Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia/Requests

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Contents 1 Article suggestions 2 Need work 3 Proposed Infobox 4 Streets

[edit] Article suggestions

Anything from ...

• List of Registered Historic Places in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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• Philadelphia Folklore Project
• Wills Eye Hospital
• German Society of Pennsylvania http://www.germansociety.org
  

  

  German Society of Pennsylvania
• Philadelphia Associators, Pennsylvania Associators, and Pennsylvania militia: the volunteer militia system founded by Benjamin Franklin.
• From the American Revolution, the Fort Wilson incident—a Philadelphia riot of October 1779—could use an article. Some web sources could get you started, especially if you have JSTOR access. Fort Wilson and Fort Wilson Riot currently redirect to Founding Father James Wilson, whose home was attacked and subsequently nicknamed "Fort Wilson".
• Philadelphia Public League (the high school public school sports league)
• Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. deserves a page, but I don't have the expertise to write it. It has several links. It meets the criteria at WP:CORP --evrik 18:27, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education [1]
• Shawmont, Pennsylvania
  • Flat Rock Dam, Roxborough Reservoir and Shawmont Waterworks
• Drinker, Biddle & Reath, [2]
  • John Christian Bullitt
• Food Trust [3]
• Chinese Wall (Philadelphia) [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
• Greenbelt Knoll [9] [10] [11][12]

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• Charles Y. Audenried - Judge in the Court of Common Pleas
  • Charles Y. Audenried Senior High School
  • Charles Y. Audenried Junior High School
• Philadelphia Register of Historic Places and Philadelphia Historical Commission currently both redirects

• Philadelphia Bourse
  • http://www.ushistory.org/tour/tour_bourse.htm **http://library.temple.edu/collections/urbana/bou-559.jsp?bhcp=1
  • http://www.bourse-pa.com/bourse_history.htm

[edit] Need work

• Frank Palumbo and Palumbos - Really need some basic info (birth and death dates, for instance) and anything verifiable about mob tie allegations, fight fixing, Sinatra, etc. Anyone know a decent book on the guy/era/area?
• Independence Seaport Museum
• Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation
• Eakins Oval - Started it. I would like to provide more history, but I cannot find information about it. (Coplan 03:15, 10 November 2006 (UTC))
• Washington Monument (Philadelphia) - Considering the Washington Monument is such a huge part of Eakins Oval, I made it part of the Eakins Oval article. This now redirects to Eakins Oval. (Coplan 03:15, 10 November 2006 (UTC))
• Valley Forge needs to be cleaned-up and organized. Right now, it's a mess. I think we need one page for the city of Valley Forge, one for the Park, and one for the encampment during the American Revolutionary War. There's more than enough info for each.
• Pennsylvania Main Line is still a mess.

[edit] Proposed Infobox

Philadelphia Neighborhood
A map image
Latitude and Longitude	{{coor d}}
Attributes
Famous residents	People
Major landmarks	Name, place
Schools	Name
Ward	Number
City Council district	Number
State House district	Number
State Senate district	Number
Police district	Number
Civic groups and townwatches	Number
ZIP code	Number

• Thoughts? South Philly 03:08, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Initial thoughts: Things like "Famous people" and "Civic groups and townwatches" seem like they're better in the article text (and, in the latter case, only if they're notable.) Also, note that "Median home sale price" will always need a citation. --CComMack 21:54, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Delete "median home sale price"-- what value is that information? Add "zip code". Spikebrennan 18:37, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

On second thought, I second this — and the "rec centers" entry too. If a rec center is notable enough to mention, it can happen in article text. --CComMack 06:29, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

• This all sounds good, does someone want to actually do it? evrik 16:17, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
  • I like CComMack's changes.evrik 21:21, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
  • I'd like to suggest change "Famous Landmarks" to "Landmarks", "Police District" to "Police District(s)", and "Zip Code" to "Zip Code(s)". The first suggestion us because I've seen infoboxes that are too wide, and the last two in case a neighboorhood is split between two districts or zips. Maybe change "Attributes" to "Details" RockinRob^Talk 04:40, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Sounds good to me. --evrik 15:11, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
• What ever happened to this idea? --South Philly 14:57, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Streets

• Check out this article:

http://www.phillyblog.com/philly/showthread.php?p=217429#post217429

Do we want to incorporate this information here? evrik 18:22, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

That might not be good. See Wikipedia:Reliable sources#Using online sources - "Posts to bulletin boards and Usenet, wikis or messages left on blogs, are never acceptable as primary or secondary sources. This is because we have no way of knowing who has written or posted them. In the case of wikis, the current content of an article is not guaranteed, being freely editable." RockinRob^Talk 04:23, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Follow the thread, and you'll find that all the info came from the Independence Hall Association. MmmmJoel 20:40, 24 July 2007 (UTC)