User talk:Aboutmovies/archive3

Soloflex

In reference to your changes to the Soloflex article. I referenced the police records of the Hillsboro police department for the robbery. How is that not a reference? I don't get it. As far as the other stuff.... the entire article has no reference... why have you not deleted the entire thing? Can I reference myself? I am a first hand witness and I have interviewed my father who is mentioned in the article and worked at Soloflex.

Your link to WP:CITE seems to only focus on other printed material. This seems to me that you can only write about things that someone else wrote about. What is the point of that. Is wikipedia not to have articles that are written about companies based on interviews or actual first hand knowledge? What if that person wants to remain anonymous?

Just trying to understand. --Jag7720 04:19, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Oy Vey

Ya know? Talk to ya later. Katr67 20:02, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I know. We can always just keep it local and still post on WPOR. Then maybe try again in a month. Do you know anyone with a good graphics program on the project? Aboutmovies 20:08, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

WPOR award - Thanks!!!

Very kind. When I started with Wikipedia, I hadn't anticipated the good folks I'd be dealing with. So I definitely appreciate your 2 cents! Cheers! -Ipoellet 02:08, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Time to dust off the Pioneer again…

Looks like User:Sprkee is just about done with an extensive rewrite of List of United States Representatives from Oregon. Whatcha think? -Pete 19:08, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Looks good. I just wish there was a way to make the tables all uniform in width for all the columns. It would make this and the Civil War scores look better. Now we just need to work through all those red links. Aboutmovies 17:33, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Advanced Cell Technology

Advanced Cell Technology is involved in one of the most prominent social, technological, and political issues of our day, embryonic stem cell reserach. Advanced Cell Technology has been featured countless times in both print and televised media. The amount of revenue is completely irrelvent to the issue. Unsigned message by: Biotech1 01:13, April 8, 2007 (UTC)

Now that the Advanced Cell Technology article is certainly cited enough to make it meet the requirements of being notable will you please remove the deletion box? --Biotech1 10:39, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Portland Penny

I think this is a day too late to nominate, but here's that instant DYK: "DYK The Oregon Historical Society Museum at the Oregon History Center in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States houses the Portland Penny that decided the city’s name?" ta da! Perhaps nominate the Portland Penny article, that surely you will write, instead? Katr67 22:26, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

Listen, I'm really sorry I did that;there is no explanation, just a stupid mistake I made. I didn't even know I had done it. I hope it has caused no trouble to you, and if it has, please leave me responsible. So sorry, --- ÅñôñÿMôús ^{Dîššíd3nt} 23:29, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok then, as long as I didn't make a big lot of trouble :). Good job with your successful DYK --- ÅñôñÿMôús ^{Dîššíd3nt} 23:38, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Katherine Ann Power

On 14 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Katherine Ann Power, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 03:06, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

State Library

The director of the state libarary left a note on my talk page you should look at. Dunno why people keep talking to me when you're the one doing all the work... <shrug> Katr67 04:27, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I changed it to A card catalog. That should ease his pain. Aboutmovies 00:52, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Central Oregon Coast Range

Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, Central Oregon Coast Range, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the "hook" for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on April 15 where you can improve it if you see fit. Regards, howcheng {chat} 00:03, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

On 19 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Central Oregon Coast Range, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 05:55, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

The Oregonian

First of all, it is plain common sense (besides being readily availible cited info from the ONO article/website and the associated pages on the citation link) that most papers have a public editor. Second, I said most not all. Big difference. Third, if you read the associated articles, it is made plain that public editor and ombudsmen are interchangeable terms. Thus, the Oregonian does not have an ombudsmen/public editor. Lastly, I have been an editor for quite a while now. Please do not speak to me in such a patronising tone on my talk page. It is not necessary to define a cite tag or its removal qualifications. VanTucky 01:36, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

p.s. Sorry about the userpage/talk page screw up. my mistake.

Thanks for adding Wash. Co. Historical Society!

We just updated a couple of items.

Long live wikipedia! WCHS Staff

GA nom of The Vancouver Voice

Did you mean to fail the GA nomination? If so, you need to remove it from the candidates page and replace the talk page template with the one for failed GA noms. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 17:18, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm sure it will fail, but I was just leaving my thoughts on the nomination and how to improve the article. Since I was the first one to leave any comments I thought I would leave it open for more comments from other editors before closing the nomination process. Aboutmovies 19:25, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Pat appreciated

I needed a break from dusty old Oregon representatives. It was fun digging all that stuff up. I did uncover lots of other mysterious old (and new!) Portland teams, so I'll add them to the list when I've made up the time I wasted writing the other articles. Thanks again for noticing. --Sprkee 00:07, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? was updated. On 22 April, 2007, a fact from the article Portland Buckaroos, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Carabinieri 20:33, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Oregon Scientific

It's a prod-o-rama! OS got prodded. I don't care one way or the other, but since you're into companies I thought I would point it out. Congrats on another DYK too! Katr67 15:39, 23 April 2007 (UTC) Ditto Shari's. Katr67 16:03, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Willamette Industries, Inc.

Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, Willamette Industries, Inc., for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the "hook" for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on April 19 where you can improve it if you see fit. Regards, howcheng {chat} 16:58, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Hey, thanks for the DYK noms. Problem on the Power nom though, since Williams was 2nd in scoring in 97-98 (the partial season). So probably should edit it or think of another one. I haven't been able to find stats for the full 96-97 season. --Sprkee 21:31, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh never mind, I can't read..."1997 to 1998 season" not and. Still, the phrasing threw me--maybe 1997-98 season? --Sprkee 21:33, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip on the citations. I'll be more diligent, since I definitely agree it would be good for our project. --Sprkee 22:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Looks like it is up next, along with another Oregon one. Aboutmovies 07:16, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Did you know? was updated. On April 24, 2007, a fact from the article Portland Power (basketball), which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

On April 24, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Willamette Industries, Inc., which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks again Aboutmovies. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:53, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 24 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article James T. Brand, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--ALoan (Talk) 14:20, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

I don't know if you're still following the barnstar debate, but check out the proposed WPKY barnstar for an example of what seems to make people happy. Katr67 16:55, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club

On 25 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 05:36, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Statesman-Yurnal

That wasn't a typo, it was editorializing. Inappropriate? Katr67 19:38, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

As long as its in the talk pages I think its fine. Beside, how many of us even watch that page? Aboutmovies 19:50, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Gatke Hall

Thanks for writing that article--it's one of my favorite buildings and I've always dug how they moved it on rollers. I believe the Executive Building or whatever it is also used to be a post office? Both much classier than that thing on Pringle... Thanks too for having a nice chat with the pesky person. I get so weary of those... Katr67 04:42, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem, any idea what style it is? Aboutmovies 04:44, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Maybe a DYK too.

Yes, a DYK would be good. I have no idea what style that is--maybe a rather plain neoclassical with some high-Victorian froo-ferah thrown on top? When in doubt, you can always resort to calling it vernacular... Katr67

Actually, now that I think about it, it's rather Italianate: check this image. But with foofy stuff. Katr67 05:31, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I've been looking for an hour to see if I could find something close to the same look or archival info on post offices built around then to get an architect/style. But no dice. So maybe Salem Italianate Vernacular Revival? Aboutmovies 06:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, you'd think some of those things would be built on a standard template. I know the old Coos Bay post office and the Eugene main p.o. are very similar in style (Art Deco). Maybe the Bend p.o. too, IIRC. Maybe check in with the Marion County historical society. They have some of the p.o. innards on display, BTW, not sure if they're from Gatke or the other one. Katr67 17:00, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Guess I'll try them next week. Plus I have the definative Orenco history to expand that article, plus I pulled out my dad's 1976 Hillsboro Argus 100th b-day of Hillsboro paper so I can add to the Argus & Hillsboro articles next week. I'm going to see about getting the Hillsboro, KA Powers, and Oregon Supreme Court up to Good status. Then I'll finish my FAC work for the Oregon article, finish the coast range stuff and then vegitate. Till then I really must stop procrastinating and studding for my last final. Later. Aboutmovies 20:14, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club

Hi, its Grover from WP Golf.
The article that you created is of very high standard, congratulations on your efforts! This article has alot of information, has the appropriate templates (your course template by the way looks very good, and in my opinion better than the one we have now), and is very well cited. I did fix up a few small errors in the scorecards, but nothing to worry about. Just one thing, are the two hole yardages in the one box neccesary? (on the ghost course 5, 6, and 8). If they aren't, it probably would be better to remove one of them, because it doesn't suit the template. Keep on producing articles like this and you will be doing well! Grover 12:39, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Thank you for recategorizing the articles on judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Since I have helped to draft a few of those articles, I appreciate the attention, and look forward to running across more of your contributions in the future. Regards, Newyorkbrad 00:29, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem, though I should only get some of the credit. Someone else had started the category and re-categorized quite a few judges already. I was just try to reduce the number of articles in the main cat so that everything would be on one page, and as such there needs to be a few more sub cats (which I hope to get to next week). If you have time, I only got through R so there may be a few more to change to the SDNY. Aboutmovies 04:30, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 30 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gatke Hall, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Carabinieri 20:35, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Go go Gatke! Katr67 21:00, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Add it even made it to the top with the only picture! Back to the mundane Supreme Court Justices. Aboutmovies 23:25, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Kick ass! And thanks very much for the the barnstar of ambiguous gender. I shall display it proudly! Katr67 00:36, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem, glad you like it. Aboutmovies 19:17, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Running man

