Talk:Medford, Oregon

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Contents 1 Picture 2 Marijuana 3 Methamphetamine 4 Schools 5 Order of sections

[edit] Picture

I'm kinda new to this whole wikipedia thing, but I live here and it's a great place but needs a picture or two. Once again I don't know if this would work, but here is our public libary, it is located here: http://www.downtownmedford.com/Images/ImageManager/February_012.jpg

--Steven91 05:46, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marijuana

Why do people keep removing the data on the vast marijuana crop grown each summer? Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it should be removed. Hmoul 05:07, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Please see WP:CITE. Wikipedia does not accept original research, the information must be verifiable and published elsewhere. The most problematic sentence is likely "It is not unusual for arrested growers to be graduates of nearby Southern Oregon University in Ashland, OR, which offers degrees in agriculture," but the entire paragraph is uncited. On SOU's website I was unable to find information about an agriculture program at all. The closest thing I found was this, which indicated that SOU only offered introductory agriculture courses through the Biology department, and that one would need to transfer to another school to get a degree in agriculture (likely OSU). If you can find news articles that verify the information please add them to the article and re-introduce the paragraph. —Jnk^[talk] 14:00, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

That is funny - 25 years ago, when it was SOSC, a bachelor's in agriculture was quite common. Reading that the year's worth of arrested dope growers were mostly SOSC alumni, with degrees in agriculture science, was common fodder for the papers. As I have introduced the paragraph in numerous forms relating the substantial marijuana trade in the business and how it impacts the local economy only to have it deleted, I can only assume that the real reason for such actions is an attempt to hide/ignore such "scandalous" information. Hmoul 04:24, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Funny, I don't remember SOSC having an Agriculture degree 25 years ago. It doesn't have one now. This is an article on Medford, by the way. The discussion of marijuana cultivation would be more appropriate in a regional category like the Rogue Valley.Javadane 21:31, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Based on my extensive experience on the subject spanning the last 13 years, the "vast marijuana crop" is not nearly as vast as it used to be, and most local marijuana comes from the Cook and Green area, Crescent City and surrounding areas outside of the city limits, which is not really a Medford thing (like Javadane said). The social-political spectrum has changed immensely in just the last 10 years, so unless you have some recent sources (Mail Tribune Online Archives?) then I don't think the topic of marijuana is useful or beneficial to a City of Medford page. Zab 12:51, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Methamphetamine

In the interests of full disclosure and to prevent censorship accusations: I took out the paragraph about meth. Is there any evidence Medford has any more of a meth problem than anyplace else in the state? If so, that would be notable, and with citations, could be placed back in the article. Otherwise, this "meth in Oregon" discussion, which seems to have crept into several Oregon articles, might be better addressed in the Methamphetamine article or perhaps an article titled something like "Methamphetamine in Oregon". Katr67 04:35, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Schools

I'm a student at south, I tryed to add a little information about the small schools but i dont think i cited it right —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.216.255.24 (talk) 07:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC).

Actually all that should probably go in an article about the school district... Katr67 14:39, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Order of sections

I'm slowly trying to put all the Oregon city article sections into order per the guidelines at WikiProject Cities in order to achieve some consistency across the Oregon articles, so at some point I put the sections in this article in that order. Just curious about the recent rearrangement--why demographics over geography? Other than it being sort of a dry section to feature first, I think it looks fine, but like I said consistency is good. Thoughts? Katr67 02:59, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

My reordering was for better placement of the images and was without regard for any guidelines, nor did I consider the content of the sections. I apologize, and concur with you that they should follow a consistent order. Also, my choice of section for the image was arbitrary, and again based on my aesthetic pov. I am open for suggestions there. Zab 04:35, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I rearranged the images a bit, see what you think. Got any more? Katr67 23:40, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Looks good. I don't have any others yet, but I am working on it. I have the camera, just hard to decide what is worth taking a picture of, then finding the time to go out and do it. I am not a photographer in any sense. Zab 02:27, 9 April 2007 (UTC)