Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia

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WikiProject Philadelphia is a project to better organize information in articles related to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all.

This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate, organize and develop all Wikipedia activities concerning the City of Brotherly Love and the Delaware Valley. The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities.

To help, please inquire on the discussion page or look at the to-do list below.

Contents 1 Announcements 1.1 Article watchlist 1.2 Housekeeping 1.3 Standards 2 Philadelphia Meetups 3 Participants and primary areas of interest 4 Structure 4.1 General strategy, goals, projects and discussion forums 4.2 Goals 4.3 WikiProject ToDo list 4.4 Article requests list 4.5 Portal maintenance 5 Assessment 6 Templates 7 Images 8 Recognition 9 Wikimedia Pennsylvania 10 Related or Descendant WikiProjects 11 Philadelphia task forces 12 New articles 13 Similar WikiProjects

[edit] Announcements

[edit] Article watchlist

• List of Philadelphia 76ers head coaches has been nominated for Featured List, please make your comments here.
• List of Philadelphia Eagles head coaches has reached Featured List status.
• List of Philadelphia Eagles first-round draft picks has been nominated for Featured List, please make your comments here.
• Philadelphia Phillies seasons

[edit] Housekeeping

[edit] Standards

• A discussion is currently underway on the talk page as to the standardization for SEPTA article titles. Please drop by and add your insights.-- danntm ^T _C 21:27, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

• A more formalized proposal is now avaliable for review, comment, and consensus building here. Please stop by and add your two cents.-- danntm ^T _C 22:35, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Philadelphia Meetups

November 2006 meetup

March 2007 meetup

April 2008 meetup

Of interest to Wikipedians in travel distance of Philadelphia; it has been proposed to have a Wikipedia Meetup in July 2008. See the meetup page for details and to RSVP.

• Philadelphia meet-up invite list
• Philadelphia meet-up do not invite list

[edit] Participants and primary areas of interest

Usernames A-J

Usernames L-Z

Accurizer – History, museums, attractions, suburbs Alphageekpa American Revolutionary War in SE PA, historic buildings and sites, history of roads, Montco, some local art history alteripse eastern pa in general, CHOP, Penn Austinmurphy neighborhoods, corporations, crime, lists Bjewiki Sports Bobval Suburbs, Culture, Music, Education Briememory Sports CComMack CobaltBlueTony Center City, University City, Philadelphia County, pre-Act of Consolidation, 1854 Coemgenus of the great Northeast Coplan General Cleanup as time allows, people, landscape architecture, architecture, etc. danntm Talk Contibutions - SEPTA, Politics Dream out loud – Public transit (SEPTA), roadways, buildings EaglesFanInTampa - the South Jersey suburbs and counties FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed I'll contribute where I can Galaxiaad George100 - Culture, institutions, center city. GShton Sports, Culture Gorgeousp Hamburmk IanBlade Frankford, Northeast Philadelphia, Frankford Yellow Jackets ike9898 - historical stuff in the northern burbs ImmortalGoddezz Drexel University JA10 T · C 23:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC) Routes and Highways in Philadelphia. Jim62sch History, food, sports teams, music john k

Krimpet Roads, trails, politics, other bits and pieces including sorting and linking stuff to the Commons Looper5920 Luciuskwok Transportation Magic Marketstel - Transportation, esp. mass transit; Architecture and notable buildings; History; Politics; Geography; Food, food culture, and dining out; general fact-checking and editing for style and tone MechBrowman Medvedenko meebly nfutvol Villanova University, Transit Systems Pacdude Passdoubt | Talk Pastricide Neighborhoods, Philly stubs, organizing the Main Page | Talk Patricknoddy PAWiki Counties north of Philly (Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton), Philly sports (especially Eagles and Phillies), center city Philly and Philly-area people. PYLrulz Ill help edit and fix up articles I run across. RegBarc Criminal Justice (courts, police), Far Northeast Philadelphia RunnerupNJ - design / layout, railroads (especially PRR), trolleys SB_Johnny - Plants, bugs, gardens, etc. I primarily contribute to Wikiversity, but am active here and on other projects as well. SearedIce Center City / University City / Penn's Landing / Suburbs of Philly Shoessss Northeast neighborhoods South Philly -- email me for my opinion Shawnthe1/ahwang Penn's landing, Center & University City! esp from May 2007 Skiasaurus Spikebrennan SteinbDJ Arts and culture Sylent Northern Philly burbs Thoth Inner city neighborhoods, North Phil, Kenzo, etc Waarmstr Churches, history, neighborhoods, linking articles to Philly Portal. Marphilly I'm from South Philly and attended Temple; I may be particularly helpful with those articles V60 VTalk - VDemolitions I will help with the western suburbs, West Philly, and University City.

