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This is User:Furon. I am sorry about Mt. Hood, but I posted rumors, although this is now true. Sorry for the screw-up.
-- Furon 02:01, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Not sure if it was indeed a deleted image or not, but the University of Oregon academic seal is no longer showing on the University of Oregon page, nor any of the pages in its history. I believe it happened after someone updated the image code in the infobox, but I'm not sure. I've tried reverting that section of code back, but the image doesn't show up again.
I'm asking you since you seem to be very knowledgable in Wiki, do you know how to undelete the image or...something? Cluskillz 19:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
You seem to have a no-tolerance policy, but I don't see the harm (in the absense of there being a Wikipedia article to link to) in giving readers a shortcut vs. having to copy-and-paste a phrase into a search engine to find more information, so long as what is linked to is appropriate given Wikipedia's policies and the overall effect isn't that of a link directory. (I'm thinking of recent edits you've made to Maplewood, Portland, Oregon and Portland, Oregon.) Could you explain your reasoning?-- ScottMainwaring 18:56, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, this is Martin1971 from Vienna, Austria. Thank you for your friendly welcome greetings and your spellcheck of the Sager orphans. Martin1971 17:37, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Actually, the Yamhill County Genealogical Society in McMinnville, Oregon.-- Zinc2005 19:04, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the immediate attention to South Tabor! Always nice when a stub gets some love right away. - Pete 22:34, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, that was my mistake. I saw the edit and gave it a quick look, and at first it looked like cleanup to me (and part of it was). It wasn't until I checked a second time after you asked me about it that I saw the inappropriate blanking. I've done a major cleanup to the article, and restored some of the stuff the IP had blanked. Take a look at it now and tell me what you think. -- NORTH talk 23:44, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
oooh, I like that tag. Glad to know it! Is there a similar one for "like campaign materials?" - Pete 21:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi- I'm confused by your recent edit of Oregon statewide elections, 2006. Are you sure that the 2006 election was the event that moved Esquivel from the Senate to the House, or did that possibly occur earlier? I originally created that page using data from the state's web site, so it seems unlikely that I would have gotten one legislator wrong, as I was working from an authoritative list. Also, Oregon House of Representatives lists Esquivel as a Rep for the 2005 session. Of course, the Elections page was my first major wikipedia project, and I'll be the first to confess that I did a terrible job listing citations... - Pete 21:23, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
ANNOUNCEMENT:
This page is for a creative writing class, and we would prefer if you would not mess with it.
Thank You,
Ted —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Teddibear4774 ( talk • contribs) 22:18, 23 January 2007 (UTC).
Hey there, take a look at WP:UTM. Looks like the old warnings are being deprecated in favour of some new ones. -- Brad Beattie (talk) 18:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Clearly, you were having a look around and getting a feel for the place, to prepare for an all-out assault on sub-standard articles! A practice NOT to be discouraged in any way. By the way, I just about spat out my coffee when I saw your "nestled" google link. Priceless. - Pete 19:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
I actually don't know of any set guideline on the topic; I've been relying on precedent. I guess my preference for the term is that a number of articles will link to popular fan sites for an individual without the title making it clear it is the official site for that individual. That and the fact it's so widely used already it might be better for consistency. But I really don't know. I've brought the matter up at Wikipedia talk:External links#"Official website"; hopefully it gets some attention. Owen 22:55, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey, Katr,
I was wondering if it is possible to create a new template-thingy such as This user is a citizen of the U.S.A., only new. I also have no idea how to create a message box, like this one, so, if you wish, reply on my user discussion page! Thanks!-- Furon 20:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello Katr67, Thank you for showing your concern about the name of Roseburg's high school. The official name of Roseburg's High School is "Roseburg Senior High School." Otherwise it would be a misnomer. You can search the name "Roseburg Senior High School" for schools you will find a search result of "Roseburg Senior High School" such as http://www.schoolmatters.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cheberling ( talk • contribs) 21:20, 26 January 2007 (UTC).
I thank you for your edits to my article on Gopher. A little about me... I'm the Yamhill County Surveyor, a member of the board of directors of the Yamhill County Historical Society, and edit that organizations' newsletter, issued 9 times per year. "Gopher Valley" is the article I wrote for this months article. You are correct in stating the community was called Gopher. This was my first addition to Wikipedia. I submitted some of the information Lewis McArthur used in his latest edition of Oregon Geographic Names, relating to an early county road survey. However, I've not submitted the portion of the 1851 "Sketch of the Willamette Valley" to him, which takes the date of the place name back another 15 years or so. I'd like to insert a couple of neat photos, perhaps a scan of a portion of that sketch showing the name Gopher Hole, but I have no clue how to do the insertion. also, I see the warning to wait until all initial edits have been completed before doing any more to this.
Thanks again... you are light years ahead of me....
Dan Linscheid Sheridan, Oregon 503-843-2625 danl@starband.net
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thanks for your kind words. Yes, I noticed that the state associations have no over all category and I plan to work on them soon. Hmains 06:40, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Please look at Oregon associations now. Comments? Hmains 04:04, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
It took awhile but I did some work on the Ghost towns project. Bring your friends. Also, I think you'll be pleased to see the new project userbox. I'll let you scope it out at the new and improved, albeit somewhat stolen, project page. A mcmurray 07:10, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
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You even revert bot edits gone bad. For extraordinary diligence regarding Oregon, National Register of Historic Places and Ghost towns articles, specifically. Also for overall high-quality work on Wikipedia. A mcmurray 20:10, 31 January 2007 (UTC) |
Hi! I'm not ignoring your request to edit the Salem and Corvallis pages - there have just been other things I felt more pressing. I will get to those! Meanwhile...would you mind weighing in on the talk page of Portland Public Schools, Oregon? Do you think that oughtta be linked to the "cleanup" page? I think it should have some opinions expressed by locals before unleashing the world of Wikipedia on it, but I'm curious what you think. - Pete 07:32, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Can you please explain why to boast how it was used in the Astoria article was NPOV? Boasting in general is definitely NPOV, but this is clearly a case of the second meaning of the verb, i.e., to have. - Yupik 19:31, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Some have objected to the use of boast as a transitive verb meaning "to possess or own a desirable feature," as in This network boasts an audience with a greater concentration of professionals and managers than any other network. This usage is by now well established, however, and is acceptable to 62 percent of the Usage Panel.
I'll respond to the rest later, but: Please leave me out of your campaign against that particular user. Thanks. Katr67 17:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Can someone slowly and clearly explain to me why quoting policy is agressive? I generally quote policy so people can see exactly how the wiki guideline is worded, rather than trust my memory and let them take my word that I "read somewhere" about some policy. If you mean my inclusion of LAME, well, I do think the edits in question were very minor and it would indeed have been lame to continue reverting them. It was not the inclusion of the word "boasts" I was calling LAME, but the revert war caused by it, as you will see by the silly examples on the humorous LAME page. In my opinion, the words were changed from adequate English to very precise English and it would be nonsensical to revert them, especially because I have the impression Yupik was wikistalking the other user. If my post was cranky, well, since your reversion of one user's edits seemed to based more on personal bias or the need to make a point than on an interest in grammar, yeah, that made me cranky. And though I didn't start this discussion here, I chose not to move it to the Astoria page because I didn't want to draw in that other user and start things all over again. (For the record, Yupik reverted twice, the other editor reverted once and I reverted once.) Now. Bringing this up at Wikipedia talk:Words to avoid sounds like it would generate an interesting discussion. Good idea. Though I suspect we would get very little guidance and certainly no firm policy about the use of the word. Unless *not* changing "boasts" to "has" is set down as an official guideline, I for one am certainly going to change the word "boasts" to "has" if I run across it in the articles I take an interest in. On the other hand, it would be LAME of me go around the entire wiki hunting down its usage and stamping it out. Katr67 23:06, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey, Katr. I was just wondering if you know how to create a wikia, as I am wishing to create a wikia, called "Wiikipedia" Thanks.-- Furon 20:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Katr67! Thanks for the friendly welcome to the neighborhood. I've seen your footprints around some of my favorite pages.
I know you like Ghost Towns, and I've noticed that one of my favorites is missing from the Oregon list: Golden, Oregon. I've been there and it's a real nice one. Here are some links:
[3] (beware of music!)
Why don't you write it up?
-- DaKine 05:10, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I started a stub on the White Train based on the information I could find quickly (was looking for information for a paper I'm writing and I hate seeing nothing on such subjects). Saw you had a link from your userpage, and seeing the context there thought you might have something to say/do/add/desire to know. Cheerio Darker Dreams 03:13, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Sorry it took a while to get back, but I spent much of the weekend sick in bed with a nasty case of the flu. :)
The "notes" column is, as you said, intended to augment the existing fields. It isn't intended to list wine awards, especially as most such awards are meaningless. I'm not that familiar with the winery in question, but I'm certain that it shouldn't be given praise in Wikipedia in a place where Eyrie, Domaine Drouhin, or some of the other truly-notable wineries aren't praised.
I wouldn't worry about COI, unless it can be shown that a person is acting in an inappropriate manner. If someone did write an article about the winery that met our criteria (and wasn't overly promotional), that would be fine.
