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WikiProject Seattle was started on June 23, 2004.

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[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles relating to the Seattle metropolitan area, especially the city of Seattle itself.

[edit] Parentage

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[edit] See also

[edit] Participants

Feel free to add the userbox template {{participant|Seattle}} to your user page.

[edit] Structure

See Category:Seattle, Washington and Category:Seattle metropolitan area.

All related pages should be classified in Category:Seattle, Washington, Category:Seattle metropolitan area, or a subcategory of one of these categories.

[edit] Cities in the Seattle metropolitan area

See Category:Cities in the Seattle metropolitan area.

Many of these need serious work, as they aren't far from the auto-generated entries. List of cities in Washington (by population) might help with this; it highlights Seattle-area cities in green.

[edit] Seattle, Washington

See Seattle, Washington.

We are working on turning this article into a featured article. To do so, we need to make the lists that we turned into prose (see especially Seattle institutions) even less like lists, which is how many of them still read.

[edit] Seattle neighborhoods

See Category:Neighborhoods in Seattle and List of Seattle neighborhoods.

So far, we have named neighborhoods XXXXX, Seattle, Washington. Many articles haven't yet been started.

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Selected Tasks

Use {{WikiProjectSeattleTasks}} to include the template below on your user page or elsewhere.

Here are some open WikiProject Seattle tasks; some of these are not started, and all could use expansion and/or better referencing:

Feel free to edit this list or discuss these tasks.

[edit] Complete list

WikipediaWikiProject Seattle falls within the scope of the Seattle WikiProject, a group of Wikipedians interested in improving the encyclopaedic coverage of articles relating to Seattle, Washington, and who are involved in developing and proposing standards for their content, presentation and other aspects. 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.

[edit] Suburbs

[edit] Neighborhoods

Image:WP Seattle neighborhoods.png A lot of these could be improved by using a more normal citation style.

[edit] Buildings and structures

[edit] Parks

See this page for a complete list. The local, far from complete list is at List of Seattle parks.

[edit] People

  • Sherman Alexie
  • William Rankin Ballard
  • Carson Boren
  • Stan Boreson
  • Erastus Brainerd: the P-I reporter whose news story made Seattle the hub for the Yukon Gold Rush.
  • Calvin Brainerd Cady, major influence on Nellie Cornish; she was eventually able to hire him as associate director of the Cornish School
  • Frank B. Cooper, two decades as superintendent of schools
  • George F. Cotterill: mayor, city engineer (protege of R. H. Thompson)
  • Arthur Denny
  • David Denny
  • Thelma Dewitty, first African American teacher in Seattle Public Schools
  • Richard Fuller, founder of SAM
  • Jacob Furth, prominent turn-of-the-century businessman (Seattle Electric Company, Citizens' Alliance)
  • Masajiro Furuya, probably Seattle's most prominent Japanese resident in the early 20th century
  • Hiram C. Gill, mayor three times, major figure in the "open city" / "closed city" struggle (on each side at different times)
  • Daniel Hunt Gilman, (as in "Burke-Gilman Trail")
  • Nicola Griffith
  • Austin E. Griffiths, "father of Seattle's playgrounds" says Richard C. Berner
  • Ivar Haglund
  • Barry Henthorn, CEO of ReelTime.com.
  • Adrian Hanauer, CEO of Northwest Framing Company, owner of Seattle Sounders (USL)
  • Thomas D. Humes, mayor for 6 years during the "open city" Yukon Gold Rush era
  • Gary Little
  • J. A. Moore: Moore Theatre, main developer of Capitol Hill and University Heights. Also, promoter in 1906 of a less ambitious scheme for a lock at Ballard that stimulated the one that was ultimately built.
  • Mark Matthews (Seattle), Presbyterian minister, prominent Prohibitionist
  • Thomas T. Minor, mayor, disappeared on a canoe trip
  • Asa Mercer
  • Abe Osheroff, Spanish Civil War vet and activist extraordinaire (died April 6, 2008). We have a bit more than a stub. http://abeosheroff.org/ has numerous links to articles that would be a basis to expand this.
  • Jonathan Raban
  • Norm Rice
  • James T. Ronald, mayor, prominent judge (including the trial of the Wobblies after the Everett Massacre)
  • James Delmage Ross (usually just called James D. Ross, there should be a redirect between these once there is an article) of Ross Dam and Ross Lake fame: important in the history of City Light.
  • Ann Rule
  • E.O. Schwagerl, Seattle's first Park Supervisor
  • Paul Schell
  • Bill Speidel
  • Norm Stamper
  • Sidney Dix Strong, pacifist Congregationalist minister, author, father of Anna Louise Strong
  • Victor Steinbrueck
  • Mark Tobey, current article is a stub
  • George Francis Vanderveer, "Counsel for the Damned"
  • Charles "Wappy" Wappenstein, famously corrupt police chief
  • Emmett Watson, Seattle newspaper columnist
  • Henry Yesler
  • Many red links at List of University of Washington Presidents; of these, at least Thomas Franklin Kane deserves an article.

