Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pennsylvania/Archive 5

Bot-assisted tagging drive
User:Xenobot Mk V has just completed a drive to tag a series of Pennsylvania-related articles with WikiProject Pennsylvania. Out of 18,270 total edits, we had about 35 confirmed mis-tags. That's an error rate of 0.19%. Cheers to User:Xenobot for doing a bang-up job on the bot!--Blargh29 (talk) 09:01, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

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Pennsylvania Congressional Image Project
I want to invite everyone to join the The Great Pennsylvania Congressional Image Scrape of 2010.--Blargh29 (talk) 06:14, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Hecksherville, Pennsylvania
I've done some work with this page. I added information about the history and Irish culture of the town. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.235.80.13 (talk) 22:19, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

"Dorothy Molter" Article in Pennsylvania Project
She lived in Pennsylvania until 2nd grade, and everything that she is famous for is later in her life. In January a robot put a template for your project into the discussion section, all ratings were question marks. Suggestion would be to have someone take a look at it and decide if the template should stay and if so make the ratings. Sincerely North8000 (talk) 21:44, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

2nd request North8000 (talk) 01:07, 12 April 2010 (UTC)


 * 3rd request. I plan to remove the Template in June if there is no interest / response by then.  North8000 (talk) 11:05, 20 April 2010 (UTC)


 * WP:BOLD applies here, but I think at least WikiProject Minnesota should get representation over the PA project. (No one ever talks here.) Mitch 32(Growing up with Wikipedia 1 edit at a time.) 11:09, 20 April 2010 (UTC)


 * There was no hurry and I just wanted to play it safe. I took it out. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 12:37, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Wykked Wytch
Your comments would be greatly appreciated at an Afd for a Pennsylvanian musical ensemble here. Neelix (talk) 21:22, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

volcanism in Pennsylvania
My hobby is geology so everywere I work I ask my co-workers to bring me any unusual rocks from their farm or yard. I do this to better understand the area's geologic history. One of my co-wowrkers recently brought me several pieces of volcanic glass known as obsidian. I told her these must be "exotic", meaning they were transported here by glacier activity or someone may have dumped a box of western US rocks in that local creek. She said these rocks littered an entire small stream bed, so "exotic" may not be the proper description of their origin. I researched and found no mention of recent (less then 20,000 years ago) volcanism in Central Pennsylvania, and they may truly be from local volcanism, with or without an actual eruption. There are numerous sand mounds here, so "clean" volcanic glass is a possibility. I requested some more samples and noticed some had unruptured glass bubbles in them, more than eight millimeters in diameter. Bubbles in old obsidian would have ruptured with migrating water freezing and cracking the brittle rock. I made several requests for a personal visit to this location and was brushed off each time. If anyone should find obsidian in central Pennsylvania and wouldn't mind an ameture geologist looking over the area, please respond. Richard in Pennsylvania —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.178.116.230 (talk) 20:17, 17 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Have you read "Annals of the former world"?  Stupendous, exciting (hard as that is to believe) Pulitzer prize winning geologic history book and its "journey" transected Pennsylvania. North8000 (talk) 11:14, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

have you considered that this might be "glass" form an old iron furnace? I have seen numerous pieces of glass slag from the old furnaces and it does resemble obsidian. Might be the source of your glass. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.186.80.1 (talk) 10:34, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Churchill (Area) High School Redirects to Woodland Hills
Why does Churchill High School / Churchill Area High School redirect to Woodland Hills? Churchill HS was a separate historical entity. To me it would seem more appropriate to have a 'past tense' article about the former high school and school district which would link to the current WH district and HS. Is it just a matter of somebody writing an article about CAHS? I was quite surprised to find almost no reference or historical context whatsoever in the WH piece especially since there is quite a lot of very important history which took place here.

159.53.46.141 (talk) 13:09, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons
The WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons (UBLPs) aims to reduce the number of unreferenced biographical articles to under 30,000 by June 1, primarily by enabling WikiProjects to easily identify UBLP articles in their project's scope. There were over 52,000 unreferenced BLPs in January 2010 and this has been reduced to 35,715 as of May 1. A bot is now running daily to compile a list of all articles that are in both Category:All unreferenced BLPs and have been tagged by a WikiProject. Note that the bot does NOT place unreferenced tags or assign articles to projects - this has been done by others previously - it just compiles a list.

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Scalp Level
Just curious how Scalp Level got its name. If anyone knows or has a theory I would like to hear it.

Dan 5/10/10  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.186.80.1 (talk) 10:36, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

National Banking Act (1863) showing only PNC Financial Services Group
I believe a Wikipedia article should not give prominence to an individual profit-making organization, yet the overall impression from reading "National Banking Act", the 1863 page does this by listing only PNC at the bottom. I believe it should be removed until there was a determination made as to a list of banks that are relevant to illustrating or otherwise advancing one's understanding of the NBA. If there is another overriding consideration for this single listing, please let me know.

This is my first posting. Let me know if I overlooked something in how to take part in discussions. Pizzuh (talk) 02:08, 13 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks - the article is National Banking Act, and the reason the PNC Financial Services Group was at the bottom is that PNC was the first bank to receive a charter under the act. I fixed the article and added a ref for this to the article, but removed the template for now as I agree it is a tenuous connection at best. Ruhrfisch  &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 02:51, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Peter's Lake
I found this while patrolling new articles. Can someone determine if it is a worthy article for wikipedia, and if so, wikify it and/or add content? &mdash; Timneu22 · talk 13:05, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Pennsylvania DOC
Who is in the Harrisburg area? The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections needs a photo of its headquarters in Lower Allen Township (near Camp Hill, PA). This copyrighted photo shows what the building looks like: http://www.cor.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_39589_4604_461246_43/http%3B/pubcontent.state.pa.us/publishedcontent/publish/cop_public_safety/corrections/branding/doc_announcement_portlet/images/central_office.jpg WhisperToMe (talk) 22:21, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Collaborative project with the Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art wants to start a collaborative project with Wikipedians. See this Raul654 (talk) 15:38, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

PA state historical markers
Just an FYI: a new series of list articles is up containing the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission's state historical markers in all 67 counties. There are plenty of possible articles that could be created or expanded based on inspiration from the state markers. The main list is at List of Pennsylvania state historical markers. CrazyPaco (talk) 07:25, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Pittsburgh Portal
I've created a Pittsburgh Portal. Check it out and, if interested, sign up to help maintain it. CrazyPaco (talk) 01:24, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Hecksherville, Pennsylvania
I've done some work with this page. I added information about the history and Irish culture of the town. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.235.80.13 (talk) 22:19, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Hershey Creamery Company
I'd done some massive work on this article to greatly expand it from a stub to its current fuller state, however its seriously lacking in imagery. I haven't been able to find a single free use image in Flickr, Google images, archives, anywhere of any of the creamery facilities. Any members in Harrisburg who might be able to go by the Hershey Creamery Company and take a picture of its headquarters, and maybe someone in Lower Swatara who could get a picture of that newer distro facility they opened there? It would really help improve the article before a GA run. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 14:53, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Possibility of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
You may be interested in this. Hope to see you there! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 05:39, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Corruption of Wikipedia article history
The article history for Galeton, Pennsylvania, has been modified with no recorded article modification history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Galeton,_Pennsylvania --64.181.88.206 (talk) 02:29, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Milestone Announcements
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Dab help
At three miles island the location of the plant is given as "three miles downriver from Middletown, Pennsylvania" and "Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania", but both of these links go to disambiguious pages. Could someone please link the terms to the correct Middletown and Londonderry Township pages so I don;t have to guess where to go? TomStar81 (Talk) 23:46, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Proposed PHMC closures
On 4 March 2009, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) released a study of its 22 museums and historic sites, here: "Planning Our Future: Sustainability Committee Final Report". It recommended discontinuing operations at six of its sites, four of which are National Historic Landmarks. Proposed cuts to the PHMC budget mean these sites could close as early as July 1, 2009:
 * Brandywine Battlefield (NHL)
 * Bushy Run Battlefield (NHL)
 * Conrad Weiser House (NHL)
 * Fort Pitt Museum
 * Joseph Priestley House (NHL)
 * US Brig Niagara (museum ship)

Contact information for the Governor and Director of the PHMC are here for anyone interested in commenting on the proposal. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 04:08, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

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PA Roads needs help
I have a request of the project. Right now, the highways in Pennsylvania (under project WP:Pennsylvania Roads), and well, it is almost dead. We need help expanding over 350 stubs, and it would be very helpful, as some of the more important stuff needs help too. If you could possibly give input, ping me on my talk, or post here. Thanks.3 1/2 years of Mitch32 10:17, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of Tepper School of Business
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Deletion of Bloom Brothers Department Stores
Please review/comment at Articles for deletion/Bloom Brothers Department Stores. NVO (talk) 04:38, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Research list
I have spent a few hours collecting and categorizing research sources relating to the politics and government of Pennsylvania. It is located here: User:Blargh29/Resources. Is there a place under this Wikiproject where such a list could be appropriately housed? I just wanted to record these resources somewhere, for future use. In a related inquiry: is there enough interest in Pennsylvania's government and politics to warrant a taskforce or sub-project?--Blargh29 (talk) 05:01, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I have created the WikiProject Pennsylvania/Politics and Government and the related resource page. Maybe in the future, this could become a full-fledged taskforce within the WikiProject Pennsylvania--Blargh29 (talk) 01:36, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Township categories
Three Pennsylvania townships had their own categories before we began moving the township articles to include county names; consequently, I've nominated them for renaming. Please offer an opinion at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_July_14. Nyttend (talk) 13:41, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

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New image for Award
I stumbled upon your on a user page. It was so cute i couldn't resist the urge to try to make a better one, even though I'm no graphist. I hope you will like the new version, but feel free to reverse it if you don't. If you like it, i can do the same for the, i've kept the xcf file for that. Ksempac (talk) 12:49, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

GA reassessment of State Route 1002 (Lehigh County, Pennsylvania)
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GA reassessment of Northeast Philadelphia
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Wikipedia Takes Philadelphia Sun Oct 4!
 You're invited to the

Wiki Takes Philadelphia

October 4, 2009

Time: 12 pm

Location: Drexel Quad (33rd and Market) University City, Philadelphia 'RSVP (view/edit this template'')

Wikipedia Takes Philadelphia is a photo scavenger hunt and free content photography contest to be held all around Philadelphia aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles.

Scheduled for Sunday, October 4, 2009, the check-in location will be at the Drexel University quad (between Chestnut and Market, 33rd and 32nd) at noon, and the ending party and photo uploading (location to be announced) will be at 6 PM. To reach the Drexel quad, walk south from Market Street at 32nd Street into the campus.

