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		Well done, good sir— you valiantly sorted the category entries for all Oregon ballot measures. I would have got a headache after the first five. Thanks for all your work on Oregon pages. -Pete 08:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

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		For saving the world wide web from bad grammar, poor coding syntax, redundant text, and other poor editing mistakes. Especially for correcting my apostrophe abuse. Ryoga-2003 (talk) 20:23, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

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Some works in progress

• User:EncMstr/Coord:Explanation of geographical coordinate encoding on Wikipedia
• User:EncMstr/Oregon ZIPs: a prototype for table formatted version of List of ZIP Codes in Oregon
• User:EncMstr/List of Frank Lloyd Wright works: an upgrade of List of Frank Lloyd Wright works
• User:EncMstr/sandbox: personal tests

Tools

• Cool tool from Geonames database plotted on Google maps

To do

Create

• Portland Business Journal create over redirect
• Laurel Hill Chute [1] [2]
• Aufderheide National Scenic Byway [3] [4] [5] [6]
• Willamette floods
  • general:
    • Elizabeth L. Orr and William N. Orr, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene (November/December 1999). "The other face of Oregon: Geologic processes that shape our state" (PDF). Oregon Geology. 61, Number 6. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries: 132–134. Retrieved 2007-11-22. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • 1861:
    • Cain Allen (2004). "The Great Flood of 1861". The Oregon History Project. Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved 2007-11-22.
    • Stephenie Flora. "Marion County Flood of 1861". The Oregon Territory and Its Pioneers. Retrieved 2007-11-22.
  • 1890:
    • "Oregon's Great Floods". New York Times. February 71890. Retrieved 2007-11-22. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
• Carl L. Linde [7] Sovereign Hotel (Oregon) Camlin Hotel [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

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• Badger Creek Wilderness
• Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness
• Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness
• Mount Jefferson Wilderness
• Zigzag River
• Salmon River National Recreation Trail
• Ray Atkeson
• Rajneeshpuram‎ (refs on talk page)
• List of Oregon covered bridges: 3 of 51 articles started

Oregon lists

• User:EncMstr/List of Oregon GNIS features an experiment. Yikes! there are 27,239 Oregon features in the gnis database!

These have Oregon mixed in with other states. Might be good candidates for creating another article, or reworking these with sortable tables.

• Concert hall#United States
• List of American football stadiums by capacity
• List of areas in the National Park System of the United States
• List of art schools
• List of astronomical observatories
• List of AZA member zoos and aquariums
• List of festivals in the United States
• List of indoor arenas in the United States
• List of Mexican American communities
• List of National Monuments of the United States
• List of the United States National Park System official units
• List of bascule bridges#United States
• List of bus companies#United States
• List of fossil sites#North America
• List of intentional communities#United States
• List of National Fish Hatcheries in the United States
• List of postal killings#USA
• List of rail transit systems in the United States
• List of university and college name changes in the United States
• List of water polo organizations#USA
• List of waterfalls#West of the Mississippi River