southeastern oregon thanks for backing me up there re needing sources i'm really not comfortable with even the existence of the article but haven't had the energy to do the research to prove it's not really a named region does anyone ever refer to southeastern oregon as a separate entity from eastern oregon it's linked from the article about the current situation at malheur but i'm not sure we're doing our readers a service linking to that vs linking to eastern oregon on the one national radio story about it that i was paying attention to they said the events were taking place in eastern oregon which seems like enough precision for the casual readerthat is they need to know that it is the rural conservative part of the state in contrast to western oregon i'm not planning to wade into this until the situation has died down but i'm curious what you and other wikiproject oregon folks think about even having a southeastern oregon article it's not like we have northwestern oregon southwestern oregon or northeastern oregon articles there's a distinction between vague compass directions vs commonly named regions such as eastern oregon and central oregon one point the malheur article claimed that burns was in central oregon and southern oregon and of course don't get us started on the oregon coast or was that oregon coast