Edithistory:Christopher Mellon
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| 1288537313 | 2025-05-03T08:33:43Z | Chetsford | Commenting on submission ([[WP:AFCH|AFCH]]) |
| 1288512298 | 2025-05-03T03:20:02Z | Very Polite Person | move all this down from the lede to Education, renamed Personal life |
| 1288492694 | 2025-05-03T00:41:39Z | Very Polite Person | /* Government career */ [[Ed Henry]] of ''[[Roll Call]]'' has called Mellon's credentials "distinguished".<ref name="Henry Mellon Roll 2003-02-12" /> |
| 1288492562 | 2025-05-03T00:40:28Z | Very Polite Person | /* Government career */ +source |
| 1288492472 | 2025-05-03T00:39:35Z | Very Polite Person | /* Government career */ At the Pentagon, Mellon served under [[Donald Rumsfeld]] for a time.<ref name="Henry Mellon Roll 2003-02-12" /> |
| 1288492319 | 2025-05-03T00:38:23Z | Very Polite Person | +source |
| 1288492246 | 2025-05-03T00:37:30Z | Very Polite Person | Found another source just about Mellon ------------ In 2003, Mellon was hired by Senator [[Jay Rockefeller]] as minority staff director.<ref name="Henry Mellon Roll 2003-02-12" /> |
| 1288491587 | 2025-05-03T00:31:06Z | Very Polite Person | /* References */ typo in name |
| 1288491493 | 2025-05-03T00:30:18Z | Very Polite Person | /* Government career */ italics for [[Joint Forces Quarterly]] |
| 1288491403 | 2025-05-03T00:29:36Z | Very Polite Person | found another source, adding to main body, and actually the UFO-less thing is pointless, removing. |
| 1288486547 | 2025-05-02T23:39:14Z | Very Polite Person | /* UAP advocacy */ c/e |
| 1288486404 | 2025-05-02T23:37:45Z | Very Polite Person | /* Alternate UFO-less draft to demonstrate Notability */ +spacing for explanatory purposes |
| 1288485650 | 2025-05-02T23:30:37Z | Very Polite Person | /* UAP advocacy */ link |
| 1288485183 | 2025-05-02T23:26:20Z | Very Polite Person | links |
| 1288485095 | 2025-05-02T23:25:34Z | Very Polite Person | /* Government career */ c/e |
| 1288485009 | 2025-05-02T23:24:52Z | Very Polite Person | /* UAP advocacy */ c/e |
| 1288484967 | 2025-05-02T23:24:31Z | Very Polite Person | /* UAP advocacy */ c/e |
| 1288484848 | 2025-05-02T23:23:12Z | Very Polite Person | /* Government career */ c/e |
| 1288484524 | 2025-05-02T23:20:14Z | Very Polite Person | This is a complete 100% rewrite. Last post-AdD draft version was at this URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Christopher_Mellon&oldid=1288440008 |
| 1288484309 | 2025-05-02T23:18:14Z | Very Polite Person | Submitting using [[WP:AFCSW|AfC-submit-wizard]] |
| 1288484145 | 2025-05-02T23:16:30Z | Very Polite Person | try that spacing again |
| 1288484090 | 2025-05-02T23:15:58Z | Very Polite Person | /* References */ +spacing to clearly segregate versions |
| 1288484041 | 2025-05-02T23:15:35Z | Very Polite Person | /* Alternate UFO-less draft to demonstrate Notability */ Either way -- [[Wikipedia:Notability]] is met now with the main draft above. |
| 1288483905 | 2025-05-02T23:14:19Z | Very Polite Person | -typo |
| 1288483818 | 2025-05-02T23:13:28Z | Very Polite Person | remove unsourced awards from info box, see talk |
| 1288483407 | 2025-05-02T23:09:03Z | Very Polite Person | second section to compare |
| 1288482987 | 2025-05-02T23:04:39Z | Very Polite Person | spacing for readability |
| 1288482941 | 2025-05-02T23:04:12Z | Very Polite Person | going to [[WP:BOLD]] scooch my version up here, it includes everything we can use from the prior AfD rebuild, plus more sources, and I think I've established [[Wikipedia:Notability]] enough for just a stub if we excluded his UFO-related works. Will create a UFO-less draft under to demonstrate. |
| 1288482743 | 2025-05-02T23:02:14Z | Very Polite Person | Karl |
| 1288482652 | 2025-05-02T23:01:12Z | Very Polite Person | /* UAP advocacy */ + see also |
| 1288481917 | 2025-05-02T22:55:38Z | Very Polite Person | replicate infobox into my version |
| 1288481693 | 2025-05-02T22:53:43Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ into para |
| 1288481335 | 2025-05-02T22:50:40Z | Very Polite Person | /* UAP advocacy */ +source |
| 1288481253 | 2025-05-02T22:49:44Z | Very Polite Person | Mellon has also authored pieces for ''[[Politico]]''.<ref name="Wired Mellon 2023-07-27" /> |
