Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oregon/to do

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Talk pages should not be redirected. The Project page for this is where the editing should occur. This is where we should discuss the list. Cacophony 01:08, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Made Spirit Mountain Casino

I created the article Spirit Mountain Casino; right now it's a stub which says nothing regarding the controversies surrounding the casino and/or the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde's political activism. Given that Spirit Mountain now has a link, I added a task to create Chinook Winds Casino; there are other casinos in Oregon as well which may be deserving of articles. In addition, I added Category:Casinos in Oregon. One other "casino" which might be worthy of an article, if for no other reason than it's unique business model, is Dotty's Deli. Oh, and I added Oregon State Lottery to the list of needed pages; our state lottery has been rather controversial. (Espcially the sports action controversy).

Please feel free to expand Spirit Mountain; my wife is telling me to get off the computer now. :) --EngineerScotty 05:08, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Chinook Winds Casino now has a stub article. --EngineerScotty 19:51, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Steens Mt. image

There is now a picture of Steens Mt. available. it is Image:Steens Sept 2005.JPG Sosobra 18:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User Talk Page Template for To-Do List?

I've fiddled a little but don't quite get how to put this template on my own page, for easy reference. Maybe we don't have that capacity yet. If no, that would be very helpful, but beyond my knowledge of how to tweak a todo link. As an example, I'm a member also of the Indigenous Peoples of North America WikiProject, which also has a to-do list. At that wikiproject page, there's a section in the templates that gives a template one can paste onto one's user page, or anywhere, really, that will put the to-do list for the project right there where I want it, in the wikiprojects section of my user talk page. The template they use is {{WikiProjectNorthAmNative}} and the page where they offer it is [1] . Maybe I'm just running a little slow, but do we already have this functionality, here, with our to-do list, and if so, how? -Duff 18:03, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Duff, you can include the content from any page by linking it in curly braces, like this: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/to do}}. You could probably format it using DIV tags or put it in a table, too. Hope that helps… -Pete 18:10, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trimming

I would propose removing the De-stub and To-expand sections entirely. We want to expand all articles, and that would include stubs. I would also say combine the 2 picture things and convert it to a single link to the sub project on graphics or the category for req photos. The on the "create" remove everything after the land use entry. Other thoughts? Aboutmovies (talk) 00:39, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I think the same logic could be applied to (almost) the entire list, but I don't think that would be good. I like the idea of having a place to note stubs that "really shouldn't" be stubs…even if that's pretty subjective. (For instance, in the present one, I think Oregon Health Plan is a significant enough piece of recent Oregon history to merit a better article than a stub, and History of Oregon is still pretty lacking in some of the sections, so it seems worth having an "expand" section for that.) There are plenty of things that don't rise to that level, and I'd say those are the ones that should be trimmed.

Maybe the best solution to all this, is for those of us who work with WP:ORE a lot to be a little less cautious about deleting stuff. If somebody objects to a deletion, that will be a good starting point for discussion, and maybe we leave it in; but my guess is, most of the additions get forgotten pretty quickly by the person who adds them, and can be deleted at will.

The photos thing seems fine. -Pete (talk) 01:41, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]