Hey, thanks for the barnstar. And congrats to you for all your DYK recognition. I just went back and did another moldy old Oregon representative who had some possible DYK notoriety you may want to nominate--Maurice E. Crumpacker. He mysteriously drowned after claiming he had been poisoned. I'd love to find the rest of the story there... --Sprkee 00:07, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

Y'know, you're doing rather good things for my self-image. Thank you! -Ipoellet 15:55, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, then just kee up the good work. Aboutmovies 19:17, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Crumpackage

I updated the article, thanks to your pointer. In case you are interested in being a true Crumpacker Backer, there might be some interesting linkage to Oregon pioneer history through Mrs. Crumpacker's family. I left the details on Katr67's page if you want to pursue. --Sprkee 18:03, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Just glad it was useful, I'll see about a DYK for it too. Aboutmovies 19:17, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Wiffle bat

Thanks man! You may be unaware that as a major baseball fan, and generally mediatorial type, and proponent of silliness, I hold the Wiffle Ball Bat in particularly high esteem...so thanks for making my day!! -Pete 18:07, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem, just sharing the wikilove. Aboutmovies 19:17, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? was updated. On 5 May, 2007, a fact from the article Maurice E. Crumpacker, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Carabinieri 16:14, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Zenas

Thanks for cleaning up after me. I am working on his son Malcolm as you probably figured and discovered the sorry state of his dad's article. I was gonna come back to it, honest! There are a lot of politician stubs like this that were not tagged as stubs. I suppose I should add them to the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Oregon/People page. --Sprkee 16:54, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem, I just happened to have some info on him and thought I'd add/clean-up. Aboutmovies 17:05, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Mouse

If you are looking for another mystery to solve, can you figure out why Category:Portland_State_Vikings_football_coaches lists Mouse Davis under M instead of D? His DEFAULTSORT parameter is set correctly and he is properly sorted under all the other categories. I can't figure it out. --Sprkee 16:54, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure how I fixed it, but it's fixed. Aboutmovies 17:06, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Cool. Looks like having a template under a category that includes that template causes a little wikiconflict. I'm sure that's documented somewhere... --Sprkee 17:09, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Most excellent!

It's Christmas in Wikiland! Thanks for the article, can't wait to tuck into that. You'll know when I have, cause you'll see the initiative articles start to grow..... -Pete 19:20, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Categories

Well, you just may be right. Do what you will, and if you change it, could you deal w/ the McMinnville category as well? --Zinc2005 01:07, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Legislative initiative

Hi- I started a list of people who've helped and may be interested in helping at the page about getting works of the Oregon government into the public domain. Added your name - hope you're still willing to help! -Pete 20:21, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Oregon Supreme Court

Congrats on the GA!! I'm equally impressed with the decision, and with the finishing touches you put on to get it there. It's a great article, a standard to look to as we develop all the Ore. gov. pages. My only regret is that I never got around to weighing in on the nomination. -Pete 08:32, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Stupid vandals

Thanks! Aboutmovies 21:54, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Assessments

Thanks for jumping in on all those assessments. Could you maybe list what your assessment is in the edit summary, so we can more easily see what they are as you plow through? Just interested. Hope your energy holds up for a while, this is great! -Pete 01:32, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Its the newspapers, and I only have a couple left, then I'm done for diner. When I start up again I'll make notes i the summary. Aboutmovies 01:34, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

FYI, I have replied on my talk page. — Scientizzle 16:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Start class tagging

Maybe I'm wrong, but it appears your recent tagging spree was "eyeball free". I'm guessing this because the tags were all identical even though applied to a variety of articles, and applied within moments of each other. Certainly nCUBE is not "start". Maury 14:22, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Reply on your page, but no it was not eyeball free, and yes it is a start class article. And also if you take the time to look you will see that the tags were not indentical as some were start and some were stub. Now the "importance" were pretty much all low, but I knew that going in and does not require the reading of the article. We have already set up guidelines (actually I did) for companies in WPOR, and since I've been doing most of the work in that category I'm rather familier with what the importance should be, and also had a good idea of the class (you might check the article history and see that I've been there before). Aboutmovies

After your latest missive on my talk page I feel forced to respond. 1) the article predates any of the rules you quoted. For someone that's complaining that I should check the history, I'd recommend doing the same 2) the article has multiple references. Surely the fact that they use the older format isn't that confusing? 3) your tagging clearly states that most of it was done by a script. Thus my concern. 4) what could possibly lead you to claim that a lack of references (which there isn't) implies "violates original research, a copyright, or is plagerism"? 5) Finally, I'm glad to hear you believe "I'm rather familier with what the importance should be", but the fact that the important part of this company's history was already finished before you were in high school suggests that might not be the case. I'm sorry I dared to question your tagging project, but I take offense at your accusations of plagiarism. You'd be well advised to assume some of that good faith you quoted at me. Maury 12:54, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

