Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia

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WikiProject Philadelphia is a project to better organize information in articles related to Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. 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.

Announcements

Standards

• Currently, none.

Alerts

Article alerts

Did you know

• 04 Nov 2024 – Michael O'Kane (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Ergo Sum (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 12 Nov 2024 – In Honor of a Lifetime of Sexual Assault (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Fram (t · c) was closed as keep by Doczilla (t · c) on 19 Nov 2024; see discussion (8 participants)

Redirects for discussion

• 20 Nov 2024 – Benjamin Franklin (swim coach) (talk · edit · hist) →Benjamin Franklin was RfDed by TeapotsOfDoom (t · c); see discussion
• 20 Nov 2024 – Cilla Single (talk · edit · hist) →Benjamin Franklin was RfDed by TeapotsOfDoom (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 14 Jun 2024 – 4th and 26 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gonzo fan2007 (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

• 22 Nov 2024 – History of the Oakland Athletics (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to History of the Athletics by 162 etc. (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Nov 2024 – Athletics (baseball) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Athletics (baseball team) by DrewieStewie (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 06 Jun 2024 – Atlantic City, New Jersey (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Hurricanehink (t · c); see discussion
• 18 May 2024 – SEPTA Suburban Division bus routes (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Triphora (t · c); see discussion
• 18 May 2024 – SEPTA City Transit Division surface routes (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Triphora (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 05 Nov 2024 – Draft:Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Crimsonandgrayhawk (t · c)

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Philadelphia Meetups

Of interest to Wikipedians in travel distance of Philadelphia; We have periodic meetups in the Philadelphia area. Please watch our meetup page for details, and add yourself to the email list there.

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

Participants and primary areas of interest

Usernames Numeric and A-L

Usernames M-Z

47thPennVols History, museums, religion and spirituality Accurizer – History, museums, attractions, suburbs Alphageekpa American Revolutionary War in SE PA, historic buildings and sites, history of roads, Montco, some local art history Arjsd politics, transit, history BillFlis history, landmarks (esp NRHP sites), portal maintenance, copy editing Briememory Sports CanonLawJunkie (talk) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia CComMack chsh Government, Schools, Main Philadelphia page. 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 Contributions - SEPTA, Politics dorevabelfiore - Northwest Philadelphia, Women in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley, galleries, libraries and archives (GLAM), photos for Commons Dream out loud – Public transit (SEPTA), roadways, buildings DThomsen8 talk - History, Government, Photos Eagles247 - Philadelphia Eagles EaglesFanInTampa - the South Jersey suburbs and counties Ethan Parmet - History, The US Mint Galaxiaad George100 - Culture, institutions, center city. GhostRiver – sports (esp. Phillies and Flyers), SEPTA, Penn, South Philly GPL93 (talk 06:30, 15 June 2018 (UTC) Politics and history, suburbs ike9898 - historical stuff in the northern burbs ImmortalGoddezz Drexel University Jim62sch History, food, sports teams, music john k Keystone18 People, organizations, city and suburbs, sports, high schools and universities/colleges Krimpet Roads, trails, politics, other bits and pieces including sorting and linking stuff to the Commons Libertybison History Looper5920 Luciuskwok Transportation

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 Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 16:16, 12 June 2013 (UTC) I live in Philadelphia and am very interested in women writers. See: A Celebration of Women Writers Maxim Stoyalov Narsk (talk) - Philly politics, activism, public transit, history, power mapping and trying increase the quality of all Philly articles. Newyorkadam General Philadelphia and Philadelphia sports articles nfutvol Villanova University, Transit Systems Nnev66 Northwest Philadelphia, Government, Judaism, Science Nutiketaiel (talk) Northeast Philadelphia; Eagles; Government; Suburbs O (talk • edits) I will help with the western suburbs, West Philly, and University City. Ocaasi t | c 02:08, 26 April 2013 (UTC) Ouanor Public transit (SEPTA), politics, business Passdoubt | Talk Red0ctober22 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. Shoessss Northeast neighborhoods Skiasaurus Smallbones History, NRHP, Museums, photos Sm8900 History of America, History of Philadelphia, philadelphia sites, cultural institutions, neighborhoods, communities. Mr. Spencer Kinkelaar Geography, neighborhoods, SEPTA, University of Pennsylvania, Downingtown Spikebrennan thnidu language, linguistics, general proofreading & editing TartarTorte The Midnite Wolf history, music, photos Triphora — SEPTA and affairs with your southerly neighbor, Delaware Unbandito History, neighborhoods, rescuing archived public media and preserving the memory of daily life in different eras and communities. Underswamp West Philly neighborhoods, religion, culture Waarmstr Churches, history, neighborhoods, linking articles to Philly Portal.

Presumed Inactive

Usernames A-L

Usernames M-Z

alteripse eastern pa in general, CHOP, Penn (last contribution 2013) Bjewiki Sports (last contribution 2013) Bobval Suburbs, Culture, Music, Education (last contribution 2006) Bus2Beezlebub Big 5, SJU (last contribution 2011) FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed I'll contribute where I can (last contribution 2012) Gorgeousp (last contribution 2007) GShton Sports, Culture (last contribution 2011) Hamburmk (last contribution 2012) IanBlade Frankford, Northeast Philadelphia, Frankford Yellow Jackets (last contribution 2007) JA10 T · C 23:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC) Routes and Highways in Philadelphia. (last contribution 2013)

