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Eyes on the Cylvia Hayes article[edit]

Looks like there are some issues here. The thing she's most known for in Oregon is not mentioned in the lead section, and there's a whole lot of external links in the text. I'm not going to be able to dig in in the immediate future. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 16:38, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yikes, a SPA doing reputation management/PR. I attempted to revert and welcome the user, Graywalls fixed my incomplete revert. tedder (talk) 20:41, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The COI on this article made it to Willamette Week. They don't have a connection between User:AgilityQueen and Cylvia or Cylvia's PR, but note her website talks about her dog training, "a self-confessed agility-holic". tedder (talk) 18:53, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I've added the Press template to the top of the article's talk page. ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:59, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I was about to look for that template, but it would have taken me a long time to find it! tedder (talk) 19:09, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ugh. The article has been restored to its pre-COI-edit state, which is good. Some improvements may have been reverted in the process. I did a quick run through that article to improve the grammar and remove some trivia and puffery. It could use some more attention if anyone is willing. Now I'm going to wash my hands.... – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:40, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Good work folks. This article has been subject to apparently COI edits for years. Valfontis (talk) 14:31, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Literary Arts, Inc.[edit]

Back by popular demand. I once made a redirect from Literary Arts, Inc. to the Oregon Book Award and the redir eventually ended up as an ("my") abandoned draft, about which I was notified today. Redirects are weird. Anyway, is it ready for primetime? If anyone has a minute to see if it's good for a standalone article, please move it into mainspace or if not, restore the redirect.

On a personal note, I've returned to College and my major is totally in line with my interests here, and I have access to all the databases, so hit me up for distracting research projects or just drop me line. I promise I will only be mucking about in a student-y way in collaborative open source projects that aren't Wikipedia.

Cheers, Valfontis (talk) 14:22, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats to the return-to-student mode! The draft doesn't look ready to me. I'll make the redir for now. tedder (talk) 17:08, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hadleyville, Oregon maybe DYK[edit]

Here's another tiny article on a tiny place. I have just about exhausted all my resources and patience for finding encyclopedic bits and need to move on. There was a neighborly stabbing and the shooting death of a ne'er-do-well younger brother of the Hon. Mr. Hadley, but that's alas either trivia or original research.

However. I learned at the 11th hour that Hadleyville was clamoring for an extension of the Oregon Electric in the 1930s. I can't find anything on when the effort ended (probably circa 1934) but if you look on newspapers.com under Valfontis, amongst all the other bits and bobs are some clips about the proposed rail extension. There might be enough words with the addition of the rail info to make a nice DYK, if there are any bored railfans about.

P.S. Other mysteries include the need for RSs on the last location of the post office (likely the source of the GNIS coords), and the fact the Hadley House served as a stage stop (only source is real estate listings). Cheers, Valfontis (talk) 21:20, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, the above post got inadvertently deleted? If I did something offensive or the rules have changed, please drop me a note on my talk page. Cheers, Valfontis (talk) 03:07, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment request[edit]

Teammates, can I get experienced Wiki-Oregon editors to assess article on George C. Brownell. He was president of the Oregon State Senate in 1903 and 1904. DYK bullet for this article (plus related image) has been approved and is now in DYK prep area. It will be posted on Wikipedia’s main page sometime soon. I’d really appreciate someone from WikiProject Oregon taking time to do assessment before DYK appears on main page. Thanks!--Orygun (talk) 06:51, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Great work as always, Orygun. That land fraud scandal really is the gift that keeps on giving, with all the interesting Oregon political stories... -Pete Forsyth (talk) 03:54, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Orygun: Nice work! Do you happen to know where he is buried? We can't use Find-a-Grave as a source but I could go snap a pic. Valfontis (talk) 18:54, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
According to this obit, he was cremated. Find-a-Grave says his ashes are at Wilhelm's Portland Memorial Mausoleum, and there is a photo that shows the plaque there, but it gives the wrong birth year. Which is yet another example of why Find-a-Grave is not a reliable source... — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 23:16, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Meek's Cutoff (film)#Requested move 4 March 2024[edit]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Meek's Cutoff (film)#Requested move 4 March 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. voorts (talk/contributions) 22:49, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The issue of whether Meek's Cutoff should go to article on the historic road or the article on the film on the road has..er..resurfaced. (Not the greatest pun, I suppose, considering the lack of "surface" or any visible indicators on the "road" was among its principle features) Anyway, here's the discussion. Pete Forsyth (talk) 00:26, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oops, I see my notification was redundant. I'm nixing the extra section header. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 00:27, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment Request[edit]

Wiki-Oregon teammates, can I get experienced editors to assess article on William Kuykendall. He was a Eugene physician who founded the city’s first hospital and served as President of the Oregon State Senate in 1905 and 1906. DYK hook has been approved and should at some point be posted on Wikipedia’s main page. Someone assessed importance, but the article still needs Wiki-Oregon editor to give it class assessment. I would really like to have assessment done before DYK appears on main page. Thanks!--Orygun (talk) 06:07, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done - Also made a couple minor edits. DJ Cane (he/him) (Talk) 11:01, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congress Hotel (Portland, Oregon)[edit]

Congress Hotel (Portland, Oregon) has been nominated for deletion, if any project members want to participate in the ongoing discussion. ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:38, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oregon Settlements[edit]

A non-fan of non-places is prodding some likely-to-be-places. I'll be working on Rice, Oregon. OGN is apparently now considered just a gazetteer, so use moar sources. Others:

Happy researching, Valfontis (talk) 04:42, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I contested Fairbanks but agree with Dant, fwiw. Cracking open "Stations West" and not even finding "Dant" mentioned wasn't exactly an endorsement. tedder (talk) 18:31, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Howdy. I dunno, Dant was created by @Finetooth: and he has pretty good instincts as far as notability. Valfontis (talk) 18:36, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe merge and redir to Oregon Trunk Railroad? Valfontis (talk) 18:39, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Kingsley, it was demoted to a ghost town, which is fine, but can one link to Google Maps to prove that nothing is there? Seems like WP:OR to me. Said the amateur geographer. I'm also curious, @WeirdNAnnoyed: why Kingsley didn't get a Prod while Rice did. Rice also has a cemetery... Valfontis (talk) 18:46, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Valfontis:, I decided not to PROD Kingsley because I could find far more mentions of it in local newspapers than I could Rice (although most of them were trivial mentions of somebody "of Kingsley" doing something completely unnotable, as small-town newspapers often used to print). If you're aware of more substantial information then by all means add it and remove my PROD. I'm not committed to deleting these articles, I just don't think we should have articles about places where all we can say is its name, location, and when it had a post office. That gets into WP:INDISCRIMINATE territory. But if we can say more, we should keep the articles. BTW, my understanding is Google Maps (or other maps) are fine for proving existence (e.g. the cemetery) but not notability. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 23:19, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@WeirdNAnnoyed: I created the Dant article about 10 years ago. Although the article's claims are faithful to the sources cited, the claims are thin, and Dant probably fails the notability test. Tedder is correct in saying that Dant is not mentioned in Stations West, which does however include a map of the Oregon Trunk Railway showing the location of a station named Frieda. The station name was changed from Frieda to Dant in honor of the perlite mine guy. All that is of such minor historical interest that deleting the Dant article seems reasonable. Oregon Trunk Railway and Oregon Trunk Railroad both redirect to Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, which has only one paragraph about this trunk line. If someone wanted to use the station list in Stations West to expand that paragraph, Dant (Frieda) could rise again as a tiny part of a minor list. Finetooth (talk) 00:00, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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