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January 25

Marial, Oregon

Is Marial, Oregon considered a ghost town? There doesn't seem to be a permanent human settlement aside from the old Rogue River Ranch.

Quoting a brochure from the Bureau of Land Management on Rogue River Ranch: "The ranch structures remaining today represent the center of the old community of Marial. The ranch hosted a trading post with lodging in the second story, a blacksmith’s shop, and numerous outbuildings that served the early residents' social and commercial needs."^[1] So most of the erstwhile structures appear to no longer exist. The nearby Marial Lodge has its owners as permanent residents. --Lambiam 08:11, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

January 26

Artist International, New York Debut Award

Good evening, I am searching for an overview of awards that were awarded as part of an "Artist International New York Debut Award" event. The last ten years would be of particularly interest, as a top violinist is to be announced and we want to present when exactly she was awarded. --91.47.30.153 (talk) 00:26, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify, are you referring to the International Artist Award of Excellence category of the American Music Awards, or the International Auditions of the New York-based Young Concert Artists organisation, or to something else? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.200.40.9 (talk) 04:37, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, and sorry: All I have is the wording: "As the winner of the Artist International New York Debut Award" …" (which might also be beaued or else …). And I did recherché the internet already. However my English is basic only, so I might have overlooked things. Thanks anyway. --91.47.30.153 (talk) 10:14, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Part of the problem is that the wording you've been given leaves the "s" off the end of "Artists". If you Google "Artists International New York Debut" you get 97 unique Google hits, and if you Google "Artists International Debut Award" another 33, from which you can build up an incomplete picture of the artists who have won it, but no overview. --Antiquary (talk) 11:25, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If we knew the name of "the winner of the Artist International New York Debut Award" (and also the year, if available), it gets easier to check if any specific award is the one referenced in the attribution. --Lambiam 11:32, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sirena Huang, 2017? If so, it was the 2017 NYCA Worldwide Debut Audition. --Lambiam 11:48, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks All: There are now clear indications of fraud and for actual knowledge we intend to call in the authorities (it's not Miss Huang). --91.47.30.153 (talk) 15:20, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that escalated quickly. Matt Deres (talk) 20:34, 26 January 2021 (UTC) [reply]

MacArthur Boulevard and US 50

Harbor Boulevard#Major intersections says that MacAruthur Boulevard was part of US 50. However, I find that hard to believe. -³²²UbnBr₂ (Talk | Contributions | Actions) 18:21, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You could try asking whoever added that fact originally. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:30, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks. -³²²UbnBr₂ (Talk | Contributions | Actions) 18:54, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it was added about a year ago,[2] by an editor who was last active in June. If it appears to be in error, you could fix it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:03, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

US 50 never went to Santa Ana or anywhere as far south as Los Angeles. I suspect they meant U.S. Route 60, U.S. Route 70 or U.S. Route 80 which all once did. California decommissioned most of its U.S. Routes en masse in 1964 in favor of directing drivers to Interstate routes; some (but not all) of them being downgraded to California State Routes. --Jayron 32 19:33, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As per WP:BOLD I will remove it. -³²²UbnBr₂ (Talk | Contributions | Actions) 19:40, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I checked on the Orange County, California article, which says only US 91, US 101, and US 101A went in OC. -³²²UbnBr₂ (Talk | Contributions | Actions) 19:46, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the editor who added that got confused. US 50 did run along a MacArthur Boulevard at one point, but that was in the San Francisco Bay Area when the highway use to extend to San Francisco. US 50 use to run east from the San Francisco Bay Bridge and down MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland. Zzyzx11 (talk) 23:11, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

January 27

Spanish-speaking Filipinos: Are they actually considered Hispanic(s)?

Are Spanish-speaking Filipinos actually considered Hispanic(s)? Futurist110 (talk) 05:16, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As per the article Hispanic - yes. 41.165.67.114 (talk) 07:27, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It may depend on whom you ask, though. Some consider only Spanish Filipinos (Filipinos who trace their ancestry to Spain) to be Hispanic. See also this (rambling) essay. According to this article discussing the question who is Hispanic, the US Census Bureau and most American research organizations conducting public-opinion surveys rely on self-identification. For the situation regarding such self-identification among US Filipinos see this article; an extended abstract of the study "When Are Filipinos Hispanic?" mentioned there can be found here. --Lambiam 10:04, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

...and that hopefully illustrates the silliness of this uniquely American racial identification. 93.136.10.249 (talk) 16:19, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Do the generations have anything to do with history?