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Pennsylvania GAR notification
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Pittsburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Can anyone help take a look at Pittsburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania? I've started a discussion on the talk page Talk:Pittsburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania questioning whether this town exists. Thanks. —Mrwojo (talk) 05:20, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Relevant SVG Request
I have asked for someone to vectorize some of the images from the articles of List of Pennsylvania state agencies. Maybe someone here has some of the skills? Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop--Blargh29 (talk) 05:19, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

New Pennsylvania government stubs
On Village pump (miscellaneous) there is a proposal to add a great many (1,700, more or less) new Pennsylvania government stubs with a bot. I suspect that the volume would be overwhelming. Please check it out, and comment appropriately.--DThomsen8 (talk) 17:30, 8 November 2009 (UTC)


 * After getting more information, I support the writing of a bot to create these articles. --DThomsen8 (talk) 13:34, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The discussion has moved to Village pump (proposals).--Blargh29 (talk) 23:11, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Project maintenance
I have added Article alerts from the User:ArticleAlertbot and placed a request for automatic Wikiproject tagging at Bot requests/Archive 45. That might jump start this project--Blargh29 (talk) 07:03, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * For the next step in this process, we need some folks from the project to look through this list of categories User:Blargh29/Subcats of Category:Pennsylvania to see if there are any categories that will have pages that shouldn't be tagged with the WikiProject Pennsylvania tag. --Blargh29 (talk) 17:24, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

List of United States federal courthouses in Pennsylvania
List of United States federal courthouses in Pennsylvania is now being put together. I would estimate that there are about a dozen federal courthouses missing from the list (the older ones of which will be found here), and would appreciate any help in getting this done. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:51, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Bot-assisted tagging drive
User:Xenobot Mk V has just completed a drive to tag a series of Pennsylvania-related articles with WikiProject Pennsylvania. Out of 18,270 total edits, we had about 35 confirmed mis-tags. That's an error rate of 0.19%. Cheers to User:Xenobot for doing a bang-up job on the bot!--Blargh29 (talk) 09:01, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

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Wykked Wytch
Your comments would be greatly appreciated at an Afd for a Pennsylvanian musical ensemble here. Neelix (talk) 21:22, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

volcanism in Pennsylvania
My hobby is geology so everywere I work I ask my co-workers to bring me any unusual rocks from their farm or yard. I do this to better understand the area's geologic history. One of my co-wowrkers recently brought me several pieces of volcanic glass known as obsidian. I told her these must be "exotic", meaning they were transported here by glacier activity or someone may have dumped a box of western US rocks in that local creek. She said these rocks littered an entire small stream bed, so "exotic" may not be the proper description of their origin. I researched and found no mention of recent (less then 20,000 years ago) volcanism in Central Pennsylvania, and they may truly be from local volcanism, with or without an actual eruption. There are numerous sand mounds here, so "clean" volcanic glass is a possibility. I requested some more samples and noticed some had unruptured glass bubbles in them, more than eight millimeters in diameter. Bubbles in old obsidian would have ruptured with migrating water freezing and cracking the brittle rock. I made several requests for a personal visit to this location and was brushed off each time. If anyone should find obsidian in central Pennsylvania and wouldn't mind an ameture geologist looking over the area, please respond. Richard in Pennsylvania —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.178.116.230 (talk) 20:17, 17 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Have you read "Annals of the former world"?  Stupendous, exciting (hard as that is to believe) Pulitzer prize winning geologic history book and its "journey" transected Pennsylvania. North8000 (talk) 11:14, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

have you considered that this might be "glass" form an old iron furnace? I have seen numerous pieces of glass slag from the old furnaces and it does resemble obsidian. Might be the source of your glass. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.186.80.1 (talk) 10:34, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Churchill (Area) High School Redirects to Woodland Hills
Why does Churchill High School / Churchill Area High School redirect to Woodland Hills? Churchill HS was a separate historical entity. To me it would seem more appropriate to have a 'past tense' article about the former high school and school district which would link to the current WH district and HS. Is it just a matter of somebody writing an article about CAHS? I was quite surprised to find almost no reference or historical context whatsoever in the WH piece especially since there is quite a lot of very important history which took place here.

159.53.46.141 (talk) 13:09, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Scalp Level
Just curious how Scalp Level got its name. If anyone knows or has a theory I would like to hear it.

Dan 5/10/10  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.186.80.1 (talk) 10:36, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

National Banking Act (1863) showing only PNC Financial Services Group
I believe a Wikipedia article should not give prominence to an individual profit-making organization, yet the overall impression from reading "National Banking Act", the 1863 page does this by listing only PNC at the bottom. I believe it should be removed until there was a determination made as to a list of banks that are relevant to illustrating or otherwise advancing one's understanding of the NBA. If there is another overriding consideration for this single listing, please let me know.

This is my first posting. Let me know if I overlooked something in how to take part in discussions. Pizzuh (talk) 02:08, 13 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks - the article is National Banking Act, and the reason the PNC Financial Services Group was at the bottom is that PNC was the first bank to receive a charter under the act. I fixed the article and added a ref for this to the article, but removed the template for now as I agree it is a tenuous connection at best. Ruhrfisch  &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 02:51, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Peter's Lake
I found this while patrolling new articles. Can someone determine if it is a worthy article for wikipedia, and if so, wikify it and/or add content? &mdash; Timneu22 · talk 13:05, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

PA state historical markers
Just an FYI: a new series of list articles is up containing the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission's state historical markers in all 67 counties. There are plenty of possible articles that could be created or expanded based on inspiration from the state markers. The main list is at List of Pennsylvania state historical markers. CrazyPaco (talk) 07:25, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Townships in Pennsylvania
After discussing the matter with User:Ruhrfisch, I am taking the conversation here for more ideas. Apparently about a year ago there was a discussion about renaming townships [blank] Township, [blank] County, Pennsylvania because there are a number of duplicates. I strongly oppose this, as it is awfully redundant. It is also not mentioned in Naming conventions (geographic names), which advises settlements (such as townships) to be in simple [blank] Township, Pennsylvania form if there are no duplicates. ~  EDDY  ( talk / contribs / editor review ) ~ 00:37, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Either way is fine with me. I just want them to all be the same. But I do see the benefit in naming the county with the township, it gives a more specific location for a place that isn't as well known as a town like Bloomsburg or a borough like Wellsboro. Dincher (talk) 21:18, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

New PAhistoric infobox template
For anyone interested in creating or editing articles on Pennsylvania historic sites or landmarks, I have created a new Pennsylvania historic infobox modeled on the National Registry of Historic Places infobox. This infobox is intended for state or local historic sites and landmarks that are not listed on the national registry, but are designated as historic by Pennsylvania and/or regional or local authorities and organizations. Like the NRHP infobox, the PAhistoric infobox will place color-coded banners signifying the historical significance of the subject at the top of the infobox, can handle both local Pittsburgh designations that are already thoroughly covered in Wikipedia articles/lists, and also provides the ability for other fully-customizeable local designations. CrazyPaco (talk) 05:52, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Pennsylvania Plants
There are many plant articles with Latin names of the species, which have the Wikipedia Pennsylvania template, but often no other state templates, even though they are found over a wide range of northeastern states, and even into Canada and as far south as Georgia. For example, Acer spicatum, a species of maple tree, has a Pennsylvania template, but is found from Canada to northern Georgia. My question is whether the Pennsylvania template should be applied to such articles at all. What do other editors think? --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:12, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Philadelphia School of Circus Arts
Hi, can anyone please look at this 'article for creation', Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Philadelphia School of Circus Arts. If you can help tidy it up and, if acceptable, move it to a live article, that'd be great. Thanks,  Chzz  ► 03:36, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

The unflattering photo that represents Dickson City on Wikipedia
I'm sure many agree that there are tons of beautiful places in Dickson City PA, but the photo that is representing our Borough to the world on wikipedia is less than flattering. It shows the world a gloomy photo of Main Street with tons of someones old trash piled in a front yard. Can someone please do something about this photo? The reputation of our town is well worth the effort. Wikipedia can be edited by the public but I lack the skills to do it myself. I am willing to take new photos myself if its needed. thank you :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Midvmom (talk • contribs) 20:05, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree that the image should be changed, and edited the article for some general fixes. The license for the image looks legitimate, so I didn't remove it. We should go for a common scene, which does not change from week to week. All is One  (talk) 14:35, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The problem is that it is the only free photo of Dickson City on Wikipedia or Commons that I can find. Midvmom, sounds like you live in or near Dickson City - any chance you can take a better photo? Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 16:03, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Here is a link to all the free images labeled "Dickson City" on Flickr. Most of them are of places on or along US Route 6 in Pennsylvania, so I am not sure which are actually of Dickson City. If you let me know here I can upload them on Commons. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 17:04, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Justine Ezarik/1
Be advised that there is a reconsideration of a delisting going on at Good article reassessment/Justine Ezarik/1.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:03, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 02:57, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Problem PA weather records
List of Pennsylvania weather records has many problems, and probably no valid data at all. References are for North Carolina. I am unsure even how to tag it for attention. Please help. --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:25, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for catching this - the original version of the page was a copy of the North Carolinapage and it looks like the refs were never changed. I found a WP:RS with some of the data here. Will try to update in the next 12 hours or so, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 15:14, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I cleaned it up some. Thanks again for the heads up, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 04:32, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates
I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into WikiProject United States. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 20:04, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Huntington/Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania
Is Huntington Valley, Pennsylvania (linked from Endurance (TV series)) the same as Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, or are they in fact two distinct but similarly named places? ta. - TB (talk) 23:21, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Talk page template
Folks, you need to add a reference to WikiProject Pennsylvania on the Project main page. – ukexpat (talk) 18:35, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Collaboration with the Wine Project on Pennsylvania wine articles?
Hello! For 2011 the Wine Project is doing a new Wine Improvement Drive where each month we focus on an area of articles that relate to a particular theme. In January, we are are ringing in the New Year with New World wine, with a focus on the wines of the Northern Hemisphere-Canadian wine, American wine and Mexican wine. I am going by related projects to see if there is any interest in collaboration between this project and the wine project on the subject of Pennsylvania wine Some suggestion on potential article creations/expansion include the main Pennsylvania wine article, Central Delaware Valley AVA, Cumberland Valley AVA, Lake Erie AVA, Lancaster Valley AVA, Lehigh Valley AVA Chaddsford Winery. And, of course, of HUGE help would be the upload of free use photos of Pennsylvania wineries, wines and wine regions to Commons that could be used to better illustrate Pennsylvania wine articles. If you're interested in helping, please drop a note at the Wine Project's talk page with the article you're interested in helping with. Thanks and have a great New Year! AgneCheese/Wine 02:28, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Springton Lake Middle School (SLMS)
If you are a students of this school, say I!

I! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Briarbee (talk • contribs) 18:56, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Education in Pennsylvania
Are there 500 school districts in the state or 501? The article says both and sources are mixed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.144.5.68 (talk) 16:24, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.

The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. --Kumioko (talk) 19:22, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Newtown, Pennsylvania disambiguation links
Greetings! This month, we have a large number of links to the disambiguation page, Newtown, Pennsylvania - 48 links, to be exact. We at the Disambiguation pages with links project would appreciate any help you could give us in fixing these ambiguous links. Cheers! bd2412 T 20:32, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikiproject Philly
Hey, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philadelphia a user is considering tagging the project as inactive

Please make sure that your fellow Philly Wikipedians look at the talk page and constantly respond to queries there

Thank you, WhisperToMe (talk) 20:48, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Pennsylvania has no class=Book or class=Redirect
Pennsylvania has no class=Book or class=Redirect shown in the summary table Pennsylvania articles by quality and importance. See WikiProject Pennsylvania/Assessment. I would like those classes to be shown. I have been inquiring how this could be done at Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index. I would ask other Pennsylvania project members if they, too, would like these classes included. Also, as a technical matter, I do not know how to do the change, so I hope some other editor knows how to do it. Comments, please!--DThomsen8 (talk) 14:13, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Archiving
Archiving needs performed on this page for 2009 and 2010. These messages would need to be placed in archives 4 and 5, respectively. Recommend setting up an archive bot. All is One (talk) 19:34, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Adding "Popular pages" to U.S.-related projects
A very interesting tool of the Wikimedia Toolserver is called WikiProject Popular pages lists. These lists are similar to project-related article lists like U. S. article lists used for generating assessment statistics. The Popular pages lists include the rank, total views, average daily views, quality and importance ratings for the listed articles. Here is the full list of projects using popular pages lists. An FAQ also is available at User:Mr.Z-man/Popular pages FAQ.

