectionately known as "Jack" within his congressional district and state of Georgia, such as "Elect Jack Flynt your Congressman" posters and the 2000 book The Gentleman from Georgia: The Biography of Newt Gingrich published by Mercer University Press in Georgia, "Jack" didn't catch on as a nationally known nickname unlike Ted Kennedy, Ted Cruz, Johnny Isakson, etc. Arbor to SJ (talk) 00:19, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support John, by why not use his more common
    John J. Flynt Jr. even? The precision is helpful, and the others can can be redirects unless or until they are ambiguous. Dicklyon (talk) 03:27, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply
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The politician is the only notable person named John Flynt so far. As I showed earlier, during his political career the three major US TV newscasts used "John Flynt" in reporting about him. Also, there have been plenty of uses of "John Flynt" (without the middle initial) in other media during his career, like this 1959 photo by The Denver Post, this 1977 article by United Press International, and this 1975 article by the Associated Press.
"John flynt" site:news.google.com/newspapers returns 21 results, but there are none for "John J. Flynt" within the same site. That indicates that the wire services during his political career preferred omitting his middle initial. However, The New York Times and The Washington Post frequently used his middle initial, as they do for most members of Congress (for instance, "Edward M. Kennedy" has 9x more results than "Ted Kennedy" searching within nytimes.com). Arbor to SJ (talk) 01:05, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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