[edit] Structure

[edit] General strategy, goals, projects and discussion forums

• General
• Rules & Standards – Our agreed-upon rules and standards

[edit] Goals

1. Improve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to featured status.
2. Standardization - Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia/RulesStandards
3. Building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles, including elimination of all redlinks on List of Philadelphia neighborhoods.
4. Standardization of articles relating to SEPTA.
5. Updating Portal:Current events with Philly related items
6. Updating wikinews:Portal:United_States with Philly related items

[edit] WikiProject ToDo list

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Recruit active membership Featured Articles Elevate Philadelphia to Featured Article status Send Liberty Bell through Peer review and act on feedback Send Independence Hall through Peer review and act on feedback Make sure all Peer Review suggestions/requests are acted upon before FAC Determine geographic scope Standardize neighborhood article names Identify other Delaware Valley-related articles in need of improvement Identify other Delaware Valley-related articles that are potential Featured Articles Create SEPTA station/route article title standards Improve upon Portal:Philadelphia part of the Wikiportals. Tag extant stubs with {{philadelphia-stub}}

[edit] Article requests list

• Article requests

[edit] Portal maintenance

• Portal talk:Philadelphia

[edit] Assessment

Philadelphia articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	1	3	2	1		7
	FL	1			2		3
	A		2	1	3		6
	GA	2	7	2	2	1	14
	B	9	28	16	18	26	97
	Start	11	35	73	181	137	437
	Stub	3	7	41	280	191	522
	List	1	1	2	2	2	8
	Assessed	28	83	137	489	357	1094
	Unassessed				1	787	788
	Total	28	83	137	490	1144	1882

• Assessment – Our rating system
• Project statistics – Statistices for our rating system
• V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc
• Philadelphia articles by quality log
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Philadelphia articles by quality

[edit] Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{portalpar|Philadelphia|Libertybell alone small.jpg}} Talk	Philadelphia Portal	Please put this in the See also article main pages (see the "How you can help" section on this page for more details)
{{WikiProject Philadelphia}} Talk	Philadelphia Portal This article falls within the scope of WikiProject Philadelphia, a WikiProject interested in improving the encyclopedic coverage and content of articles relating to Philadelphia, its people, history, accomplishments and other topics. If you would like to help out, you are welcome to drop by the project page and/or leave a query at the project's talk page. This article is also supported by WikiProject Pennsylvania. Article Grading: The article has not been rated for quality and/or importance yet. Please rate the article and then leave comments here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.	Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages.
{{User WikiProject Philadelphia}} Talk	This user is working on WikiProject Philadelphia.	Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages.
{{user Philly}} Talk	This user lives in or hails from Philadelphia.	to place the Philadelphia Userbox on your page
{{Geolinks-US-streetscale|39.8933|-75.2089}} Talk	WikiProject Philadelphia is at coordinates 39°53′36″N 75°12′32″W / 39.8933, -75.2089 (WikiProject Philadelphia)Coordinates: 39°53′36″N 75°12′32″W / 39.8933, -75.2089 (WikiProject Philadelphia)	To be used on street-sized pages, such as airports.
{{Current-PhiladelphiaCOTM}} Talk	This is the current WikiProject Philadelphia Collaboration of the month! Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia Philadelphia article.	goes on the Collaboration of the Month
{{Current-PhiladelphiaSATM}} Talk	This is the current WikiProject Philadelphia Selected article of the month! It may be worthy of Good Article or Featured Article status. Please consider nominating it or improving it.	goes on the Selected Article of the Month
{{WP Philadelphia invite}} Talk	You are invited to participate in WikiProject Philadelphia, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about Philadelphia. We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated! You can also add yourself to the list of people to be invited to our next meet-up!	to invite new members

[edit] Images

Free image sources for the United States
Source	License	Tag
Wikimedia Commons (Cat:United States)	Various	N/A
Historic American Buildings Survey ([1])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-HABS}}
National Park Service ([2] and [3])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}}
U.S. Coast Guard ([4])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DHS-CG}}
Library of Congress ([5])	P.D.	{{LOC-image}}
NOAA ([6])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DOC-NOAA}}
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ([7])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-FWS}}
Creative Commons (by,sa) on Flickr ([8][9])	C.C.	{{cc-by-2.0}}{{cc-by-sa-2.0}}
U.S. Department of Agriculture ([10])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-USDA}}
Add more free image sources

For Pennsylvania-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphoto|in=Pennsylvania}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Pennsylvania. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

[edit] Recognition

The Liberty Star is given by WikiProject Philadelphia for outstanding work on Philadelphia-related articles. Introduced by South Philly and designed by smurrayinchester

{{subst:Liberty Star|message ~~~~}}

[edit] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Hello there!

We are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:

• Contact us on IRC at #wikimedia-pa
• Join our mailing list
• Visit our blog at http://wmfpa.blogspot.com
• you can add your username to m:Wikimedia Pennsylvania#Interested Participants

Thanks!

[edit] Related or Descendant WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania
• Wikipedia:Wikiproject U.S. cities
• WikiProject Pittsburgh

[edit] Philadelphia task forces

• Category:SEPTA
• Philadelphia Churches

[edit] New articles

Please list all new Philadelphia related articles here.

• Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters - Medvedenko (talk) 19:06, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• The Philadelphia Independent - Slugokramer (talk) 02:13, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
• Scheie Eye Institute 20 November 2007
• History of Philadelphia March 25 Was copied from Philadelphia article by User:Kitia, have added my unfinished work for the article. Medvedenko 02:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
• Philadelphia Gay News February 13
• St. George's United Methodist Church February 9
• Philadelphia mayoral election, 2007. - Aardhart 06:11, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
• Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House - Furmanj (talk) 09:45, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
• List of Philadelphia Eagles first-round draft picks - Gman124 ^talk 17:10, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

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