I recently added links to lists of popular pages as shown below to the U.S. Portal - WikiProjects box and the nominations sections for each of the selected articles boxes.

Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages

Because this project was not included, I am bringing up the popular pages tool here. This tool makes it very easy to track three of four balancing dimensions when selecting articles for showcasing at a portal - quality, importance and popularity. When tracking the fourth dimension, topic, the related article lists tool (such as for U.S. article lists tool) also might be useful by filtering on categories of interest.

If you do decide to use this tool, feel free to update Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages as well.

Regards, RichardF (talk) 02:40, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Featured portal candidate: United States
Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF (talk) 02:40, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

ERRORS! about Pennsylvania Dutch as a language
I live in Centre County, which has a large Amish population (albeit not as large as Lancaster, but large nonetheless). I happen to know that amish children only speak Pennsylvania Dutch. They are not taught English until they are older. The article on Pensylvania Dutch claims that only some older Amish speak the language. At least in my area, this is COMPLETELY FALSE!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.75.139.78 (talk) 00:31, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Springs PA Helmet found!
Tiffany Miller lost her helmet! She found it under Travis Schardt's porch on a saturday afternoon! Court Dismissed —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.236.247.200 (talk) 14:57, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Point Park Civic Center
nominated Point Park Civic Center for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 05:28, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Discussion on deleting some Pirates rivalry articles.
A proposal has been made to delete all Pirates rivalry articles save Phillies-Pirates. If you have viewpoints on whether to merge/keep/delete and facts/citations to justify it please comment here. Thanks for your participation. Hholt01 (talk) 08:50, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Proposed WikiProject
I have proposed WikiProject University of Pennsylvania at WikiProject Council/Proposals/University of Pennsylvania. I encourage others to take part in the discussion and join the project. Ryan Vesey Review me!  06:57, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

air line transportation pilot wrriten test
where can i get this test guys ,plz if ny one knows. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.195.11.107 (talk) 12:39, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Fall 2011 Photo Contest
WP:NRHP is having a Fall Photo Contest running from Oct. 21-Dec. 4, 2011. I'd like to encourage anybody who enjoys photography, and anybody who is interested in historic places to participate as a photographer, a sponsor, or both.

One way that an individual editor or a project can participate is to sponsor their own challenge. For example, somebody here might want to include a challenge such as "A barnstar will be awarded to the photographer who adds the most photos of previously non-illustrated NRHP sites in Pennsylvania to the NRHP county lists." To sponsor a challenge all you need to do is come up with an idea, post it on the contest page, and do the small bit of work needed to judge the winner(s).

Any and all contributions appreciated.

Smallbones (talk) 15:29, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Speedwell Forge
The Speedwell Forge article has a number of brief biographies of ironmasters at that location, and the lede suggests breaking those up into individual articles. I am not sure there is enough information on those people to justify individual articles, but I am posting here with the suggestion that perhaps some other editor may be interested in pursuing the possibilities. --DThomsen8 (talk) 13:39, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Bald Eagle Nittany High School
The existing Wikipedia entry for Bald Eagle Nittany High School is incredibly short. It contains no photos (I could defintely send in one of the current building, and a sign for "Ben Avenue.") For sports, it talks primarily about wrestling, which is hardly inclusive of all that went on at BEN High School. I don't understand why there is even a heading for "Track and Field," as there was no Track and Field at BEN High School. The area for noted alumni appears to be written by 1-3 people who all know each other. Is there a way to fix this? Holly Sterns Shaw Class of 1976 holly.e.shaw@ucdenver.edu — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.118.97.207 (talk) 23:32, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Pennsylvania will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Pennsylvania's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 00:34, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

FA Review on Night of the Living Dead
nominated Night of the Living Dead for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. --George Ho (talk) 08:38, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Penfield
There's no article for Penfield, Pennsylvania, so I created a redirect to Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. Anyone want to fill that in a bit? -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:44, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Pennsylvania State University
It appears that WikiProject Pennsylvania State University is currently inactive. I would like to add this project to the supported projects list of WPUS but before I do that I wanted to give WikiProject Pennsylvania first dibs on adding it under your scope. Please let me know if you have any questions. Kumioko (talk) 17:58, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok since this has been here for 6 days I am going to go ahead and add WikiProject Pennsylvania State University to the supported projects list of WPUS. Please let me know if you have any comments. Kumioko (talk) 01:15, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

"Whitetrash" and "Hillbilly" citation
There is a discussion Talk:Steeler_Nation referencing Steeler Nation region as "hillbilly" and "white trash" (not my words) based on a free publication citation, also stating that the fanbase (not the team or the team's city) is the sole Appalachian fanbase. Please add your insight. Thank you. Marketdiamond 23:29, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Request for Comment: Steeler Nation Criticism
Please feel free to read & comment here. Thank you. Marketdiamond (talk) 18:49, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Pennsylvania television anchors
(not sure i'm doing this right) anchors left out so far are Jackie Hays NBC3;Robin Garrison ABC6;Terri Merryman NBC3  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.39.252.177 (talk) 09:41, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Surrounding Areas
Gibsonia's school system include two other areas, Wexford, Pennsylvania and Richland, Pennsylvania that merge into the new school (2009)Eden Hall Upper Elementary, the Middle School, and High School that belong to the Pine-Richland School District. Gibsonia's neighboring area Wexford was once home to Christina Agulara, singer/songwriter and producer of Fox's The Voice. Popular America's Got Talent 2nd runner up Jackie Evancho is proud to be a Gibsonia resident, as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.101.118.119 (talk) 20:56, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Very incorrect information on Highlands Mall Page
The last "fact" about Highlands Mall is very incorrect. Highlands Mall did NOT catch fire on the night of Dec. 17, 2012. It was the Heights Plaza. These are 2 VERY separate entities and I would suggest the page being corrected. If one simply reads the cited article, one will see the mistake.

174.252.224.12 (talk) 13:10, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Consensus for Template:Navbox Pennsylvania State Routes
Hi everyone,

I've recently made a navbox for pennsylvania state routes, but since there are hundreds of pages where the navbox could go, I thought it would be best to gather consensus before putting the navbox into the articles on Pennsylvania State Routes. So I thought I'd see what everyone's opinion is on the navbox. Thanks,

King Jakob  C 18:31, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Palmerton, PA addition
Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmerton,_Pennsylvania

There were two movie theatres in Palmerton. One "Palm" - already noted in the WiKi Palmerton page The other was located one block away in the 200 block of Delaware Avenue. I don't remember the original name, but as a kid growing up in Palmerton back in the 30s and 40s, we referred to it as the "Ranch House" since most of the movies were usually 'shoot 'em up westerns' "B" type movies whereas the "Palm" showed first class movies.

98.114.28.8 (talk) 12:49, 19 February 2013 (UTC) Ed Naratil Ed.Naratil@Verizon.net
 * Thanks. Right now this does not meet the level of notability (no name of the theater and no reference). I will move this to the Palmerton, Pennsylvania talk page in the hope that it will be more useful there. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 12:29, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Harrisburg pa flag.png
file:Harrisburg pa flag.png has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 03:01, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I didn't realize the SEC could nominate Harrisburg's flag for deletion, though I did hear that they have nominated the city's credit rating for that ;-).   Market St.⧏  ⧐ Diamond Way   06:13, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Suggestion for Education Management Corporation
Hello there, anyone who is reading this message. I am looking to find one or more editors to review a revised section I have prepared for the article on Pennsylvania-based Education Management Corporation. My work on this article is on behalf of the company, and because of this I am only participating in Talk page discussions, not editing the mainspace.

If you are interested in helping review a new version of the article's 'Political activities section, I would very much appreciate it. I have reached out on the article's Talk page and several related WikiProjects, however at this point there is only one editor who is actively involved in the discussion. I do not want to overburden any one person and, given my COI, I would feel more comfortable if multiple editors weighed in. Please see my request on the EDMC Talk page for the full explanation of my revision and a link to the draft in my user space. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 19:05, 17 June 2013 (UTC)


 * ✅ WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 19:26, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Allegheny County Medical Examiner
Hi all, this newly created article has been nominated for deletion, given that it serves a major metro area (Pittsburgh) and has had 2 recent very notable experts as ME I thought it should be created. Please share your thoughts here: Articles for deletion/Allegheny County Medical Examiner and constructive additions to the article are always welcomed. Thanks in advance!  Market St.⧏  ⧐ Diamond Way  05:07, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 *  Market St.⧏  ⧐ Diamond Way  09:09, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

RIDC deletion nomination
Hi all, RIDC in the Pittsburgh metro area has been nominated for deletion, please leave any comments you may have at the talk page or if you have links any help on the article would also be appreciated. <sup style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;"> Market St.⧏ <sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;"> ⧐ Diamond Way  10:08, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Please join the discussion here. <sup style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;"> Market St.⧏ <sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;"> ⧐ Diamond Way  00:23, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
 * appreciation for the editors who assisted on this, thank you. <sup style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;"> Market St.⧏ <sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;"> ⧐ Diamond Way  09:08, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

List peer review for List of awards and nominations received by Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
I've started a list peer review for List of awards and nominations received by Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, feedback to further along the quality improvement process would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/List of awards and nominations received by Penn & Teller: Bullshit!/archive1. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 01:23, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia:Peer review/List of awards and nominations received by Penn & Teller: Bullshit!/archive1

Featured List nomination for List of awards and nominations received by Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
I've started a Featured List nomination for List of awards and nominations received by Penn & Teller: Bullshit!.
 * 1) List of awards and nominations received by Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
 * 2) Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Penn & Teller: Bullshit!/archive1

Participation would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Penn & Teller: Bullshit!/archive1.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 15:27, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox PAhistoric
Template:Infobox PAhistoric has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:36, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 27/05
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Anthracite Coal Mining in Pennsylvania. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 13:14, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in the Americas may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:03, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Pennsylvania At Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost

For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 11:13, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Green Lane, Pennsylvania
In this article, under "Recreation", it might be inferred that there is a park within the borough, supported by borough taxes that's primarily for borough residents. In fact, the article is referring to Montgomery County parks which are supported by and shared with all Montgomery County taxpayers, and I believe are not even within the borough limits. I would suggest changing "Green Lane offers a large park ..." to "Green Lane is near a large park ..." which would clear up completely any misunderstanding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.191.236.21 (talk) 20:06, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thanks for posting your edit request. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 22:17, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

TFAR notification
I've nominated an article relevant to this project for WP:TFAR consideration, discussion at Today's featured article/requests/George B. McClellan. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 20:15, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

PA House & Senate Resources
Articles regarding the Pennsylvania State Senate and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives have passed some major milestones recently. First, every State Rep and Senator who served from 2000-now has at least a bare-bones article. However, these articles still need to be fleshed out, and everyone is invited to help out. Every State Rep article has at least an archived external link to an official PA House profile. This can be used for biographical data. The Senator articles still don't have this, but such links can be found here: (1997199819992000200120012002200320042005200620072008). The article for Thomas W. Dempsey is a good example of how these can look.