There is only one inline reference (external links and See also are not references) and it is not really related to the company, it is related to a prize won by people outside the company using computers that used a chip built by the company. By the way I never said you violated plagerism, the people who wrote the article would have if they wrote this without citing their references. And if they did not plagerise then it would be original research right? That or they copy and pasted from elsewhere which is copyvio. Other than those three items what else could it be if there are no references for everything but one sentence that again is only vaguely related to the company? Aboutmovies 15:54, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

PS I wasn't using script for WPOR as the script was not set-up for WPOR until late last night, and two the script only makes it easier to do the assessment, it does give a value only the human operator does that. And it doesn't matter if the event took place 4 centuries before I was born, the importance for the article to WPOR is determined by WPOR and is really unrelated to article class. It is only related to the importance of the article that we feel it deserves in relation to other WPOR articles.Aboutmovies 15:54, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Katherine Ann Power GA on hold

 GA on hold — Notes left on talk page. Nehrams2020 06:56, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

script

I noticed you installed my script the hard way. :) I suggest you revert what you added to your monobook.js and just replace it with these 3 lines:

// [[User:Outriggr/metadatatest.js]]      
importScript('User:Outriggr/metadatatest.js'); 
assessmentMyProjects = ["WikiProject Oregon"];

You'll receive code updates that way. –Outriggr § 07:50, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, thanks. Aboutmovies 08:42, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Tagging

Hey thanks for working so hard on the WPOR assessements. I didn't even know there was a script to do that. I did a few of the small towns by hand and thought about firing up AWB to do the rest... Anyway, I was away from a computer all weekend, so I don't know how far you got. Do you want help finishing up or do you have a handle on it? By this evening the jones should be pretty bad and I'll have to put in a few hours of editing... Katr67 16:09, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

So do I need to ask permission to use the above script or can I just slap it in my monobook and tag away? Katr67 15:53, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Ahoy! Katr67 22:38, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Cool thanks! Katr67 22:44, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Betty Roberts

On 21 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Betty Roberts, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Aquarius &#149; talk 21:20, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Cat herding

I put a note on the talk page, but I was thinking that Yamhill County Courthouse is one of those cases where it made sense for it to be in both the parent and child cats. What say you? Katr67 16:05, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

works for me. Aboutmovies 19:21, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

UO Importance

Thanks for changing that. I thought it was a little pretentious for me to do that on my own, though of course I agree. =) Hehe. akendall 01:31, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

I figured for all the schools in the state OSU and UO should be Top. Aboutmovies 01:33, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

WPOR List class

Hey, I noticed that you tagged a couple of WPOR articles as "List" class. It doesn't look like the template was set up to support that so the articles aren't going anywhere for the moment. I suppose we could set that up, if we think we need it. What do you think? --Sprkee 00:35, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes I think the List should be set up as they have their own ratings to them (Featured List class), and they don't really fall into the regular assessment scale. So hopefully it will be added so they don't show as unassessed. Aboutmovies 00:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I was going to mention this as well. I do think the lists need their own category. Katr67 00:59, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, I'll mention it at the assessment page. Aboutmovies 01:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

I'll take a stab at adding this a little later, if no one beats me to it. --Sprkee 01:04, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Zena vs. Zenas

An anonymous user has challenged my changing the primary page of "Zena Ferry Moody" to "Zenas Ferry Moody" on my user talk page. You made some nice edits from your "History of Oregon" book, so I wonder if you could provide some insight. Thanks! --Sprkee 14:13, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Anthro Corporation

Is this worth salvaging? Katr67 00:29, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't. Zero hits on Portland Business Journal (even that college housing place at least had mentions of the thing in there), and no hits from the Oregonian. Even Hoovers had the least amount of info I've seen for a company. Aboutmovies 00:35, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Karakakooa Bay

You asked a question a few months ago regarding an article on the ship Tonquin and the location of Karakakooa Bay in Hawaii. I think this is very likely to be Kealakekua Bay on the Big Island of Hawaii, and the same bay Cook visited. Arjuna 08:14, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

List assessment

Since you did the excellent Oregon article assessments, I wonder if you could add a row on the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Oregon/Assessment page for Lists so people know how to rate them, and when they should be rated out of the list category and into Start/B/etc. Are some lists always going to be lists, or is there some magic criteria to lift them out of it? For example, I added pictures (stealing your idea from the judges page, btw) to the List of United States Representatives from Oregon page, thinking that might help it get rated higher, but it was still tagged as a list. I'm not sure what other info it could have, so is that list always going to be a list? Just wondering your thoughts and thought you could start us standardizing that review criterion. --Sprkee 18:39, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