You might ask over at WikiProject Wine, to see what they think. I'm certain some of the folks over there will be rather uppity about a minor winery behaving in that fashion. :)
Talk to you later,
-- EngineerScotty 18:01, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi there! Hoping for a comment or two from you on the "talk" page over there, if you got a moment. I'm planning to put a lot of work into that page in the coming weeks, and want to make sure I'm on the right track first! - Pete 02:53, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm new to Wikipedia, so I haven't figured quite everything out yet, but your suggestions help and I will put them in to use.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Scoreboard ( talk • contribs) 04:18, February 7, 2007
Interesting indeed. Shot dead, killed instantly, sounds pretty rough-n-tumble to me. The article was no problem, as I have been on a round barn kick lately. (Maybe I always was). Maybe just a barn kick would be a better description.: ) A mcmurray 14:02, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Portlandneighborhood.com is a realtor site that has alot of interesting things about some of the portland neighborhoods. They are linked to lots of pages- for example alameda, irvington, etc etc. They are a realtor website. Why are they on it? I have written a neighborhood guide that has taken months and months to do- with all my research on my website about the areas of portland- links, photos, maps etc. It is much more all inclusive than www.Portlandneighborhood.com I tried to put a link on wikipedia just like they did- two different times- and I was kicked off immediately. Why? If I am kicked off, why are they allowed to be on there lots and lots of times all over the portland neighborhoods? I think that if we both have good contributing information about the neighborhoods of portland with links- we should be treated the same. If they can be on there, we should be on there. Does that sound fair? My website is www.TheCreativeRealtor.com and I link each neighborhood directly to the neighborhood page. Another good neighborhood guide is MovingtoPortland.net. She has an awesome neighborhood guide too.
Anyway- please let me know why the rules are different. Thanks Helen HOyt helen.hoyt@comcast.net —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Helenhoyt ( talk • contribs) 05:59, 10 February 2007 (UTC).
PortlandNeighborhood.com is not a realtor owned website. The focus of the website is the urban communities (neighborhoods) in Portland. 24.22.1.168 00:30, 20 February 2007 (UTC)Angela Juon, Owner, PortlandNeighborhood.com
This conversation is going on at two places at once. I think these comments should be moved to the Talk:Portland, Oregon page. Couple brief points though: BozMo, please remember that WP:COI is a guideline, not a policy. I think an owner posting their reasoning is a legitimate contribution to the discussion, provided that they recognize their conflict of interest. Angela has been very upfront in disclosing her COI, which is an excellent first step, and should be commended. However, as nobody without a COI has emerged to defend its inclusion, I think the time has come for Angela to drop her campaign. - Pete 00:56, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey. Got your message. If it's something you can talk about here. Please do. - Donteatyellowsnow
It clearly fails to qualify for Wikipedia, plus it's misleading by omission; thanks for chucking it. 24.22.3.249 00:20, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Would you mind having a look at the verging-on-lengthy conversation I've had with user:Cnewmark beginning at Talk:Craigslist#proper_etiquette and continuing to the next section, Talk:Craigslist#Article errors. (BTW, I have no reason to doubt he is Craig Newmark.)
Somehow I'm failing to communicate what he needs to be done to add a few facts he has for inclusion in the Craigslist article. I thought I was clear, but what should be swift progress is not happening somehow. Is it me? Am I over the top? Thanks in advance for any help! — EncMstr 18:14, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the message Katr. Yes, actually I was referring to you. Besides the other similarities, DEYS already assumed your familiarity with the issues, saying "they" and "it". So I see that he must have misinterpreted your original contact, as I misinterpreted his. I'm sorry about that. It was a mistake on my part.
As for my message to AM, it was really only incidental, even had it occured. And of course it had nothing to do with your behaviour at all. Sorry again. -- JGGardiner 22:33, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Katr, just wanted to inquire about your theory of "see also" sections. You have made a couple edits I don't agree with, and while my disagreement isn't strong in those specific cases, I'd like to share my general thoughts and see what you think. Essentially, I disagree that inclusion in the body should disqualify a subject from the "see also" section. I consider "see also" as a potentially significant part of an article, that allows a reader new to the subject to develop a sense of context. Oregon Ballot Measure 37 (2004), for instance, contained links to the organizations that promoted it and opposed it. You removed the link to OIA, because it had been linked in the body; but the result is a "see also" section that represents only one side of the issue.
None of this is meant to say that bloated "see also" sections aren't a problem. I'm all for keeping them "lean and mean," but I don't think inclusion in the body should automatically disqualify an article from inclusion. - Pete 00:20, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I added an external link a couple weeks ago to the rafting topic, linking to my website, www.whitewatercampsites.com. You deleted that link yesterday, calling it spam. Since I added it, a steady stream of people have used that link. My usage data shows that visitors spend almost 600 seconds at my site, on average. And this month they return 1.69 times each to spend another 600 seconds. It is not simply a picture gallery, it is a unique resource on the web for white water rafting enthusiasts. Yes, it has Adsense and today I made 12 cents, no joke. In the course of a year, my advertising MIGHT pay my hosting costs. I returned yesterday to expand the link text. I suppose that is promoting the site, in someone's definition. But reading the external links qualification for Wikipedia, my site certainly falls in the "should be included" category. My site is a labor of love, and very appreciated by the river rafting community, but apparently not by you. I can only ask that you do a little research and reconsider.
Certainly if someone is looking for river rafting information, they want to find my site. Commerical rafting companies won't link to it; they want to keep their visitors. There are very few places on the web that make sense to link to my site. This is, IMO, certainly one.
However, if I make my case with you and the next editor that comes along is going to delete it again, then don't bother reinstating it. Will Hansen —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mcguy0 ( talk • contribs) 02:52, 14 February 2007 (UTC).
Thanks for your feedback. I'll take a look at the talk page for rafting and see where things go from there. I didn't intend to become and 'editor' and have said conflict of interest. Is there a way to delete me? I just want to repost my link (at some point) and continue using this wiki as a plain user.
Katr67,
If I recall correctly, you have a copy of the Oregon Geographic Names book? If so, could you look and see who Mt. Bailey is named after? I'm wondering if it might be William J. Bailey. Thanks. Aboutmovies 22:58, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Katr67, Do you think there should be two separate pages one for the reservation (ie: more about the land itself) and another for the folks who live there? I noticed that the Umatilla tribe and the Umatilla reservation is set up like that? Just curious, because I put some stuff on the reservation page that is really more about the tribe. -- Smartone100 23:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for that very warm greetings! Regarding Oregon I'm just an interested reader right now, but I enjoy fixing grammar and loose ends. Flagman7 16:28, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes, the Iredale should go into the cat. I didn't work all the way through the History in Oregon cat as I had to write the Tonquin article. Which was slowed down by our northern neighbor also then editing the article. We'll see if he behaves. Good morning and happy rain! Aboutmovies 16:52, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey, How's it goin'? First off thanks everytime you do something on my peer review requests and what not. Anyway I am in the process of improving two articles in hopes of getting GA status (I have tried to rant about it incessantly wherever possible). One, I think you did some work on, Joseph F. Glidden House, which is currently undergoing two peer reviews. The other is one that had a peer review awhile ago but I just got around to improving, this one University of Illinois Astronomical Observatory is a bit long but it's already a "B" class and I have reworked some stuff today and it's a lot better, I think it still needs a bit of work though and I was wondering, if you have the time, could you give it a copy edit and going over for any glaring contradictions or errors? Thank you ahead of time. : ) A mcmurray 21:13, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Although I work on lots of categories, I think all types of people categories are the worst. I never know whether both categories or subcategories should include the same articles. It is just a mess; rarely does the category state what is expected; so anything goes. Then people get upset. Then things get worse. I have no insight. Sorry. Hmains 04:30, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I saw you commented after my comment on Voice of All's talk page and I've yet to recieve any reply from him but I found this and I added the section under "For a collection of user warning templates, add:..." and this has changed my tabs to the new warnings and also given me the option to select the type of warning (blanking, vandalism etc) and an easy way to input the name of the page targeted. Just a suggestion for you if you hadn't found an alternative solution. Regards, -- Farosdaughter 16:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Regarding your comment about the University of Oregon trivia about the Oregon Bach festival - the festival was originally an outgrowth of the UO school of music. See [6]. But, that association isn't apparent the UO page, so the trivia seems irrelevant. The UO page is kind of a beast, isn't it. ;-) -- tess 22:42, 22 February 2007 (UTC) tess 22:38, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi sis,
I've finally gotten around to creating an account and plunging into the editing game. Nothing major, mainly just some gnomish cleanup on some random pages so far. Talk at ya later. Finngall 18:46, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I am at a loss. I am trying to defend the Wiki against a spammer who wants to insert non notable information into the DeKalb, Illinois article, I attempted to get help at AIV, they were none. It seems the system is tilted heavily in favor of this person. The user is User:JazzButcher I don't know what to do to get this person to stop. Can you help me? A mcmurray 02:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I see you have a list of nations and/or states/provinces on your user page. I would like to offer you some templates for this task I created for my own list. One pair of templates will create entries identical to the one I use. (I suggest you copy my legend if you use them.) Other templates will provide just a flag or name (nation or province/state).
Will ( Talk - contribs) 07:03, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Katr67! As a perfesshunal ed it torr (I laughed for three days after you wrote something like that), I wonder what you think of the removed bullets from Mount Hood#Incident history. I'm mixed, but also a bit biased having written most of it. The editor who removed them merged several paragraphs in the last two incidents to make it hang together correctly. Now those megaparagraphs seem a bit intense. Should they be bulleted? Or is the way it is now more correct (but maybe stripped down a bit more)? — EncMstr 08:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Katr67, I noticed that you've been systematically removing the "see also" sections from a number of Oregon volcano articles I created. Why? They are there to provide quick links to other nearby volcanoes. If anything, the sections need to be expanded, not deleted. I made all those articles in a single concerted push, so I haven't had time to go back and fine-tune the list for each volcano. I will do so as time permits.