Second, every PA Senate district and PA House District have articles. However, most of the senate and many house articles still need a table of representatives. That data can be found here. The article for the 83rd district is a good example of how these can look. I would invite everyone to help us out!--A. Gorilla (talk) 03:29, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Larry Ceisler
Some individuals might wish to voice their opinion about the article Larry Ceisler at Articles for deletion/Larry Ceisler.--Blargh29 (talk) 01:22, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Rendell cabinet template
I have compiled all members of Ed Rendell's cabinet in a template. All of these articles are stubs and could use some expansions. They all have some relevant sources that could be used in the expansion. --Blargh29 (talk) 06:59, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Lists of municipal authorities
Here is a short how-to on the way to create the Lists of municipal authorities:
 * First, download data on the special purpose governments in Microsoft Excel .xls format from the Census of Governments website. Then, edit and trim the superfluous columns and other non-pertinent data. Then, run some  commands to get the data out of the ALL CAPS format and into a more usable "proper" capitalization. You will probably have to run some find/replace searches to turn the Mcc, Mca, and other strings into McC and McA. Some of the government names had some descriptors in (Parentheses), which are probably added by the Census. Delete them, so you have the proper title.


 * Then, create a test table with the different columns that you want to see in your list. This will give you an idea of what kind of format you need your final data output to be in. Then run a  commands to collect the various columns into 1 cell per row, with the requisite "||" characters into a form that was easily plugged into the Wikitable code.


 * Then, you have to go through all the redlinked cities and direct them to the best place. Use your best judgment to see where the targets ought to be--either by creating redirects or piped links. You might want to create a wikilink for the "function" column. You can use a search/replace command to change a large number of these to an active state at once. At this point, you should have a decent and properly formatted list of special purpose governments.--Blargh29 (talk) 04:52, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Milestone for Pennsylvania political
Each person who has served in the Pennsylvania State Senate and Pennsylvania House of Representatives since 1969 now has at least a stub article.--Blargh29 (talk) 06:08, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Pennsylvania Congressional Image Project
I want to invite everyone to join the The Great Pennsylvania Congressional Image Scrape of 2010.--Blargh29 (talk) 06:14, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons
The WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons (UBLPs) aims to reduce the number of unreferenced biographical articles to under 30,000 by June 1, primarily by enabling WikiProjects to easily identify UBLP articles in their project's scope. There were over 52,000 unreferenced BLPs in January 2010 and this has been reduced to 35,715 as of May 1. A bot is now running daily to compile a list of all articles that are in both Category:All unreferenced BLPs and have been tagged by a WikiProject. Note that the bot does NOT place unreferenced tags or assign articles to projects - this has been done by others previously - it just compiles a list.

Your Project's list can be found at WikiProject Pennsylvania/Unreferenced BLPs. Currently you have approximately 193 articles to be referenced. Other project lists can be found at User:DASHBot/Wikiprojects/Templates and User:DASHBot/Wikiprojects.

Your assistance in reviewing and referencing these articles is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions, please don't hestitate to ask either at WT:URBLP or at my talk page. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 17:08, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Pennsylvania DOC
Who is in the Harrisburg area? The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections needs a photo of its headquarters in Lower Allen Township (near Camp Hill, PA). This copyrighted photo shows what the building looks like: http://www.cor.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_39589_4604_461246_43/http%3B/pubcontent.state.pa.us/publishedcontent/publish/cop_public_safety/corrections/branding/doc_announcement_portlet/images/central_office.jpg WhisperToMe (talk) 22:21, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Collaborative project with the Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art wants to start a collaborative project with Wikipedians. See this Raul654 (talk) 15:38, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

"Dorothy Molter" Article in Pennsylvania Project
She lived in Pennsylvania until 2nd grade, and everything that she is famous for is later in her life. In January a robot put a template for your project into the discussion section, all ratings were question marks. Suggestion would be to have someone take a look at it and decide if the template should stay and if so make the ratings. Sincerely North8000 (talk) 21:44, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

2nd request North8000 (talk) 01:07, 12 April 2010 (UTC)


 * 3rd request. I plan to remove the Template in June if there is no interest / response by then.  North8000 (talk) 11:05, 20 April 2010 (UTC)


 * WP:BOLD applies here, but I think at least WikiProject Minnesota should get representation over the PA project. (No one ever talks here.) Mitch 32(Growing up with Wikipedia 1 edit at a time.) 11:09, 20 April 2010 (UTC)


 * There was no hurry and I just wanted to play it safe. I took it out. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 12:37, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Pittsburgh Portal
I've created a Pittsburgh Portal. Check it out and, if interested, sign up to help maintain it. CrazyPaco (talk) 01:24, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Weavertown AM Church/Amish Mennonites
I just read that the Beachy Churches are considered to be Amish Mennonite Churches and that they were formed in Somerset County, PA. How can the Weavertown Church then be the oldest Amish Mennonite Church? Can anyone explain this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.215.130.199 (talk) 13:13, 14 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Are you referring to a particular article?  Also your terminology of combining "Amish Mennonite" confuses me. Those are two different groups.  And, if I remember correctly, I think that the Amish do not have churches and have services in homes.  (?) North8000 (talk) 15:41, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area photo request: PADOC HQ
Hi! I just submitted a photo request for: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections headquarters:
 * 2520 Lisburn Road, P.O. Box 598, Camp Hill, PA 17001-0598 - See Google map view - This copyrighted image on the PA DOC website is of the headquarters

Who is the Harrisburg, PA area? Would anyone like to fulfill the request? WhisperToMe (talk) 13:22, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Lancaster Pennsylvania Mayors
Someone has created an article for each of the mayors of Lancaster. However, one of these, Arthur E. Morris is pending at AfD on the grounds that Lancaster is not "regionally important." If this one is deleted the rest are sure to follow. Consider participating at the AfD, or better yet, please add sources to the other articles. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 03:25, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Request for comment - Santorum (neologism)
Request for Comment discussion started, please see Talk:Santorum_(neologism).
 * Santorum (neologism)
 * Thank you for your time, -- J N  466  16:29, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Townships
I'd like opinions on moving many Pennsylvania township articles. Some months ago, Omnedon and I moved all Minnesota townships to "_____ Township, _____ County, Minnesota". Prior to this time, they had been in a format similar to those of Pennsylvania: townships with unique names were at "_____ Township, Minnesota", while those with duplicate names were already at "_____ Township, _____ County, Minnesota". We did this in the interests of consistency: it's much simpler when all the townships have the same naming format. What would all of you think about moving most Pennsylvania townships so that they're all located at "_____ Township, _____ County, Pennsylvania"? Nyttend (talk) 13:31, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - I think this would help - as it is when writing about a township, I am never sure if the name is unique or not, this would avoid red links and dab links. Ruhrfisch <sub style="color:green;">&gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 13:36, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I've no strong opinion either way, as my edits only incidentally touch on PA townships (usually while trying to link to the hometown of some historical person from PA). But another approach to consider to avoid redlinks is to simply make sure a complete set of redirects are in place. That way, you could always be certain that a link in the form "_____ Township, _____ County, Pennsylvania" will not be a redlink and will go to the correct page, while also leaving the short form as the actual title for those pages that don't need disambiguation. I believe this approach is somewhat more in line with avoiding unnecessary pre-disambiguation (as in the protracted TV show naming controversy and as had been a frequently point of contention in US city naming conventions. older ≠ wiser 21:53, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support – I would like to see more consistency on place articles. This would definitely pinpoint in which part of the state the township is located. Will you be updating each county navigational template to avoid redirects? Maybe a bot could fix all redirects. ~ All is One ~ (talk) 14:36, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Only for townships. We should not do this for municipalities, boroughs, and cities, which almost always have unique names already. --M @ r ē ino 15:28, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments — I've never meant to suggest moving anything but townships: boroughs and cities (plus the town and the town wannabe) should definitely remain where they are. As for the redirects — as the one who created the majority (or at least the plurality) of all county templates nationwide, I'm always sensitive to redirects, so don't worry about them.  I'll be sure to update links for any county that I move, and I know that Omnedon was always careful to do likewise.  Nyttend (talk) 02:41, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Unless the duplication of names across the state is fairly significant (>50%), there is no compelling reason to do this. One can always just create redirects to the name that includes the county. What fraction of townships would not need the county name for disambiguation? --Polaron | Talk 03:06, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Maybe support - Can this be done without breaking a lot of wikilinks? For example, all of the pages in the Category:Pennsylvania House of Representatives Districts and Category:Pennsylvania Senate Districts are linked to townships, and I'd hate to see all those links broken. Otherwise, a great, but tedious to implement, idea. --A. Gorilla (talk) 02:57, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong Oppose This goes against the naming conventions for locations. Adding the county name is only done when there are multiple locations in a state with the same name.  TJ   Spyke   18:19, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose Agree with opinion directly above. For instance, Haverford Township currently shows as "Haverford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania".  This is against existing naming conventions.  There is no other Haverford Township in Pa., let alone the entire rest of the United States.  "Delaware County" ought to be removed from the title.  However, the many Springfield townships in Pa.?  Of course list them with their county names.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.78.53.160 (talk) 03:36, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Strong Oppose Last I checked, making editors' jobs easier is not a criteria we are supposed to consider when deciding titles. Was this little survey announced anywhere?  Like WP:RM?  An obscure discussion on a WikiProject talk page is not how we establish whether consensus exists with regard to title decisions.  --Born2cycle (talk) 22:22, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Help
I really need some feedback at the featured article nomination for United States Senate Democratic primary election in Pennsylvania, 2010. There have been no oppose votes but very little input at all, and I don't want to see it fail for lack of participation. Any help would be very much appreciated! —  Hun ter   Ka  hn  21:11, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Township article titles
Apparently, articles on Pennsylvania townships are preemptively disambiguated with the name of the county, even when the township name is unique in the state. This produces unnecessarily long article titles and leaves readers unsure if a particular township is the only one in Pennsylvania by that name or not. It is in opposition to the guidelines at Article titles, which ask us to be only as precise as necessary while still using a common name for the subject. The latter provision is why we append state names to the article titles, because people frequently do so in normal conversation and writing -- but I don't think the same can be said of the county names. Powers T 22:59, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I support removing unnecessary disambiguation from Pennsylvania townships. It goes against all five principle criteria set out at WP:AT. Jenks24 (talk) 23:32, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I also support removing county names from the township article titles if the township name is unique. For example, there is no reason Palmer Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania can't be Palmer Township, Pennsylvania, as there are no other Palmer Townships in the state. And, as Jenks points out, doing so would be more in keeping with current Wikipedia guidelines. —  Hun ter   Ka  hn  21:11, 16 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I am neutral. It doesn't really matter to me one way or the other. I just want us to reach a decision and then make all the changes that need to be made when a broad decision is reached. The Horton Township discussion was too narrow and the other was too broad. I think it should be kept to Pennsylvania. Gerry D (talk) 13:36, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Naming conventions for Townships in Pennsylvania
The text of the following notice was written by Gerry D on my talk page. I'm reproducing here in the interest of seeking broad participation in the discussion. older ≠ wiser 13:55, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

An important question to this discussion is: If the decision is made to move these, who is going to move them? Can a bot do the moving? I moved many of them a couple or more years ago and it took a long time. It was a three or four person job that took all of us a long time to move. The moves inlcuded avoiding the redirects, updating templates, etc. It's going to be a big project. This is my main reason for opposing the move in the first place. Gerry D (talk) 14:00, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not bot-proficient, but if a list of articles (and talk pages) that need to moved can be produced along with the corresponding new names, it seems a bot could easily process the moves. Although it has been inactive of late, User:JdforresterBot appears to be designed to handle page moves. older ≠ wiser 14:11, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * The Category page should take care of the list we need. When we did the moves before we just went county by county. Gerry D (talk) 14:33, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * The bot would need a list to know which pages in the category to move and to where -- otherwise new logic would need to be programmed for a bot to be able to determine which pages in a category should or should not be moved and what the new title should be. older ≠ wiser 17:12, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * If the decision is made to move the articles, I will make the list. I will need someone else to make the contact with the operator of the bot. I know nothing about how bots work. Gerry D (talk) 17:39, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Historic figure - notable?
I've run across William Fife (Captain Billy Fife), which I'm considering listing for deletion - as it stands, the article is about two-thirds discussion of someone's research into his (disputed) genealogy. Digging through that, the man appears to have been a Pennsylvania militia officer during the Revolutionary War, but it's unclear if he's of any historic significance - the article implies he's famous, but doesn't seem to substantiate why. Any expert in the period care to take a look? Shimgray | talk | 21:38, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Luke Ravenstahl/GA2
GA article up for review at Talk:Luke Ravenstahl/GA2.--GrapedApe (talk) 04:07, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Pennsylvania 9th Congressional District
I made some changes a few weeks ago to the stub article on PA's 9th Congressional district, as the existing text was woefully out of date.

