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This user is part of WikiProject Oregon

Misplaced Pages:Babel en This user is a native speaker of English. PNW-en This user is a native speaker of Pacific Northwest English. en-us-ca-3 This person is awesome at speaking California English. SoE-2 This here user has an intermediate understanding of Southern American English, occasionally using "y'all" and sometimes even "ain't". fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français. en-gb-1 This user is able to contribute with a meagre level of British English. nws-0 This user oldspeaks, or newspeaks doubleplusungoodwise. This user speaks pirate. Arrr!

Who I am, what I'm doing

I mostly edit articles having anything to do with Oregon. I specialize in articles about communities, and my work ranges from Wikignome-like minor edits to wholesale rewrites of articles. When I find the time I add articles about obscure places in Oregon, and I keep on eye on all of the articles about Oregon communities. Yep, every last one. (What this means is that I remove vandalism from these articles and try to clean up good faith additions, but remove POV. I do this because I believe in quality articles, not because I have some sort of Goddess complex. Honest.) I especially dislike linkspam and promotional and tourist-oriented content better suited to Wikitravel. Feel free to talk to me about my edits! I tend to fight a lot of vandalism, since I have about a million things on my watchlist. I have been known to work as a professional editor. This does not mean I am infallible, but if you'd like to have me look over your edits, please ask! Please note that I'm not an administrator, and any actions that I take, such welcoming new users, enforcing wikipolicy (short of blocking, page deletion and the like), deleting spam, etc., are available to the ordinary Misplaced Pages user. Be BOLD! Katr67

Why? To combat "placelessness" aka "The United States of Generica".

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		The Original Barnstar
		For work on Pacific Northwest places, competence and civility. Walter Siegmund (talk) 23:17, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		You even revert bot edits gone bad. For extraordinary diligence regarding Oregon, National Register of Historic Places and Ghost towns articles, specifically. Also for overall high-quality work on Misplaced Pages. A mcmurray 20:10, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For general excellence of edits in Wikiproject Oregon, exemplified by the long-awaited answer to a seemingly minor question. -Pete 02:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Other WikiProjects

To which I belong but shamelessly neglect

• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Oregon State Highways
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Ghost towns

For whom I tag articles when I run across them

• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Idaho
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Washington

Any other states that have WikiProjects if I feel like it, except California, who can fend for herself :)

• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lighthouses
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Trains {{TrainsWikiProject}}

Whose guidelines I use

• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Cities
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Schools

External links

The problem with Misplaced Pages

• The problem with Misplaced Pages

Geography and history resources

Oregon Geographic Names, not to be confused with Oregon Geographic Names, from Portland State University Department of Geology Northwest GeoData Clearinghouse: "Associated with each name are: County, Latitude, Longitide , Elevation, and 7.5' Quadrangle Name." For filling out coordinates templates.

• Oregon ghost town link
• Salem, Oregon Public Library historic photos (covers the entire state)
• Search for NRHP buildings from Salem Public Library
• Oregon NRHP List from the state

• Category:National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submissions

• National Register info search
• NRHP weekly listing
• USGS Geographic Names
• Notable Oregonians from the Oregon Blue Book
• Corvallis walking tour (historic buildings)
• List of Oregon State Routes
• Portland State Population Research Center

Anonymous IP edits I've known

• 71.34.118.13 - July 2006
• 159.121.116.52 - April-May 2006
• 71.34.114.110 - February-May 2006
• 71.34.111.44 - January 2006
• 128.223.209.198 - July 2003

Rants

If I see that one more "town" is "nestled" in anything, anywhere, I'll scream. Katr67 05:45, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Cities are platted. Not "planted" or "plotted" or any other such thing. Plats are also different from "plans". Think before you edit! Katr67 21:49, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Please please please use: Show preview instead of making multiple edits to the same article. If you're worried about losing your work, copy and save it to a Word doc or something similar (the Wiki markup will still work if you need to use your saved copy). Multiple edits make it hard to track changes and clutter up the page history. OK, so it bumps up your edit count. And? Oh, and BTW, also please please please write good edit summaries! Katr67 18:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

If you mention "grammar" in your edit summary, be sure to spell it right. :) Katr67 17:06, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Spam, Spam, Spam, egg, and Spam

• Misplaced Pages:Spam#How not to be a spammer
• Misplaced Pages:External links#Links normally to be avoided

Handy collection of internal links, templates and boilerplate

This is a list I put together for my personal use. 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 be sure to be creative and create your own headers too! Making your own list will probably be more useful to you though.

Most frequently used

• Misplaced Pages:Citation templates
• {{Geolinks-US-cityscale|foo|-foo}}
• {{unsigned2|date|user name or ip}} UTC-8
• Misplaced Pages:Template messages/User talk namespace/Multi level details

And the rest

• WP:BIO
• WP:MOSDAB
• Category:Misplaced Pages official policy
• Misplaced Pages:Talk page guidelines
• Misplaced Pages:Template messages/User talk namespace
• Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions
• Misplaced Pages:Headings#Spaces
• Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (dashes)
• Special:Prefixindex
• Scoring criteria for notability of high school articles
• {{AfdAnons}}
• {{anon}}
• {{thanks}} (for IPs)
• {{Geolinks-US-streetscale|foo|-foo}}
• {{reqphotoin}}
• {{lighthouse-stub}}
• {{NorthAmNative}}
• {{Infobox Lighthouse}}
• {{Merge-school}}
• {{cleanup-school}}
• {{sofixit}}
• {{WikiProjectBanners |1={{WikiProject Oregon}} |2={{WikiProject Foobar}} }}

• 

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• 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.