Please don't delete those sections entirely, but instead correct and expand them with other nearby volcanoes (obviously the "Cascade Range" link can be deleted, since it is redundant with other parts of the article). Maybe the sections should just be renamed "Nearby volcanoes" instead, since that's their primary purpose right now. But "see also" is certainly an appropriate name, too. Thanks, Seattle Skier 02:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Discussion continues at Template talk:Volcanoes of Oregon
I noticed you added the peer review template to the New Carissa talk page; however, the peer review is already linked at the top of the page in the "Article Milestones" section of the FA template - it's just hidden by default. Not a big deal either way, just wanted to point that out. - Big Smooth 17:48, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
(Message generated via copy and paste, sorry to be impersonal but I am hitting up everyone in the project. But hello. : ) Hey, saw you were a participant in the National Register of Historic Places WikiProject. I thought I would let you know that there is a new Collaboration Division up for the project. The goal of the division is to select an article or articles for improvement to Good article standard or higher. There is a simple nomination process, which you can check out on the division subpage, to make sure each candidate for collaboration has enough interested editors. This is a good way to get a lot of articles to a quality status quickly. Please consider participating. More details can be seen at the division subpage. IvoShandor 11:09, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
I think it's "Afterbirth" by From First to Last, which was in there, haha. I didn't get it either, but with so little info on it, it doesn't need to be there. Good call. Cheers! -- MPD T / C 05:47, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Re: your change to Lewis and Clark State Recreation Site. Thanks for the tip, I'm already using it on my next stub. And, BTW, your welcoming messages are very nice and appreciated. Cheers! Werewombat 15:18, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for catching that. I wonder what I thought I was doing? CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Your opinion makes sense, I've replaced the stub tag on both Oregon's 1st congressional district and Oregon's 3rd congressional district - thanks for the input! (also copied to project page) PGWG 17:25, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, it was finally a good day to take pics. If the clouds stay away tomorrow I might be able to get a good outside shot of the capitol, if the big ugly yellow school buses stay away. Aboutmovies 06:16, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I made some minor formatting changes, added a little more info on elevation/lat/long, and mentioned the post office and forest service since they are government. Feel free to get rid of it if you think I did it wrong. jimransier@hotmail.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.107.78.245 ( talk) 20:13, 18 March 2007 (UTC).
Hi, KATR! I saw your page of movies, realized some movies (such as "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest")were missing and set out to find you a better search phrase for IMDB. Check this one out and I think your list will get longer:
http://www.imdb.com/LocationTree?Oregon,+USA
I hope this helps. Did I ask you to check out the lovely Southern Oregon ghost towns of Golden (Douglas county) and Buncom (Jackson County) ?
Keep up the good work,
DaKine 22:15, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
I was kicking myself for not going all-in on the stub-for-deletion debate, like "how dare you people offend Oregon's treasured and Most Excellent Grognard." Bet that woulda made you blush!
Yeah, Mom is pretty hip in her own way - now I'll get to figure out if she gets "yo' mama" humor. Dig that ND joke. - Pete 16:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Heh. BTW, I am so stealing that plainlinks thing for my WPOR userbox... Katr67 18:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
The funniest thing about that "nestled" search is that the first thing after all those cities is "Fecal sac."
tyler skarz 04:01, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Katr67. I noticed that you edited Yaquina River to fix an image that I had inserted. For some reason the image was not displaying at thumb size, but you changed it to 250px and now it displays. I have run across this problem previously, where an image will not display at all at a particular resolution, but change it, even slightly, and then it displays. I had the same problem with the image Petroglyphs in the Columbia River Gorge.jpg that I added to Columbia River Gorge. It was not displaying at 300px, so I changed it to 298px and now it shows just fine. Any idea why this happens? Have you run across this problem before? ● DanMS • Talk 04:39, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I see you removed the Yahoo! Top Ten part, which is fine. But I had to re-add the ref since it also covered the third largest museum part too. Odd thing. When I wrote the article it was just a top ten thing, then when the DYK person nominated the article it was #9, last night it was #14. Aboutmovies 17:46, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
That was fast. I was going back in to populate the category after finishing Jackson Bottom, but you beat me to it. Thanks. Aboutmovies 18:28, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey- as far as I can tell, the *mp template (could it be a weirder name??!) is a substitute for a "*", that overcomes some Firefox-specific problem where bullet lists crash into images.
As for DYK items, I misunderstood your list, but I think it would be cool to keep track of nominations, as well - and build up a list of interesting facts about Oregon. Sounds like a separate list, though.
Just heard back from the Gov, they're on it. They didn't have much clue what I meant by "license," which seems weird for a former attorney gen/scj who champions open source but…whatever, they're willing to play along. - Pete 23:58, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello! There's been some recent activity getting the ball rolling at WikiProject Journalism, and if you'd like to join us, I'm sure your input would be valued. In particular, User:Wiki Wistah has proposed a guideline for editing articles about newspapers, and although I've responded with comments of my own, WW rightly suggested that it should be more than just a two-way conversation. I've noticed some of your own edits on related matters and thought you might be interested. Any suggestions would certainly be appreciated. Otherwise, if this is not of interest to you, or if you've already got a plateful of editing, feel free to ignore this message! - Tobogganoggin talk 02:02, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks - it was hiding in plain sight, which is I guess why I didn't see it; I was looking in bodies of text where I knew I'd been naming various categories, but they all had the second colon in them; I guess what happened here is I copied the contents of a template, trimming them in the box, but didn't notice I'd also selected the category attached to the template......how's the weather in Oregon? It's actually warm here for the first time in months; don't know if your rain was as bad as ours, but ours was epic (60-year records all over the place, with predictions of a 100-year flood on the Fraser in the next month or two......); gonna go outside and play ;-). Thanks for finding that again; I keep on coming up with bits of Oregon history in BC sources I've got, y'know, I just don't have time to add them; mostly fur trade stuff but also cross-border stuff to do with the Similkameen, Boundary and Kootenay areas and washington in the Oregon Country days; it's always intriguing to me what I find about BC-side history in American histories and about American-side history in BC accounts; there's tons of material affecting various existin articles and suggesting others; I just don't ahve time, but Oregon/WA/ID/MT even UT/WY historians/writers/wikipedians should be aware that they may find things in BC history about their own areas that they haven't heard before, or told from a different perspective. This also includes more recent events like the Salmon War of 1996, although that didn't affect Oregon it's certainly as much an Alaska or WA story as it is a BC one; ditto the mining history of eastern WA, ID and MT with BC's Southern Interior districts/valleys, whose histories are often more involved with Spokane's etc (and even Denver) than they are with New West/Vancouver/Victoria. Oregon's a bit more removed but there's still threads that go back and forth; the reason I'm rambling about this is if there's any particular historical topic area that's of interest to you, I'll keep my eyes open for bits and send 'em along if found. Skookum1 00:26, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Katr67. I am too lazy to add the tsunami hazard sticker anywhere else. In my view it makes sense to have such a warning on pages about coastal touristic resorts at risk. Feel free to revert my addition if you don't think it is useful.-- Unconcerned 20:27, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Good day, recently you added Geolinks to the Alkali Lake State Airport article. I'm not sure if you know this but if you click on the coords in the airport info box it brings up tons of links to maps & such. In fact I believe all of the geolinks added are covered there. Let me know what you think as it may be redundant to add geolinks to the bottom of airport articles. Thanks! - Trashbag 01:59, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey! I removed the quality tag you placed on OSU Radiation Center because I think it was there due to the spelling errors, and it's evolved quite a bit since then. If you could look at the article again and comment with what parts are difficult to understand or make no sense it would be greatly appreciated. I want to get all of the parts that need attention addressed b/c I just despise articles that have tags that never go away. Thanks! theanphibian 06:31, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I have completed some list of descendants of Category:Oregon than are not marked as Project Oregon. The list is not complete, as the bot crashed, but the list User:AlexNewArtBot/OregonList should keep you busy for a while Alex Bakharev 14:22, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, saw your message on my talkpage about assessing the Project: Oregon articles that are also within the scope of the Christianity project. Basically, I was just being bold, and have overlapped my assessment on a handful of articles. If that's a problem, I'll be glad to stop. Just trying to be a friendly neighbor. Did you disagree with my assessment, or is it mainly just inappropriate for me to be assessing articles for projects I'm not a part of? Just let me know. No offense taken on my part. Nswinton 18:08, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
I noticed you added a "sic" following the title Never Give A Inch in this article. I dont think it is really appropriate in a title. Of course inline inside of a quote this would be normal practice, but following a title, not a quote, I dont think it is appropriate and it looks odd and out of place. Russeasby 16:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Could you take a look at Katherine Ann Power and copy edit it to make sure things make sense and items are linked, etc. Thanks. Aboutmovies 21:52, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for improving the article Katherine Ann Power. But I'd just like to inquire that when and where was she born, and if she is still alive? Wooyi Talk, Editor review 05:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for lookin at Chinook Salmon and reverting the garbage edit about fry and bathtubs. I thought I'd gotten that one too, but obviously had missed it. - Fenevad 13:11, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thanks for all the improvements you have made to the page. And to point out one quibble. The photo of the "card catalog" is not really our card catalog in the sense of being our book catalog. Like most libraries we have an online book catalog and have had one for a long time. The card file at the State Library is what we call the Oregon Index. It is a manual card index to local newspapers that we began in the early 20th century. It also indexes other historical resources. We quit indexing in the 70's, so the scope is limited, but it is still a very valuable resource for researchers. -- Jim Scheppke —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jscheppke ( talk • contribs) 04:18, 15 April 2007 (UTC).
Hey could you take a look with the good book? Aboutmovies 20:36, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up on OSI, they were not on my watchlist. That same person also tagged Shari's. If all the articles in the Based in Oregon cat that don't show notability were tagged, then it would take a couple days to add the needed info as rarely are there any sources. I'm all for people starting articles, but take a minute to add a source. Enough ranting. No maybe I can work on what I planned on working on today. Aboutmovies 22:42, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
I saw that a little bit ago and thought "how many people outside of KY are going to recognize the outline of the state?" I thought about commenting, something along the lines of "maybe something more recognizable outside of the state, like a bust of Tubby Smith, oh wait he left..." But I thought that might be considered rude. Aboutmovies 17:01, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
A vandal created an attack page in my honor. The guy couldn't even get my name right. Sigh. :-/ -- Finngall talk 23:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Can you check the OGN and see if Hubbard, Oregon is named for this Hubbard? Thanks. Aboutmovies 01:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Nope it was named for one Charles Hubbard, who took over a donation land claim from a guy named Hunt who disappeared after he joined the California Gold Rush... None of the other things named Hubbard match Thomas either. Cheers. Katr67 01:10, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
You know, outside. :) Though maybe right now it's the big gray room... Katr67 01:16, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
What is so wrong with me posting a link to a Portland area news service? I noticed PortlandWiki is there, why is that okay?
