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Shouldn't there be a link somewhere in the template to Portal:Oregon? I considered adding it, but couldn't decide if it should be at the top—where it says "State of Oregon" which has both State and Oregon wikilinked—or in, say, the topics row as Portal or Overview or something like that. —EncMstr 23:22, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Please discuss changing the color of the template here. Thanks. Katr67 (talk) 17:16, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Does anybody watch this page? Let's find out. I'm curious what people think about which articles on which to place this navbox. Personally I prefer to have it mainly on the pages that have links in the template, that is, counties and cities and a few selected topics. Why? Well, it makes little sense to me to have a box that is mainly geographic with a few very general topics on articles that are not geographic (counties and cities) or general. I'm a bit afraid of "box-creep". Other folks seem to think it's fine to add the box to a broader range of articles. Lately the tl was added to a bunch of Oregon-related list articles. I used to remove the box from articles on which I didn't think it belonged (like a minor community) but I won't be doing that anymore. I do, however, tend to like consistency, so perhaps we need a general guideline? I think it's also not a good idea to put the template on those state symbols of Oregon that are also topics of larger general appeal (Western Meadowlark, Coast Douglas-fir, etc.), as that seems a little, um, territorial or something, especially when the other states don't also have their navboxes there. God forbid the meadowlark end up with six state navboxes.* What do other folks think? Are these boxes helpful to our readers, or merely decorative and Oregon-boosting? Katr67 (talk) 20:24, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
I am curious why most cities that are part of a metro are not listed in this template. However, this is not true for all cities such as Hillsboro, Oregon, Beaverton, Oregon and Gresham, Oregon which are a part of Portland metropolitan area. Should the cities (e.g., Portland, Oregon) be added or Hillsboro, Beaverton and Gresham, etc. be removed? Similar arguments stand for Prineville, Oregon as a part of Bend-Redmond-Prineville, OR Combined Statistical Area and Woodburn, Oregon as a part of Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area, etc. Thanks. 50.126.125.240 (talk) 18:16, 6 July 2015 (UTC)