Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia/Requests

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      Editors who do a new article from the list below should make sure the listing below is a link, and note for the benefit of others when an article is created. --DThomsen8 (talk) 15:27, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

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      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.
      • Lewis and Clark Expedition and Timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition have Philadelphia templates and connections, but nothing about Philadelphia in the articles. Philadelphia was important in the preparations, and in the reports after the return of the party, so a lot of information is missing. Can someone help?--DThomsen8 (talk) 15:33, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
      • The Cassey House is a mixture of biography and architecture. The biography should be separated from the house article. There are plenty of sources for both, and this African-American family is especially important as anti-slavery and anti-colonization. --DThomsen8 (talk) 09:14, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
      • Philadelphia Doll Museum (talk) 01:18, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

      Need re-assessment

      Here are some Philly-related articles that I've started and/or worked on, currently assessed as Stubs. I think they're all ready to be at least Start class. Would someone please re-assess them? (You might even find some of them interesting!)

      --BillFlis (talk) 13:50, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

      Rescue squadron

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      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
      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" RockinRobTalk 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)
      Whatever happened to this idea? --DThomsen8 (talk) 16:37, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
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      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." RockinRobTalk 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)
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