As always, Sprkee addressed something I was wondering about too... Katr67 19:01, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Per your reply on my page (and we can continue here since Katr67 has joined the conversation), I am also not really that into lists for the same reason you mention, though I have been trying to spruce up those two Congress-related ones that seem to be standard for all states. I don't quite understand the criteria of rating lists at all; how did List of Oregon State University alumni get rated an "A", for example? I think it's great, but I don't get it. I don't really care about grades, I just would like to know how we can improve the articles to their maximum potential. I am a little wary of adding a whole new grading system for lists. I'd like them to move to the standard assessments at some point because since List is not a standard, it won't ever been seen by those people who just look at certain quality-rated articles. (I guess there are people like that...?) Since I think our goal is to get more people seeing, and ultimately, working on our project, I think it's fine to leave them as Lists when they are just going to be lists forever, or when they are stub-quality; but a List that has been expanded and referenced and improved should move over to the regular article grading system. Just my two cents. --Sprkee 19:15, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Just an FYI, List of Oregon State University alumni got an "A" rating because it met the criteria of being well written, properly referenced and at the stage where it could at least be considered for featured article/list status. - Theophilus75 19:33, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Salem Pioneer Cemetery

I found this today and thought you might be interested in it if you need a break from assessment. I think there's a bunch of your old dead guys *ahem* pioneers and judges who might be able to be linked to there? Katr67 21:39, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

This gold guy's for you

This shiny Barnstar is awarded to Aboutmovies for their great efforts improving WP Oregon. Katr67 15:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

For writing dozens of well-referenced articles, DYKs, going for GA status on several articles, assessing way more articles than anybody else, and all-around competence and enthusiasm. Oh and for inventing our shiny barnstar. Thank you! Katr67 15:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

BGD

Gosh, and I didn't get you anything...thanks! --Sprkee 17:22, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and congrats to you too! --Sprkee 17:22, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

WPOR award grammar nit

Could we change the template text so that it says "for all of his or her work" rather than "for their work"? I realize it's not as pretty, but I think we should be grammatically correct in a template. Maybe there is some other wording we can come up with. --Sprkee 17:57, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I got it, how about "for all your hard work"? --Sprkee 18:10, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Though I heartily dislike the singular "they", I don't mind it in the boilerplate language so much. We can customize the award to the user, if we happen to know the person's gender and s/he is "out" about it. I just went ahead and changed it on my barnstar myself, and was actually rather appreciative that it didn't come right out and say "she", even though alert editors can easily figure that out about me. That's probably just my quirk though. PS: Sparkee's idea is a good one--there's not a rule the awards have to be in the third person is there? Katr67 18:21, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

AM, shall I list this at the personal awards page (the one for unofficial awards) since it failed miserably at the official barnstar nomination? Or should we just keep it under our hats? Katr67 18:21, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

OK, made some changes, hopefully that will satisfy all. Check it out on WPOR (which I'm not sure if we want to keep at the bottom or work into the templates area). Katr go ahead and put it on the personal awards (that's sticking it to the man!) since teh awards committe can't stop us!!! We'll conquer the world yet! But first more biographies on obscure dead people. Aboutmovies 18:29, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

That works for myself (<--my real grammatical pet peeve)! --Sprkee 18:34, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Little red schoolhouse

Heeheehee! Thanks! Couldn't you have made it smell like a doughnut though? Mmmmm.<-Homer Simpson voice. Katr67 18:41, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

No problem, I didn't have any barnstars for you this time around and didn't want you to feel left out, plus you had some blank space there. I'll work on the donut smell. Aboutmovies 18:45, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

That's very nice of you. Though I think Pete's Wikicop badge would have kept me happy for a few more months. Hey you want to add your sig to my schoolhouse, s'il vous plait? Katr67 18:50, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography 2007 Summer Assessment Drive

WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive!

WikiProject Biography is holding a three month long assessment drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unassessed articles. The drive is running from June 1, 2007 – September 1, 2007.

Awards to be won range from delicacies such as the WikiCookie to the great Golden Wiki Award.
There are over 110,000 articles to assess so please visit the drive's page and help out!

This drive was conceived of and organized by Psychless with the help of Ozgod. Regards, Psychless ^{Type words!}.

