Template talk:Oregon/Archive 1

Questionable Design
Hitting the Random Page link, I came across a page about a place in Oregon and found this eyesore box at the bottom. I strongly suggest going back to a design closer that of June 15, which seems more in keeping with other such boxes and looks much better. --[[User:Nricardo|Nelson Ricardo >>Talk<<]] 23:08, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)

I've got a new template. It should look MUCH nicer. Dufekin 01:08, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

U.S. state templates
WikiProject U.S. states/state templates lists and displays all 50 U.S. state (and additional other) templates. It potentially can be used for ideas and standardization. //MrD9 07:22, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Keizer
Is Keizer a Major Metro? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.216.244.172 (talk • contribs) 18:20, June 18, 2006 (UTC)


 * No. It is a suburb of Salem. Twisted86 07:19, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Copying the below discussion from the Portland, Oregon talk page:

Did anyone notice that in the infobox at the bottom of the page it has a list of Major Cities. When did Keizer get added? I have never ven heard of that town/city! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.216.244.172 (talk • contribs) 01:19, June 19, 2006 (UTC).

I've never been to northern Oregon, so I may be wrong, but Keizer, as I understand, is a twin city to Salem, which is only, I think, 30 miles downstate from Portland. Neither are that big, but there is (was?) a baseball team down there, I think, called the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes. --Coryma 01:51, 4 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Not that big? Actually, Salem is now considered the second largest city in Oregon, and Keizer is roughly 14th. Yes, Salem-Keizer together are considered one metro area, sharing a school district, transportation district, etc. Keizer was incorporated in 1982. It's about 45 miles south of Portland. The Salem-Keizer Volcanoes are still a going concern. Since the above comments, however, the infobox has had Keizer removed by the same anon user, so we might want to revisit that change. (BTW, sorry, this talk would be better placed on the Oregon template's talk page--I'm going to copy it there.) Katr67 17:36, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and changed the template--see what you think. Katr67 17:43, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Madras
I added Madras as it is one of the fastest growing places in Oregon but also because it is the the County Seat. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.77.202.44 (talk) 01:49, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Breweries, etc.
I like beer as much as the next person, but do we really need breweries listed at the top of the info box? It's probably time to rethink that whole section. Would it be too boring to list the state bird instead of the state breweries? Also, the Music of Oregon article linked to is kind of a mess, and for the longest time the "Fair" link linked to the Oregon Country Fair and not the Oregon State Fair (until I changed it), for which there isn't even an article. Katr67 09:53, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Standardization of state templates
There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding standardization of state templates (primarily regarding layout and styling) at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. states/state templates. An effort was made earlier this year to standardize Canadian province templates (which mostly succeeded). Lovelac7 and I have already begun standardizing all state templates. If you have any concerns, they should be directed toward the discussion page for state template standardization. Thanks! &mdash; Webdinger BLAH 22:58, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Topics
things included in the "topics" section seem pretty arbitrary. For instance, I think a link to Government of Oregon could replace several of the other links, and provide access to important gov-related pages that are otherwise not linked. It would be nice if there were a Politics of Oregon page, but nobody's created that one yet. -Pete 23:55, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * They *are* arbitrary. If you look back through the history, and at my comments above, you will see it used to include breweries, the Oregon Country Fair, etc. I tried to add some of the more pedestrian things a random user might want to know about Oregon--bird, flower, etc., kind of following what other states have done. Linking to the government page makes sense until someone is brave enough to tackle the politics page and if there are any other relevant topics, feel free to change the bird and flower stuff. I was just trying to make our infobox less "wacky". Katr67 05:19, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay…I think I'm gonna get bold and revamp some of it. At the moment, I'm thinking the focus is way too much on human settlements - there are 3 sections on cities, counties, metro areas. We need more geography, history, government, flora & fauna…ideas welcome! -Pete 01:27, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Go for it, though if you check out all the state templates, they are all about the cities mostly. Just don't let it get too huge. Also be sure to check out Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. states/state templates for talk about the efforts to standarize the templates. Oh, and uh, this is template, not an article, so it gets the WPOR template template, any reason why you changed it? Katr67 01:45, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

inclusion of cities
What's the basis for inclusion in this template? I specifically ask the question about the cities; they obviously aren't the county capitals, as Tigard and Tualatin are listed (while Hillsboro is the center of the county). --Izno (talk) 10:12, 10 December 2007 (UTC)