Maybe I should leave you a message like you did to me that says "please don't delete my contribution to wiki pages."
Actions like your undermine the entire wiki philosophy. My contribution is entirely within the scope of the page and adds to users experience. What is your problem with it?
Get a life...—Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.117.164.28 ( talk • contribs) 01:21, April 26, 2007
Why are you threatening to block me just because I do practical jokes? You should tell me that 'NO JOKES ARE ACCEPTED ON WIKIPEDIA BECAUSE WE SUCK AT THEM' on my user talk.
♫ Death gle an er 01:12, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
U an admin?
You are not the wikipolice and your behavior is beginning to border upon that of a self-appointed dilettante.
I was going to refrain from commenting to you, but your over-editing of the page forces my hand. Frank first informed me of your harassment months ago. The hoax tag can stay. The "media" articles did need to go. However, deleting the accolades section when there are legitimate links to AOL went too far. This is not spam. It is proof of an award. Any search of the Willamette Week archives will confirm our awards in the previous years. Or, you could just get up from behind your computer, come down to the bar and see the awards for yourself.
You might also want to take a little trip down to the Oregon Historical Society to confirm my research on the building, that way we can remove the original research tag.
That being said, if you continue to make condescending comments in the talk section, remove valid information, or otherwise engage in behavior that is contrary to wikipedia's policies, I will report you.
Focus your efforts on other Oregon-related topics, since you are the self-appointed "expert" in these matters. I'm sure there are bigger fish to fry.
Good day. I consider the matter closed and am happy with the entry as it now stands.
PP —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pspark ( talk • contribs) 03:19, 29 April 2007 (UTC).
Hi, I respect your assessment that my recent nomination for blocking may have been in error, and agree that this user's behavior is different from most vandals. But I feel it's essential that something be done. Can you suggest an alternative? I don't want to violate WP:CANVASS, and I'm not sure what remedies are available between that and a block. - Pete 19:39, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
The accent markj and associated pronounciation are inaccurate with respect to the Nez Perce. As a teacher of Pacific Northwest history, I grow weary of this common error. At least let Wikipedia get it right.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.185.74.220 ( talk • contribs) 20:29, February 27, 2007
Thanks. I created an account right after posting the message to you. Now, can you explain why I get messages intended for Oriel College?
I think you mentioned that you used to give tours at the museum. If so, do you think the history they are giving is particularly accurate? I ask because their webiste says the Indian School became the Oregon Institute, then Willamette U. I know OI became WU, but according to G. Hines this is not what happened. And from what I've seen elsewhere I think Hines is correct, plus since Hines was there I give his opinion a bit more weight. Aboutmovies 20:15, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I noticed "Ghost Towns" as a project on your other page. There is one in southern Oregon, called Buncom. You can find a little on the web. Anyhow, I'm fairly lame at making Wikipedia catergories - I barely know how to post images right. But if you ever feel like adding Buncom under Oregon, I'd be glad to send you a photo to use in it. Its just 3 buildings. I think I have one or two images now, but its only a few miles down the road, if I can't locate one and need to take another. Mdvaden 05:54, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I remember ages ago you querying my adding Patricia Leines as a notable resident of Medford as she did not have a page (see User talk:PageantUpdater/Archive 4#Patricia Leines if you wish to refresh your memory). Anyway I just noticed that someone else created the article and when I was expanding the article I remembered our discussion so thought I'd pop you a note :) -- PageantUpdater • talk | contribs | esperanza 09:13, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey there, I notice you had done a little bit of editing on the Glencoe High School page. I cleaned it up a little bit, please let me know what you think of my edits and what you think needs to be done. I went to Glencoe, so I'd like to see its page improve. Pablothegreat85 21:54, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Since I know a lot of the folks I changed today are on your watchlist, I mainly left those that were important outside of the participation at the meetings in the main cat. But if their main notablity was just from the meetings, then I put them only in the sub cat. Let me know if you think this makes sense. Aboutmovies 20:00, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
As I see you keep changing around the sections with a reference to the MOS, I thought I would let you know section order is not covered there, it is in Wikipedia:Guide to layout. And it says the order doesn't matter which is why I normally put the ref section last. It is a personal preference I have since I always put footnotes at the bottom since most people don't bother to check them (even my professors joke with us that nobody reads them), and I think people are more likely to use the external links. But that's my preference, I'm not trying to get you to agree but somepeople (as I think you have expierenced) might not like others changing articles for no reason. Aboutmovies 20:23, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Good day Katr67, I've noticed that you've been working on critiquing cities that have been called out in airport articles. Be advised that the cities selected as references where selected for a reason. These "cities" - whether a local or a cross road in the middle of no where - are called out in two FAA related documents. The first is FAA A/FD or Airport/Facility Directory. This directory is used by every airman for gathering information on an airport or other facility (such as a helipad).
The second is the FAA Form 5010 - Airport Master Record. When an airport is built and every three years there after it will be inspected and all pertinent information is recorded here. The inspection is performed by the FAA or a designee. (Trivia) In the State of Oregon, this is performed by State Airport Inspector with the Oregon Department of Aviation.
I would advise in keeping with standard in calling out the city addressed by the FAA. By all means feel free to indicate whether that local is incorporated, and if it is not incorporated then what the next closest city is.
Just for an example of this data here is the 5010 data for Lake State Airport. Note how Alkali Lake is called out as the associated city. I hope this help explain the method to my madness. Happy Wiking - Trashbag 02:02, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm working on adding divisions to the {{ WikiProject Oregon}} template, but am in doubt about the proper category arrangement. As you seem to more fully embrace categories than I do, perhaps you could suggest the category names and relationships that these WP:ORE divisions should fall into:
I expect these would be named rooted at category:WikiProject Oregon or similar names would be subcategories of it, but not sure how to proceed. For example, should government project articles be under category:WikiProject Oregon government, category:WikiProject Oregon/government, category:WPORE government, or what? Maybe this should go to the project talk page? — EncMstr 18:48, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey there-
Just got back from the Maryhill Museum of Art (which has an awesome exhibit on Celilo Falls, btw) and I'm trying to wikify my newfound nuggets of knowledge. Could you take a look at Maryhill, Washington - I tried to make it grasp more coherently the dual roles of "modern" maryhill (pop. 98) and the original planned community. It's a weird combo, and one I know you've dealt with before…mind letting me know what you think? I've also been plugging away at Samuel Hill, Celilo Falls, The Dalles Dam, etc… - Pete 09:09, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
The funny thing is, that removal came from the same IP address as the one that originally added it…also without explanation. - Pete 20:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
The line under Libertarian Party of Oregon History concerning Wes Wagner lawsuit is false and misleading: "Instead of complying and producing accurate financial documents, the party leadership spent over $6000 in attorney's fees to not disclose this financial information." It is my understanding and direct experience that the LPO Treasurer made available all books and records to Mr. Wagner and any other member of the LPO State Committee at their request. If the LPO would have answered Mr. Wagner's "Alternative Writ of Mandamus" in the venue of the Washington County Court, it would have subjected the LPO to paying his attorney's fees as if it were an admission of some sort of guilt not to mention a recognition of the courts jurisdiction in the matter which was disputed by the LPO, affirmed by Judge Hernandez and the suit summarily dismissed in favor of the LPO. Please remove the line in question from the Wikipedia entry. -- Jerrydefoe 08:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
P.S. If you are involved with the party, I'd also suggest reading about conflict of interest. This doesn't preclude you from editing the article, but there are good suggestions about how to write from a neutral point-of-view. Katr67 16:43, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
You didn't sound "snarky" and I am not the anonymous editor and I have no idea who is (was). Also, I am aware and agree with the conflict of interest which is why I wrote in rather than edit myself. I'm not sure why I ended up writing here if you are not the owner. Sorry. Thanks for the advice and I will take your advice and write to the talk page. -- Jerrydefoe 07:13, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for alphabetizing Medford notables I should have done that myself.
Sorry your getting flamed so much lately just for making following official Wikipedia policies and guidelines. It would help a lot if users would learn more about these and throttle back their egos. I copied your talk page's discussion to Deathgleaner's talk page, where he can read it.
I've been trying to find out about a world champion lumberjack of the 1960s and 1970s named Melvin "Mel" Lentz. It's a little hard to find stuff here in Jackson County, what with #@*&!~ closed libraries and all. I'm sure he lived in Creswell, Oregon in his competitive years. Since he and Fircrest chicken are Creswell's 2 best known exports, I think we should put an artcle up about Mel and a link to Creswell. Can you help? I would also like to put in more about Larry Mahan, one of the greatest rodeo cowboys of all time, who competed out of either Salem or Brooks, Oregon. Same research handicap.
I see you are a fencer. Do you know our fellow Oregon Wikipedian Brady User:Bradybd ? I do volunteer work with him. He studied with Gay Jacobsen D'Asaro. Also do you know my other buddy, John McDougall [9], who also knows which end of the epee to hold?
I see you are a UU. I have always identified as one, and used to teach Sunday school at the Ashland fellowship.
Keep up the good work and keep being BOLD. DaKine 17:48, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Re: Fencing. Cool! My friend and fencing instructor, Twisted 86 has done some training under Maestro McDougall. I've met one other fencer from the Ashland area, Joel, but I've only been fencing for a few months, so I don't have the guts to compete in tournaments and possibly meet more of those folks. More later, I'm supposed to be working. Cheers! Katr67 18:41, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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This is User:Furon. I am sorry about Mt. Hood, but I posted rumors, although this is now true. Sorry for the screw-up.
