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being a one-foot diameter circle, its "acreage" is only about 0.3 square metres

Those numbers don't match. One foot is 30.48 cm, so the area of a one-foot diameter circle is about 900 cm^2*0.7854, or 0.07 square meters. -phma

The diameter was wrong. The city web site says it's 452 in2 which corresponds to a two-foot diameter circle. That means the diameter is 60.96 cm so π×30.482 = 2918.64 cm2, or about 0.3 m2. (whew!) --Nate 19:03 Nov 27, 2002 (UTC)

I was reading through the table of contents for this article, and it pretty much sums up Portland: Parks, Beer, Public Transportation. :-) --Nate Silva 22:05, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I just noticed that Tri-met is spelled incorrectly. However, I'm not going to correct it because there is a link that might be destroyed if incorrectly edited. TriMet should be changed to Tri-met. Pingveno 05:28, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Both spellings are correct. http://www.tri-met.org and http://www.trimet.org TriMet is preferred. Mkmcconn 18:25, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Famous Portlanders

Okay, I'm giving fair notice that a few names have slipped into this list who I do not consider Portlanders, & whom I will be removing from this list. It's not because one has to possess a certain modicum of cool to be on this list -- it's just that some folks don't have a true connection to this town.

  • Paul Allen - So he owns the Trail Blazers. BFD, they've sucked almost to the day he wrote the check. Otherwise, his involvement in Portland has been less than minimal. Seattle can have him.
  • Ward Cunningham - No disrespect to Ward (I've met him, he's a nice guy), but does he live in Portland or across the hills in Washington County? -- Ward & Karen have a Portland address, but with respect, I wonder if Ward is notable outside Wiki fame. Should be, perhaps, but ...? User:gnetwerker Feb 13, 2004
    • Well, the rule I've always heard is when in doubt, include it. Since Ward does have a Portland address, I have no problem putting him back in the list.
  • Tonya Harding - Yes, it's fashionable in Puddle Town to dislike her, but around here, when you mention Tonya, you think of Clackamas County. Sorry, even if you argue that Joe Clueless in New York thinks she lives in Portland, my response is that the same Joe Clueless probably thinks Oregon is a suburb of Los Angeles.
  • Phil Knight - Nike is carefully situated outside of the city limits of Beaverton. I doubt that Knight even lives in Portland. Portland doesn't need to steal famous names from its suburbs.
  • Monica Lewinsky - Once upon a time she attended Lewis & Clark. Some days I'm not even sure L & C is inside of the Portland City limits; some days people at L & C don't care who she is, let alone know that she took classes there. And when the press looks for her, they pester folks down south in Los Angeles.

Sheesh, if we don't show a bit of restraint, who will be added to this list next? Garrison Keillor, who lost a manuscript at the train terminal here? L. Ron Hubbard, who was stationed here for several months in World War II? (Okay, he's a maybe.) George H. W. Bush, who was picketted every time he showed his face in Portland? Rudyard Kipling, who is rumored to have left the train during a stop in Portland to take a leak?

Yes, I'm probably ranting here, but is Portland so insecure about its self-worth that anyone tangentially connected with the city must needs be listed? -- llywrch 00:44, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Just noticing the irony between the list of suburbs and the satelite cities remark. This remark is also somewhat inappropriate for an encyclopedia. - Pingveno 04:06, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

206.138.226.162 had added Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology. I removed this because it's actually in Beaverton (maybe it should be on the Beaverton page). This comes out of an earlier case where llywrch had pointed out that Marylhurst University is actually not in Portland. To avoid this page becoming a laundry list of "nearby" things, the colleges list has been kept to those that are actually in Portland. --Nate Silva 03:16, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)


Not to be contentious, but OGI ha sbeen merged into the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), by acronym slight-of-hand, formerly the Oregon Health Sciences University. OHSU is based in Portland, so I don't know if that changes anyone's mind about anything. -- Gnetwerker


Hey! I'd love to see some information in here on the arts scene in Portland. Specifically theatre and dance. So far all of the 'arts' stuff in here seems to be movies and sports teams. =) -- [[User::jbailey|jbailey]]

building heights

"Portland's city center does not cater to tall buildings do to the 200 ft. long city blocks and design codes that constrain building height"

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