Copperfield, Oregon

Hey, I did a stub based solely on OGN, so if you have anything more to add please do. Also I noticed the dates of Miz Hobbs' cleanup in the Oswald West article and hers contradict each other. Finally, a souce claims that Huntington, Oregon was also cleaned up by Guv West during the same period--do you have anything on that? Though probably true, I'm not so sure the info as it stands now is from a reliable source, since it's some random person's website. Katr67 15:33, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I didn't see any dates on the Copperfield article. I think the dates I put a accurate, you might see this which I added to external links of the Hobbs article and the Archives web exhibit. I have one article from The Oregonian in 2005 that uses an Oregonian article from 1/1/1914 as its source. The Hobbs article has some areas for expansion and there are some things I think will need revision, but I'll get to it. Aboutmovies 05:05, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

No, not in Copperfield--in Oswald West, the date of the cleanup is put at "New Year's eve 1913", which is close enough to 1914 to cause the confusion, I guess... Katr67 14:20, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

OK, gotcha. I went in and clarified the West article. The days may be off by a day in both articles, but I think that is good enough. On 5 billion year old planet what's a day? Aboutmovies 15:33, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the Barnstar!

All I did was get it started, but you're the one doing all the work now. I really do appreciate the recognition though! Thanks a bunch. - T-75|talk|contribs 17:36, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Start class by script?

How exactly does a script judge the classifications of articles like Dave Carter? Phil Sandifer 03:16, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Lithia Motors Assessment.

The following suggestions were generated by a semi-automatic javascript program, and might not be applicable for the article in question.

• Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.^[?]
• Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Build the web, years with full dates should be linked; for example, link January 15, 2006.^[?]
• This article is a bit too short, and therefore may not be as comprehensive as WP:WIAFA critera 1(b) is looking for. Please see if anything can be expanded upon.^[?]
• Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.^[?]

You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas.

My own non-automated points:

• The article seems to be missing a lot of history and only seems to give the basics to the reader.
• I was kind of unsure whether to class it as a stub or start. The article is well sourced and well written for the content, and possibly should be a start article rather than a stub. I placed it as a stub because it seems to be missing a lot of history (more details on the business expansion, how the son reorganized, business structure with its current size, etc) and seems to be more of a rough collection of information.

Keep up the good work! T-75|talk|contribs 05:23, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, for getting it assessed, but you didn't need to do a full peer review. I added it to the review section so it would be removed from the end of the alphabet in the unassessed category so I could stop looking at it. So same with all the articles in that section if you plan on going through those. Thanks again. Aboutmovies 17:25, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Fern Hobbs, was selected for DYK!

On June 5, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Fern Hobbs, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 23:13, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm envious that you wrote about an incident that I've been meaning to get to for years! Good work, BTW. I hope you don't mind that I added some details from Stewart Holbrook's account of this incident, & since he describes Hobbs' arrival at Copperfield very memorably, I wonder if you also mind if I added that scene to her article. -- llywrch 03:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I was doing that when you left my message. Have a peak at Copperfield, Oregon. I hope I gave proper balance to both the sober, factual account & its more entertaining version. -- llywrch 03:38, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Provisional Government of Oregon

Just an FYI, I did a quick assessment of this article and rated it a B. It looks to me like it may not take much to get this to GA. - T-75|talk|contribs 05:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, maybe after I get Waller Hall to GA and the Oregon State Capitol to FA I'll see about expanding it a bit. Hopefully by July we'll have 10+ GA articles for WPOR. Aboutmovies 15:15, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

DYK (6 June)

On 6 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article L.L. "Stub" Stewart Memorial State Park, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Laïka 16:10, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Reames DYK

Hey, I noticed that your DYK for Alfred E. Reames describes him as a Congressman when in fact he was a Senator. I was going to make the change but it's probably better for you to edit the main entry as a typo than have me add it underneath as a correction. -Sprkee 23:00, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I know that it is usally used only for House members, but technically it is for both since both house and senate are part of Congress. I prefer it to Senator/Representative since that could be at the federal or state level which then means more explanation and Congressman doesn't since we don't have a state congress. But again, that's my preference. Aboutmovies 23:23, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

That link says it's a faux pas to refer to a Senator as a Congressman. I'm pretty sure if you just said Senator, everyone would know what you meant, otherwise they'd expect to see "state Senator." But it's your entry, so I'll butt out now. --Sprkee 23:29, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Stub Stewart State Park

Some of the information on your L.L._"Stub"_Stewart_Memorial_State_Park page was inaccurate. I have replaced the bad information with the latest official word (mainly concerning park features, plans for the future and other miscellanea). Some of the media reports are either old or just plain wrong. I included a citation to our official fact sheet. Thanks. (Chris, Oregon Parks and Recreation Dept)

Chrishavel 18:50, 8 June 2007 (UTC)chrishavel

Please read Talk:L.L. "Stub" Stewart Memorial State Park, it is just for you. Bcostley 23:44, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Croix de Assessement

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		*with 4,000 fircone cluster* For your uncanny ability to know the Starts from the Stubs; to know your As, Bs, and GAs; and your tireless dedication to assess almost singlehandedly more than 4,000 WikiProject Oregon articles, I award you this barnstar. Future generations of our project thank you in advance, and we thank you now on their behalf. --Sprkee 15:01, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I'd just like to thank my agent, my parents, my wife, the producer and director, and of course all the little people who made this happen, I couldn't have done it without them. Aboutmovies 15:07, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Huzzah! Katr67 17:31, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

William D. Hare/Hare, William D.