-- Furon 02:01, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Not sure if it was indeed a deleted image or not, but the University of Oregon academic seal is no longer showing on the University of Oregon page, nor any of the pages in its history. I believe it happened after someone updated the image code in the infobox, but I'm not sure. I've tried reverting that section of code back, but the image doesn't show up again.
I'm asking you since you seem to be very knowledgable in Wiki, do you know how to undelete the image or...something? Cluskillz 19:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
You seem to have a no-tolerance policy, but I don't see the harm (in the absense of there being a Wikipedia article to link to) in giving readers a shortcut vs. having to copy-and-paste a phrase into a search engine to find more information, so long as what is linked to is appropriate given Wikipedia's policies and the overall effect isn't that of a link directory. (I'm thinking of recent edits you've made to Maplewood, Portland, Oregon and Portland, Oregon.) Could you explain your reasoning?-- ScottMainwaring 18:56, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, this is Martin1971 from Vienna, Austria. Thank you for your friendly welcome greetings and your spellcheck of the Sager orphans. Martin1971 17:37, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Actually, the Yamhill County Genealogical Society in McMinnville, Oregon.-- Zinc2005 19:04, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the immediate attention to South Tabor! Always nice when a stub gets some love right away. - Pete 22:34, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, that was my mistake. I saw the edit and gave it a quick look, and at first it looked like cleanup to me (and part of it was). It wasn't until I checked a second time after you asked me about it that I saw the inappropriate blanking. I've done a major cleanup to the article, and restored some of the stuff the IP had blanked. Take a look at it now and tell me what you think. -- NORTH talk 23:44, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
oooh, I like that tag. Glad to know it! Is there a similar one for "like campaign materials?" - Pete 21:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi- I'm confused by your recent edit of Oregon statewide elections, 2006. Are you sure that the 2006 election was the event that moved Esquivel from the Senate to the House, or did that possibly occur earlier? I originally created that page using data from the state's web site, so it seems unlikely that I would have gotten one legislator wrong, as I was working from an authoritative list. Also, Oregon House of Representatives lists Esquivel as a Rep for the 2005 session. Of course, the Elections page was my first major wikipedia project, and I'll be the first to confess that I did a terrible job listing citations... - Pete 21:23, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
ANNOUNCEMENT:
This page is for a creative writing class, and we would prefer if you would not mess with it.
Thank You,
Ted —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Teddibear4774 ( talk • contribs) 22:18, 23 January 2007 (UTC).
Hey there, take a look at WP:UTM. Looks like the old warnings are being deprecated in favour of some new ones. -- Brad Beattie (talk) 18:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Clearly, you were having a look around and getting a feel for the place, to prepare for an all-out assault on sub-standard articles! A practice NOT to be discouraged in any way. By the way, I just about spat out my coffee when I saw your "nestled" google link. Priceless. - Pete 19:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
I actually don't know of any set guideline on the topic; I've been relying on precedent. I guess my preference for the term is that a number of articles will link to popular fan sites for an individual without the title making it clear it is the official site for that individual. That and the fact it's so widely used already it might be better for consistency. But I really don't know. I've brought the matter up at Wikipedia talk:External links#"Official website"; hopefully it gets some attention. Owen 22:55, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey, Katr,
I was wondering if it is possible to create a new template-thingy such as This user is a citizen of the U.S.A., only new. I also have no idea how to create a message box, like this one, so, if you wish, reply on my user discussion page! Thanks!-- Furon 20:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello Katr67, Thank you for showing your concern about the name of Roseburg's high school. The official name of Roseburg's High School is "Roseburg Senior High School." Otherwise it would be a misnomer. You can search the name "Roseburg Senior High School" for schools you will find a search result of "Roseburg Senior High School" such as http://www.schoolmatters.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cheberling ( talk • contribs) 21:20, 26 January 2007 (UTC).
I thank you for your edits to my article on Gopher. A little about me... I'm the Yamhill County Surveyor, a member of the board of directors of the Yamhill County Historical Society, and edit that organizations' newsletter, issued 9 times per year. "Gopher Valley" is the article I wrote for this months article. You are correct in stating the community was called Gopher. This was my first addition to Wikipedia. I submitted some of the information Lewis McArthur used in his latest edition of Oregon Geographic Names, relating to an early county road survey. However, I've not submitted the portion of the 1851 "Sketch of the Willamette Valley" to him, which takes the date of the place name back another 15 years or so. I'd like to insert a couple of neat photos, perhaps a scan of a portion of that sketch showing the name Gopher Hole, but I have no clue how to do the insertion. also, I see the warning to wait until all initial edits have been completed before doing any more to this.
Thanks again... you are light years ahead of me....
Dan Linscheid Sheridan, Oregon 503-843-2625 danl@starband.net
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thanks for your kind words. Yes, I noticed that the state associations have no over all category and I plan to work on them soon. Hmains 06:40, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Please look at Oregon associations now. Comments? Hmains 04:04, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
It took awhile but I did some work on the Ghost towns project. Bring your friends. Also, I think you'll be pleased to see the new project userbox. I'll let you scope it out at the new and improved, albeit somewhat stolen, project page. A mcmurray 07:10, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
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You even revert bot edits gone bad. For extraordinary diligence regarding Oregon, National Register of Historic Places and Ghost towns articles, specifically. Also for overall high-quality work on Wikipedia. A mcmurray 20:10, 31 January 2007 (UTC) |
Hi! I'm not ignoring your request to edit the Salem and Corvallis pages - there have just been other things I felt more pressing. I will get to those! Meanwhile...would you mind weighing in on the talk page of Portland Public Schools, Oregon? Do you think that oughtta be linked to the "cleanup" page? I think it should have some opinions expressed by locals before unleashing the world of Wikipedia on it, but I'm curious what you think. - Pete 07:32, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Can you please explain why to boast how it was used in the Astoria article was NPOV? Boasting in general is definitely NPOV, but this is clearly a case of the second meaning of the verb, i.e., to have. - Yupik 19:31, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Some have objected to the use of boast as a transitive verb meaning "to possess or own a desirable feature," as in This network boasts an audience with a greater concentration of professionals and managers than any other network. This usage is by now well established, however, and is acceptable to 62 percent of the Usage Panel.
I'll respond to the rest later, but: Please leave me out of your campaign against that particular user. Thanks. Katr67 17:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Can someone slowly and clearly explain to me why quoting policy is agressive? I generally quote policy so people can see exactly how the wiki guideline is worded, rather than trust my memory and let them take my word that I "read somewhere" about some policy. If you mean my inclusion of LAME, well, I do think the edits in question were very minor and it would indeed have been lame to continue reverting them. It was not the inclusion of the word "boasts" I was calling LAME, but the revert war caused by it, as you will see by the silly examples on the humorous LAME page. In my opinion, the words were changed from adequate English to very precise English and it would be nonsensical to revert them, especially because I have the impression Yupik was wikistalking the other user. If my post was cranky, well, since your reversion of one user's edits seemed to based more on personal bias or the need to make a point than on an interest in grammar, yeah, that made me cranky. And though I didn't start this discussion here, I chose not to move it to the Astoria page because I didn't want to draw in that other user and start things all over again. (For the record, Yupik reverted twice, the other editor reverted once and I reverted once.) Now. Bringing this up at Wikipedia talk:Words to avoid sounds like it would generate an interesting discussion. Good idea. Though I suspect we would get very little guidance and certainly no firm policy about the use of the word. Unless *not* changing "boasts" to "has" is set down as an official guideline, I for one am certainly going to change the word "boasts" to "has" if I run across it in the articles I take an interest in. On the other hand, it would be LAME of me go around the entire wiki hunting down its usage and stamping it out. Katr67 23:06, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey, Katr. I was just wondering if you know how to create a wikia, as I am wishing to create a wikia, called "Wiikipedia" Thanks.-- Furon 20:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Katr67! Thanks for the friendly welcome to the neighborhood. I've seen your footprints around some of my favorite pages.
I know you like Ghost Towns, and I've noticed that one of my favorites is missing from the Oregon list: Golden, Oregon. I've been there and it's a real nice one. Here are some links:
[3] (beware of music!)
Why don't you write it up?
-- DaKine 05:10, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I started a stub on the White Train based on the information I could find quickly (was looking for information for a paper I'm writing and I hate seeing nothing on such subjects). Saw you had a link from your userpage, and seeing the context there thought you might have something to say/do/add/desire to know. Cheerio Darker Dreams 03:13, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Sorry it took a while to get back, but I spent much of the weekend sick in bed with a nasty case of the flu. :)
The "notes" column is, as you said, intended to augment the existing fields. It isn't intended to list wine awards, especially as most such awards are meaningless. I'm not that familiar with the winery in question, but I'm certain that it shouldn't be given praise in Wikipedia in a place where Eyrie, Domaine Drouhin, or some of the other truly-notable wineries aren't praised.
I wouldn't worry about COI, unless it can be shown that a person is acting in an inappropriate manner. If someone did write an article about the winery that met our criteria (and wasn't overly promotional), that would be fine.
