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A fact from Cycling in Portland, Oregon appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 October 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that approximately 8% of commuters in Portland, Oregon bike to work, the highest proportion of any major United States city?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/October.

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Should this article be Bicycling in Portland, Oregon instead of Cycling in Portland, Oregon? Cycling is widely understood to include motorcycling, and—so far—the article isn't about motorcycles. —EncMstr (talk) 00:41, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This article's name conforms to an established naming scheme. See Category:Cycling by city. Gobonobo ^T ^C 14:36, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Non-compliant DYK

It's moot now, but this article never should have been approved for DYK, because at the time of its approval it was still almost entirely text transferred from another article, Transportation in Portland, Oregon, as shown here compared with here. The transfer was noted in the edit summary for that article, but should also have been noted in the very first edit summary for this "new" article (but was not). The very first item under DYK Rules, Selection criteria, states, "For purposes of DYK, a ‘new’ article is no more than five days old, and may not consist of text spun off from a pre-existing article." I didn't know the article had been nominated for DYK until it went onto the Main Page, or I would have pointed this out before it was approved. SJ Morg (talk) 07:31, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

When I split Mount Hood climbing accidents from Mount Hood, somehow it appeared almost immediately on the DYK nominations. I had to speak up somewhat forcefully to stop it. I clearly marked the first revision as a split, but I'm pretty sure if I had not indicated this on the DYK page, it would have gone through the process unfettered. —EncMstr (talk) 07:20, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm going to delete the claims about quotes from the media if they aren't sourced soon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.126.77.164 (talk) 12:06, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What's the hurry? It was easy to find the NY Times story. Searching CBS and the WSJ is proving to be much more difficult. —EncMstr (talk) 15:37, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tick tock, tick tock —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.129.251.17 (talk) 21:42, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Source

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2013/05/bicycling_contributes_400_mill.html

--Another Believer _(Talk) 14:52, 9 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's an online self-selected survey, not a scientific poll. Original report: "Due to the targeted outreach efforts and self-selecting nature of the on-line format, respondents were likely to be more orientated to organized group rides, sanctioned races, group tours, and independent bicycle touring; and thus would not fully represent all bicycle-related recreational activity while on trips in Oregon, although otherwise the data are very robust." They claim a mailed questionnaire is "random" rather than self-selected, though you have to wonder what their basis for that is.

Highly dubious, though it says a lot about the state of bicycle advocates if they are willing to stand on such flimsy evidence. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:13, 9 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Another source

https://www.wweek.com/culture/2019/04/10/portlands-infrastructure-has-fallen-behind-its-reputation-as-a-bike-town-heres-how-the-city-is-attempt-to-change-that/

I've created stubs for Flanders Crossing and Sullivan's Crossing. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:16, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]