Hey Am, I thought I'd ask you since you're one of the people most involved in the WPOR categories and also know about WPBIO...What do you think of the default sort thing being added to the article's talk page. If if were up to me I think it should be left off of WPOR for now (I'm fine with things being sorted by first name in that WPOR cat) but it seems to also help WPBIO. Anyway, mostly I'm annoyed that this one article is going to be sorted by "H" while everything else still defaults to first name first. Any ideas how to approach this? I suppose the tag could be added using AWB or a script, but since we just finished all our other work, I for one am not particularly eager to do more. Katr67 20:52, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I saw that when the editor added it last time and I find it un-needed. The only time I am in WPOR cats is for assessment, and that is only when looking for unassessed items, so sorting doesn't matter (but that's me). The regular cats are ment for navigation, the WPOR are not in my opinion. And since WPBio already has a sorting item (the list as) I see adding default sort as unnecessary. Of course I don't see the point of "place of death missing" either, as if it is a big priority to find that info so an article can make FA status. But that's me. Time to see about the fair use battle on LEC pictures. Aboutmovies 22:33, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Capitol

I'll see about finishing wikignoming this today. Are you doing any more on it right now? I don't want to have an edit conflict. And hey, do you have any idea about this: "These external walls of asher blocks rose two stories" (emphasis mine). What's an asher block? I don't think in this case it's a rabbi... The closest I can get is that it has to do with some masonry/Masonic/Biblical thing... Katr67 20:28, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Cool, yeah let's try for FA. Two other questions about the section I just did, if you still have access to the sources you used? 1) They used "native stone". This is really interesting. Where did they get it from? Where do we have blue stone? (And any luck finding an image?) 2) It mentions the fire being discovered Sunday morning, but I don't know what day the fire broke out--I assume Saturday night? Katr67 21:13, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I've mostly finished my list at User talk:Katr67/List of Capitol names/Temp. Ignore the liberty ship stuff, that's just for me, though if not too listcrufty it might be interesting to write up a list of liberty ships named after Oregon folks (there were a lot I think because of the major shipbuilding going on here). I'll add the Cogswell ref, and note that the bolded redlinks are the folks with the most linking to them so they should be written first). Do you think we should make it a real article and link it in? If so what should it be called? List of Oregon State Capitol names? I dunno if that works or not... Katr67 21:30, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

The sources for the additions a few weeks ago came from the Salem Library so I could go back, but not access at this minute. I made copies of some of the info, but not the stone items. The stonething was also interesting to me, but the source never mentioned where it was quarried. But now that I think about it this makes complete sense using local sources since it would have been difficult back then to get much stone from other sources, though I have heard stories where ship ballast was used for building materials. The blue thing was really odd, but maybe the Blue Mountains ;)? I have too sketches of the building, but at this time I haven't figured out the copyright status. One I know was made in 1931, by Murray Wade so too new for Public Domain. Another was in a special section of the Statesman in 1990 at is this sketch, but this would work better. The second appears to be on display somewhere, so if I can found out where I can see if it has a date. I think I figured out the asher block, it must have been a typo as here it shows ashlar block, and looks like some of the info needs to be modified, but a good source for a few additions nonetheless.

With the cap names I'll take a look later, but I think a category might work better with a link from the OSC page. My thought is besides a link to the page from each member of the list (as I don't think a regular article would work well), the only link to it would probably be from the OSC page. I'm sure you have good info on the background of the list (like the rumor of some of the names making the intials of the painter) but I don't now if there would be enough info for a long article. But I'm not sold, just my gut reaction (but as I've mentioned elsewhere I'm not a big list person). I figure if a category can do the job then that works. The only list I've really worked on is my judge list and the only reason I did that was that a category can't put them in chronological order and it helps show the interplay between the supreme court and federal court (plus I wanted to increase the number of links to some of the judges since a few will only have a link or two, whereas the cap name people should each have quite a few). Speaking of Old Dead people, at somepoint we need an article on River View Cemetery in Portland as that seems to be the in place to be if you are a dead politcian from the Portland area. I'll eventually get to making Hillsboro Pioneer Cemetery as David Hill and the Tongues are burried there and I would guess the Hares too.

