Talk:Portland, Oregon/Archive 1

message: I was reading through the table of contents for this article, and it pretty much sums up Portland: Parks, Beer, Public Transportation. :-) --Nate Silva 22:05, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Contents

message: Okay, I'm giving fair notice that a few names have slipped into this list who I do not consider Portlanders, & whom I will be removing from this list. It's not because one has to possess a certain modicum of elitism to be on this list -- it's just that some folks don't have a true connection to this town.
*Paul Allen - So he owns the Trail Blazers. BFD, they've sucked almost to the day he wrote the check. Otherwise, his involvement in Portland has been less than minimal. Seattle can have him.
*Ward Cunningham - No disrespect to Ward (I've met him, he's a nice guy), but does he live in Portland or across the hills in Washington County? -- Ward & Karen have a Portland address, but with respect, I wonder if Ward is notable outside Wiki fame.  Should be, perhaps, but ...? User:gnetwerker Feb 13, 2004
**Well, the rule I've always heard is when in doubt, include it. Since Ward does have a Portland address, I have no problem putting him back in the list.
*Dr. Frank Stearns Giese - Portland State University professor convicted of Conspiracy for January 1973 military recruiting station bombings.
: This is a little odd - This entry, as well as the mention in the "city nicknames" section about "City of Bombs", seems to be part of a poorly-executed disinformation/propoganda effort. I have only been able to find mention of Portland as "City of Bombs" on a lot of identical bot-entered forum posts, and at least one site which seems to be a fake blog with one entry on it and some fake comments, aimed at characterizing the Earth Liberation Front as a terrorist organization. Anybody else for expunging it? I don't think the guy who put Dr. Giese in this list realized that the original author of the list was suggesting *removals* from the existing Famous Portlanders list. Pjrich 01:33, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  Clarification and further detail: it seems to involve the NLF, the Northwest Liberation Front, and seems to be organized by a guy calling himself Ronald James Scheller, which also seems to be the name of one of the principals in the NLF's history. The same guy seems to be posting on random forums online on a variety of inflammatory topics including legalizing marijuana, etc. As far as I can tell the point of his duplicate forum posts is to get the phrase "City of Bombs" in the google ranking. It smells like amateur cointelpro from here. Pjrich 01:41, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Famous Portlanders

message: I just noticed that Tri-met is spelled incorrectly. However, I'm not going to correct it because there is a link that might be destroyed if incorrectly edited. TriMet should be changed to Tri-met. Pingveno 05:28, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Both spellings are correct.  http://www.tri-met.org  and http://www.trimet.org TriMet is preferred. Mkmcconn 18:25, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, it used to be Tri-Met (capital M); the dash was taken out in 2002 (and the logo redone) --67.160.146.193 20:04, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling of TriMet/Tri-Met

message: An anonymous user removed the following paragraph:
:In 2003, Vera Katz, mayor since 1992, announced that she would not seek a fourth term. In the May 18, 2004 primary election, none of the 10 candidates running received a majority of votes, so the two with the most votes -- former police chief Tom Potter and City Commissioner Jim Francesconi -- faced each other in the November general election with Potter defeating Francesconi by a wide margin.
It was later added back in.  I personally agree that it should be removed.  The election is over, and this article doesn't need to be bogged down with the results of past elections. --Sean Kelly 03:31, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed paragraph on Vera Katz 

message: I took out the following paragraph because it sounded like two babbling drunk people.  Seriously people, this is an encyclopedia.
:However, strange as it may sound, per capita, Portland also sells the most Pabst Blue Ribbon, not consider the highest quality by many beer drinkers. This seems to be an apparent backlash to the microbrew revolution. Though it could be that "PBR" is a "not bad" tasteing macro beer that is cheep. - Sean Kelly 12:47, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Good call. --Nate Silva 17:26, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed paragraph on PBR 

message: Someone changed founder Lovejoy's first name from Asa to Amos.  Google reports both Amos and Asa, and there are a couple of references to "Asa Amos Lawrence Lovejoy", which might have been his full name.  But based on two URLs:  , Asa seems preferable.  66.167.139.8 11:43, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Asa Amos Lawrence Lovejoy 

message: The Wikipedia:Oregon Wikigroup Project has been marked inactive.  If there's interest, please join and help it re-activate. 66.167.137.190 08:29, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia:Oregon Wikigroup Project marked inactive