Do the generations have anything to do with history? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.151.48.186 (talk) 10:12, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand your question, could you be more specific? --Viennese Waltz 10:37, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Are the generations basically history in a way? As tradition is mentioned but is history the past (the generations). In other words when does the present become the past? Does it take a generation til something or most/all things become historic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.151.48.186 (talk) 10:54, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No. "Generations" or "decades" or whatever can be used to indicate periods of time, but one can speak of future generations or decades or whatever as well as past generations or whatever. They are not necessarily historic. (And the present becomes the past immediately.)--Shantavira|^{feed me} 12:23, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The present becomes the past as soon as you experience it. Technically speaking, because it take some time for your brain to process the signals it receives from your senses, by the time you are aware of the present, it has already become part of the past. --Jayron 32 13:02, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In a wide sense, history consists of all events that have happened already – or, in other words, that happened in the past. Everything that came before us is then part of history, including the earthquakes that happened before us, the solar eclipses that happened before us, and everything the generations did that came before us. In a more narrow sense, history is the collection of events that have been recorded – written down, or, only much later, recorded as sound or captured in images. So, used in that sense, history starts with the invention of writing, some 5000 years ago, and runs until less than a second before now. Everything that happened before the beginning of history is prehistory.

Perhaps it will help you if you use the Simple-English Wikipedia, for example the History article over there. --Lambiam 18:30, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, but history is more than just "the past". History is the narrative we tell of the past, and the way we tell that narrative is also important. As with any narrative, things like word choice, narrative flow, matters of emphasis, deciding what to include and not include in the narrative, what events and people we give prominence to and which we don't, are all as important to history as the events themselves. There's even an entire field of study into the process of creating history called historiography that looks at how, and who, and in what way those narratives get to be created. --Jayron 32 20:02, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There are theories that people of a particular generation, experiencing certain events together, may tend to share political interests. In the case of the Chinese Communist Party, William Whitson (“The Chinese High Command”) expanded on his PhD dissertation to theorize that party members who joined the revolution during the same period, and particularly served in the same units / locations, tended to align factionally. .DOR (HK) (talk) 23:13, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There are some simple explanations for that. Elephas X. Maximus (talk) 09:18, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

January 28

Precinct count card reader (last illustration)

Hi, how does this system actually work? Once the ballot has been inserted to ensure that the votes are registered in the machine, does it automatically succeed like when you stamp a card? And then the same card, where is it stored? thank you very much. https://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/design.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.41.100.198 (talk) 22:21, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Splitting a paragraph in a Wikipedia footnote into two separate parts

Just how exactly do I split a paragraph in a Wikipedia footnote into two separate parts? Futurist110 (talk) 23:22, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Try separating them with one blank line in between. --Lambiam 09:14, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean? I assume you mean the reference section, but what do want to do? Split it into columns? Have a bibliography section pointing to a reference section? If you can give the title a page with the feature you want, we can tell you how it was achieved. LongHairedFop (talk) 09:25, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

My first attempt did not work, but this does: separate them by <br>   {{thinsp}}, as in

<ref>Adam & Eve (4004 BC).<br>   {{thinsp}}For a contrary view, see Dawkins R. (2002).</ref>

The output will look more or less like:

1. ^ Adam & Eve (4004 BC).
For a contrary view, see Dawkins R. (2002).

--Lambiam 09:39, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

January 29

Hiring staff

DTK is looking for workers in the Hondo area since it's a small town I'm running out of ideas to recruit staff where a good place to recruit any suggestions? Thanks Yvonne — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.201.135.210 (talk) 21:33, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As stated at the top, "We don't conduct original research or provide a free source of ideas". Clarityfiend (talk) 05:32, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Which DTK might the OP be talking about? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:26, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

For that matter, which Hondo? (Or did Yvonne just assume that we could and would trace her IP address to Texas, which narrows it doen to two possibilities?) {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.200.40.9 (talk) 10:56, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No research for you! Clarityfiend (talk) 08:48, 30 January 2021 (UTC) [reply]

January 30

Coconut oil

I'm using coconut oil in my hair for moisturising purposes and am finding it to be effective to prevent dry scalp etc. How often can you use it in hair and how long for to achieve best results? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.33.115.108 (talk) 09:17, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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 :As stated at the top, "We don't conduct original research or provide a free source of ideas". [[User:Clarityfiend|Clarityfiend]] ([[User talk:Clarityfiend|talk]]) 05:32, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 ::Which [[DTK]] might the OP be talking about? ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] <sup>''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]''</sup> [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 06:26, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
+::::For that matter, which [[Hondo]]? (Or did Yvonne just assume that we could and would trace her IP address to Texas, which narrows it doen to two possibilities?)  {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} [[Special:Contributions/90.200.40.9|90.200.40.9]] ([[User talk:90.200.40.9|talk]]) 10:56, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 :::<small> [[The Soup Nazi|No research for you!]] [[User:Clarityfiend|Clarityfiend]] ([[User talk:Clarityfiend|talk]]) 08:48, 30 January 2021 (UTC) </small>