In sum, I'll see about working in the new info from the source above this weekend or early next week. Then maybe a quick peer review from someone at WPOR/NRHP and submission by the end of the week. Then hopefully Waller Hall will pass GA, I'm almost ready to put Provisional Government of Oregon up for GA too. Then I'll finish up Katherine Ann Power for FA and I'll find one other to get to GA and that would give us (assuming passage) 6 FA and 10 GA and 4000+ articles all assessed. Not bad for little old Oregon. Aboutmovies 04:14, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Hey, sorry, I beat you to some of the stuff you mentioned above, like I figured out the ashlar thing too, and found that Salem history article...Anyway, I only have one or two more sections to copyedit. I've managed to become totally confused about the height of the dome of the present capitol relative to the rest of the building (the information on that contradicted itself) and also on the second capitol it stated two different numbers of stories so I wrote a compromise solution but I'm not sure that's accurate. (I can't tell from the image if the basement level counted as a third story and the dome is a separate thing?) I actually didn't plan to write any more about the list than what is stated in the OSC article, since it's just a list. I'm awfully fond of it though, so if you decide you hate it I hope you won't mind if I get a couple more opinions. Oh, and I dropped a note at WP State Capitols to see if anyone there is around but I think that project is as dead as our old politicians... Later, Katr 05:20, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Shall I have WP:NRHP take a look? I haven't heard back from WP State Capitols. Latr, Katr 23:16, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

If you are done with your copyedit then go for it. I have a little more info on the fire concerning fire-proof vaults that were in the 2nd building that stored the state's bonds and other valuables that were intact and unharmed when opened (apparently the fire fighters kept spraying water on them even when the rest of the building was toast to keep them cool). I didn't orignally add this in as maybe a little too remote, but should I work it into the article? Thanks. Aboutmovies 23:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Okey doke, and I'll ask about the names list too. I just ran across a nice aerial shot of the burned out 2nd capitol from Salem Library--as soon as I can rig the search terms to return the right images, I'll probably add a selection of images from SL to external links. BTW, I've had a Povey Bros. article on my to-do list forever--do you have enough stuff on them to start a stub? Looks like William C. Knighton is a good candidate for an article as well... Ah, the never-ending wiki... Latr, Katr 23:43, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Yes, the vaults thing is cool, uh, hot, whatever. Anyway, include it. It adds depth and interest to the story. Latr, Katr 23:47, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Re:Story/Storey "Story" is the preferred American English spelling but if you think it should be the other way, could you change it throughout the article? Thanks! Latr, Katr 18:57, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

I prefer story too, but the Wiki article is storey for the term (damn Brits)! So I'll go in and make it match. Does the clarifiaction part make sense or is there a better way to explain the two/three stories issue? Aboutmovies 19:06, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't think even if the article is spelled "storey" do we have to spell it that way in the article. We can always pipe the link. I don't know, I think the part I added about it being three stories including the dome is stretching the truth a bit--look at the diffs before I changed it and see what you think. I'll look it over again later too. I asked the NRHP folks to come take a look, so hopefully we can have some fresh eyes have a go at it too. Latr, Katr 19:30, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

P.S. And yeah, if we're going to be sticklers for accuracy, the subsections should be retitled. Oh, and thanks for all the top secret info on those artisan dudes... Latr, Katr 19:34, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry...

Sorry about my revert to Lithia Motors, Inc.. It was in good faith, yet this is no excuse for my mistake. Thank you for reverting it and improving the article. Arknascar44 ^{¡Hablar Conmigo!} 19:14, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Image:ORSCcourtroomstainedglass.JPG

The text at Oregon Supreme Court Building says that the skylight was destroyed in 1962. Is the one in the image a newer one? Circeus 16:50, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, the image was taken in 2006 so it is the replacement, installed sometime after 1962 and re-inforced during the remodel. Aboutmovies 17:15, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Paul De Muniz

Sorry about the wrong category. As a UP student, I'm aware of the difference between the two, I simply didn't notice that the reference to receiving a degree was not De Muniz, but Morales.

Category for speedy renaming

Hey AM, in case you didn't see this, take a peek. Sounds like a good enough idea to me, but I figure our resident legal expert oughtta have a look. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Speedy&curid=1743794&diff=140231817&oldid=140203506 -Pete 08:12, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Pete, I saw it last night too and left a note on the talk page. Sounded good to me as long as all the sister categories were standardized too. Aboutmovies 19:55, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Waller Hall GA on hold

 GA on hold — Notes left on talk page. Nehrams2020 02:10, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 24 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Oregon Supreme Court Building, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 16:50, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Paine Page Prim

Sorry about the source. Here is where I got it from, and I added it to the page. Take care. User:Sweetmoose6 01:17, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=C177

No problem. Thanks for adding the source so quickly. Aboutmovies 01:19, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Coastal mountains

Nice job on the Southern Oregon Coast Range and the navbox!! -Pete 02:26, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Next is to get the Oregon Coast Range article up to par, among other things. Aboutmovies 03:52, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Assessment question

Hi, can you field a question at Talk:Oregon Water Trust? Thanks! Latr, Katr 21:37, 28 June 2007 (UTC)