Talk:George Washington Weidler

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Did you know... that in 1881, George Washington Weidler, owner of Willamette Steam Mills and Manufacturing Company, became the first person to sell electric lighting in Portland, Oregon?

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Wiedler house[edit]

So is the Wiedler House still standing? I'm guessing not, but I don't know. tedder (talk) 18:29, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To the best of my knowledge, it was demolished, but I haven't found printed confirmation of this. Driving around up there, I have not seen it. I should probably make another trip to determine exactly what is on that property in 2010. Personal research has its uses, though I am not a reliable source. :-) Finetooth (talk) 20:20, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

article and talk page deletions[edit]

I'm confused on what happened that caused this to go from article space to @Finetooth's userspace, and then for a redirect to rivers in mexico to be placed here. Oregon isn't part of Mexico{{cn}}. I think it was just some confusion by @MSGJ in 2013, but then some histmerging took place by @Premeditated Chaos in 2017. I've restored the deleted edits and their content, but I'm pinging all y'all in case I'm missing something. tedder (talk) 18:09, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like we're all sorted now. I split the page history in 2013 because it contained revisions of two different articles. See here. I don't think I was confused but it's possible I neglected some cleanup afterwards. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:52, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yow! I never noticed that anything happened to the article. I'm glad @Tedder: was paying attention. Thank you. Finetooth (talk) 22:46, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Gonna be honest, I remember understanding what happened enough to fix it at the time with the histmerge, but I couldn't give you a coherent narrative now. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:50, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I didn't notice either, obviously, until I got confused on my way to the talk page. Also amusing that I'd commented here a million years ago. tedder (talk) 22:52, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]