Talk:Oregon Historical Society

message: An editor from an IP address assigned to the OHS has begun making edits to this article. They have a lot of good information and appear to be trying to edit in good faith, but a lot of useful cited material has been removed in favor of only promotional and favorable material. Let's discuss changes here before things get out of control. --Esprqii (talk) 23:20, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: At OHS, we found that the information contained on the Wikipedia page was outdated and needed to be updated.  In addition, there was information regarding an old Executive Director that was removed at his request.  We have updated the page to make it more relevant and informative to the public. (63.237.237.195 (talk) 23:22, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi. Please read Wikipedia's guideline regarding conflict of interest. Notably, OHS doesn't "own" their article on Wikipedia, so it contains both positive and negative information. It isn't the place for boosterism or to only have positive information. As Wikipedia's policy on Neutral Point of View states, "Articles mustn't take sides, but should explain the sides, fairly and without bias." Please continue to discuss here instead of making outright edits that are problematic. Many of us are fans and users of OHS, and we'd be happy to have a conference call with you if you have concerns that are hard to address in this manner. tedder (talk) 23:26, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: As a start, there is some good cited information added about the recent funding, but removal of the turmoil of previous years is part of the history of the OHS and should be restored. Additionally, some of the boosterism should be toned down. --Esprqii (talk) 23:32, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent edits

message: Hello,
My name is Rachel and I am the marketing manager at the Oregon Historical Society. It has been brought to my attention that there are some errors on the OHS wiki page, and as I am an employee, it seems that my attempts to edit fall under the conflict of interest category, and keep being removed. I understand the importance of impartiality when writing these pages, however, some of the information on this page is outdated or incorrect.
For one, we are no longer call the Oregon History Center - we are the Oregon Historical Society, and we operate a Museum and Research Library inside this building, which is located at 1200 SW Park Ave. in Portland. There is another page on the Oregon Historical Society Museum, which should be removed because the Oregon Historical Society is one entity with many arms - the museum, research library, a historical journal, our digital history projects, and many public educational programs.
Also, the history of the OHS, which spans nearly 120 years, is very truncated. The information on our history can be found on our website under history, and is pulled from an entry written by a local historian on the Oregon Encyclopedia, which is a peer-reviewed resource that should be considered unbiased factual information as the authors are not connected to OHS in any other way.
More information about OHS and our programs can be found on our About Us page. I have included these hyperlinks below for your review, and would be happy to send you our logo and a photo of the building as they would be much better representations of OHS today.
Please contact me with any questions as I would really like to assist with these edits in any way that I can. Thanks!
http://ohs.org/about-ohs/history.cfm
http://ohs.org/about-ohs/index.cfm 
Pdxrandles17 (talk) 21:13, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request Edit 

message: The Oregonian covered the early activities of the OHS. Here's one example, there are many more. Might be worthwhile to explore. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 18:40, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's a substantial article in the Oregonian, December 1906 -Pete Forsyth (talk) 21:53, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oregonian coverage 

message: The Quarterly published an overview of the Society in 1905: wikisource:en:Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 6/Functions of the Oregon Historical Society -Pete Forsyth (talk) 03:20, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  L&C expo writeup