Magic (last contribution 2007) Marphilly I'm from South Philly and attended Temple; I may be particularly helpful with those articles (last contribution 2008) Maughangl (talk · contribs) I can be helpful with information on University City, Center City and the South Street area. (last contribution 2010) MechBrowman (last contribution 2006) Medvedenko (last contribution 2012) meebly (last contribution 2005) Pacdude (last contribution 2013) Pastricide Neighborhoods, Philly stubs, organizing the Main Page | Talk (last contribution 2007) Patricknoddy (last contribution 2007) PYLrulz Ill help edit and fix up articles I run across. (last contribution 2012) SearedIce Center City / University City / Penn's Landing / Suburbs of Philly (last contribution 2013) Shawnthe1/ahwang Penn's landing, Center & University City! esp from May 2007 (last contribution 2006) SteinbDJ Arts and culture (last contribution 2013) Sylent Northern Philly burbs (last contribution 2011) TheSab University City, general Philly photography (last contribution 2012) Thoth Inner city neighborhoods, North Phil, Kenzo, etc. (last contribution 2008) User:Thunderball15 Southwest Philly -- email me for my opinion (last contribution 2011) Violarulez Free library, center city, Rittenhouse square, SEPTA, Chinatown, South Street. (last contribution 2013)

Structure

General strategy, goals, projects and discussion forums

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

Goals

1. Improve Philadelphia 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

Article requests list

• Article requests

Portal maintenance

• Portal talk:Philadelphia

Assessment

Philadelphia articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		5	12	12			29
FL		1		12			13
GA	3	8	29	92			132
B	13	87	151	283		7	541
C	3	106	233	918		21	1,281
Start	3	106	649	4,671		70	5,499
Stub		1	62	1,104	1	47	1,215
List	1	11	25	116	1	4	158
Category				1	490		491
Disambig					12		12
File					130		130
Portal					419		419
Project				1	18		19
Template					138		138
NA		3	13	134	274		424
Other					18		18
Assessed	23	328	1,174	7,344	1,501	149	10,519
Unassessed				1		28	29
Total	23	328	1,174	7,345	1,501	177	10,548
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,796			Ω = 4.81

• Recent changes to article assessments
• Assessment – Our rating system
• Project statistics – Statistics 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

Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{Portal|Philadelphia}} Talk		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		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
{{coord|39.8933|N|75.2089|W|region:US-PA_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} Talk	39.8933°N 75.2089°W / 39.8933; -75.2089	To be used on street-sized pages.
{{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

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}}
Historic American Engineering Record ([2])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov}}
Historic American Landscapes Survey	P.D	{{PD-USGov}}
National Park Service ([3] and [4])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}}
U.S. Coast Guard ([5])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DHS-CG}}
Library of Congress - American Memory ([6])	P.D.	{{LOC-image}}
Library of Congress - Prints and Photographs ([7])	P.D. (not all)	{{LOC-image}}
NOAA ([8])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DOC-NOAA}}
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ([9])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov}}
Creative Commons (by,sa) on Flickr ([10])	C.C.	{{cc-by-2.0}}{{cc-by-sa-2.0}}
U.S. Department of Agriculture ([11])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov}}

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

The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.

The Image Existence Checker shows articles in this list that have images.

Recognition

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

{{Liberty Star|message ~~~~}}

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!

Related or descendant WikiProjects

• WikiProject Pennsylvania
• WikiProject Pittsburgh
• WikiProject New Jersey
• WikiProject Delaware
• WikiProject Maryland

Philadelphia task forces

• Category:SEPTA
• Philadelphia Churches

New articles

Please list all new Philadelphia related articles here.

• Charles Y. Audenried High School April 2015
• MaST Community Charter School April 2015
• Roxborough High School April 2015
• William L. Sayre High School April 2015
• Nicknames of Philadelphia February 2015
• Philadelphia Managing Director's Office January 2015
• Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management January 2015
• Books Through Bars June 2014
• John C. Bowers April 2014
• Philadelphia Korean War Memorial November 2013
• Cheltenham Avenue March 2013
• J. Leon Altemose December 2011
• 99 Percent Declaration November 2011
• Israel Wilson Durham August 2011
• Wynnestay July 2011
• 26th District Police and Patrol Station July 2011
• Green Tree Tavern July 2011
• Howell House (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) July 2011
• Daniel Billmeyer House July 2011
• Michael Billmeyer House July 2011
• Awbury Historic District June 2011
• Greenbelt Knoll June 2011
• Tulpehocken Station Historic District June 2011
• Broad Street Historic District (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) June 2011
• North Broad Street Mansion District June 2011
• David Bustill Bowser May 2011
• Philadelphia Water Department Feb 2011
• E.W. Clark & Co. Sept 2010
• Clarence Howard Clark Sept 2010
• Art Club of Philadelphia Sept 2010
• Philadelphia Parking Authority August 2010, was a redirect
• Fairmount Park Art Association May 2010
• John Penn ("the American") October 2009
• Philadelphia Gas Works 11 April 2009
• Philadelphia general strike (1910) 10 July 2008
• Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters 22 May 2008
• Ora Washington 2 May 2008
• Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society 2 May 2008
• Pennsylvania Hall (Philadelphia) 1 May 2008
• Louis H. Carpenter 18 May 2009 - Brig. General who served 38 years from 1861 to 1899 and called Philadelphia home. Louis H. Carpenter is currently a good article (GA) nominee. This article met GA status on 4 August 2009! Done See discussion page for A/FA efforts! Article is now undergoing a A-Class review.
• Samuel Carpenter 18 May 2009 - The immigrant who came to Philadelphia in 1693. First Treasurer & Asst. Governor.
• James Edward Carpenter 19 Aug 2009
• Owen Biddle, Sr. (1737-1799), American Revolutionary War soldier, mathematician, astronomer - observed 1769 Transit of Venus at Cape Henlopen, member of the American Philosophical Society -20 August 2009

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