Talk:Oregon Country Fair

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Contents 1 Oregon State Fair 2 To do 3 Fourth Fifteenth Twenty-seventh largest city 4 Recent changes 5 References and additions

[edit] Oregon State Fair

I'm curious why the Oregon State Fair is not mentioned? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.73.10.112 (talk • contribs) 01:54, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

Please sign your posts with ~~~~. There's no connection between the Oregon Country Fair and the Oregon State Fair, they are completely unrelated in ever aspect, with possible exception of having the words 'Oregon' and 'Fair' in the name. - Chairboy 14:16, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

The issue is that Fair in the Oregon info box links to here, as if it's the official fair (which would be the Oregon State Fair) --Jason McHuff 17:29, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

"There's no connection between the Oregon Country Fair and the Oregon State Fair, they are completely unrelated in ever aspect" Actually, as of 2005, the OCF does have a presence at the Oregon State Fair with their LiveArt! exhibition. [1] This should be added to the article as well. Katr67 20:28, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I fixed the Oregon infobox so it doesn't link to OCF any more (that was probably wishful thinking on someone's part). Katr67 20:36, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] To do

We need to add a mention of the Long Tom River and the Kalapuya, whose artifacts are found on the fair site, along with expanding on the Fair's archaeology program in general. Katr67 22:19, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fourth Fifteenth Twenty-seventh largest city

:According to their Website, the OCF is the 4th largest city in the state, not the 11th as stated in the article. Katr67 05:33, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Just because their site claims it is the 4th largest city doesnt make it correct. [ http://www.oregon.com/towns/population_rank.cfm]. As I see it, it can only possibly become the 11th largest city in Oregon. I have heard that 50,000 people attend on a sold out day. This would make it the 11th largest city in the state. If this is true there would be a total 150,000 people over the 3 day fair. I assume this is where they come up with their 4th largest claim, althought 150k would actually make it the 3rd largest. However, knowing what I do about the fair, it is obvious that this is an inaccurate claim. A large percentage of the people attending the fair are repeat visitors, meaning they attend 2 or more days. Counting each of these people's visits as an individual patron shouldn't happen. Even if there were 142k unique patrons, which there definietly are not, they would not all be there at the same time. For these reasons, I believe the Oregon Country Fair deserves to be recognized as the 11th largest city in Oregon. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Criptofcorbin (talk • contribs) 22:15, July 9, 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I had a conversation with OCF board member User:Oregon Bear and he changed it to 15th, according to his calculations. Katr67 20:09, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

After being changed to 15th, it got changed back to 4th without comment here. I changed it back to the 15th and put the reference back as well. Katr67 20:14, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

15 sounds reasonable to me Criptofcorbin 12:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Criptofcorbin that s/he finally just took the "nth-largest city in Oregon" info out. Unless we can get a reliable outside source besides the OCF website, it is indeed hard to prove... Katr67 15:51, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recent changes

H Bruthzoo, your current revision seems OK, but please don't add what appear to be editorial comments, for instance your previous edit about "middle-aged women". I've seen you hide joke edits among a series of legitimate edits before (Smokey Bear for example). I'll assume good faith in that it must have been an innocent mistake, right? And no, I believe blog observations are considered original research. Katr67 23:09, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References and additions

Let me preface this by saying that I am a longtime member of the Fair Family (attending since 1988) and am not continually adding tags about references to this article because I have something against the fair. But I am also an experienced Wikipedia editor and recognize that this article is far from being up to Wikipedia standards for citations of reliable sources. Yes, I have observed everything in this article as "true", but even if it is true, statements still need to be backed up with references. It should be quite easy to find reliable sources for this article. A good start would be the archives of the Eugene Weekly and then check The Register-Guard for the annual "Oh look those hippies are at it again" article.

For future expansion this article could use mention of Energy Park and Community Village.

Latr, Katr 22:07, 20 June 2007 (UTC)