Talk:Coos Bay, Oregon

message: In the novel "Go Ask Alice" the protagonist went to Coos Bay and lived there for a while after she ran away from home.  I don't know if this is worthwhile to include in the article so I'll let you guys decide that.  The Wiki page on Go Ask Alice novel has more information about Coos Bay mention.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.110.228.40 (talk) 21:54, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Go Ask Alice

message: I don't know how notable this is but Ken_Keyes_Jr., of "Handbook to Higher Consciousness" fame, had his training headquarters in Coos Bay from 1982 to 1990.
Meltingpot (talk) 23:37, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Ken Keyes, Jr.

message: When the Egyptian Theatre reopens we need to tie a link to Egyptian Theatre 12.145.73.51 18:31, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like they're showing (classic) movies again.  Because of the theatre organ, it might merit its own article: Egyptian Theatre (Coos Bay, Oregon). Is there any current info on ownership and restoration? Katr67 18:58, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't have all the details, but I believe it is owned by the City of Coos Bay and managed by a community organization.  If anyone has access to The World Newspaper articles (Coos Bay's paper) over the last year they could get a lot of info.Theophilus75 05:31, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Egyptian Theatre 

message: I believe the intro is missing two important points: (1) Coos Bay is the biggest city (or metro area?) on the Oregon Coast, and (2) the New Carissa. Thoughts? -Pete 18:21, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey Pete.  Can you reference the claim about Coos Bay being the biggest city/metropolitan area on the Oregon coast?  Does OR have a state statistics bureau or something similar?  The New Carissa has an FA article which is brilliant, but I agree something should be written about it in here with a link to the main article.  Chrisfow 20:44, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What would be needed to reference the claim of Coos Bay being the biggest city/metro area on the Oregon Coast?  The statistical fact is that there is no other area on the Oregon Coast with that many people (the US Census should show this).  A point of note that maybe could also be included is that Coos Bay (the actual waterway that Coos Bay sits on) is the largest port between San Francisco and Portland, and the largest ocean port between San Francisco and Seattle.  Theophilus75 21:00, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro 

message: Coos Bay changed its name in 1944.  It had previously been called Marshfield.   In 1943 an election was held to consolidate Marshfield and the neighboring city of North Bend under the name "Coos Bay. The measure passed in Marshfield, but failed in North Bend. Following that election, Marshfield changed its name to Coos Bay. In 1965, the city of Empire voted to merge with Marshfield.  
In 1987, another consolidation measure proposed that Coos Bay, North Bend and Eastside, a third neighboring city, should consolidate into a new city to be called Coos Bay.  Again North Bend voted not to consolidate, but when Coos Bay and Eastside both voted to join, Eastside became a part of Coos Bay.
Considering that a large portion of the current city of Coos Bay is what used to be two other cities, I think it is worth noting those other two cities in the history section.  If someone has more info on those original cities (Empire and Eastside) I wonder if it would warrant them having their own articles.
I'm still trying to figure out this wikipedia project thing.  I'll look for info to verify what I seem to remember about the consolidatin and name change, but I guess I'm looking for a bit of guidance too.   Theophilus75 20:57, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll check out all the former cities in Oregon Geographic Names and see what I can figure out. Having worked on articles about several of these consolidated cities (Lincoln City, Oregon for example), I'd say that the individual cities probably won't merit having their own articles unless someone is willing to do enough research to find more than a paragraph's worth of information on each one. I'll go ahead and add what I can today. If you find out more please add it too, and let me know if you need help with the citations. Katr67 22:10, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Change/City Consolidation 

message: Added cite tag, no reference of whom or what group stated this information in the reference information.
Sir Francis Drake is said to have sought shelter in the bay for his ship, the Golden Hind and her crew in 1579.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.41.164.58 (talk)  00:12, 14 June 2010
I added a reference to a published work which seems to satisfy the article's claim that he "is said to have...". Mind you, one could arguably say that the existing reference satisfied that claim too, since it also "said" it... :-) Interesting thing is, I'd never have even thought to do that if I hadn't been here anyway altering the column code to work in IE - funny how these things work out, isn't it ?  -  Begoon (talk) 16:11, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Need better reference

message: Someone put in the needed reference tag. I added about 3 or so which were as credible as I could find. I couldn't seem to locate a city parks and recreation site like many cities have, just the coosbay.org one. --Adam00 (talk) 06:05, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  References Added 

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message: An editor deleted descriptive language on the section of our notable people. Rationale: "should have the bare minimum information to know who is referred to. Further detail lives on the bio page."
But as we all can plainly see, the small descriptive entry the editor deleted was far smaller that other entries on the list! Raising the question, why delete this entry? Did the editor like those entries better? It's very odd. 
The descriptive entry was all RS supported. Unlike other entries. Makes it even odder.
And then you say, but I can't see the entry that was deleted. True. Someone hid it. Why?
And who hid it? They failed to leave a word here. Answering both those questions.
This, following as it does a third editor - editing the same series of entries - deleting reference to the person from the list of people with his surname because - can you believe it - he says (incorrectly) that on a list of names a reference is required (not so, and he could see there were none) .. it's all troubling. To me. 
Perhaps we can get a seasoned editor, not with crossover edits with these editors, who can take a look at this? Where would I go to ask for that?--2603:7000:2143:8500:A45B:E4AA:91E9:A3F9 (talk) 06:25, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Bare minimum"