You might ask over at WikiProject Wine, to see what they think. I'm certain some of the folks over there will be rather uppity about a minor winery behaving in that fashion. :)
Talk to you later,
-- EngineerScotty 18:01, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi there! Hoping for a comment or two from you on the "talk" page over there, if you got a moment. I'm planning to put a lot of work into that page in the coming weeks, and want to make sure I'm on the right track first! - Pete 02:53, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm new to Wikipedia, so I haven't figured quite everything out yet, but your suggestions help and I will put them in to use.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Scoreboard ( talk • contribs) 04:18, February 7, 2007
Interesting indeed. Shot dead, killed instantly, sounds pretty rough-n-tumble to me. The article was no problem, as I have been on a round barn kick lately. (Maybe I always was). Maybe just a barn kick would be a better description.: ) A mcmurray 14:02, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Portlandneighborhood.com is a realtor site that has alot of interesting things about some of the portland neighborhoods. They are linked to lots of pages- for example alameda, irvington, etc etc. They are a realtor website. Why are they on it? I have written a neighborhood guide that has taken months and months to do- with all my research on my website about the areas of portland- links, photos, maps etc. It is much more all inclusive than www.Portlandneighborhood.com I tried to put a link on wikipedia just like they did- two different times- and I was kicked off immediately. Why? If I am kicked off, why are they allowed to be on there lots and lots of times all over the portland neighborhoods? I think that if we both have good contributing information about the neighborhoods of portland with links- we should be treated the same. If they can be on there, we should be on there. Does that sound fair? My website is www.TheCreativeRealtor.com and I link each neighborhood directly to the neighborhood page. Another good neighborhood guide is MovingtoPortland.net. She has an awesome neighborhood guide too.
Anyway- please let me know why the rules are different. Thanks Helen HOyt helen.hoyt@comcast.net —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Helenhoyt ( talk • contribs) 05:59, 10 February 2007 (UTC).
PortlandNeighborhood.com is not a realtor owned website. The focus of the website is the urban communities (neighborhoods) in Portland. 24.22.1.168 00:30, 20 February 2007 (UTC)Angela Juon, Owner, PortlandNeighborhood.com
This conversation is going on at two places at once. I think these comments should be moved to the Talk:Portland, Oregon page. Couple brief points though: BozMo, please remember that WP:COI is a guideline, not a policy. I think an owner posting their reasoning is a legitimate contribution to the discussion, provided that they recognize their conflict of interest. Angela has been very upfront in disclosing her COI, which is an excellent first step, and should be commended. However, as nobody without a COI has emerged to defend its inclusion, I think the time has come for Angela to drop her campaign. - Pete 00:56, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey. Got your message. If it's something you can talk about here. Please do. - Donteatyellowsnow
It clearly fails to qualify for Wikipedia, plus it's misleading by omission; thanks for chucking it. 24.22.3.249 00:20, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Would you mind having a look at the verging-on-lengthy conversation I've had with user:Cnewmark beginning at Talk:Craigslist#proper_etiquette and continuing to the next section, Talk:Craigslist#Article errors. (BTW, I have no reason to doubt he is Craig Newmark.)
Somehow I'm failing to communicate what he needs to be done to add a few facts he has for inclusion in the Craigslist article. I thought I was clear, but what should be swift progress is not happening somehow. Is it me? Am I over the top? Thanks in advance for any help! — EncMstr 18:14, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the message Katr. Yes, actually I was referring to you. Besides the other similarities, DEYS already assumed your familiarity with the issues, saying "they" and "it". So I see that he must have misinterpreted your original contact, as I misinterpreted his. I'm sorry about that. It was a mistake on my part.
As for my message to AM, it was really only incidental, even had it occured. And of course it had nothing to do with your behaviour at all. Sorry again. -- JGGardiner 22:33, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Katr, just wanted to inquire about your theory of "see also" sections. You have made a couple edits I don't agree with, and while my disagreement isn't strong in those specific cases, I'd like to share my general thoughts and see what you think. Essentially, I disagree that inclusion in the body should disqualify a subject from the "see also" section. I consider "see also" as a potentially significant part of an article, that allows a reader new to the subject to develop a sense of context. Oregon Ballot Measure 37 (2004), for instance, contained links to the organizations that promoted it and opposed it. You removed the link to OIA, because it had been linked in the body; but the result is a "see also" section that represents only one side of the issue.
None of this is meant to say that bloated "see also" sections aren't a problem. I'm all for keeping them "lean and mean," but I don't think inclusion in the body should automatically disqualify an article from inclusion. - Pete 00:20, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I added an external link a couple weeks ago to the rafting topic, linking to my website, www.whitewatercampsites.com. You deleted that link yesterday, calling it spam. Since I added it, a steady stream of people have used that link. My usage data shows that visitors spend almost 600 seconds at my site, on average. And this month they return 1.69 times each to spend another 600 seconds. It is not simply a picture gallery, it is a unique resource on the web for white water rafting enthusiasts. Yes, it has Adsense and today I made 12 cents, no joke. In the course of a year, my advertising MIGHT pay my hosting costs. I returned yesterday to expand the link text. I suppose that is promoting the site, in someone's definition. But reading the external links qualification for Wikipedia, my site certainly falls in the "should be included" category. My site is a labor of love, and very appreciated by the river rafting community, but apparently not by you. I can only ask that you do a little research and reconsider.
Certainly if someone is looking for river rafting information, they want to find my site. Commerical rafting companies won't link to it; they want to keep their visitors. There are very few places on the web that make sense to link to my site. This is, IMO, certainly one.
However, if I make my case with you and the next editor that comes along is going to delete it again, then don't bother reinstating it. Will Hansen —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mcguy0 ( talk • contribs) 02:52, 14 February 2007 (UTC).
Thanks for your feedback. I'll take a look at the talk page for rafting and see where things go from there. I didn't intend to become and 'editor' and have said conflict of interest. Is there a way to delete me? I just want to repost my link (at some point) and continue using this wiki as a plain user.
Katr67,
If I recall correctly, you have a copy of the Oregon Geographic Names book? If so, could you look and see who Mt. Bailey is named after? I'm wondering if it might be William J. Bailey. Thanks. Aboutmovies 22:58, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Katr67, Do you think there should be two separate pages one for the reservation (ie: more about the land itself) and another for the folks who live there? I noticed that the Umatilla tribe and the Umatilla reservation is set up like that? Just curious, because I put some stuff on the reservation page that is really more about the tribe. -- Smartone100 23:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for that very warm greetings! Regarding Oregon I'm just an interested reader right now, but I enjoy fixing grammar and loose ends. Flagman7 16:28, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes, the Iredale should go into the cat. I didn't work all the way through the History in Oregon cat as I had to write the Tonquin article. Which was slowed down by our northern neighbor also then editing the article. We'll see if he behaves. Good morning and happy rain! Aboutmovies 16:52, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey, How's it goin'? First off thanks everytime you do something on my peer review requests and what not. Anyway I am in the process of improving two articles in hopes of getting GA status (I have tried to rant about it incessantly wherever possible). One, I think you did some work on, Joseph F. Glidden House, which is currently undergoing two peer reviews. The other is one that had a peer review awhile ago but I just got around to improving, this one University of Illinois Astronomical Observatory is a bit long but it's already a "B" class and I have reworked some stuff today and it's a lot better, I think it still needs a bit of work though and I was wondering, if you have the time, could you give it a copy edit and going over for any glaring contradictions or errors? Thank you ahead of time. : ) A mcmurray 21:13, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Although I work on lots of categories, I think all types of people categories are the worst. I never know whether both categories or subcategories should include the same articles. It is just a mess; rarely does the category state what is expected; so anything goes. Then people get upset. Then things get worse. I have no insight. Sorry. Hmains 04:30, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I saw you commented after my comment on Voice of All's talk page and I've yet to recieve any reply from him but I found this and I added the section under "For a collection of user warning templates, add:..." and this has changed my tabs to the new warnings and also given me the option to select the type of warning (blanking, vandalism etc) and an easy way to input the name of the page targeted. Just a suggestion for you if you hadn't found an alternative solution. Regards, -- Farosdaughter 16:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Regarding your comment about the University of Oregon trivia about the Oregon Bach festival - the festival was originally an outgrowth of the UO school of music. See [6]. But, that association isn't apparent the UO page, so the trivia seems irrelevant. The UO page is kind of a beast, isn't it. ;-) -- tess 22:42, 22 February 2007 (UTC) tess 22:38, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi sis,
I've finally gotten around to creating an account and plunging into the editing game. Nothing major, mainly just some gnomish cleanup on some random pages so far. Talk at ya later. Finngall 18:46, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I am at a loss. I am trying to defend the Wiki against a spammer who wants to insert non notable information into the DeKalb, Illinois article, I attempted to get help at AIV, they were none. It seems the system is tilted heavily in favor of this person. The user is User:JazzButcher I don't know what to do to get this person to stop. Can you help me? A mcmurray 02:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I see you have a list of nations and/or states/provinces on your user page. I would like to offer you some templates for this task I created for my own list. One pair of templates will create entries identical to the one I use. (I suggest you copy my legend if you use them.) Other templates will provide just a flag or name (nation or province/state).
Will ( Talk - contribs) 07:03, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Katr67! As a perfesshunal ed it torr (I laughed for three days after you wrote something like that), I wonder what you think of the removed bullets from Mount Hood#Incident history. I'm mixed, but also a bit biased having written most of it. The editor who removed them merged several paragraphs in the last two incidents to make it hang together correctly. Now those megaparagraphs seem a bit intense. Should they be bulleted? Or is the way it is now more correct (but maybe stripped down a bit more)? — EncMstr 08:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Katr67, I noticed that you've been systematically removing the "see also" sections from a number of Oregon volcano articles I created. Why? They are there to provide quick links to other nearby volcanoes. If anything, the sections need to be expanded, not deleted. I made all those articles in a single concerted push, so I haven't had time to go back and fine-tune the list for each volcano. I will do so as time permits.
