Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Seattle/Archive1

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Can we make some assertion like "all related pages should be classified either in Category:Seattle, WA, Category:Seattle metropolitan area, or a subcategory of one of these categories? -- Jmabel 19:31, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)

Done. ShadowDragon 19:43, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

All I have to say is, well done. You've done so much already, in so little time! I'll help out as I can, but it looks like you have the actual setup, categorization, and maintenance of this large project well under control. More article creation, list-to-paragraph work, etc., for me. This is great. --Lukobe 08:13, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Contents

Commerce, shopping

How granular do we want to get in describing the local economy? Would someone coming to the Seattle page want to know that QFC and Safeway (apparently) dominate the local supermarket market? If so, where should information like that go? Lukobe 23:51, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I think there might be more interest in the sort of anachronisms of the local grocery market. Particularly the subsidization of local farmers' markets and the growth of local organic chains like PCC. That Safeway and Kroger (owners of QFC & Fred Meyer) dominate the grocery market is not something that is specific to Seattle I don't think.
Other likely suspects would include local companies like Nordstrom and Fredrick & Nelson's (no longer in business) -- Wac 04:55, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
How is the growth of organic food chains an anachronism? --Lukobe 07:14, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The key part there was local organic chains. It's an anachronism, in my eyes, in that it is a throw back to the old days of locally owned grocery stores that had some bond to their community. This comes in sharp contrast to the standard operating procedure of big national chains that have dominated the grocery business in the last few decades (Kroger, Wal-Mart, Costco, Albertsons). Describing it as an anachronism certainly has a NPOV issue, but then this is a talk page and I thought that was okay here. Pardon if I offended.--Wac 16:37, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
No, you didn't offend, I simply didn't see the anachronism before you explained it. --Lukobe 18:36, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Photos

I spent part of my lunch break yesterday wandering around taking pictures of landmarks close to my work that have articles. (Pike Place Market, Alaskan Way Viaduct, Nordstrom) I started compiling a list of things that I think I ought to photograph on my user page, but I'm wondering if it would it be useful to have a list of Seattle-area articles that would like photographs on the project page? I'm not sure if this is within the project scope so I thought I'd ask. -- wac 19:49, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Man, this has been languishing for about 2 years. Let's start a list of what photos are still needed; maybe a few of us could do some photo expeditions to fill in the blanks? - Jmabel | Talk 04:47, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Can we throw an update of the map in here? --Lukobe 05:24, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Sure, add it! (List is on project page.) - Jmabel | Talk 02:10, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Meetup

Reminder: Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle, Saturday November 6, 2004 -- Jmabel | Talk 22:45, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

SeattleWiki

Some link spam here: Matias showed up at our Seattle-area Wikipedia meetup and gave a brief talk about the wiki he started: http://seattlewiki.org I've started a discussion over there about how the two can work together, but I just want to let people over here know that if they want to write about Seattle-area things that they don't think are notable enough for Wikipedia, they may be appropriate there. DanKeshet 07:38, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

USCOTW

{{USCOTW}} was added prominently to the project page by someone who is not even a participant in this project. I do not find it a useful addition to the project page, but thought I would give people a couple of days to say whether they find it useful, rather than remove it unilterally. Thoughts? -- Jmabel | Talk 04:09, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

architecture

I like this template they have for Portland, Oregon: {{Portland, Oregon Architecture}} ...should we do something similar here? What's our architecture coverage like? --Lukobe 21:25, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team cooperation

Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Titoxd(?!? - help us) 18:51, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Requested move "Seattle, Washington" --> "Seattle"

Please join the discussion at Talk:Seattle, Washington. Thanks. --Polaron | Talk 14:24, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Is there a project banner?

I just noticed that the project does not have a banner. I am personally trying to place the banner of every project on the talk page of every article I run into. Would you want me to tag articles relevant to your project, possibly with the {WikiProjectNotice|Seattle} tag, or not to tag at all? Badbilltucker 17:04, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I just made one (or at least the draft of one): {{WikiProject Seattle}}. - Jmabel | Talk 01:00, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
WikipediaWikiProject Seattle/Archive1 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.

Re: Portland Meetup

Note from llywrch on my talk page:

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I've been trying to get some more information out of Jimmy Wales about his visit to Portland, but I haven't heard anything back from him. Maybe I don't have the right email address to contact him about this. -- llywrch 18:17, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
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- Jmabel | Talk 18:26, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 19:25, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:25, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Seattle Corporations / Jmabel

Two things:

1) Joe, sorry to see you go inactive.

2) I just created this template, based on the one for Philadelphia/Delaware Valley. Modifications are more than welcome. Template:Seattle_Corporations

--Lukobe 18:17, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Washington

I've noticed that there does not seem to be a Washington Wikiproject. I'm wondering if there would be any interest in establishing one, or any objection if I chose to set one up. Regards, Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 04:15, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Transportation articles

Is there anyone interested in helping me with some of the Seattle related transportation articles? I've created articles for South Lake Union Streetcar and University Link. I've also worked on expanding Link Light Rail to include a partial history section. As you can tell from the edit histories for those articles I went on a bit of a tear late Feb/early Mar, but ran out of steam since then. I'll probably start updating the articles (Particularly the Link Light Rail article) in the next week or so, but I could definitely do with some assistance with the content. Thanks!--Bobblehead 08:26, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks--made a few tweaks. --Lukobe 06:18, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Kubota Garden

At Commons:Category:Kubota Garden, I've added some rather nice pictures of Kubota Garden. However, I know very little about plants, and about the formalities of Japanese gardens, and right now the captions just say that it is part of this (20 acre) garden. If anyone can help identify particular plants or formal elements, please enhance my captions. - Jmabel | Talk 04:50, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Joe--are any of the shots featuring water of Mapes Creek? --Lukobe 06:17, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm pretty certain that the waters in both of these are considered part of the creek: - Jmabel | Talk 22:39, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Fremont Fair: sufis?

Does anyone know anything about this contingent at the Fremont Solstice Parade and Pageant? I'd guess that they are actual sufis, not people just dressing up for a parade. If someone knows more about them, could you ping me on my user talk page, because I'm not active enough on Wikipedia these days to be using my watchlist. - Jmabel | Talk 22:35, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

I got something of an answer. They are the "Lovers of Mevlana" and, yes, they are "real". - Jmabel | Talk 23:38, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Terapon Adhahn

I was surprised that there wasn't an article on him considering he's being covered by CNN and Fox News. I went ahead and started one but "true crime" and news related articles are certainly not my forte. Any help would be appreciated. AgneCheese/Wine 01:39, 21 July 2007 (UTC)