| 1288481079 | 2025-05-02T22:48:23Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ +source |
| 1288480726 | 2025-05-02T22:44:37Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ +source |
| 1288480470 | 2025-05-02T22:42:02Z | Very Polite Person | /* UAP advocacy */ The [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] highlighted a 2018 column by Mellon in the ''[[Washington Post]]'', discussing the lack of interest in UFO investigations by the Pentagon, despite repeated military encounters with them.<ref name="ABC Mellon 2018-03-12" /> |
| 1288480216 | 2025-05-02T22:39:34Z | Very Polite Person | /* UAP advocacy */ +source |
| 1288480162 | 2025-05-02T22:38:58Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ +source |
| 1288479552 | 2025-05-02T22:32:13Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ paragraphs |
| 1288479103 | 2025-05-02T22:27:41Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ [[Rowan Scarborough]] wrote in ''Sabotage: America's Enemies Within the CIA'' that Mellon, at the behest of the [[White House]], had been deliberately excluded along with his [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] Senate counterpart Bill Duhnke from critical [[National Security Agency]] briefings related to the [[NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–2007)|NSA warrantless surveillance]] events from 2001-2007.<ref name="Scarborough Sabotage Mellon" /> |
| 1288478210 | 2025-05-02T22:18:13Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ I'm a dork, I put it outside the closing ref section tags. |
| 1288477983 | 2025-05-02T22:15:52Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ keep missing typos, sorry. |
| 1288477907 | 2025-05-02T22:15:06Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ and the other |
| 1288477878 | 2025-05-02T22:14:49Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ ref typo |
| 1288477818 | 2025-05-02T22:14:19Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ In ''Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War'', author and journalist [[Fred Kaplan (journalist)|Fred Kaplan]] wrote of Mellon's involvement during his Senate career with the [[National Security Agency]] and [[Mike McConnell (U.S. Naval officer)|J. Michael "Mike" McConnell]], former [[Director of National Intelligence]], and Mellon's research into the NSAs budget.<ref name="Kaplan ark Territory" /> |
| 1288475106 | 2025-05-02T21:49:50Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ apparently this is a cousin, removing |
| 1288473613 | 2025-05-02T21:35:39Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ Mellon is a member of the [[Mellon family]], and a descendent of both [[judge]] [[Thomas Mellon]] and [[William Larimer Mellon Sr.]], co-founder of [[Gulf Oil]].<ref name="Fitzpatrick PPG Mellon 2007-06-30" /><ref name="Reginato VF Mellon 2024-09-18" /> |
| 1288472815 | 2025-05-02T21:29:00Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ Mellon has been involved with various business [[Startup company|startup companies]], including in the [[wireless power transfer]] field.<ref name="Fitzpatrick PPG Mellon 2007-06-30" /> |
| 1288472381 | 2025-05-02T21:25:46Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ Mellon has served on the board of the [[Carnegie Museum of Natural History]].<ref name="Fitzpatrick PPG Mellon 2007-06-30" /> |
| 1288472161 | 2025-05-02T21:24:16Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ Mellon settled in [[Ligonier, Pennsylvania]], home to many of his extended Mellon family.<ref name="Fitzpatrick PPG Mellon 2007-06-30" /> |
| 1288471908 | 2025-05-02T21:22:36Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ Mellon returned to his family's longtime [[Pittsburgh]] home in 2006 after decades in the [[Washington, D.C.]] area, working for the [[United States Senate]] and the [[Department of Defense]] (DOD).<ref name="Fitzpatrick PPG Mellon 2007-06-30" /> |
| 1288471466 | 2025-05-02T21:19:44Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ Mellon is a member of the [[Mellon family]], and a descendent of [[William Larimer Mellon Sr.]], co-founder of [[Gulf Oil]].<ref name="Fitzpatrick PPG Mellon 2007-06-30" /> |
| 1288470889 | 2025-05-02T21:15:08Z | Very Polite Person | /* References */ correct domain |