Please don't delete those sections entirely, but instead correct and expand them with other nearby volcanoes (obviously the "Cascade Range" link can be deleted, since it is redundant with other parts of the article). Maybe the sections should just be renamed "Nearby volcanoes" instead, since that's their primary purpose right now. But "see also" is certainly an appropriate name, too. Thanks, Seattle Skier 02:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Discussion continues at Template talk:Volcanoes of Oregon
I noticed you added the peer review template to the New Carissa talk page; however, the peer review is already linked at the top of the page in the "Article Milestones" section of the FA template - it's just hidden by default. Not a big deal either way, just wanted to point that out. - Big Smooth 17:48, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
(Message generated via copy and paste, sorry to be impersonal but I am hitting up everyone in the project. But hello. : ) Hey, saw you were a participant in the National Register of Historic Places WikiProject. I thought I would let you know that there is a new Collaboration Division up for the project. The goal of the division is to select an article or articles for improvement to Good article standard or higher. There is a simple nomination process, which you can check out on the division subpage, to make sure each candidate for collaboration has enough interested editors. This is a good way to get a lot of articles to a quality status quickly. Please consider participating. More details can be seen at the division subpage. IvoShandor 11:09, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
I think it's "Afterbirth" by From First to Last, which was in there, haha. I didn't get it either, but with so little info on it, it doesn't need to be there. Good call. Cheers! -- MPD T / C 05:47, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Re: your change to Lewis and Clark State Recreation Site. Thanks for the tip, I'm already using it on my next stub. And, BTW, your welcoming messages are very nice and appreciated. Cheers! Werewombat 15:18, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for catching that. I wonder what I thought I was doing? CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Your opinion makes sense, I've replaced the stub tag on both Oregon's 1st congressional district and Oregon's 3rd congressional district - thanks for the input! (also copied to project page) PGWG 17:25, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, it was finally a good day to take pics. If the clouds stay away tomorrow I might be able to get a good outside shot of the capitol, if the big ugly yellow school buses stay away. Aboutmovies 06:16, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I made some minor formatting changes, added a little more info on elevation/lat/long, and mentioned the post office and forest service since they are government. Feel free to get rid of it if you think I did it wrong. jimransier@hotmail.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.107.78.245 ( talk) 20:13, 18 March 2007 (UTC).
Hi, KATR! I saw your page of movies, realized some movies (such as "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest")were missing and set out to find you a better search phrase for IMDB. Check this one out and I think your list will get longer:
http://www.imdb.com/LocationTree?Oregon,+USA
I hope this helps. Did I ask you to check out the lovely Southern Oregon ghost towns of Golden (Douglas county) and Buncom (Jackson County) ?
Keep up the good work,
DaKine 22:15, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
I was kicking myself for not going all-in on the stub-for-deletion debate, like "how dare you people offend Oregon's treasured and Most Excellent Grognard." Bet that woulda made you blush!
Yeah, Mom is pretty hip in her own way - now I'll get to figure out if she gets "yo' mama" humor. Dig that ND joke. - Pete 16:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Heh. BTW, I am so stealing that plainlinks thing for my WPOR userbox... Katr67 18:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
The funniest thing about that "nestled" search is that the first thing after all those cities is "Fecal sac."
tyler skarz 04:01, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Katr67. I noticed that you edited Yaquina River to fix an image that I had inserted. For some reason the image was not displaying at thumb size, but you changed it to 250px and now it displays. I have run across this problem previously, where an image will not display at all at a particular resolution, but change it, even slightly, and then it displays. I had the same problem with the image Petroglyphs in the Columbia River Gorge.jpg that I added to Columbia River Gorge. It was not displaying at 300px, so I changed it to 298px and now it shows just fine. Any idea why this happens? Have you run across this problem before? ● DanMS • Talk 04:39, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I see you removed the Yahoo! Top Ten part, which is fine. But I had to re-add the ref since it also covered the third largest museum part too. Odd thing. When I wrote the article it was just a top ten thing, then when the DYK person nominated the article it was #9, last night it was #14. Aboutmovies 17:46, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
That was fast. I was going back in to populate the category after finishing Jackson Bottom, but you beat me to it. Thanks. Aboutmovies 18:28, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey- as far as I can tell, the *mp template (could it be a weirder name??!) is a substitute for a "*", that overcomes some Firefox-specific problem where bullet lists crash into images.
As for DYK items, I misunderstood your list, but I think it would be cool to keep track of nominations, as well - and build up a list of interesting facts about Oregon. Sounds like a separate list, though.
Just heard back from the Gov, they're on it. They didn't have much clue what I meant by "license," which seems weird for a former attorney gen/scj who champions open source but…whatever, they're willing to play along. - Pete 23:58, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello! There's been some recent activity getting the ball rolling at WikiProject Journalism, and if you'd like to join us, I'm sure your input would be valued. In particular, User:Wiki Wistah has proposed a guideline for editing articles about newspapers, and although I've responded with comments of my own, WW rightly suggested that it should be more than just a two-way conversation. I've noticed some of your own edits on related matters and thought you might be interested. Any suggestions would certainly be appreciated. Otherwise, if this is not of interest to you, or if you've already got a plateful of editing, feel free to ignore this message! - Tobogganoggin talk 02:02, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks - it was hiding in plain sight, which is I guess why I didn't see it; I was looking in bodies of text where I knew I'd been naming various categories, but they all had the second colon in them; I guess what happened here is I copied the contents of a template, trimming them in the box, but didn't notice I'd also selected the category attached to the template......how's the weather in Oregon? It's actually warm here for the first time in months; don't know if your rain was as bad as ours, but ours was epic (60-year records all over the place, with predictions of a 100-year flood on the Fraser in the next month or two......); gonna go outside and play ;-). Thanks for finding that again; I keep on coming up with bits of Oregon history in BC sources I've got, y'know, I just don't have time to add them; mostly fur trade stuff but also cross-border stuff to do with the Similkameen, Boundary and Kootenay areas and washington in the Oregon Country days; it's always intriguing to me what I find about BC-side history in American histories and about American-side history in BC accounts; there's tons of material affecting various existin articles and suggesting others; I just don't ahve time, but Oregon/WA/ID/MT even UT/WY historians/writers/wikipedians should be aware that they may find things in BC history about their own areas that they haven't heard before, or told from a different perspective. This also includes more recent events like the Salmon War of 1996, although that didn't affect Oregon it's certainly as much an Alaska or WA story as it is a BC one; ditto the mining history of eastern WA, ID and MT with BC's Southern Interior districts/valleys, whose histories are often more involved with Spokane's etc (and even Denver) than they are with New West/Vancouver/Victoria. Oregon's a bit more removed but there's still threads that go back and forth; the reason I'm rambling about this is if there's any particular historical topic area that's of interest to you, I'll keep my eyes open for bits and send 'em along if found. Skookum1 00:26, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Katr67. I am too lazy to add the tsunami hazard sticker anywhere else. In my view it makes sense to have such a warning on pages about coastal touristic resorts at risk. Feel free to revert my addition if you don't think it is useful.-- Unconcerned 20:27, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Good day, recently you added Geolinks to the Alkali Lake State Airport article. I'm not sure if you know this but if you click on the coords in the airport info box it brings up tons of links to maps & such. In fact I believe all of the geolinks added are covered there. Let me know what you think as it may be redundant to add geolinks to the bottom of airport articles. Thanks! - Trashbag 01:59, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey! I removed the quality tag you placed on OSU Radiation Center because I think it was there due to the spelling errors, and it's evolved quite a bit since then. If you could look at the article again and comment with what parts are difficult to understand or make no sense it would be greatly appreciated. I want to get all of the parts that need attention addressed b/c I just despise articles that have tags that never go away. Thanks! theanphibian 06:31, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I have completed some list of descendants of Category:Oregon than are not marked as Project Oregon. The list is not complete, as the bot crashed, but the list User:AlexNewArtBot/OregonList should keep you busy for a while Alex Bakharev 14:22, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, saw your message on my talkpage about assessing the Project: Oregon articles that are also within the scope of the Christianity project. Basically, I was just being bold, and have overlapped my assessment on a handful of articles. If that's a problem, I'll be glad to stop. Just trying to be a friendly neighbor. Did you disagree with my assessment, or is it mainly just inappropriate for me to be assessing articles for projects I'm not a part of? Just let me know. No offense taken on my part. Nswinton 18:08, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
I noticed you added a "sic" following the title Never Give A Inch in this article. I dont think it is really appropriate in a title. Of course inline inside of a quote this would be normal practice, but following a title, not a quote, I dont think it is appropriate and it looks odd and out of place. Russeasby 16:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Could you take a look at Katherine Ann Power and copy edit it to make sure things make sense and items are linked, etc. Thanks. Aboutmovies 21:52, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for improving the article Katherine Ann Power. But I'd just like to inquire that when and where was she born, and if she is still alive? Wooyi Talk, Editor review 05:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for lookin at Chinook Salmon and reverting the garbage edit about fry and bathtubs. I thought I'd gotten that one too, but obviously had missed it. - Fenevad 13:11, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thanks for all the improvements you have made to the page. And to point out one quibble. The photo of the "card catalog" is not really our card catalog in the sense of being our book catalog. Like most libraries we have an online book catalog and have had one for a long time. The card file at the State Library is what we call the Oregon Index. It is a manual card index to local newspapers that we began in the early 20th century. It also indexes other historical resources. We quit indexing in the 70's, so the scope is limited, but it is still a very valuable resource for researchers. -- Jim Scheppke —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jscheppke ( talk • contribs) 04:18, 15 April 2007 (UTC).
Hey could you take a look with the good book? Aboutmovies 20:36, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up on OSI, they were not on my watchlist. That same person also tagged Shari's. If all the articles in the Based in Oregon cat that don't show notability were tagged, then it would take a couple days to add the needed info as rarely are there any sources. I'm all for people starting articles, but take a minute to add a source. Enough ranting. No maybe I can work on what I planned on working on today. Aboutmovies 22:42, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
I saw that a little bit ago and thought "how many people outside of KY are going to recognize the outline of the state?" I thought about commenting, something along the lines of "maybe something more recognizable outside of the state, like a bust of Tubby Smith, oh wait he left..." But I thought that might be considered rude. Aboutmovies 17:01, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
A vandal created an attack page in my honor. The guy couldn't even get my name right. Sigh. :-/ -- Finngall talk 23:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Can you check the OGN and see if Hubbard, Oregon is named for this Hubbard? Thanks. Aboutmovies 01:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Nope it was named for one Charles Hubbard, who took over a donation land claim from a guy named Hunt who disappeared after he joined the California Gold Rush... None of the other things named Hubbard match Thomas either. Cheers. Katr67 01:10, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
You know, outside. :) Though maybe right now it's the big gray room... Katr67 01:16, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
What is so wrong with me posting a link to a Portland area news service? I noticed PortlandWiki is there, why is that okay?
