Talk:Dayville, Oregon

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[edit] Level of detail

Thanks a lot for improving this article. I'd just like to point out that mentioning things like the fact that the town has a fire department, the park has picnic tables and the school has a gymnasium isn't really encyclopedic, and is probably orginal research. Forgive me if it isn't. But ideally everything in an article should be backed up with reliable sources and be the kind of thing one would normally find in an encyclopedia. I think it's fine to mention, for example, that a town consists of only a store and a cafe, to illustrate its smallness, but a detailed inventory of everything in a place isn't really necessary. It's better to include the things that make the place unique, like the thing about the cottonwoods. I tried to come up with a source but I couldn't find anything. Anyway, those are my suggestions. I'll add some history from the good book some time today. Katr67 01:04, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Katr67. You may be right about the level of detail not being encyclopedic. Let me stew about this for 24 hours or so, and I'll probably delete some of it. It's not original research, actually, though I spent a month in Dayville last year. The fire department and picnic table factoids come from the Chamber of Commerce site that I've cited, and the school details come from the school web site I've cited. Well, I slipped in the stores, post office, and gas station with no source, so those will have to go for sure. I'll delete them in a minute. I have a couple of nice Dayville photos that I'd like to add, but I have to upload and license them first. Finetooth 01:24, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Me again. It didn't take me 24 hours. Order is restored to the article, I think. The industry and school sentences don't quite fit into Geography in a logical way, but it's hard to know what to do with them. I, too, tried to find a source for the cottonwood claim and failed. I think the claim is doubtful. I'm guessing something still could be said about the town's history and perhaps the geology of the area. Finetooth 01:42, 30 August 2007 (UTC)