Talk:Melrose, Oregon

Do not combine French Settlement with Melrose. These are two separate communities both geographically and by time. French Settlement was established in 1850 which is very early for this area, before the county was formed. Melrose currently exists as a community which had a post office originally named Hogan. This name change occured in 1890. It is important to separate these 2 places to emphasize their distinct differences. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snwood1 (talk • contribs) 03:42, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Proposed merge with French Settlement, Oregon
Dividing content on a small settlement between two short articles is nonsense.  Sounder Bruce  06:57, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Historical places related with much buried history and an alternative historical narrative such as "French Settlement" are somewhat tricky to handle under Wikipedia or other encyclopedias. Melrose was originally mainly created or renamed from "French Settlement" during a known period of white-supremacy intolerance (turn of the 19th/20th century) to eradicate the darker (or "whitewash") history early settler contacts, namely French Canadian/Métis settlements prior to establishing provisional governments, so called "Indian Wars" and related land grabs. Does it really make sense then to merge the entries when Melrose article has itself become mainly abandoned and a suburb of Roseburg? And when Wikipedia resources in Pacific Northwest history are so scarce, particularly early settlers contact period? French Settlement spanned far more than Melrose and is part of much of the regional history and genealogy records left? Search into Wikipedia are more likely to proceed on the basis of "French Settlement" than "Melrose". A small cross-reference was nonetheless added to Melrose to indicate its "French Settlement" predecessor. Additional efforts would be better directed at providing for this remaining historical gap in the Douglas County article under history, in the Roseburg entry and in the Oregon article entry (as done in the Pacific Northwest article under history). In addition the case of French Settlement is far from unique when related to Frenchtown Washington similarly renamed earlier on to Lowden (the article is similarly abandoned), or Frenchtown Montana -vs- Missoula; must entries then also be merged? Ditto for Cowlitz Prairie -vs- Toledo. Ditto for French Prairie Oregon -vs- Butteville, Champoeg, Gervais, Saint Louis and St. Paul. Referring to applicable precedents and better Wikipedia stated guideline would have been more useful than using the "nonsense" brief commentary when eluding to a potentially rather large undertaking. Facebook group "Pacific Northwest History (pre-colonial)" caters to over 200 users and may be a better place to enroll new resources for Wikipedia clearly stretched out in this area. LeCanardQuoi (talk) 20:07, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Do not combine French Settlement with Melrose. These are two separate communities both geographically and by time. French Settlement was established in 1850 which is very early for this area, before the county was formed. Melrose currently exists as a community which had a post office originally named Hogan. This name change occured in 1890. It is important to separate these 2 places to emphasize their distinct differences Snwood1 (talk) 04:00, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

French Settlement and Melrose
Do not combine French Settlement with Melrose. These are two separate communities both geographically and by time. French Settlement was established in 1850 which is very early for this area, before the county was formed. Melrose currently exists as a community which had a post office originally named Hogan. This name change occured in 1890. It is important to separate these 2 places to emphasize their distinct differences Snwood1 (talk) 03:46, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Closing, given the uncontested objections and no support. Klbrain (talk) 14:02, 5 June 2020 (UTC)