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ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE

[edit] Funny Afd quote

"God is gracious -- Wikipedia demands notability. Pastordavid (talk) 13:11, 5 June 2008 (UTC)"

[edit] Links to avoid in Oregon articles?

  • www.foooregon.com only Glenwood, Goshen?

[edit] Stand By Me filming locations

[edit] Fire

[edit] 1992 Overview

[edit] East Evans Creek Fire

August 4, 1992-roughly August 10, 10,000 acres, wildland urban interface, 4 homes lost, 500 homes threatened, sources contradict--lightning(wrong)/human caused, Valley of Rogue State Park, check R-G, Mail Trib, Oregonian, have clippings?, $8 million, photos=???

[edit] 1999 Overview

http://www.nifc.gov/fire_info/fire_summaries/summary_1999.htm

[edit] Monument, Oregon

July 1999, <24 hours, 1 crew, ODF, $$?, lightning

[edit] Wimer Fire

August 4, 1999-???, BLM, Wimer Ranch, NV, Cedarville, CA, 1 crew for first 24? 48? hours, photos=yes

[edit] Mount Hough Complex Fire

August ?, 1999-Sept. ?, 40720 Acres, 4-5 fires (Pigeon, Lookout*, Bucks, ?, ?), Homes lost none, threatened ?, interface issues, natural (lightning?), Pacific Crest Trail, Plumas NF, Quincy, CA, Feather River Valley, check Sac Bee, etc. have clippings?, ???$ lots and lots, crews? lots, photos=yes

[edit] PE&E, etc.

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[edit] Looks like Anvil Media failed to take Durova's advice

  • anvilmedia.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_anvilmedia_archive.html

[edit] President of Anvil Media doesn't take his own advice

[edit] Some historians/evidence suggests

[edit] Old West Salem City Hall as concert venue?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1320+Edgewater+NW&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-35,GGGL:en&um=1&sa=N&tab=wl

[edit] OCF and Poultry Building @ State Fair

[edit] "Magnates" Cfd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_April_24#Magnates

[edit] So that's what IAR means

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=prev&oldid=196505930

[edit] Interesting old Vfd

Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Oregon_Legislative_Councels_opinion_on_gay_marriage

[edit] Things I have in common with Jimmy Wales[1]

  • The Gourds
  • Keeping my books in Library of Congress order (an ongoing project)

[edit] Things I have in common with Matt Groening

(there used to be a quotation online somewhere that said "You haven't been to Evergreen until Levensky makes you cry...)

[edit] All the FA U.S. city articles

[edit] Linkfarm

[edit] Veropedia

http://en.veropedia.com/

[edit] WikiScanner

http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/

[edit] DLST

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_around_the_world#United_States

[edit] Eugene's Butt-Ugly Architecture

http://www2.eugeneweekly.com/2001/12_13_01/coverstory.html

[edit] The Wilder Apartments/Emerald Apartments

http://www.puc.state.or.us/OPRD/HCD/docs/courier_206.2.pdf

[edit] Lincoln, Oregon

http://www.rootsweb.com/~orpionpr/Lincoln.html

[edit] Architectural Heritage Center

http://www.visitahc.org/

[edit] 150-year old farms

http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/sustainable/story.php?story_id=120249666832948600

[edit] Brown House

http://www.freewebs.com/brownhouse/ Charles and Martha Brown House, Stayton

[edit] OSH preservation effort

http://www.preservehistoricsalem.com/ Preserve Historic Salem

[edit] Historic spices

[edit] Search for "Oregon" on National Trust website

[edit] Funny essays

[edit] More Zeitgeist

http://www.wikirage.com/

[edit] Historic Markers

[edit] George Gay/Joseph Gervais S-J story

[edit] Library of Congress historic buildings search

[edit] Klamathon, California

[edit] Willamette Valley Flood Control/Dorena/Cottage Grove

[edit] Lancaster, Oregon

[edit] Churches/Small towns

[edit] Mike's photos

[edit] Historic large wildfires in Oregon

http://egov.oregon.gov/ODF/FIRE/Historic_Fires_In_Oregon.shtml

[edit] The wiki zeitgeist

http://tools.wikimedia.de/~leon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?lang=en&wiki=enwiki&ns=articles&limit=500&month=05%2F2007&mode=view

[edit] Hist. Arch.

http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/GEOENVIRONMENTAL/architecture1.shtml has good info on Salem RR depot

[edit] Valsetz article

http://www.thecreswellchronicle.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=1275

[edit] NRHP

http://www.deschutes.org/historic/Redmond/Odemhouse.htm

[edit] OSF diff

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oregon_Shakespeare_Festival&diff=153190840&oldid=140046862

[edit] Maud Williamson/Hopewell sources

[edit] Oregon Nursery Company sources

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Oregon+Nursery+Company%22+-wikipedia&btnG=Search

[edit] Klamath Res info

http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=15347AA0-B351-E368-CD251775B837AE3F