My favorite citation

1. McArthur, Lewis A. (2003) . Oregon Geographic Names (Seventh Edition ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. ISBN 0-87595-277-1. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

Spelling searches

(Idea stolen from Welsh)

• heigth
• heighth
• unicorporated
• reknown

Grammar quibbles

• renown (Renown is a noun. Renowned is an adjective. Things can be "world-renowned" but not "world renown".)

Similarly: iced tea, canned vegetables, stained glass, first-come-first-served, old-fashioned, etc.

(Not "ice tea", "can vegetables", "stain glass", "first come first serve", "old fashion", etc.)

Darn that Pacific Northwest dialect, anyway.

• Your=possessive; You're=contraction of "you are"
• Loose (adjective)=not tight; lose (verb)=cease to have

Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt...

Return of the userboxen

Hint for "copy and pasters": I encourage you to be creative and find your own, but if you feel the need to put any of these on your own page, you should know I "subst" my userboxes, and have changed some of the wording to suit myself, thus some of these are not quite the "official" wording. You can find the originals by following the links here: Misplaced Pages:Userboxes.

Userboxen This user lives in Oregon. This user is a member of WikiProject Oregon. This user is a member of the National Register of Historic Places WikiProject. This user is a member of the WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America. This user is a slightly egotistical WikiGnome. This user assumes good faith (most of the time). File:Animas12.jpg This user is a member of WikiProject Ghost towns. ¶ This user is a professional editor. This is the editor formerly known as a professional editor. Flexible This user deals with the deletion, creation, and edits to articles on a case by case basis instead of a unilateral wikiphilosophy and encourages others to do so. (Except in the case of link spam.) linkspam This user despises linkspam, and will terminate it on sight, as well as any other spam by the contributor. ANAL 4 This user advocates good grammar usage. its & it's This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you. ’s This user knows that not every word that ends with s needs an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophes from Misplaced Pages indiscriminately. ... in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put. mankind This user supports the use of gender-neutral language. they This user considers singular they substandard English usage. which & that This user knows how to use which and that correctly. your/ you’re This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, you’re in need of help. comprises/ composed of This user is a stickler about the distinction between comprise and compose

To do

Oregon State Hospital +cat mental hospitals (link to Kesey, Cuckoo's Nest (filmed there)) already linked to Richard Brautigan. Katr67 02:33, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Write articles on the Eugene band Snakepit, and Oregon musician Mike Johnson. Katr67 18:40, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

List of capitals in the United States - fact check Oregon entry

List of Indian reservations in Oregon - finish sorting all this out Katr67 07:36, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Help make Oregon State Capitol as pretty as featured article Michigan State Capitol. Katr67 00:53, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Try to find something about my ancestor, Louis Alexander Lezotte (Louis Lizote or Louis Lisote), being awarded the Badge of Military Merit that isn't original research. Katr67 18:27, 7 August 2006 (UTC) "He had enlisted...as a private in Captain Gilbert's Company, Hazen's Regiment during the winter of 1777 and served at White Plains and at the taking of Cornwallis. He was also a private in Captain Olivier's 3rd Company and was honorably discharged...in June 1783." From a history of Chazy, New York. Katr67 23:50, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I can't believe there isn't an article on the floaty pen! Surely if snow globe can have an article, then so can the floaty pen! Katr67 18:30, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Write article on nuclear weapons transport the White Train aka "Death Train", which protesters once successfully stopped in Oregon using non-violent civil disobedience in the 1980s, since nobody remembers this. Katr67 18:43, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Write an article on Carpenter Gothic and/or add content to the Gothic Revival architecture article about gothic residences (since it's heavy on the churches and stuff). It looks like this and the gable-front-and-wing, less elaborate sort they used to build in Oregon is also known as a "Western Farmhouse". Examples abound. I even have photos. Hurray for center gables! Another link. Katr67 22:59, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

I just learned about the United States Army Air Service "Spruce Squadrons" here. I think they need an article. Katr67 07:21, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Something on the Lovejoy Columns by Tom Stefopoulos. (See Pearl District, Portland, Oregon). Katr67 02:26, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Wagon Train of 1843/Great Migration (of 1943). Katr67 01:04, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Santa, Idaho Katr67 21:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Holy Cow! There is not an article on the Bad Livers. Must rectify... Katr67 00:15, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Povey Brothers Art Glass Works, aka Povey Brothers, aka Povey Brothers Studio. In churches all over Oregon. Also at the University of Oregon. Katr67 19:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC) Probably includes this: Image:ORSCcourtroomstainedglass.JPG per and at Deepwood Estate per . Katr67 06:36, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Best articles and images found by accident

• Battiest, Oklahoma
• Cone cow
• Color of the bikeshed
• Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information post by Jimmy Wales
• Image:Newfoundland Moose Sign.jpg
• Chip pan--DYK? Chip pans are the most common cause of house fires in the United Kingdom?
• Image:US Presidential Elections Dem GOP.gif
• Image:Fredmeyer edit 1.jpg

Ungnomelike list of stuff I've done

Main article: User:Katr67/Ungnomelike list of stuff I've done

• tiny edit counter

Places that I've gone

I stole this idea from someone, who stole it from someone, etc. If you steal it from me, for goshsakes write your own headers and put them in some order that is meaningful to you! (mine are ordered chronologically)

States visited

Countries visited

• Wikipedians with public domain text contributions
• Wikipedians in Oregon
• WikiProject Oregon participants
• WikiProject National Register of Historic Places participants