Talk:Lake Creek, Oregon

Name of Community
This editor is asking wikipedians to give me the benefit of the doubt on the city name. I have emailed the GNIS and I am waiting for a response. If the result shows that I am still in error, then I will take responsibility for correcting the page names and redirects. Zab 17:36, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Works for me. Thanks for making a redirect. I'll check my sources this evening and add what I can from Oregon Geographic Names. This has to be the best-illustrated small-town-in-Oregon stub ever! TTYL, Katr67 17:46, 16 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Save yourself the trouble. OR-GIS lists it with one word, "Lakecreek" (Ref).  Zab 05:54, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

No, I meant I would add historic content from the OGN book--the OGN place name database uses info gleaned from USGS. Every official source I've seen lists it as "Lakecreek". Katr67 06:14, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * So... the USGS is the reigning authority on names then, right? Zab 08:09, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I usually go with USGS says; I think that's the general consensus around here, though sometimes I wonder, like with Lake Creek and some of the airport stuff. (There's a discussion about that on my talk page somewhere). Unfortunately since Lake Creek isn't incorporated, we can't say the two-word spelling is "official", but I'm inclined to go with local usage in this case. On the other hand, I'm sure you noticed there are far too many streams named Lake Creek in this state, so at least the one word spelling is distinctive. I think the best way to think about it is if a random person wanted to find out about the place, for what would s/he search? If s/he's passing through the place, probably two words, if looking at a map, probably one, since all the maps seem to have it as one word. As long as there's a redirect from one to the other, I don't care which way it ends up. Katr67 15:55, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Update -- The Lake Creek Historical Society took an interest in this name change campaign and are going to publish a story in the local community newsletter (The Lake Creek Letter). I've also been told that the county commissioner I chose to get involved with is the type of guy who will sit down and have lunch with anybody who has something to say, so I feel a bit more fortified. Nothing new on GNIS yet. Zab 23:37, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

UPDATE -- The USGS sent me a letter informing me that my proposal was accepted, and the official name of the populated place will be corrected to the two-word form. The new entry can be seen at this link: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1144788 Zab 00:07, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

New Territory: Page-Only Citations
There is no copy of the Lake Creek Letter online that I could find anywhere. In this case, only the local historical societies have the records. I have an address to where they would be happy to mail out copies of these past issues, but what's the appropriate step in this situation? Zab 03:06, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I'd say the best thing is to have them send you a copy, and give it a full citation in the article. There's no need for there to be a link in the citation, but it should have the title, author, publication date, name of publication. Great work, Zab -- Katr pointed this out to me. I'm impressed! -Pete (talk) 00:27, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

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