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[edit] What I'm doing, who I am
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 like to fight vandalism, and since I have about a million things on my watchlist, unfortunately I have to do a lot of that. 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! Katr67
Why? To combat "placelessness" aka "The United States of Generica".
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[edit] WikiProjects
[edit] External links
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.
[edit] Stuff to work on
This editor is a
Grognard, and is entitled to display this
Wikipedia Little Red Book
[edit] Admin-type stuff to do
[edit] Admin-type policy to point out
[edit] Anonymous IP edits I've known
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)
[edit] Spam Spam Spam Spam eggs and Spam
[edit] Handy collection of internal links, templates and boilerplate
[edit] Most frequently used
[edit] And the rest
[edit] My favorite citation[1]
- ^ McArthur, Lewis A., Lewis L. McArthur [1928] (2003). Oregon Geographic Names, Seventh Edition, Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. ISBN 0-97595-277-1.
[edit] Spelling searches
(Idea stolen from Welsh)
[edit] Grammar quibbles
- renown (Renown is a noun. Renowned is an adjective. Things can be "world-renowned" but not "world renown".)
Same with iced tea, canned vegetables, stained glass, first-come-first-served, old-fashioned, etc.
Darn that Pacific Northwest dialect, anyway.
[edit] Return of the userboxen
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). [1] [2] Katr67 01:04, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Santa, Idaho [3] 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)
[edit] Best articles found by accident
[edit] Ancestry stuff
For what it's worth (not much), according to the Mormons and their fine database, like at least 25% of people with English heritage, [4][5] I am descended from:
And also these other notable people (taken with a huge grain of salt, as none of this has been verified by me):
Possibly notable:
- Ledstone Noland
- Beatrice Pinto
Distant cousin:
[edit] Ungnomelike list of stuff I've done
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[edit] I dig flags
