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Oregon Settlements

A non-fan of non-places is prodding some likely-to-be-places. I'll be working on Rice, Oregon. OGN is apparently now considered just a gazetteer, so use moar sources. Others:

• Dant, Oregon
• Fairbanks, Oregon @Tedder
• Kingsley, Oregon
• Whiskey Dick, Oregon (likely just a "funny place name", I haven't checked yep, created by "Blue Bucket Cow Camp" guy)

Happy researching, Valfontis (talk) 04:42, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

I contested Fairbanks but agree with Dant, fwiw. Cracking open "Stations West" and not even finding "Dant" mentioned wasn't exactly an endorsement. tedder (talk) 18:31, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Howdy. I dunno, Dant was created by @Finetooth: and he has pretty good instincts as far as notability. Valfontis (talk) 18:36, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Maybe merge and redir to Oregon Trunk Railroad? Valfontis (talk) 18:39, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Regarding Kingsley, it was demoted to a ghost town, which is fine, but can one link to Google Maps to prove that nothing is there? Seems like WP:OR to me. Said the amateur geographer. I'm also curious, @WeirdNAnnoyed: why Kingsley didn't get a Prod while Rice did. Rice also has a cemetery... Valfontis (talk) 18:46, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Valfontis:, I decided not to PROD Kingsley because I could find far more mentions of it in local newspapers than I could Rice (although most of them were trivial mentions of somebody "of Kingsley" doing something completely unnotable, as small-town newspapers often used to print). If you're aware of more substantial information then by all means add it and remove my PROD. I'm not committed to deleting these articles, I just don't think we should have articles about places where all we can say is its name, location, and when it had a post office. That gets into WP:INDISCRIMINATE territory. But if we can say more, we should keep the articles. BTW, my understanding is Google Maps (or other maps) are fine for proving existence (e.g. the cemetery) but not notability. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 23:19, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

@WeirdNAnnoyed: I created the Dant article about 10 years ago. Although the article's claims are faithful to the sources cited, the claims are thin, and Dant probably fails the notability test. Tedder is correct in saying that Dant is not mentioned in Stations West, which does however include a map of the Oregon Trunk Railway showing the location of a station named Frieda. The station name was changed from Frieda to Dant in honor of the perlite mine guy. All that is of such minor historical interest that deleting the Dant article seems reasonable. Oregon Trunk Railway and Oregon Trunk Railroad both redirect to Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, which has only one paragraph about this trunk line. If someone wanted to use the station list in Stations West to expand that paragraph, Dant (Frieda) could rise again as a tiny part of a minor list. Finetooth (talk) 00:00, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

New protest stubs

• 2024 Portland State University pro-Palestinian campus occupation
• 2024 University of Oregon pro-Palestinian campus occupation

--Another Believer _(Talk) 19:54, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Doyle Owl at AfD

Doyle Owl has been nominated for deletion if any project members want to weigh in:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Doyle Owl

--Another Believer _(Talk) 19:54, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Good save! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:04, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Portland Men's Roller Derby

Portland Men's Roller Derby has been nominated for deletion:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Portland Men's Roller Derby

---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:33, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

I took a run at finding sources, but perhaps not enough. Is it still in existence? Their homepage is now in Korean, maybe? Plus, I feel the need to shower... — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 00:47, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Discussion re: buildings and structures in PDX

See Categories for Discussion: Buildings Downtown Portland, Oregon to discuss possible subcategories for Category:Buildings and structures in Portland, Oregon. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 22:25, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Kintzing Prichette

He is listed as being a 2 month Governor of Oregon yet he does not appear on the Oregon Governors page. Also the dates for Lane's first term and Gaines' term are inaccurate if we properly add Prichette back in. This needs to be reconciled. Coyotez (talk) 21:41, 19 May 2024 (UTC)