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Assessment request

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)

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)

@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)

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)

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

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)

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)

Oops, I see my notification was redundant. I'm nixing the extra section header. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 00:27, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Assessment Request

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)

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

Oregon Settlements

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:

• Dant, Oregon
• Fairbanks, Oregon @Tedder
• Kingsley, Oregon
• Whiskey Dick, Oregon (likely just a "funny place name", I haven't checked yep, created by "Blue Bucket Cow Camp" guy)

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

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)

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)

Maybe merge and redir to Oregon Trunk Railroad? Valfontis (talk) 18:39, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

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)

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)

@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)

New protest stubs

• 2024 Portland State University pro-Palestinian campus occupation
• 2024 University of Oregon pro-Palestinian campus occupation

--Another Believer _(Talk) 19:54, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Doyle Owl at AfD

Doyle Owl has been nominated for deletion if any project members want to weigh in:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Doyle Owl

--Another Believer _(Talk) 19:54, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Portland Men's Roller Derby

Portland Men's Roller Derby has been nominated for deletion:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Portland Men's Roller Derby

---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:33, 4 May 2024 (UTC)