Teammates, can I get experienced Wiki-Oregon editors to assess new Frederick Prigg article? Prigg was pioneer physician and pharmacist in 1840s. He opened the first commercial drug store in the Oregon County. He also served as Secretary for the Provisional Government of Oregon, a position that eventually became the Oregon Secretary of State … our second highest state office today. The article’s DYK nomination is approved so hook will be published on Wikipedia’s main page sometime soon ... not sure when. I’d really like someone from WikiProject Oregon to do assessment before DYK appears on main page. Thanks! Orygun (talk) 18:15, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oregon seems to be the only state that has a combined list like this. While an index is useful, it is probably more confusing for readers than just maintaining the existing cities list and CDP list. The cities list definitely needs to stay separate to match with the other 49 states, while the unincorporated places can have their own list similar to Washington's. SounderBruce06:10, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oregon is doing the right thing by combining carrots and potatoes and calling them all vegetables. The cities which have not combined them are not doing the reader a favor. It makes them have to look in two places instead of one. They are more likely to be surprised by the arbitrarily imposed distinction. —EncMstr (talk) 19:53, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Incorporation is an important distinction, as it (at least in the Northwest; other states are weird) determines whether you have another layer of government and what services you can receive. An unincorporated community is under direct county rule and has limited representation and independence. Incorporated cities and towns have firm names and recorded histories; unincorporated communities may have been named by the Census Bureau (in the case of CDPs) or have no real name, and hardly enough history to warrant an article under GNG. An equivalent to List of populated places in Oregon (a better name for the combined list) would be an appropriate thing to have for all states as a supplement to the lists that are separated by incorporated/unincorporated status. SounderBruce03:27, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There's been some pushback against having articles about small communities and quite a bit of damage (and no cleanup afterward, usually) has been done by folks not doing WP:BEFORE. (I don't necessarily agree with the current state of NGEO, but that's what we have right now.) Have you done any checking? Kansas City might be notable. I'll do my usual recon and try to spruce it up. Valfontis (talk) 20:48, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
anyone feel like smiling?
Hampton Lumber's smiley face forest in fall foliage, near Willamina Oregon
Lord Bolingbroke Thanx. I wasn't really in a situation to do a deep dive, just trying to keep him out of *very* NNPOV and COI edits. Hopefully, we can build from those and similar references to get something he'll live with. He did have some points, we'll see how it goes.Naraht (talk) 22:57, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
