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Section sizes

Section size for Oregon (46 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	12,941	12,941
Etymology	7,313	7,313
History	41	25,129
Earliest inhabitants	3,451	3,451
European and pioneer settlement	8,726	8,726
Black exclusion laws	924	924
Statehood	2,370	2,370
Post-Reconstruction	7,997	7,997
Gasoline pump law	1,620	1,620
Geography	3,690	24,649
Geology and terrain	3,529	3,529
Flora and fauna	8,405	8,405
Climate	4,679	4,679
Cities and towns	4,346	4,346
Demographics	133	33,850
Population	14,748	14,748
Languages	1,030	1,030
Religious and secular communities	16,672	16,672
Future projections	1,267	1,267
Economy	2,677	45,528
Agriculture	7,078	7,078
Forestry and fisheries	5,223	5,223
Tourism and entertainment	8,835	8,835
Technology	4,758	4,758
Corporate headquarters	4,807	4,807
Taxes and budgets	9,215	9,215
Healthcare	2,935	2,935
Education	14	9,881
Elementary, middle, and high school	2,593	2,593
Colleges and universities	7,274	7,274
Law and government	1,084	24,494
Structure	3,203	3,203
Ballot measures	5,735	5,735
Federal representation	2,395	2,395
Politics	12,077	12,077
Sports	8,550	8,550
Sister regions	1,859	1,859
See also	204	204
Notes	25	25
Citations	42	42
References	3,702	3,702
External links	271	2,672
Government	213	213
Tourism and recreation	380	380
History and culture	239	239
Maps and geology	1,569	1,569
Total	200,839	200,839

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Education In Oregon

why doesn't Education In Oregon have its own article? literally the worst education in the USA and the world. https://www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/oregon-has-one-of-shortest-school-years-in-us/283-560012138 2601:646:9A80:EA0:685D:2037:B94:C654 (talk) 20:00, 3 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you have reliable sources backing your statement (that page is geowalled, so I can't say whether it does), feel free to add it to Oregon#Education. The Crab Who Played With The Sea (talk) 01:15, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Location

The state’s location would be better described as “in the Pacific Northwest region *and* the Western United States.” Saying “the Pacific Northwest region *of* the Western United States implies that the former is nested geographically within the latter. It is not, as the PNW, as the term is usually understood locally, also includes part of Canada. N. Pharris (talk) 21:20, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@NJPharris: Yep, and also it's just awkward wording. I'm going to edit accordingly. Steven Walling • talk 19:12, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Pronunciation

A lot of people pronounce it the same as organ especially in the northwest, oughta be an alternate pronunciation 97.113.57.76 (talk) 22:53, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Source? ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 22:59, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.up.edu/portland/oregon-pronunciation-guide.html

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Oregon

Both these show 2 syllable options, wiktionary specifies homophone with organ is common in Oregon

also I don’t know what the source for the current pronunciation says or if it offers alternatives 97.113.57.76 (talk) 23:28, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Source 2 is unreliable as it's Wiktionary, Wikipedia's dictionary sister. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 00:37, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I guess there’s not a lot of information on the subject, how do you find sources for wiktionary? Most sources seem to be about people mispronouncing it oreGONE. Lot of forum discussion saying that or-gun is the local way of saying it which is my personal experience. But I guess I can’t find any good source. But the current pronunciation source isn’t great either. 97.113.57.76 (talk) 00:52, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Many portions are out of date

The article is mildly to very out of date in portions.

The list of top businesses is from 2016.

Until a revision I did today, the number of Electoral College votes was based on the 2010 US Census. 2601:1C0:CF00:41B0:9DDB:FDD7:3F44:2916 (talk) 04:57, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Greater Idaho

Nothing to say about Greater Idaho? 2A02:908:C38:D3A0:0:0:0:38EC (talk) 08:18, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oregon Map?

What is Oregon? At first I would expect a map. There is not 1 of any type. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.23.68.137 (talk) 18:33, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Living Insignia

We (Oregon) have a State microbe. It's brewers yeast. Should that be listed here? 71.63.222.48 (talk) 18:59, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Missing section

Hey, there isn't a transportation section at all. Could somebody fix this? I'm not too great at citing or anything, as I've only ever done one edit, and that was changing a single word. Maybe this Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transportation_in_Oregon) can be used for the sub-section about the railways of Oregon?TheFluffyProto (talk) 18:30, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]