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 Meetup 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 Related or Descendant WikiProjects 10 Philadelphia task forces 11 New articles 12 Similar WikiProjects

[edit] Announcements

Starting in 2007, the Philadelphia Portal will include a section called Selected anniversaries. (This will replace the Music, Arts & Culture section) The Section is presented monthly and most months still need anniversaries. Please go to the Portal:Philadelphia/Selected anniversaries archive and add dates for articles you are familiar with. Please try to use no more than 4 anniversaries per month, and do not use any birthdays or death dates (Unless the death itself was an event). Medvedenko 04:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article watchlist

• Philadelphian cricket team is now up for Peer Review here. Any input that can be given by the project would be much appreciated.--Eva ^bd 13:37, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
• The 22nd annual Philadelphia bike race is 1 week away (Sunday, June 11, 2006), and our article on it (written by me) is pretty crappy. Help! I'm having a really hard time getting reliable info on the race's history, especially since the damn thing has been renamed so many times. I would really like to get a list of the race's past winners, but such a list has so far eluded me. Also, the women's Liberty Classic is just a stub. Thanks, Savatar 16:29, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Housekeeping

• We need one or two people to volunteer as the coordinators. --evrik 18:44, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[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 Meetup

Of interest to Wikipedians in travel distance of Philadelphia; it has been proposed to have a Wikipedia Meetup in February 2007. See the meetup page for details and to RSVP.

[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 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 EaglesFanInTampa - the South Jersey suburbs and counties Evrik FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed I'll contribute where I can Galaxiaad GShton Sports, Culture Gorgeousp IanBlade Frankford, Northeast Philadelphia, Frankford Yellow Jackets ike9898 - historical stuff in the northern burbs ImmortalGoddezz Drexel University 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 MechBrowman Medvedenko meebly 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. RegBarc Criminal Justice (courts, police), Far Northeast Philadelphia RunnerupNJ - design / layout, railroads (especially PRR), trolleys SearedIce Center City / University City / Penn's Landing / Suburbs of Philly South Philly -- email me for my opinion Shawnthe1/ahwang Penn's landing, Center & University City! esp from May 2007 Spikebrennan Sylent Northern Philly burbs Thoth 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.

[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. Article Tagging Crawl through Category:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Tag all appropriate talk pages with the project banner, {{WikiProject Philadelphia}}, and assess quality and importance. Appropriately tag articles with category flags like Category:Buildings and structures in Philadelphia, Category:Companies based in Philadelphia, Category:Philadelphia culture, Category:History of Philadelphia, etc. Category:Buildings and structures in Philadelphia Done South Philly 20 July 2006 (UTC) Category:Companies based in Philadelphia Done South Philly 20 July 2006 (UTC) Category:Philadelphia culture Done South Philly 22:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC) Category:Economy of Philadelphia DoneSouth Philly 3 August 2006 Category:Education in Philadelphia (In Progress) South Philly 03:44, 4 August 2006 (UTC) Category:Geography of Philadelphia Category:Government of Philadelphia Category:History of Philadelphia Category:Images of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Done --evrik 15:40, 20 July 2006 (UTC) Category:Landmarks in Philadelphia Category:Media in Philadelphia Category:Philadelphia neighborhoods Category:Organizations based in Philadelphia Category:Parks and squares in Philadelphia Category:People from Philadelphia Category:Religion in Philadelphia Category:Sports in Philadelphia (in Progress) GShton 21:59, 25 September 2006 (UTC) Category:Streets in Philadelphia Category:Transportation in Philadelphia Category:Philadelphia stubs (In Progress) evrik 13:55, 20 July 2006 (UTC) Tag extant stubs with {{philadelphia-stub}}

[edit] Article requests list

• /Requests

[edit] Portal maintenance

• Portal talk:Philadelphia

[edit] Assessment

Philadelphia articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		1				1
	A		1	1	1	1	4
	GA		4		1	1	6
	B	10	20	8	13	6	57
	Start	6	15	46	135	54	256
	Stub	2	5	15	184	93	299
	Assessed	18	46	70	334	155	623
	Unassessed	1	0	0	0	917	918
	Total	19	46	70	334	1072	1541

• Assessment – Our rating system
• Project statistics – Statistices for our rating system
• V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc
• Philadelphia articles by quality log

[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	WikipediaWikiProject Philadelphia is part of the WikiProject Philadelphia, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.	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
{{Mapit-US-hoodscale|39.8933|-75.2089}} Talk	Maps and aerial photos Coordinates: 39.8933° -75.2089° Street map from Google Maps or MapQuest Satellite image from Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, or WikiMapia Topographic map from TopoZone Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA	To be used on the neighborhood and building pages.
{{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!	to invite new members

[edit] Images

Free image sources for the United States
Source	License	Tag
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}}
U.S. Department of Agriculture ([8])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-USDA}}
Add more free image sources

For Pennsylvania-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphotoin|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

[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.

• 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)

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