[edit] Oregon tribes/languages info

http://www.native-languages.org/oregon.htm

[edit] Douglas County Schools

http://schools.rosenet.net/

[edit] Ghost towns ref

Varney, Philip. Ghost Towns of the Pacific Northwest: Your Guide to Ghost Towns, Mining Camps, and Historic Forts of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. The title says it all. The ghostly and not-so-ghostly sites in Oregon are Forts Clatsop and Stevens, Boyd, Dufur (there is a fine tavern in Dufur, by the way), Friend, Shaniko, Wasco, Moro, Antelope, Mayville, Lonerock, Hardman, Richmond, Bourne, Granite, Flora, Grass Valley, Whitney, Sumpter, Jacksonville, Golden, Kerby, Sterlingville, and Buncom. Directions and a short description of each site are given and there are many nice photos. For public libraries. Bibliography and index. 160 p. 8.5 x 11. Voyageur Press, 2005. ISBN: 0896585921 (Pb)

http://www.splintercat.org/LookoutMountain/LookoutHistory1.html Lookout Mountain, mentions Barlow, Palmer "Fremont Road"? and Wasco County towns S of Dalles...

929.3600 The Life and Times of a Ghost Town Friend. Oregon Wm. A. Brown 1970 Wm. A.Brown 1970 Reference

[edit] Ellis F. Lawrence resources

Quote from above "Some of Lawrence's early buildings include the Whitman College Conservatory of Music in Walla Walla, Washington, and several Portland, Oregon, buildings, including the Washington High School Gymnasium, the Albina Branch Library, the Peter Kerr House, and the Paul C. Murphy House. Lawrence also designed seventeen buildings on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene as well as the general campus layout. During his career, Lawrence designed over 500 buildings; a survey in 1993 reported that 260 buildings he designed were still standing."

[edit] Articles needing attention

[edit] WikiProject Spam notes

[edit] Temporary watchlist

[edit] Mission Mill pix

[edit] Great Metaphorical Significance or why Random Capitalization only works for the Etiquette Grrls

[edit] Treed cats

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[edit] Former userpage stuff

[edit] Who I am, what I'm doing

Welcome. If you ended up here from a site outside Wikipedia, I hope you find what you are looking for. If you're interested in learning more about Wikipedia, I'd recommend taking a look at this introduction. I mostly edit articles having anything to do with Oregon. I specialize in articles about communities, and my work ranges from Wikignome-like minor edits to wholesale rewrites of articles. When I find the time I add articles about obscure places in Oregon, and I keep an eye on all of the articles about Oregon communities. Yep, every last one. (What this means is that I remove vandalism from these articles and try to clean up good faith additions, but remove POV. I do this because I believe in quality articles, not because I have some sort of Goddess complex. Honest.) Wikipedia is a community, so if there seems to be a problem with something I have done, it is often better to discuss it on the article in question's talk page where other editors can weigh in. Leaving rants on my talk page doesn't usually help your cause so much though. I don't claim to be an expert on anything, I just try to follow Wikipedia policy and be damn good at finding reliable sources. I have been known to work as a professional editor. I have also been known to be wrong. But if you'd like to have me look over your edits, please ask! Please note that I'm not an administrator, and any actions that I take, such welcoming new users, enforcing wikipolicy (short of blocking, page deletion and the like), deleting spam, etc., are available to the ordinary Wikipedia user. Be BOLD! Katr67

Why? To combat "placelessness" aka "The United States of Generica".

[edit] Other WikiProjects

[edit] To which I belong but shamelessly neglect

[edit] For whom I tag articles when I run across them

Any other states that have WikiProjects if I feel like it, except California, who can fend for herself :)

[edit] Whose guidelines I use

[edit] External links

[edit] The problem with Wikipedia

[edit] Truthiness resources

[edit] Anonymous IP edits I've known

[edit] Rants

If I see that one more "town" is "nestled" in anything, anywhere, I'll scream. Katr67 05:45, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Cities are platted. Not "planted" or "plotted" or any other such thing. Plats are also different from "plans". Think before you edit! Katr67 21:49, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Please please please use: Show preview instead of making multiple edits to the same article. If you're worried about losing your work, copy and save it to a Word doc or something similar (the Wiki markup will still work if you need to use your saved copy). Multiple edits make it hard to track changes and clutter up the page history. OK, so it bumps up your edit count. And? Oh, and BTW, also please please please write good edit summaries! Katr67 18:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

If you mention "grammar" in your edit summary, be sure to spell it right. :) Katr67 17:06, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spam, Spam, Spam, egg, and Spam

[edit] Spelling searches

(Idea stolen from Welsh)