| 1288470703 | 2025-05-02T21:13:31Z | Very Polite Person | /* UAP advocacy */ In the interview, Mellon asserted that the UFOs in question were "definitely not developed by the Pentagon".<ref name="Wall Space Mellon 2021-05-19" /><ref name="Whitaker 60 Minutes Aug 2021" /> |
| 1288470580 | 2025-05-02T21:12:21Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ According to Mellon during a 2021 interview with [[Bill Whitaker (journalist)|Bill Whitaker]] on [[60 Minutes|''60 Minutes'']], due to his concern that "not enough was being done to investigate UFOs."<ref name="Wall Space Mellon 2021-05-19" /><ref name="Whitaker 60 Minutes Aug 2021" /> |
| 1288470215 | 2025-05-02T21:08:59Z | Very Polite Person | /* UAP advocacy */ At the meeting, Mellon was involved in the sharing with the ''New York Times'' of what we become known as the [[Pentagon UFO videos]].<ref name="Wall Space Mellon 2021-05-19" /> |
| 1288470014 | 2025-05-02T21:07:31Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ +source |
| 1288469581 | 2025-05-02T21:04:04Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ In 2023, journalist Art Levine reported that Mellon had lobbied in support of the [[National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022]], which included a provision to investigate UFO-related topics and to create the Pentagon's [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]].<ref name="Levine Spectator Jul 2023" /> |
| 1288469414 | 2025-05-02T21:02:51Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ Mellon was announced on October 30, 2021 as a research affiliate to [[The Galileo Project]], a program began by [[Harvard University]] [[astrophysicist]] and [[Ufology|ufologist]] [[Avi Loeb]] to [[search for extraterrestrial intelligence]] or extraterrestrial technology on and near Earth and to identify the nature of unidentified flying objects.<ref name="Galileo Research Affiliate Mellon Oct 2021" /> |
| 1288469137 | 2025-05-02T21:00:31Z | Very Polite Person | /* Career */ updates/tidy |
| 1288468538 | 2025-05-02T20:55:20Z | Very Polite Person | /* Career */ add various, then edit timeline / rewrite, just take now from profile as this is a draft, his timeline is scattered across various pieces, but this is a solid center |
| 1288468031 | 2025-05-02T20:50:39Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ He began his [[Department of Defense]] (DOD) tenure in November 1999.<ref name="Harvard Mellon 2003" /> |
| 1288467859 | 2025-05-02T20:49:06Z | Very Polite Person | /* Education */ He earned his Masters Degree from [[Yale University]] in International Relations, with a concentration in finance and management.<ref name="Harvard Mellon 2003" /> |
| 1288467726 | 2025-05-02T20:48:09Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ Mellon obtained a [[Bachelor of Economics]] at [[Colby College]].<ref name="Harvard Mellon 2003" /> |
| 1288462841 | 2025-05-02T20:09:40Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ article>report for word flow |
| 1288461012 | 2025-05-02T19:56:47Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ Mellon, together with [[Peter Bergen]] and David Sterman, were highlighted by ''Pursuit Magazine'' for their 2017 report for [[New America (organization)|New America]] entitled ''"To Pay Ransom or Not to Pay Ransom? An Examination of Western Hostage Policies"''.<ref name="Pursuit Mellon 2022-09-09" /><ref name="New America Ransom Mellon 2017-01-08" /> |
| 1288458607 | 2025-05-02T19:38:19Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ He was indicated as the first official from the Congress to "review all of the NSA's [[Sensitive compartmented information|compartmented programs]]".<ref name="Kean Mellon 2016-05-09" /> |
| 1288458357 | 2025-05-02T19:36:46Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ Mellon's Senate work involved oversight of the [[National Reconnaissance Office]], [[Central Intelligence Agency]], [[National Security Agency]] and other [[United States Intelligence Community|intelligence organizations]].<ref name="Kean Mellon 2016-05-09" /> |
| 1288458124 | 2025-05-02T19:34:39Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ Among Mellon's roles at the [[Department of Defense]] were oversight for waste and duplication, and included visits to classified and restricted sites such as [[Area 51]].<ref name="Kean Mellon 2016-05-09" /> |