Alas, I have no Wikipedia coding skills and was unable to add the requisite footnotes and links. I was reluctant to write much for fear of mucking up the formatting.

I know the district well and would be willing to beef up the article, but I would need technical guidance. Alternatively, I could submit a properly sourced essay in Microsoft Word to a Wikipedia editor, rather than trying to publish it myself.

Feel free to email me at pristine1917@gmail.com

Richard Latker

Pristine2 (talk) 06:10, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Loyalsock State Forest
Please refer to the talk page for my input to this article. Downsize43 (talk) 02:09, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

James DePreist
The article for James DePreist, an international conductor with roots in Pennsylvania, will be receiving a lot of traffic in the near future due to his death. The article needs work, as much of the text has been pulled from his Allmusic and NEA biographies. It appears to be incomplete and needs expanding, re-wording, sourcing, etc. Any assistance improving this article would be much appreciated. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:49, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Toy Train library & museum, Strasburg
Could somebody local to Strasburg please provide coordinates for Toy Train Reference Library / National Toy Train Museum and take some pictures of the building, inside and out? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:04, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Coords from Google work fine 39.9876°N, -76.1519°W. Whenever I get back to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania down the road, I'll get pix of the outside, but inside is, I believe, pretty pricey. BTW, I'd combine the 2 articles.  Smallbones( smalltalk ) 21:37, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I'm OK with two articles, but not overly bothered if others feel differently. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:06, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I found some free pictures on Flickr of the museum exterior and interior - see here. I uploaded one of the National Toy Train Museum entrance to Commons and added it to the article on the museum. There are several others on Flickr. Ruhrfisch <sub style="color:green;">&gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 00:03, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ...and I added a different one of the building exterior to the library article. Ruhrfisch <sub style="color:green;">&gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 00:58, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Manheim Township is located within Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 97 represented by Republican John Bear ( 2006-2012 ). Steven C. Mentzer was elected to serve the 97th Legislative District in November 2012, and was sworn in to office on January 1, 2013 ```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.216.120.25 (talk) 20:23, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Thurlow, Pennsylvania
This seems to have been a historical locality just south of Chester, PA, but I can't find any modern references to it. Did it disappear, and if so, what happened to it? Assistance appreciated. Gatoclass (talk) 01:47, 7 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The USGS GNIS lists only a "Thurlow Station, Pennsylvania" here. The corrdinates are within the modern city of Chester, PA. If you go any further south you wind up in New Jersey or perhaps Delaware. Will keep looking, Ruhrfisch <sub style="color:green;">&gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 02:09, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thurlow Station is on this 1913 state map of Delaware County here. Ruhrfisch <sub style="color:green;">&gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 02:13, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Here is a link to Ashmead's 1884 "History of Delaware County" on the Thurlow farm / estate here and on the following pages. Ruhrfisch <sub style="color:green;">&gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 02:21, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm, looks like it was just a railway station. Thanks Ruhrfisch, well sleuthed :) Gatoclass (talk) 13:13, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Standard Steel Casting Company, Thurlow, Pennsylvania, was the largest plant in the country for the manufacture of open hearth steel castings. This concern made all the most important castings for battleships, cruisers and ordnance for the United States Government. They also made locomotives, e.g., TRAINS, railroad tracks and much more. Thurlow, Pennsylvania is mentioned in several other articles in this encyclopedia!!! Thurlow, Pennsylvania should not be deleted; rather its location which is now Chester, Pennsylvania, should be indicated in the article with an explanation (or a historical note perhaps). It has value to Historians and Genealogy Researchers. My LONG ancestors who invented The Long Rifle settled Longstown, Pennsylvania. Longstown (Union County, Pennsylvania), is now New Berlin. A quick dip into Linn's Annals reveals MANY such changes.

If this encyclopedia is to serve its purpose, deleting the name of a town because its name was changed means it never existed, right? WRONG!!!

Respectfully,

Tiyang Tiyang 02:15, 4 September 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tiyang (talk • contribs)
 * I will respond to this thread, a mere 4 years late, in case someone else comes upon it. It looks like it was more than just a railroad station. The article Olive Dennis references it as the subject's hometown, presumably obtained from one of the print sources (possibly the Baltimore Sun). Magog the Ogre (t • c) 20:27, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Category:Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania
What do people think on this project, regarding the category - Category:Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania, with 272 entries, 26 full subcategories and 1 empty subcategory, which was done on my part, since I impulsively wanted the entries in the subcats to just be in the parent category, along with the remaining 250 something entries. Should we create more subcats, where we would put each unincorporated community based on their county, eventually having all subcats and 0 entries in the parent? (For example, Category:Unincorporated communities in ________ County, Pennsylvania) Or consolidate them all into the parent (Category:Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania) and have like over 300 entries with no subcats? Ideas would be great. Other states, such as NJ, CA, DE, etc (see all examples here: Category:Unincorporated communities in the United States by county) use this categorization method. Tinton5 (talk) 20:10, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * If there are reasons why we need to do this I don't understand then maybe they could be clarified but going to a category structure like this seems like it would be very time intensive to maintain with limited return on the investment. Kumioko (talk) 20:40, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I originally thought to consolidate the entries in the subcats into the parent one. I think that isn't as time consuming, but we shall see.. Tinton5 (talk) 20:44, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Consolidating all the categories would probably be fine now, since Pennsylvania doesn't have that many communities with articles yet. Having the counties split up might be more useful in the future, though, since there are a lot of PA communities without articles, and if anyone makes a dedicated effort to write articles on them the main category could easily end up with over 2,000 articles. Granted, anything's probably better than the current structure, where some counties with 1 or 2 communities have subcategories but some counties with over 20 don't. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 22:34, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I believe that unincorporated communities by county categories should exist for every county and that the parent category should not be included in any of the articles about the individual unincorporated communities.  Dough 48  72  00:13, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I think they should all be in one category for now, rather than one category with a bunch of subcats. I mean, there are 60-odd counties. Snowman304'&#124;'talk 20:07, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
 * There has been a disagreement with User:Hmains, another user and myself, where I acted bold and tried to consolidate the pages into the parent category, but was threatened with warnings in doing so. I was only going based on consensus made here, but now I have not made any further edits on the topic. I still think it is tedious to create subcategories for each county, since there is a large number to deal with. It seems odd to just have now 27 subcats out of 67 counties to include here, even with the "populate" notice. Tinton5 (talk) 20:58, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

In addition, the category organization for this state is somewhat disorganized. Entries in Category:CDP's in XX County, Pennsylvania are mixed in with Category:Populated places in XX County, Pennsylvania, and vice versa Tinton5 (talk) 21:04, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't really see the problem there, since census-designated places are also populated places. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 22:55, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Now we have a user inserting the parent category Category:Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania to each page that already has been refined to Category:Unincorporated communities in XXX County, Pennsylvania. What would be the purpose now of having Category:Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania by county, when there are duplicate entries? Not to mention, it was still being populated. Tinton5 (talk) 02:55, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Right now, 785 articles have been dumped into Category:Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania, needlessly and confusingly overlapping with the breakdown by county. How do readers benefit by having a single category with what could well be thousands of articles competing with a structure that breaks it down by county and that allows navigation across the other categories organized by county? I agree that the subcategories for the 67 counties should all be created and that the parent should be left empty. Alansohn (talk) 16:51, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
 * At first I wasn't too fond of the idea, but now I agree with this. Unfortunately, User:Hmains began adding these to each page, and has convinced me into breaking down category structure from county-level view and from state view (the 785 + pages in Category:Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania). However, I feel we need to figure out a way to solve this categorization issue. It will take a long time to undo each edit, however, it will also be tedious to create more county categories for each community. Tinton5 (talk) 18:51, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject proposal
If anyone is here, they might be interested in WikiProject Council/Proposals/Pennsylvania Streams. Thanks, --Jakob (talk) 13:55, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

State Senate District 40
http://www.politicspa.com/breaking-supreme-court-upholds-new-pa-house-senate-lines/47874/

May 8th, 2013

"The 2014 elections will be fought along lines determined in a 4-1 vote by the Legislative Reapportionment Commission in June 2012."

"State Senate district 40 (Jane Orie’s former seat) is moving from the North Hills of Allegheny County to Monroe County in northeast Pa."

173.13.208.45 (talk) 21:32, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Invitation to User Study
Would you be interested in participating in a user study? We are a team at University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within a Wikipedia community. We are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visualization tool. All you need to do is to prepare for your laptop/desktop, web camera, and speaker for video communication with Google Hangout. We will provide you with a Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster (talk) 07:52, 16 April 2014 (UTC).

Use of "costly" in school-district athletic programs
I have noticed this in a number of school-district entries for Pennsylvania. The wording is consistently the same.

"**** School District offers a wide variety of extracurriculars, including clubs, organizations and an extensive, costly sports program."

I see no sourcing for the costliness of these programs. I have posted on the editor's talk page about this, but figured this was also a good place to point it out. --Jrshooter (talk) 22:39, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, I noticed the mention at Dover Area School District. There is a cited source but it's behind a paywall.  The matching text may have come from that source, rather than from a POV-warrior.  I would ask those with access to the source to confirm or deny the text.  Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 23:00, 27 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Chris. I'm awaiting word from the original editor. --Jrshooter (talk) 23:03, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Early PA elections
Hello, While reading the articles on some of the early Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, the political parties listed as having contested these elections left me puzzled. In the 1811 and 1817 articles, a National Republican candidate was listed as having won the election, and in 1823 the winner was identified as a Democrat. However, the National Republican Party the article was linked to was founded in 1824, and the  Democratic Party in 1828. Based on my (admittedly limited) research, it seems these names were pseudonyms for the Democratic-Republican Party, and I have changed the articles to reflect this. However, my knowledge of Pennsylvania history is basic at best. Is there anyone who can speak more authoritatively on this subject?Nathaniel Greene (talk) 21:07, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Your reasoning makes sense. Sources like ourcampaigns.com are suspect, and Wilkes University wrongly indicates the National Republican party. Since you're the original author, do you have reliable sources for these elections?  Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 23:08, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
 * It seems from [| this source] and [| this PA archives page] that the wikipedia articles had mistaken rival factions within the Democratic-Republican Party as distinct parties. Unless you know of any sources that say otherwise, I'll go ahead and make the appropriate changes.Thanks! Nathaniel Greene (talk) 00:22, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * , Hi, guys. These early elections are a bit convoluted in that factions can be misinterpreted to be individual parties, parties misidentified (i.e. Dem-Rep as Dem or Rep), etc. I've since stopped using "ourcampaigns" as a reference, instead using Wilkes University, which is based upon historical returns, newspapers, etc. The results from the two sources, from what I've seen, are identical for these elections. See, for instance, List of Pennsylvania gubernatorial elections, where I used Wilkes for the results. A confusing aspect is the contemporary practice of referring to Dem Reps as "Democrats" or "Republicans" before these individual parties existed. The results might reflect that and I have no objection to changing them. Wilkes is the only source I have for them, but I suspect some of the party misidentifications are the result of what's written in Wilkes' sources, newspapers, journals, etc. which of course aren't without errors or party nicknames that have since ceased to exist. In this case, I'll defer to your judgement and I have no objection to changing the articles where necessary.  Tyrol5   [Talk]  00:48, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * , Early partisan divisions were certainly chaotic, to put it mildly. For the sake of consistency, I think it's best if we use the "Democratic-Republican label, as this was the name of the national organization and seems to have been the most common appellation of many applied to the same group. If we can confirm that a specific candidate ran on a "National Republican" ticket in a specific election, however, I am not opposed to mentioning the name change in the article.Nathaniel Greene (talk) 02:30, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Punxsutawney entry, would be nice to add a boundary map.
Thanks. Doug 68.164.236.226 (talk) 06:25, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Request for Proposed Article Changes Review
The article AAMCO has a pending update on its talk page from a PR company (hi there). Would love to get feedback and hear about any more information that we can make available or how we can better write the article to be more wiki appropriate. Stefannagey (talk) 12:34, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