[edit] Bands
  • The Allies (band) (the deleted article was not the Seattle band, which is yet to be written about). New wave era. "Emma Peel"
  • The Heats (a.k.a. The Heaters). New wave era. "I Don't Like Your Face".
  • Massive Monkees, B-boy group.
  • Visible Targets. New wave era.

[edit] Transportation

[edit] Organisations

  • Chong Wa Benevolent Association: right now article has possibly inaccurate one-liner about Seattle. - 02:47, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Cirque Theater/Cirque Dinner Theater: see David Wilma, Gene Keene ends 31 years of theater production in Seattle on December 30, 1980, HistoryLink, August 21, 1999
  • Citizens' Alliance (Seattle) - anti-union alliance founded 1901, refounded 1904 by Jacob Furth
  • Grace Gospel Chapel, 2052 NW 64th St, claims to be “The oldest independent, evangelical LGBT Church in the U.S.” Photo available at Image:Seattle - Grace Gospel Chapel 01.jpg
  • Downtown Seattle Association (previously Central Association)
  • Frederick & Nelson
  • Fremont Arts Council
  • Japanese Association of North America; Seattle-based; I believe strictly pre-WWII - Jmabel | Talk 01:31, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Japanese Hotel Owners Association (Seattle), defunct I believe - Jmabel | Talk 01:38, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
  • King County Council
  • King County Colored Republican Club: obviously from the name, historical
  • Ladies' Musical Club, founded 1891, oldest existing arts organization in Seattle
  • The Municipal League (commonly called the "Muni League")
  • Municipal Ownership Party, a merger circa 1905 of the earlier Municipal Ownership League and Workingmen's Party.
  • Rat City Rollergirls
  • Safe Schools Coalition
  • Seattle City Council
  • Seattle Commercial Club: for about 20 years in the early 20th century a rival to the Chamber of Commerce, with which it eventually merged. Was more focused on specifically local business interests (vs., for example, the railroads)
  • Seattle District Court
  • Seattle Economic League - early 20th century, tied to railway interests (Thomas Burke, Mohn H. McGraw)
  • Seattle Arts Commission
  • Seattle Fine Arts Society - Seattle's first significant visual arts organization, as far as I know. Absorbed the shorter-lived and less successful Washington State Art Association in 1917; once the article exists, that should be a redirect. Material on this in Richard C. Berner, Seattle 1900-1920 (1991; p. 94–97). - Jmabel | Talk 07:51, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Seattle Folklore Society
  • Seattle Chinese Chamber of Commerce
  • Seattle Japanese Chamber of Commerce, not sure whether this still exists - Jmabel | Talk 01:38, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum
  • Seattle Rainiers
  • Seafair Pirates
  • Stone & Webster: not Seattle-specific, but once owned trolleys here. A very historically important company; we have a stub. - 02:47, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Periodicals
  • We have quite a few entries at Category:Seattle newspapers; most could use expansion.
  • Additional Seattle newspapers:
    • The Argus (Seattle newspaper), progressive Republican newspaper edited by Harry Chadwick in the early 20th century
    • Railway and Marine News (late 19th and early 20th century) was published in Seattle
    • Seattle Municipal News published for several decades by the Muni League; Warren G. Magnuson was once its editor
    • Seattle Sun (19th century) was extant on May 25, 1895.
    • Seattle Sun (daily newspaper) ran from February 3, 1913, to August 18, 1915, with a hiatus from December 30, 1914, to April 21, 1915.
    • Seattle Telegraph, shortlived, extant 1890, backed by James J. Hill, edited by Thomas Burke (judge) and Daniel Gilman (mentioned in Richard C. Berner, Seattle 1910-1920 (1991), p. 34
    • The Town Crier, early 20th century, voice of the right-wing elite
    • The Union Record, labor newspaper, early 20th century
    • Several late 19th century African American newspapers (all mentioned in Esther Hall Mumford Seattle's Black Victorians 1852-1901, p. 85–92):
      • Most notably The Seattle Republican (1894-1917), edited by Horace R. Cayton (usually referred to as H. R. Cayton). It is the only one of these 19th century African American newspapers for which entire issues survive.
      • Probably the rest of these (and a mention of the Republican) should be lumped into one article, along with any other early Seattle African American newspapers; Mumford is certainly the best source on these, because she tracked down places where most were quoted in other newspapers.
        • The Standard (at least 1891-1893, possibly into 1894)
        • The Amusement Herald (extant 1895)
        • The Northwest Illuminator (1897-1898 or later)
        • Several publications edited by Daniel Webster Griffin, all shortlived: The Western Sun (founded 1898) the Negro World (founded 1899), the Bee (founded 1900)
        • The Washington Exponent (founded 1900, soon moved to Tacoma)
    • There must have been Asian papers before the present era; does anyone know some names?
  • Magazines
    • Seattle Metropolitan is a stub; it's the only magazine yet in Category:Seattle media
    • There is a present-day Seattle Magazine: http://www.seattlemag.com/
    • There was an earlier Seattle (magazine 1964–70) (I think those dates are right), published by KING-TV and the Bullitt family, edited by David Brewster
    • In the 1980s, the Bullitts had Pacific Search, later Pacific Northwest magazine
    • Also in the 1980s was Washington (magazine)
    • There is a present-day Seattle Woman magazine: http://www.seattlewomanmagazine.com/