[edit] Grammar corner

  • renown (Renown is a noun. Renowned is an adjective. Things can be "world-renowned" but not "world renown".)
Similarly: iced tea, canned vegetables, stained glass, first-come-first-served, old-fashioned, etc.
(Not "ice tea", "can vegetables", "stain glass", "first come first serve", "old fashion", etc.)
Darn that Pacific Northwest dialect, anyway.
  • BTW, it is "supposed to", not "suppose to". [4]
  • Your=possessive; You're=contraction of "you are" [5]
  • Loose (adjective)=not tight; lose (verb)=cease to have [6]
Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt...
  • Wander=to move without purpose; wonder=a mental pondering.
Though sometimes intentionally misused for poetic effect, one does not "wonder off". [8]
  • When there is a change of leadership, one "hands over the reins" to someone else, or they might "take the reins". The phrase refers to reins, as in what one uses to steer a horse. If you must use this cliché, please don't use the word "reigns", even though I could see why you might think that makes sense. Please. [9]
  • "Everyday" (one word, adjective) means commonplace or ordinary, "every day" (two words, adjectival phrase) means something that happens daily or "each day". Almost every song title with the word "everyday" in it is wrong. Rock stars don't employ copy editors. Be warned. [10]

[edit] Peeves

  • "Based out of"
  • "Centered around"
  • "Serviced" vs. "Served" You may "service" a car, and there is a *ahem* procedure wherein a stud "services" a mare, thus when the word "service" is used in connection with humans it is either business marketing jargon-creep and/or adding an unintended snicker-worthy sexual dimension to the transaction. "I was serviced by the the waiter." Oh were you now? Lucky you! I hope you left a good tip. See: UO Style Guide and When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People. Notwithstanding sports like tennis, except for the above-mentioned situations, you can't go wrong if you remember that "serve" is a verb, and "service" is a noun.
  • "Rich history" Almost as bad as "nestled". Is there any other kind of history? Does anyone admit that the history of something is "poor", "thin" or "dull"?
  • Postal abbreviations in the body of articles.

[edit] To do

Oregon State Hospital +cat mental hospitals (link to Kesey, Cuckoo's Nest (filmed there)) already linked to Richard Brautigan. 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Write articles on the Eugene band Snakepit (punk band), and Oregon musician Mike Johnson. 12 July 2006

List of capitals in the United States - fact check Oregon entry

List of Indian reservations in Oregon - finish sorting all this out 20 July 2006

Help make Oregon State Capitol as pretty as featured article Michigan State Capitol. 21 July 2006

Try to find something about my ancestor, Louis Alexander Lezotte (Louis Lizote or Louis Lisote), being awarded the Badge of Military Merit that isn't original research. 7 August 2006 "He had enlisted...as a private in Captain Gilbert's Company, Hazen's Regiment during the winter of 1777 and served at White Plains and at the taking of Cornwallis. He was also a private in Captain Olivier's 3rd Company and was honorably discharged...in June 1783." From a history of Chazy, New York. 1 October 2006

I can't believe there isn't an article on the floaty pen! Surely if snow globe can have an article, then so can the floaty pen! 8 August 2006

Expand Write article on nuclear weapons transport the White Train aka "Death Train", which protesters once successfully stopped in Oregon using non-violent civil disobedience in the 1980s, since nobody remembers this. 15 August 2006

Write anExpand article on Carpenter Gothic and/or add content to the Gothic Revival architecture article about gothic residences (since it's heavy on the churches and stuff). It looks like this and the gable-front-and-wing, less elaborate sort they used to build in Oregon is also known as a "Western Farmhouse". Examples abound. I even have photos. Hurray for center gables! Another link. 18 August 2006

I just learned about the United States Army Air Service "Spruce Squadrons" here. I think they need an article. 1 October 2006

Something on the Lovejoy Columns by Tom Stefopoulos. (See Pearl District, Portland, Oregon). 16 October 2006

Wagon Train of 1843/Great Migration (of 1943). [11] [12] 20 October 2006

Santa, Idaho [13] 24 October 2006

Holy Cow! There is not an article on the Bad Livers. Must rectify... 1 November 2006

Povey Brothers Art Glass Works, aka Povey Brothers, aka Povey Brothers Studio. In churches all over Oregon. Also at the University of Oregon. 7 December 2006 Includes this: Image:ORSCcourtroomstainedglass.JPG per [14] and at Deepwood Estate per [15]. 10 December 2006 First Christian Church in Eugene (misspelled "Pevy" Brothers on their page [16]

[edit] Best articles and images found by accident

[edit] Former "about me" page stuff

If you want to leave me a message, please do so on my main talk page. And don't forget to sign it with 4 tildes (~~~~). Thanks!

Katr67 is a Wikipedia editor living in the U.S. state of Oregon. "Katr" is all one word and rhymes with "cater" or "Tater Tots". KATR was once a country music station in Eugene, Oregon [17] and Katr67 somehow got the nickname "Katr" in high school. 67? The Summer of Love of course. Make of that what you will, but please don't call Katr67 "Kat".

[edit] Everything else

In addition to my main Wikipedia interests, I'm also into:

And in my spare time:

  • Subverting the dominant paradigm

Though I don't contribute regularly to the above subjects (I have enough things on my watchlist as it is), I'm willing to help out here and there.

[edit] Obsession du jour

  • Wikipedia

[edit] Places I like