PA state 114th disctrict
Hi all, first time here. The description of the 114th PA House district is out of date. The District no longer encompasses 3 counties, but instead is wholly contained within Lackawanna County with a very "Gerrymandered" outline too complicated to describe here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.70.10.157 (talk) 02:22, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
 * OK. Do you have a reliable source for this assertion? Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 02:27, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Coaldale Big Green
In the article for the football team, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaldale_Big_Green

There is a lot of information missing such as the origin of the Curran Cup http://coaldalehighalumni.homestead.com/article_coaldale_celebrates.html

I'm no good at editing Wiki articles and prefer not to. But I wanted to learn more about the Anthracite League and it's teams.

This information would be useful information for the Anthracite League and it's teams. Armorbeast (talk) 07:54, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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Municipality official names
Inside each info box of each municipality throughout the state, we should add "Pennsylvania" to the top, to be consistent with formatting. Tinton5 (talk) 21:37, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Deletion discussion for newspaper The Globe
Ongoing deletion discussion to decided whether or not to delete article on newspaper The Globe (student newspaper), with discussion page at Articles for deletion/The Globe (student newspaper).
 * 1) The Globe (student newspaper)
 * 2) Articles for deletion/The Globe (student newspaper)

Further research would be most appreciated, and/or suggestions for additional secondary sources, at Talk:The Globe (student newspaper).

Thank you for your time,

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List of tributaries of Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River)
All these v. interesting minor stream articles would be enormously enhanced with the use of pictures. The current Culley Run post is an excellent example of this usage. NRR. (No response required) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.13.112.72 (talk) 08:36, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

28TH DIVISION & THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
OVERVIEW: Organized at Philadelphia and mustered in June 28, 1861. Moved to Baltimore, Md., and Harper's Ferry, W. Va., July 27. Attached to Geo. H. Thomas' Brigade, Dept. of the Shenandoah, to August, 1861. 1st Brigade, Banks' Division, Dept. of the Shenandoah, to October, 1861. Geary's Independent Brigade, Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac, to March. 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps, to April, 1862. Geary's Independent Brigade, Dept. of the Shenandoah, to June, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia, to August, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomsc. to October, 1863, and Army of the Cumberland, to April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June, 1865. 3rd Brigade, Bartlett's Division, 22nd Corps, Dept. of Washington, to July, 1865.

SERVICE:Duty at Sandy Hook, opposite Harpers Ferry, till August 13. 1861. Moved to Point of Rocks, Md., and guard frontier from Nolan's Ferry to Antietam Aqueduct. Pritchard's Mills, Va., September 15 (Cos. "B," "D," "I"). Point of Rocks September 24. Knoxville October 2. Bolivar Heights October 16 (Cos. "A," "D," "F," "G"). Nolan's Ferry October 30. Berlin November 10. Point of Rocks December 19. Crossed Potomac February 24-25. Operations in Loudoun County, Va., February 25-May 6. Occupation of Bolivar Heights February 26. Lovettsville March 1. Wheatland March 7. Occupation of Leesburg March 8. Upperville March 14. Ashby's Gap March 15. Capture of Rectortown, Piedmont, Markham, Linden and Front Royal March 15-20. Operations about Middleburg and White Plains March 27-28. Thoroughfare Gap April 2. Warrenton April 6. Near Piedmont April 14. Linden May 15 (Co. "O"). Reconnoissance from Front Royal to Browntown May 24. Guard railroad from White Plains to Manassas till May 24, and railroad and gaps of the Blue Ridge till June 23. Joined Banks at Middletown June 29. Reconnoissance to Thoroughfare Mountain August 9. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 16-September 2. White Sulphur Springs August 24. Bull Run August 30. Maryland Campaign September 6-24. Battle of Antietam September 16-17. Duty at Bolivar Heights till December. Reconnoissance to Lovettsville October 21. Reconnoissance to Rippon, W. Va., November 9. Reconnoissance to Winchester December 2-6. Moved to Fredericksburg, Va., December 10-14. At Stafford Court House till April 27, 1863. "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Old Wilderness Tavern April 30. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3. Fair Play, Md., July 13. Duty on line of the Rapidan till September. Movement to Bridgeport, Ala., September 24-October 3. Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29. Companies "L," "M," "N" and "O" transferred to 147th Pennsylvania October 28. Battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn., October 28-29. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Battles of Lookout Mountain November 23-24; Mission Ridge November 25; Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November 27. Guard duty on Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad till April, 1864. Regiment re-enlisted December 24, 1863. Veterans on furlough January and February, 1864. Expedition down the Tennessee River to Triana April 12-16. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8. Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 5-13. Dug Gap, or Mill Springs, May 8. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Near Cassville May 19. Advance on Dallas May 22-25. New Hope Church May 25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills, May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Gilgal, or Golgotha Church, June 15. Muddy Creek June 17. Noyes Creek June 19. Kolb's Farm June 22. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Ruff's Station or Smyrna Camp Ground July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge August 26-September 2. Occupation of Atlanta September 2-November 15. Whitehall Road, near Atlanta, November 9. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. North Edisto, S. C., February 12-13. Red Bank Creek February 15. Congaree Creek February 15. Averysboro, N. C., March 16. Battle of Bentonville March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 9-13. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20. Grand Review May 24. Duty in the Dept. of Washington till July. Mustered out July 18, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 151 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 124 Enlisted men by disease. Total 284.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.101.87.4 (talk • contribs)

Wiki Loves Pride
<div style="padding:3em; font-family:'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size:110%; line-height:1.75;"> You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!


 * What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
 * When? June 2015
 * How can you help?
 * 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
 * 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
 * 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

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AfC submission
See Draft:List of tallest buildings in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Best, FoCuS contribs ;  talk to me!  22:30, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Photographing every municipality
Several of us are engaged in a project to make sure that every municipality in the state has a photo in its article. That's one photo for every city, borough, town, and township. We'll probably leave census-designated places and unincorporated communities for next year.

There are 2562 municipalities in the state, which is likely the largest for any US state. So far we have about 1,869 of them photographed, with about 700 left to go. You can see what photos are needed, divided by county at User:Nyttend/Pennsylvania

You can also see the entire list at List of municipalities in Pennsylvania. Please take photos and upload them, first to the article for the municipality and then to the list article. We'd like to be finished with this project by July 4th, 2015.

What should you take photos of?

If you live in the area, you probably know better than we do what's the most important or most beautiful part of the municipality. But just in case you need a few ideas, try these subjects.
 * the town hall
 * railroad station
 * fire station or police station
 * a building on the National Register of Historic Places
 * a school or library
 * a bridge
 * a church
 * a park, perhaps with a Civil War monument
 * the corner of State and Main Streets
 * the most beautiful building in town
 * the tallest building in town

When uploading the files to Commons, please include a category for the name of the municipality, or if no such category exists, the name of the county.

Smallbones( smalltalk ) 02:35, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Of course, street scenes are very often helpful in a community, or open countryside in a rural area; see the photos in Scottdale, Pennsylvania and Mifflin Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania for some decent examples. Nyttend (talk) 02:41, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I really like this project and wish I had more time to contribute to it. I haven't been very active the last few years and have lost track of some of the tools. Is their an easy to use Flickr upload bot? I used to use one regularly, but I think it's now dead. Flickr user Nicholas T is an amazing photographer who licenses his work under a wiki friendly license. I have uploaded many of his photos in the past. Gerry D (talk) 22:14, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

We've got about 5 photographers working on this already: 1 in western, PA, about 3 in SE PA, and 1 in NE PA. It looks like we need some folks in Central PA! There should be a "watchlist banner" running during June for all registered editors with a PA located IP. If you have any questions, just ask. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 04:05, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
 * This may be the wrong place to ask, but what is a located IP, or the distance/range/history of one? I am not in PA, and drove through two weeks ago, but am getting the banner. -- &#9790;Loriendrew&#9789;  &#9743;(ring-ring)  11:57, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
 * , First a request, then an explanation
 * Do you see that small blue link saying "[hide]" right after the banner? Please click it and see what happens.  Does it stay hidden the next time you log in?  I thought it was supposed to - please inform me if it doesn't.
 * Locating an IP is not an exact science, so the folks who run this "watchlist banner" function recommend making the coordinate box bigger than the actual target area. I made it fairly close when I applied and they widened it when they implemented it.  I can go back and request that they tighten it back again if you'd like, but that won't eliminate all "false notifications."  Thanks for your understanding.  Smallbones( smalltalk ) 15:34, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

I can do most of the remaining Venango places. Perhaps others when I travel.

— JamesEG (talk) 04:14, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
 * This is great. I'll take some photos today!  And how is this project "believed to be semi-active?"  auntieruth (talk) 18:47, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

I will do my best to cover Lancaster County at least at some point.  Go  Phightins  !  01:45, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Your thoughts?
Timeline of Philadelphia has a discussion about selection and inclusion criteria. Two editors are discussing it, but we have divergent views. More opinions would be helpful. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 13:14, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Copyright Violation Detection - EranBot Project
A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. These likely copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest (if such a copyvio is present).--Lucas559 (talk) 15:59, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Samuel J. Randall
Just wanted to let you folks know that Samuel J. Randall is nominated for featured article. I'd be happy to receive input from anyone who is interested. Thanks! --Coemgenus (talk) 14:28, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Suggestion
Hello all! I was curious if anyone else thought it might be a good idea to make a (nonbinding) guideline on how all the individual US state WikiProjects should organize themselves, to help standardize them. I originally put this suggestion in the WikiProject United States talk page, so feel free to look there if you're interested. It's pretty empty though; basically all they said was to see what each of the individual projects thought about it. Please tell me if you have any concerns with this idea; hopefully we can find a way for everyone to love it! Also, I'm new at making proposals, so please forgive me if I do anything silly. :) Hope that you like this idea! JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 04:57, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Pennsylvania to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at WikiProject Pennsylvania/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the Tool Labs tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 03:46, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Cleanup needed for Chester Upland School District
I think there is a reorganization and cleanup needed of Chester Upland School District. There are primary source statistics posted that are out of date, and I think reducing the number of sections will make it more readable. WhisperToMe (talk) 07:23, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Bank of New York Mellon
Hi there. I'm posting to see if there are any editors willing to look over a request I have over on The Bank of New York Mellon Talk page. To summarize, I had several suggestions for updating the article and there is one remaining about a recent award. I am working as a paid consultant to BNY Mellon, so I won't be making the edit myself. I'd like editors' input on whether the award is worthy of inclusion and, if so, help placing it in the article. The editor who was working with me previously hasn't responded in a bit, and the article falls under the scope of this WikiProject, so I thought I'd drop a note here. Thanks! Heatherer (talk) 00:32, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