| 1288457884 | 2025-05-02T19:32:48Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ Mellon was heavily decorated through his government career, having earned the [[National Reconnaissance Office]] [[Awards and decorations of the United States government#National Reconnaissance Office|Gold Medal]] and the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] [[Awards and decorations of the United States government#Defense Intelligence Agency|Director's Medal]].<ref name="Kean Mellon 2016-05-09" /> |
| 1288457355 | 2025-05-02T19:28:34Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ Mellon was noted for having unusually deep and wide security clearances between the United States military and the United States intelligence community through his Executive and Senate work.<ref name="Kean Mellon 2016-05-09" /> |
| 1288456382 | 2025-05-02T19:20:37Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ After then-[[Director of National Intelligence]] [[John Ratcliffe]] disclosed on [[Fox News]] that some UFOs lacked "good explanations" and further details, the ''[[Washington Post]]'' reported that Mellon supported the disclosures.<ref name="WAPO Mellon 2021-03-21" /> |
| 1288455147 | 2025-05-02T19:09:55Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ In 2020, then-[[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Marco Rubio]] included language to the [[National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021]], which directed the [[Director of National Intelligence]] and [[Secretary of Defense]] to create "a detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence reporting, which was heavily drawn from proposals by Mellon to the [[United States Congress]].<ref name="Lewis New Yorker 2021-04-30" /> |
| 1288454673 | 2025-05-02T19:06:03Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ |
| 1288454226 | 2025-05-02T19:02:44Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ |
| 1288453884 | 2025-05-02T19:00:15Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ |
| 1288452949 | 2025-05-02T18:52:18Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ |
| 1288452610 | 2025-05-02T18:49:44Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ |
| 1288452173 | 2025-05-02T18:45:51Z | Very Polite Person | /* Draft 2 */ header names |
| 1288452136 | 2025-05-02T18:45:31Z | Very Polite Person | /* References */ spin up a sub area to draft. |
| 1288440008 | 2025-05-02T17:07:22Z | Ben.Gowar | /* UAP transparency advocate */ Concision. |
| 1288171564 | 2025-04-30T22:57:47Z | Ben.Gowar | /* UAP transparency advocate */ Added Mellon's appearance in [[The Phenomenon (2020 film)]], which is also a Fox documentary. Cited this with a Holywood Reporter link. Also linked the the Wiki article about the film. |
| 1288159919 | 2025-04-30T21:12:45Z | Ben.Gowar | /* References */ Corrected citation. |
| 1288159643 | 2025-04-30T21:10:22Z | Ben.Gowar | /* Senate Staff and Department of Defense */ Cited the Congressional Record to justify Mellon working as Cohen's assistant during the DoD reorganization. |
| 1288077243 | 2025-04-30T08:20:26Z | BuySomeApples | |
| 1288076138 | 2025-04-30T08:06:17Z | BuySomeApples | |
| 1288076078 | 2025-04-30T08:05:29Z | BuySomeApples | editing - refs for dod career |
| 1288075571 | 2025-04-30T07:59:11Z | BuySomeApples | editing - editing for pov and verifiability |
| 1288070369 | 2025-04-30T07:04:03Z | BuySomeApples | editing - removing some deprecated / primary sources |
| 1288069741 | 2025-04-30T06:54:12Z | Ben.Gowar | Spelling correction. |
| 1288069515 | 2025-04-30T06:51:30Z | Ben.Gowar | Grammar. |
| 1288067503 | 2025-04-30T06:26:27Z | Ben.Gowar | /* Early life and education */ Edited some of the text surrounding Mellon's testiomy on Joe Rogan's podcast. |
| 1288062740 | 2025-04-30T05:13:43Z | Ben.Gowar | Made many edits to try to conform to the WP:SIGCOV and WP:GNG guidelines. |
| 1287916603 | 2025-04-29T07:03:35Z | BuySomeApples | Declining submission: bio - Submission is about a person not yet shown to meet notability guidelines and v - Submission is improperly sourced ([[WP:AFCH|AFCH]]) |
| 1287900648 | 2025-04-29T04:03:08Z | Ben.Gowar | Submitted draft of article for review. |
| 1287900441 | 2025-04-29T04:00:41Z | Ben.Gowar | Submitting first draft of Article. |
