User:Valfontis/Desk


 * "When I am asked to look into cases of 'admin abuse' and I choose to do so, I generally find myself astounded at how nice we are to complete maniacs, and for how long." - Jimbo Wales

Sandbox

 * Room of Requirement
 * Things about which to write
 * Crap I should clean up
 * Steward requests/Username changes

Newspaper archives

 * ERG, NYT, O (1987-current, index 1851-1987), SJ, etc.
 * Credo The Wikipedia Library/Credo/verification
 * Mult.
 * HighBeam HighBeam/Approved
 * California Digital Newspaper Collection, Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside, 
 * Newspapers.com

Geography and history resources

 * User:Valfontis/Template

Compendium of stuff about the GNIS debacle, + a collection of my gentle rants

 * Arbitration/Requests/Case/Carlossuarez46 Carlos Suarez arbitration mess that apparently caused this whole backlash
 * WP:GNIS
 * WP:NGEO
 * WP:GEOLAND
 * WP:NTRAINSTATION
 * Rm of 5 pillars (and thus "gazetteer") from NGEO (Nov 2021)
 * WP:ZEAL
 * WP:BEFORE
 * WP:GAZ
 * WP:NOTGAZ
 * Articles for deletion/Crookton, Arizona (2nd nomination)
 * Articles for deletion/Alicel, Oregon
 * Articles for deletion/Havana, Oregon
 * Articles for deletion/Interlachen, Oregon
 * Articles for deletion/Suplee, Oregon
 * User talk:WeirdNAnnoyed
 * User talk:Valfontis
 * GNIS RFC (Sept 2021)
 * "Gazetteer" in 5 Pillars discussion (Oct 2021)
 * SportingFlyer weighs in ("awful") (Dec 2021)
 * FOARP rms "almanacs and gazetteers" (Nov 2021)
 * Small edit war ensues, text is replaced, apparently there is a Village Pump discussion (I see several)
 * 2023 Village Pump GEOLAND proposal (withdrawn by FOARP--apparently a reaction to mass create by Carlossuarez)
 * 2021 Village Pump 5 Pillars proposal by SportingFlyer (keeps reference to "gazetteers")
 * Insertion of "gazetteers" into 5 pillars (2008), boldly

Towns, hamlets, settlements, wide spots in the road, etc.
====My favorite citation ====

"The ref name need not be placed within quotes unless it consists of more than one word (the wiki parser converts single word quoteless attribute values into validly quoted XHTML)."


 * Search OGN online for names without their own headings


 * Link to likely copyvio of text
 * Another source for copyvio text (they say they have permission)

New and improved!:

Coordinates converter:

http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html

Friedman citation

 * Google Books link to In Search of Western Oregon

Other Friedman books

 * Tracking Down Oregon
 * Oregon for the Curious
 * The Other Side of Oregon

Friedman relies heavily on the 1915 almanac

 * 1915 State of Oregon Resources and Opportunities

Other travel books

 * Oregon: End of the Trail


 * Oregon: End of the Trail

Oregon Encyclopedia
Oregon Encyclopedia


 * Oregon Encyclopedia search

Our muse

 * WikiProject Oregon/Aunt Betty

Old listing of incorporated places

 * 

New listing of unincorporated places

 * http://www.oregon.gov/LCD/docs/adminrules/div022a.pdf?ga=t

Good source for railroad stations

 * 

Stations that may or may not be locales or settlements

 * Stations on the Portland and Western

Ghost town info

 * Oregon ghost town link (not reliable, just for reference)

USGS GNIS database

 * USGS Geographic Names

GNIS
 * External link

XXXXXXX=Feature Number (only need name parameter if different from title of article)

cite gnis
 * Ref

Salem Library Photos database

 * Salem, Oregon Public Library historic photos (covers the entire state)





Salem

 * Search for NRHP buildings from Salem Public Library
 * City of Salem historic properties list
 * Map of Salem Downtown historic district
 * List of historic district properties

Other cities

 * Corvallis walking tour (historic buildings)

Oregon

 * Oregon Parks & Recreation Dept.: Heritage Programs: National Register
 * Oregon Historic Properties Database (beta)
 * Oregon NRHP List from the state


 * County history resources from SHPO, some available as PDFs.


 * I love "Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest", but I wish they would stop spamming Wikipedia. We're not here to help you keep your funding. Honest.


 * Oregon Online Architectural Guide (a wiki but state-vetted?, reliable?--use for research only, not refs, but looks like a potentially great resource)

National

 * Category:National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submissions


 * National Register Database
 * NRHP weekly listing
 * Archiplanet wiki (not a reliable source--research only)
 * UW searchable ArchitectDB
 * Notable non-NRHP examples
 * One-room schoolhouses (Five in Oregon w/ websites)

Free images, many architectural

 * LOC part one (HABS--Historic American Buildings Survey)
 * LOC part two (Oregon is in this one)

Folks

 * Notable Oregonians from the Oregon Blue Book
 * Index to Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley

Oregon history

 * Salem Online History
 * WikiProject Oregon/Reference desk

Highways

 * List of Oregon State Routes

Population updates

 * Portland State Population Research Center

Stuff I should use when I remember
This is a list I put together for my personal use. Not to be all WP:OWN about it, but if you feel the need to copy and paste this wholesale onto your user page, please let me know. I'm glad you like my ideas but making your own list and section headings will probably be more useful to you. Some of these are very specific to my own usage and are here because I'm old enough to have learned to type on a manual typewriter and the memory is starting to go... If you'd like a nifty pre-fab list of links, just copy and paste style onto your page. Thanks!


 * Citation templates
 * Template messages/User talk namespace
 * Notability (Railway lines and stations)
 * Monthly MOS updates (stale as of July 2008)
 * GeoGroupTemplate
 * R with possibilities
 * Commonscat-inline
 * Wikipedia is not a wine guide
 * Articleissues
 * Citations missing (for refs presented as a list of els)
 * Removed link spam. Wikipedia is NOT a link directory. Join WikiProject Spam to help!
 * Tools
 * | nrhp_type = cp adds "contributing property" field to infobox
 * WP:BASH (Essay:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument)
 * Category:Image with comment templates
 * Articles for deletion/Common outcomes
 * Wikipedia:Headings#Spaces
 * "Spaces between the == and the heading text are optional (==H2== versus == H2 ==). These extra spaces will not affect the appearance of the heading, except in the edit box."
 * Manual of Style (dashes)
 * Naming conventions
 * WikiProject Trains/Manual of style
 * Talk page guidelines
 * Vanispamcruftisement
 * Listcruft
 * Special:Prefixindex
 * Scoring criteria for notability of high school articles
 * AfdAnons
 * thanks (for IPs)
 * NorthAmNative
 * Merge-school
 * cleanup-school


 * For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Foo as a census-designated place (CDP). The census definition of the area may not precisely correspond to local understanding of the area with the same name.