Maybe I should leave you a message like you did to me that says "please don't delete my contribution to wiki pages."
Actions like your undermine the entire wiki philosophy. My contribution is entirely within the scope of the page and adds to users experience. What is your problem with it?
Get a life...—Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.117.164.28 ( talk • contribs) 01:21, April 26, 2007
Why are you threatening to block me just because I do practical jokes? You should tell me that 'NO JOKES ARE ACCEPTED ON WIKIPEDIA BECAUSE WE SUCK AT THEM' on my user talk.
♫ Death gle an er 01:12, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
U an admin?
You are not the wikipolice and your behavior is beginning to border upon that of a self-appointed dilettante.
I was going to refrain from commenting to you, but your over-editing of the page forces my hand. Frank first informed me of your harassment months ago. The hoax tag can stay. The "media" articles did need to go. However, deleting the accolades section when there are legitimate links to AOL went too far. This is not spam. It is proof of an award. Any search of the Willamette Week archives will confirm our awards in the previous years. Or, you could just get up from behind your computer, come down to the bar and see the awards for yourself.
You might also want to take a little trip down to the Oregon Historical Society to confirm my research on the building, that way we can remove the original research tag.
That being said, if you continue to make condescending comments in the talk section, remove valid information, or otherwise engage in behavior that is contrary to wikipedia's policies, I will report you.
Focus your efforts on other Oregon-related topics, since you are the self-appointed "expert" in these matters. I'm sure there are bigger fish to fry.
Good day. I consider the matter closed and am happy with the entry as it now stands.
PP —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pspark ( talk • contribs) 03:19, 29 April 2007 (UTC).
Hi, I respect your assessment that my recent nomination for blocking may have been in error, and agree that this user's behavior is different from most vandals. But I feel it's essential that something be done. Can you suggest an alternative? I don't want to violate WP:CANVASS, and I'm not sure what remedies are available between that and a block. - Pete 19:39, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
The accent markj and associated pronounciation are inaccurate with respect to the Nez Perce. As a teacher of Pacific Northwest history, I grow weary of this common error. At least let Wikipedia get it right.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.185.74.220 ( talk • contribs) 20:29, February 27, 2007
Thanks. I created an account right after posting the message to you. Now, can you explain why I get messages intended for Oriel College?
I think you mentioned that you used to give tours at the museum. If so, do you think the history they are giving is particularly accurate? I ask because their webiste says the Indian School became the Oregon Institute, then Willamette U. I know OI became WU, but according to G. Hines this is not what happened. And from what I've seen elsewhere I think Hines is correct, plus since Hines was there I give his opinion a bit more weight. Aboutmovies 20:15, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I noticed "Ghost Towns" as a project on your other page. There is one in southern Oregon, called Buncom. You can find a little on the web. Anyhow, I'm fairly lame at making Wikipedia catergories - I barely know how to post images right. But if you ever feel like adding Buncom under Oregon, I'd be glad to send you a photo to use in it. Its just 3 buildings. I think I have one or two images now, but its only a few miles down the road, if I can't locate one and need to take another. Mdvaden 05:54, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I remember ages ago you querying my adding Patricia Leines as a notable resident of Medford as she did not have a page (see User talk:PageantUpdater/Archive 4#Patricia Leines if you wish to refresh your memory). Anyway I just noticed that someone else created the article and when I was expanding the article I remembered our discussion so thought I'd pop you a note :) -- PageantUpdater • talk | contribs | esperanza 09:13, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey there, I notice you had done a little bit of editing on the Glencoe High School page. I cleaned it up a little bit, please let me know what you think of my edits and what you think needs to be done. I went to Glencoe, so I'd like to see its page improve. Pablothegreat85 21:54, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Since I know a lot of the folks I changed today are on your watchlist, I mainly left those that were important outside of the participation at the meetings in the main cat. But if their main notablity was just from the meetings, then I put them only in the sub cat. Let me know if you think this makes sense. Aboutmovies 20:00, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
As I see you keep changing around the sections with a reference to the MOS, I thought I would let you know section order is not covered there, it is in Wikipedia:Guide to layout. And it says the order doesn't matter which is why I normally put the ref section last. It is a personal preference I have since I always put footnotes at the bottom since most people don't bother to check them (even my professors joke with us that nobody reads them), and I think people are more likely to use the external links. But that's my preference, I'm not trying to get you to agree but somepeople (as I think you have expierenced) might not like others changing articles for no reason. Aboutmovies 20:23, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Good day Katr67, I've noticed that you've been working on critiquing cities that have been called out in airport articles. Be advised that the cities selected as references where selected for a reason. These "cities" - whether a local or a cross road in the middle of no where - are called out in two FAA related documents. The first is FAA A/FD or Airport/Facility Directory. This directory is used by every airman for gathering information on an airport or other facility (such as a helipad).
The second is the FAA Form 5010 - Airport Master Record. When an airport is built and every three years there after it will be inspected and all pertinent information is recorded here. The inspection is performed by the FAA or a designee. (Trivia) In the State of Oregon, this is performed by State Airport Inspector with the Oregon Department of Aviation.
I would advise in keeping with standard in calling out the city addressed by the FAA. By all means feel free to indicate whether that local is incorporated, and if it is not incorporated then what the next closest city is.
Just for an example of this data here is the 5010 data for Lake State Airport. Note how Alkali Lake is called out as the associated city. I hope this help explain the method to my madness. Happy Wiking - Trashbag 02:02, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm working on adding divisions to the {{ WikiProject Oregon}} template, but am in doubt about the proper category arrangement. As you seem to more fully embrace categories than I do, perhaps you could suggest the category names and relationships that these WP:ORE divisions should fall into:
I expect these would be named rooted at category:WikiProject Oregon or similar names would be subcategories of it, but not sure how to proceed. For example, should government project articles be under category:WikiProject Oregon government, category:WikiProject Oregon/government, category:WPORE government, or what? Maybe this should go to the project talk page? — EncMstr 18:48, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey there-
Just got back from the Maryhill Museum of Art (which has an awesome exhibit on Celilo Falls, btw) and I'm trying to wikify my newfound nuggets of knowledge. Could you take a look at Maryhill, Washington - I tried to make it grasp more coherently the dual roles of "modern" maryhill (pop. 98) and the original planned community. It's a weird combo, and one I know you've dealt with before…mind letting me know what you think? I've also been plugging away at Samuel Hill, Celilo Falls, The Dalles Dam, etc… - Pete 09:09, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
The funny thing is, that removal came from the same IP address as the one that originally added it…also without explanation. - Pete 20:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
The line under Libertarian Party of Oregon History concerning Wes Wagner lawsuit is false and misleading: "Instead of complying and producing accurate financial documents, the party leadership spent over $6000 in attorney's fees to not disclose this financial information." It is my understanding and direct experience that the LPO Treasurer made available all books and records to Mr. Wagner and any other member of the LPO State Committee at their request. If the LPO would have answered Mr. Wagner's "Alternative Writ of Mandamus" in the venue of the Washington County Court, it would have subjected the LPO to paying his attorney's fees as if it were an admission of some sort of guilt not to mention a recognition of the courts jurisdiction in the matter which was disputed by the LPO, affirmed by Judge Hernandez and the suit summarily dismissed in favor of the LPO. Please remove the line in question from the Wikipedia entry. -- Jerrydefoe 08:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
P.S. If you are involved with the party, I'd also suggest reading about conflict of interest. This doesn't preclude you from editing the article, but there are good suggestions about how to write from a neutral point-of-view. Katr67 16:43, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
You didn't sound "snarky" and I am not the anonymous editor and I have no idea who is (was). Also, I am aware and agree with the conflict of interest which is why I wrote in rather than edit myself. I'm not sure why I ended up writing here if you are not the owner. Sorry. Thanks for the advice and I will take your advice and write to the talk page. -- Jerrydefoe 07:13, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for alphabetizing Medford notables I should have done that myself.
Sorry your getting flamed so much lately just for making following official Wikipedia policies and guidelines. It would help a lot if users would learn more about these and throttle back their egos. I copied your talk page's discussion to Deathgleaner's talk page, where he can read it.
I've been trying to find out about a world champion lumberjack of the 1960s and 1970s named Melvin "Mel" Lentz. It's a little hard to find stuff here in Jackson County, what with #@*&!~ closed libraries and all. I'm sure he lived in Creswell, Oregon in his competitive years. Since he and Fircrest chicken are Creswell's 2 best known exports, I think we should put an artcle up about Mel and a link to Creswell. Can you help? I would also like to put in more about Larry Mahan, one of the greatest rodeo cowboys of all time, who competed out of either Salem or Brooks, Oregon. Same research handicap.
I see you are a fencer. Do you know our fellow Oregon Wikipedian Brady User:Bradybd ? I do volunteer work with him. He studied with Gay Jacobsen D'Asaro. Also do you know my other buddy, John McDougall [9], who also knows which end of the epee to hold?
I see you are a UU. I have always identified as one, and used to teach Sunday school at the Ashland fellowship.
Keep up the good work and keep being BOLD. DaKine 17:48, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Re: Fencing. Cool! My friend and fencing instructor, Twisted 86 has done some training under Maestro McDougall. I've met one other fencer from the Ashland area, Joel, but I've only been fencing for a few months, so I don't have the guts to compete in tournaments and possibly meet more of those folks. More later, I'm supposed to be working. Cheers! Katr67 18:41, 30 April 2007 (UTC)