Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oregon/People

Pioneer articles
I've got Minto on my short list. I'm currently almost finished with an article on Jesse Applegate, and Lindsay Applegate needs an article too. Charles might not, but I've linked him in a couple places. I'll doublecheck my copy of Oregon Geographic Names for Breitenbusher, I'm pretty sure that's how it was spelled. I'm not sure he's particularly notable. I've noticed a lot of the pioneers had Liberty ships named after them as well, so that might be another source for ideas. Katr67 20:02, 6 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I changed the Breitenbush, Oregon article to be more accurate. I don't think Lewis Breitenbusher or John Breitenbush are notable enough on their own. One g-hit for Lewis: http://www.oregonpioneers.com/marion/britbush.htm, source is probably OGN... Katr67 18:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

John Minto
I was adding a list of Minto info I googled to the article's talk page, but my browser freaked out and I need to go eat lunch--I'll try to add more to the article later. Thanks for starting the article! I'm a much better wikignome than I am an instigator. Katr67 20:25, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Ran across this info on Minto: Minto Park. Katr67 15:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Capitol Names book
I've added the first stub from the book that lists the bios of every name (158 of 'em) painted in the House and Senate chambers at the Capitol. It's a tiny book, all these will need to be expanded. Many will, of course, already have articles. Katr67 05:42, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I met the author! :) Katr67 15:27, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Names

 * Martin d'Aguilar, (not sure this name needs Spanish accents), many Google references to Aguilar, including that he sailed as far north as the Columbia River or up into Washington, more stuff needs to be added to article
 * Chief Comcomly, interesting guy, could be expanded greatly
 * Thomas Condon, ditto
 * François X. Matthieu, lots of material on the 'net for expansion, also search for F.X. Mattieu

Temp page
I made a page that right now is just the people from the book who don't have articles: User talk:Katr67/List of Capitol names/Temp. It might be interesting to fill it out with the other 104 names. Some of the disambiguated links don't match what other people on the project have called them--I'm not attached to the way I've done them (feel free to edit the page), but let's make sure we communicate and fix redlinks if any of these folks get new articles. Katr67 16:31, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Blue Book
Check out the list of notable Oregonians from the Oregon Blue Book: https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Pages/explore-oregonians.aspx

I had planned to go through the list and make sure each of those people had an article. Katr67 20:02, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

County names

 * List of Oregon county name etymologies

Still a few redlinks there. Katr67 15:24, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

OHS resource
Came accross this from the Oregon Historical Society site. A lot of times their info does not come up in Google so there may be good info to use. Aboutmovies 04:51, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Notable women
Link to notable Oregon women series in the Journal: Katr67 18:22, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Bot-produced U.S. rep articles
Crazy/cool bot just took care of a bunch of our redlinks (see main subproject page). I did a bit to Sinnott, the rest probably need the same treatment--copyediting, wikification and tagging/assessment... Have fun! Katr67 22:11, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmmph, those dratted bots, stealing all our human procrastination fun. --Sprkee 22:34, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Hah! Well, I'm doing ok on the procrastination front, cleanin' up after em :) Thanks for the tip Katr. -Pete 22:55, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Recent Source FYI
Downloading is good of the Scott book, but just an FYI in regards to all the Google books you download: you only download an image based version so text search no longer works (though maybe non-free versions of Adobe allow search), so the table of contents is your main search weapon or pull it up on Google and search that way too. Also the Horner: Oregon: Her History Her Men book is there too. It has lots of pictures in it and is pre 1923 so all in the public domain. Aboutmovies 21:27, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Formatting change/hindsight from Forsyth
So, I think that collapsible sections are very useful for a wikiproject, esp. when there are long lists of things. However, I just noticed that the template I used is intended for archived discussions, so it puts an irrelevant and off-putting note at the top of each section. That's no good!

Curious what people think about the concept, in general. If you guys like it, I'll take a look around for a more appropriate template.

-Pete 23:15, 11 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Here's how you do it without a template. It might be possible to adjust the text size, in the "style" section --? -p.

I like it, thanks for cleaning it up. Katr67 23:36, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Southern Oregon Historical Society
Southern Oregon Historical Society has a large collection of visual and text resources about the life of Pinto Colvig an important article for Oregon :
 * https://www.sohs.org/search/node/Colvig
 * https://www.truwe.sohs.org/files/homepinto.html
 * his bio could be much improved with just these, plus it would be a fun edit (Bozo, Goofy)...
 * .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 04:25, 1 September 2021 (UTC)