NEW NAME?
DID CSL BEHRING CHANGE THEIR NAME FROM CSL BIOTHERAPIES? I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW AS I AM A MEDICAL ASSISTANT AND NEED TO KNOW THIS INFORMATION FOR WHEN I ENTER CERTAIN IMMUNIZATIONS IN OUR COMPUTER SYSTEM. THANKS, SHAWN F.2601:48:C502:4200:1C7E:9AE5:915A:5EAD (talk) 14:46, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Photo request in Lansdale
9th Street SEPTA station in Lansdale is opening this Sunday, the 15th. Is there anyone in the area who'd be able to get photographs on opening day or thereafter? Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 05:32, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Coordinates!
Hi all, just wanted to let you know, that I have been working on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pennsylvania_articles_missing_geocoordinate_data here and there over the past few months. When I started, there were 1,322. I have it down to 331. TiMike (talk) 16:36, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

FA for repair work
I nominated Today's featured article/requests/Presque Isle State Park for TFA, but problems were found. Help? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:41, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Naming Conventions
For some reason, naming conventions in PA do not match the naming conventions in the rest of the US. For example, Upper Merion should be at Upper Merion, PA but is instead at Upper Merion, Montco, PA, same as all the other places in PA. The US standard is City, State. Why is PA different? Sir Joseph <sup style="color:green;">(talk) 21:14, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
 * And it seems to be arbitrary. Some places have the county name in it, and some places, specifically neighborhoods, not even cities are just city, PA. That doesn't seem right at all. Sir Joseph <sup style="color:green;">(talk) 00:52, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Comments: Sometimes things just happen a certain way. There does not actually have to be an active project for there to be a naming convention because of consistency. However, no convention can over-ride a more broad community-wide consensus. You can boldly change articles until you hit opposition, which likely may happen, or you can try to gain collaboration and possibly make broad changes. Yes there will be opposition, and sometimes it will not matter if citing a super majority of WP:Policies and guidelines show without a doubt a certain naming, some (I have seen this first hand) will argue that the color black is not really a color. WP:CONCISE would dictate using no longer a title as needed to uniquely identify the subject. This has been found by the various state naming conventions to leave out the county. Of course there are exception when a township or city might have the same name, where names like Bell Township, Pennsylvania would be ambiguous, necessitating names such as Bell Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, Bell Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, and Bell Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Otr500 (talk) 23:25, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
 * That's what I did, so far no pushback. What was odd was that's claimed was that there was a convention, but I didn't see anything. Sir Joseph <sup style="color:green;">(talk) 00:00, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Great! Apparently, from recent events at talk:Johnstown Flood, there is no actual naming convention on Wikipedia and certainly not with this project. Since it seems that many WikiProjects are either inactive or very semi-active it doesn't seem to matter. I would suggest continuing with what you feel as corrections according to other articles also keeping in mind references of common name. Don't forget that in some instances it will not matter if a name is so vague as to be laughable since local naming can trump policies and guidelines (even though it is not suppose to), other like articles, and even common sense. This can also sometimes be supported by some administrators. If you hit some seemingly retarded local campaign just overlook it and keep going.
 * I created Johnstown flood of 1977, Victor Heiser, and Johnstown flood of 1936 if you care to take a look. I do not know if you rate articles but they could use this. I probably shouldn't have bothered as I was informed that the Johnstown Flood was considered "THE FLOOD" (of many) and none of the others were worthy of an article. Then again maybe they will survive as all of them are referenced and I would think at least "Start-class". Otr500 (talk) 09:51, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
 * That's what I found weird, in the naming request, some guy brought in all the typical Wikipedia acronyms and said PA has a naming convention. I then searched this area and found it had none and decided to opt to follow the US naming convention. There is no reason we need to go to through a redirect to get to an article for every PA town. Sir Joseph <sup style="color:green;">(talk) 14:20, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
 * If I run across needless redirects, especially of a name that is primary and should not redirect, I correct them. I thought that was what we are suppose to do right?

Otr500 (talk) 03:52, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Correct. Apparently someone decided that is not the case and stated there is a convention, but I checked and there is no such thing. There is a countrywide convention to follow and we should try to follow that as much as possible. Sir Joseph <sup style="color:green;">(talk) 18:49, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

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Talk:Scranton General Strike
I have posted a RfC that may be of interest to this project. The article is new and doesn't have many eyes on it currently. Any input is welcome. Timothy Joseph Wood 12:57, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Weatherly, Pennsylvania discrepancy
On the Weatherly PA wikipage, you have a statement saying that the town was named after David Weatherly in exchange for a clock: that the clock was built into the tower of the school. This seems unlikely as the name change took place in 1863, and the school was not built until 1901-1903. You may want to verify this information as it contradicts the weatherlypa.gov page.70.44.235.137 (talk) 06:55, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Missing Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices
Drafts have been created for the following redlinks for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices:


 * 1) Draft:Arthur Cooke
 * 2) Draft:Thomas Graeme
 * 3) Draft:James Armstrong (judge)
 * 4) Draft:James J. Fitzgerald III
 * 5) Draft:Jane Cutler Greenspan
 * 6) Draft:John Evans (judge)
 * 7) Draft:John Simcock
 * 8) Draft:Joseph Growden

Help is needed to complete these drafts and move them to mainspace. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Cheers! bd2412 T 12:59, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

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North Wales historical building
The photo shown before this was actually begun as the Weingartner cigar factory. I knew it well from the late 1930s When it was called" The Cigar Store ' by the locals, later named the North Wales News Agency . The owner at that time was a Mr. Naylor . During WW 2 the owner was a Mr' Phillips  , and after the war it was Luther Thomas , whom I delivered papers for     The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin , the Philadelphia Morning Inquirer , and the North Penn Reporter . I left North Wales for California in 1948 . I will never forget this building and some of the happiest days of my life !! Thanks a million to whoever entered the beautiful photo of this building !!!!! It was so much of my personal history . Bill Tomlinson , Barstow , California      junkmen45@san.rr.com    Please let me hear from anyone with similar interests in that building and the history of North Wales in the 1930s and 1940s . Thank you !!!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.75.25.110 (talk) 21:26, 28 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Please see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:North_Wales,_Pennsylvania for 9 more photos of the same building. You should thank  for placing the photo in the article.  The photo was taken in 1993 by James W. Scott of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) - your tax dollars at work.
 * Now for the good part: you can get the same photos at the Library of Congress website http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/pa3312/ and a jam-packed one page history of the building at http://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/pa/pa3300/pa3312/data/pa3312data.pdf
 * I'll e-mail this. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 00:45, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Please re-evaluate article rating?
Team, I recently significantly expanded the article from FRED FRANKHOUSE from 3 uncited lines to what it is currently. I'm asking that the article be reevaluated for class rating, and for suggestions as to what I can do to improve the article. Thanks. --JGHSMC (talk) 04:39, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

A Categories for deletion discussion WikiProject members may be interested in.
It concerns Category:Mathematicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania being merged into Category:People from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The discussion can be found here....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 21:08, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Peters Township High School
There is a discussion taking place at the above linked talk page regarding the use of piped wikilinks in the lede of the article that may be of interest to this project. Your participation is invited. John from Idegon (talk) 04:53, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

US 50,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more states than they might otherwise work on. If there's the interest I will start 1000 State Challenges like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of states regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for the US and your specialist/home state like WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every state, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any state sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld  15:35, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Shamokin, Pennsylvania
The article got somewhat vandalised; appearantly the user pasted content from another article (which I was not able to identify). Please one more affluent with the topic could fix that. TIA. --Matthiasb (talk) 21:35, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
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 * Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

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GA Nominations without active editor-nominators...
I understand Project members are overwhelmed with the many editing tasks to do around Wikipedia. I just wanted to let any interested editors know that I intend to either abandon the Review or Fail the GAN at Talk:Leggetts Creek/GA1 and also abandon the Review or Fail the GAN at Talk:Eddy Creek (Lackawanna River)/GA1, if the articles don't receive the needed edits and the various issues aren't fixed within the next few weeks. I had high hopes when I started that they could perhaps get to GA status...it's a shame, they're nice little articles - in my opinion they just need some fixes and tweaks to possibly pass to GA status. I felt like I owed the Project some notice. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 21:05, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Leggetts Creek has now been passed to GA status with the help of User:Hanif Al Husaini & User:Sir Joseph. I still intend to fail Eddy Creek (Lackawanna River) before the end of the month if no one volunteers to fix up its issues. Shearonink (talk) 18:06, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

New Page
There's a new page for John Bull, a Revolutionary War general from PA. Could use some help organizing information and giving it a rating on the quality scale and importance scale. Thanks! -Acronach —Preceding undated comment added 11:26, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Notice to participants at this page about adminship
Many participants here create a lot of content, may have to evaluate whether or not a subject is notable, decide if content complies with BLP policy, and much more. Well, these are just some of the skills considered at Requests for adminship.

So, please consider taking a look at and watchlisting this page:


 * Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll

You could be very helpful in evaluating potential candidates, and even finding out if you would be a suitable RfA candidate.

Many thanks and best wishes,

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Archbald, PA
Hi all, I left a quick bit of commentary on the talk page for Archbald, Pennsylvania. It can use a bit of clean up. I figured, presuming that not many people pay much attention to the page, that I'd post a little message here. If all remains the same after a few weeks, I'll delete the information I know to be incorrect. Thanks! Wildgraf quinn (talk) 18:15, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

March Against Hate
Project members are invited to participate in the AfD discussion re: Portland Women March Against Hate. I've expressed an interest in moving the article to March Against Hate, and expanding its scope to cover more than just Portland. I welcome editors to either contribute to the ongoing discussion or help expand this article's section for other cities, including Pittsburgh. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 15:16, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Pocono Mountains
The current Pocono Mountains page is filled with errors, inconsistencies, broken links, and missing citations. I would like to replace it. How do I go about that, knowing that I don't know the writing rules? 01:55, 2 April 2017 (UTC) Norm Mikalac mikalac53@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikalac (talk • contribs) 01:55, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Pocono Mountains

Popular pages report
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, will post at /Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of. We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
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Draft article for David Trone
On behalf of David Trone and Hickman Analytics, I have submitted a draft article about this American businessman as part of my work at Beutler Ink. Given my conflict of interest, I will not publish the article to the main space and ask independent editors to review this draft for accuracy, neutrality, and verifiability. Is there a WikiProject Pennsylvania participant who will help move the draft into the main space? Thanks! Inkian Jason (talk) 14:57, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
 * This draft has been moved into the main space, so I am marking this section as resolved. Thanks! Inkian Jason (talk) 16:45, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Edit request to update article
Hello, again! I have submitted an edit request to update the Wikipedia article for David Trone, who has roots in Pennsylvania. I've proposed a few updates to the article's "Personal life" section, and suggested a few links for "Further reading" and/or "External links" sections. The proposed additions (which I've outlined here) are not very controversial, in my opinion, but I can't edit the article directly because of my COI and I'm looking for a neutral volunteer who can review the proposed text/links and update the article accordingly. Is a WikiProject Pennsylvania participant willing to help? Inkian Jason (talk) 20:18, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello! An editor has assisted with the first 2 requests outlined here, but there's one part left (#3) and the reviewing person would like more input. Is someone able to take a look at the proposed text, and update the article appropriately? Inkian Jason (talk) 16:43, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
 * The edit request has been answered, so I am marking this section as resolved. Thanks! Inkian Jason (talk) 17:11, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Another Project Proposal
I am proposing a grant to fund a Wikipedian in Residence at the University of Pittsburgh to facilitate the transfer of historical content contained in the University's archives and collections into Wikimedia projects. I am currently the Wikipedia Visiting Scholar with the Library and Archives of the University of Pittsburgh and have discovered the wealth of content related to historical women that resides in the Archives and Library collections. Your support is solicited for the Project Grant that can be seen here. Part of the grant-making process requires notification of those who would like to support this project.