[edit] Geography

  • Bailey Peninsula
  • Cherry Grove, Illinois, where the Denny Party came from. See [2] for a quite decent article, written by someone born 1992, so presumably still in high school, but published on the very solid HistoryLink site.

[edit] Events

[edit] Photos wanted

Free images, of course. For some of these, we have fair use images, but those aren't really a good solution.

  • If anyone wants to do a photo expedition some weekend, or (once the days get long) evening, let me know. - Jmabel | Talk 02:43, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
I'll try to go downtown tomorrow, and take both these photos, unless someone beats me to it. Murderbike 22:46, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Well it took me six months, but I beat you to it. I took lots of pictures of the IDX building this morning and I'll upload them when I get home. Cumulus Clouds (talk) 19:04, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
  • I've added an image to Fourth and Madison Building, I'll continue to go down there and get pictures over the next couple of days and try to get something better. Cumulus Clouds (talk) 06:19, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Landmarks
  • Neighborhoods
  • Transportation in Seattle
    • I found some relevant pictures, but we could use some that are more to the purpose. Especially it would be good to have pictures showing multi-modal transportation: park-and-ride lots; cars, bikes, and motorcycles on a ferry; bikes on the front of a bus. - Jmabel | Talk 19:17, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Surrounding area: We have a reasonable number of Seattle images (though of course there are many specific ones still to be added) but barely a handful of images of most nearby communities.

[edit] Resources

  • The government archives of Washington state, all the way back to the first election in Washington Territory, have been put online (news article). The website is http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/. Surely there's information here we can slide in to our 'pedia, at the very least, election and office holder records, perhaps even detailed census information. (Mentioned by Golbez 21:07, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC) on Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) He doesn't say anything about whether some of this might not be public domain; a note on that would be useful.)
  • HistoryLink is an excellent self-described Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History. The materials are copyrighted, so have respect for that, but the information is uniformly excellent and there are usually numerous useful references on most articles.
  • The first two of the three volumes of Clarence B. Bagley, History of Seattle From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company (Chicago:1916) are now online through Google Books. Good source, among other things, for photos of prominent early Seattleites (though not if they are Asian or Black).
  • And don't forget the thousands of photos at Commons:Category:Seattle, Washington, including hundreds in Commons:Category:Seattle, Washington before 1950 and its subcategories.