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This user lives in, or hails from, Jacksonville, Florida. This user has visited Georgia .

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This user really enjoys dark and stormy nights. This user enjoys playing poker.

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Jaxfl is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia sometime this spring.

[edit] Unneeded duplicate categories

Please read Wikipedia:Categorization and subcategories. While there are exceptions, the general guideline is that, if an article is in one category, it should not also be in a parent/grandparent/etc category of the first one. Doing so is overcategorization. The first category implies the parents by the inherited structure.

Because of this, I would ask you to please stop placing articles back into the Category:Jacksonville, Florida category that are already properly categorized in one of it's sub-cats. And thus please stop undoing the cleanup work that I have been doing on various US city categories. Ideally very few articles should be directly in the city categories. We have good sub-cats for most of the articles.

As an example, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts was in both Category:High schools in Jacksonville, Florida and three categories that are parents to this one, Category:High schools in Florida, Category:Education in Jacksonville, Florida, and the main Category:Jacksonville, Florida category itself. None of these later three are proper. Being categorized as a high school in Jacksonville, Flodira implies already that it is a high school in Florida. It does not need to be in and should not be in the Florida category directly. Similarly the HS in Jacksonville category directly implies Education in Jacksonville and Jacksonville itself. The article should not be directly in these more general categories.

So please, read the guideline I linked to initially. It is mostly about the exceptions, because they take the most explaining, but the basic guideline itself is simple. "An article should not be in both a category and its subcategory".

This user supports Jury Nullification.‡

[edit] Fair use in Elkins Constructors

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because:

1. It illustrates an educational article about the business that the logo represents.
2. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
3. It is a low resolution image, and thus not suitable for production of counterfeit goods.
4. The logo is not used in such a way that a reader would be confused into believing that the article is written or authorized by the owner of the logo.
5. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

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