I am the potential grantee and believe that being in the position of Wikipedian-in-Resident will make a significant improvement to contributions to Pennsylvania topics. My editing history already demonstrates my commitment to creating content on topics related to women. As a Wikipedian-in-Residence I would be training new and experienced contributors and highlight the available resources contained in the archives and collections at the University that will improve the content on Pennsylvania.

I know the potential for the improvement and addition of content is great. Not only is your support requested but I would be very, very grateful to any other editors who can identify topics that need to be addressed and topics that need improvement. All advice is sincerely welcome. Thank you for your consideration.
 * Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐   ✉  21:50, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Pennsylvania

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.&mdash; Rod talk 17:58, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Wing Bowl
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Wing Bowl. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:57, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Error on area of Byberry, Philadelphia
The article currently shows the area being "4.700 acres", which is listed as something like 0.01 square kilometers. I believe this was entered in European style, and should be "4,700 acres", as would fit a township of some 5 miles long by 2.5 miles wide. There are 640 acres to a square mile, 5 X 2.5 = 12.5 square miles, 12.5 * 640 = 8,000 acres. Since 5 X 2.5 are its max dimensions, an area of 4,700 acres would fit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.78.248.170 (talk) 01:10, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree with your math; there's no way Byberry, Philadelphia is only 4.7 acres. That said, the info comes from this website and it says 4.7 acres. It's a US website about a US place so I doubt your interpretation about "European style" of using a decimal in place of a comma is correct. The website might be wrong. If we could find a citation that supports your assertion, then it would be easier to change. Change it yourself if you want, but you'd be going against the source material. That said, most of that article is unsourced and has been for years. I'd prefer to delete the whole thing but since people live there, it qualifies for notability per WP:NGEO. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 01:34, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Request for quality classification reassessment for 20th Pennsylvania Infantry article
I just completed a major upgrade to the existing content for the 20th Pennsylvania Infantry article as part of the WikiProject Military history's April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive. Originally classified as Start-Class, this article had very few citations, and was missing significant data about the regiment's duty stations. So, I beefed up the article's history section, added a list of the most senior officers for each of the 20th's companies, replaced the question marks for casualty figures with information available via the 20th's registers, added a new public domain image of one of the regiment's 1861 recruiting flyers, and added and populated a new section for external resources. I believe the article now qualifies for at least C-class status (and possibly even B-Class) because it now meets the criteria for B1 through B6. How do I request reassessment of this article? 47thPennVols (talk) 00:05, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

New Pennsylvania userbox templates
New Pennsylvania userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Pennsylvania and Template:User WP United States. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk contribs 23:06, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:51, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:46, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Spelling argument in Charles Martin Hall
There has been a discussion on how to spell the word "aluminum"/"aluminium" at Talk:Charles Martin Hall. It will be greatly appreciated if you see the discussion and provide your opinions.--R8R (talk) 12:24, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much for the heads up. Just provided a response. Am hoping input from "cooler heads" will help head end the edit war. 47thPennVols (talk) 20:37, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta
Hello! Your WikiProject has been selected to participate in the WP 1.0 Bot rewrite beta. This means that, starting in the next few days or weeks, your assessment tables will be updated using code in the new bot, codenamed Lucky. You can read more about this change on the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team page. Thanks! audiodude (talk) 05:43, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
 * It would be helpful if you could provide an explanation here in layman's terms regarding what this particular bot will do and how the WikiProject Pennsylvania was selected for participation. (The link you provided in your message above really does not provide much in the way of an explanation regaring the purpose of your project. It would be useful to know why this bot may be needed, what exactly your group is proposing to test using the Pennsylvania WikiProject, how the assessment tables for the WikiProject Pennsylvania may be changed/impacted, and whether or not the changes you're making will be reversable if WikiProject Pennsylvania members find these changes do not meet the needs of the group.) Thank you in advance for your response. Kind Regards. 47thPennVols (talk) 07:43, 27 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your thoughtful consideration of this matter. You can read more about the bot at User:WP_1.0_bot. To be clear, this is not a new bot that is performing some new operation, but rather a rewrite/update of the existing "second generation" WP 1.0 bot to its "third generation". The rewrite is proceeding in parts, so currently the only part that is rewritten is the code that walks through the "Pennsylvania articles by [quality|importance]" pages and collects which articles are part of those categories.
 * we're testing the new bot on your WikiProject soon (it hasn't started yet) as a way to verify that the bot works on a small number of WikiProjects before letting it loose on a larger number. Your WikiProject was selected because it contains between 10k and 50k articles. If everything is working smoothly, you should see no difference in your assessment table(s). If something goes wrong, it would be easy to rectify the situation by switching back to the old bot.
 * I hope this answers your questions and I'd be glad to answer any more that you might have. audiodude (talk) 22:08, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Category:1999 establishments in Pittsburgh etc has been nominated for discussion
Category:1999 establishments in Pittsburgh, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for merging to its parent category. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you..

The nomination includes about 30 similar categories. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:31, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

List of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania
I'm proposing a change to List_of_towns_and_boroughs_in_Pennsylvania. I'd like this list to show all towns and boroughs in PA, whether or not they have home rule charters. This would make that list more parallel to similar lists (counties, cities, townships) in Pennsylvania, which are listed whether or not they have home rule charters. List_of_towns_and_boroughs_in_Pennsylvania. Please let me know if there is any reason not to make this change. Thanks. --SV Resolution(Talk) 18:03, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Discussions of interest
There are a number of discussions on Talk:James Martin (priest, born 1960) which may be of interest to the members of this group, in particular this RfC. Beyond My Ken (talk) 13:58, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Donald Wuerl RfC
There is an RfC open at the article for Donald Wuerl, the Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Washington D.C. and former Bishop of Pittsburgh, over whether or not content detailing his purported knowledge of sexual misconduct by Theodore McCarrick, former cardinal and his predecessor as Archbishop of Washington, should be included in the article. Here is a link to the discussion in case anyone is interested. Display name 99 (talk) 21:31, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Asking for an Article Re-Assessment
I have done extensive work on the Penn's Creek massacre page over the last few months and improved the article substantially. It is rated Start Class but I believe it should now have a higher rating. I cannot for the life of me figure out how or where to ask for one - I know I'm not supposed to assess it myself since I'm the one who did the work, but I can't find anywhere to list it to ask for someone else on the Pennsylvania project to do it. Can anyone help me out? Thanks. Lilipo25 (talk) 04:54, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Generally speaking, unless an individual Wikiproject has its own set of separate assessment criteria, anyone can assess any article, per WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ. The ratings are informal and for internal use at Wikipedia, so with the exception of FA, GA, or A-rating classifications (which have separate processes) I think it's fair for you to assess an article that work on yourself as long as you do so in good faith. That being said, I looked over your work, and that article is clearly more than a Start class now, so I've added an assessment to it myself. Nice work! — <b style="color:#C0C0C0">Hun</b><b style="color:#C0C0C0">ter</b> <b style="color:#595454">Ka</b><b style="color:#595454">hn</b> 15:58, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hunter KahnThank you very much! I appreciate your help and you taking the time to assess the article. Lilipo25 (talk) 18:15, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Brock Blomberg Article
Hello! I'm Tom and I work for Ursinus College in Montgomery County, just outside Philadelphia (as I state on my profile page and at Talk:Brock Blomberg). I've made a Wikipedia account to address some inaccurate and misleading information on the article about the college's president, Brock Blomberg. I have two outstanding requests: the first is to remove misinterpreted text, and the second is to add what I believe are well-documented details about his career. Most recently, I reached out for help at the biography of living persons noticeboard but I have not yet received a reply.

Might any members of WikiProject Pennsylvania be willing to take a look and update the article on my behalf? I'm avoiding editing the article directly because of my conflict of interest as a representative of the college. Please know this was cross-posted to WikiProject Education as well. Thank you for your consideration! TY Ursinus (talk) 18:27, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Rfc on James Martin (priest, born 1960)
There is an open RfC at Talk:James_Martin_(priest,_born_1960) that may be of interest to this community. --PluniaZ (talk) 21:56, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

S.W Randall Toyes & Gifts up for deletion
Oldest specialty toy store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]. WP:GNG questioned. <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 20:00, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
 * AFD closed per WP:HEY. But before the ink was dry ...
 * Articles for deletion/S.W. Randall Toyes and Giftes (2nd nomination) renominated for deletion. <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 12:18, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of North American Communications


The article North American Communications has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Unreferenced article created by WP:SPA, searches reveal only coverage related to closure, probable WP:NCORP fail due to lack of WP:SIGCOV by multiple WP:RS"

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AIR<b style="color: green;">corn</b> (talk) 23:39, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Daily Collegian
Would some members of this WikiProject mind taking a look this article? It underwent a major expansion recently and lots of the content seems too detailed and perhaps a bit WP:UNDUE. There are various formatting and syntax errors as well as well as quite a bit of WP:Namechecking, but it's the overall tone and excessive amount of sections (some which seem redundant (like "Prestige" and "Awards") or not really warranting such detail (like "Website redesign") that makes the article (at least in my opinion) a bit promotional in nature. Someone obviously put some time into expanding the article, but perhaps they tried to add too much. -- Marchjuly (talk) 15:30, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Compiling List of riots in Philadelphia, your assistance appreciated
Thanks for any help. MatthewVanitas (talk) 11:58, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Philadelphia Liberty Loans Parade article: Infobox correction, change Injured to Infections
Hello and good day. In the infobox, I have been trying to change Injured to Infections, but to no avail, nothing appears in the infobox. People don't get "injured" from the flu, they get infected. Should be a simple change, but the article isn't allowing me to do this. Need help correcting this. Thank you for your time.2601:581:8402:1EE0:304C:CD3D:3958:6A95 (talk) 13:18, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Switched infobox to Template:Infobox outbreak, and injured to confirmed cases (see template for other options), hope that helps...Jokulhlaup (talk) 13:53, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Move request
There is a move request you may be interested in at Talk:Stephen Hahn (oncologist).  Bait30  Talk 2 me pls? 05:54, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

New film article - Bloodlust Zombies
I created a new film article, about Bloodlust Zombies. (The film was shot in Pennsylvania). Let me know if you want to help out with further research! Thanks very much, Right cite (talk) 03:02, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

FAR for Erie
I have nominated Erie, Pennsylvania for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  14:51, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

The Philadelphia Inquirer featured article review
I have nominated The Philadelphia Inquirer for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  01:59, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Gettysburg Address Featured article review
I have nominated Gettysburg Address for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  15:06, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Category:Pennsylvania articles needing expert attention has been nominated for discussion
Category:Pennsylvania articles needing expert attention has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Peaceray (talk) 21:58, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

New articles
I noticed that the New articles section has to be manually updated. Does anyone know how to create/modify bot rules to auto-populate that list? Penndyl (talk) 03:11, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Quaker State
There is currently a move request at Talk:Quaker State which may be of interest to members of this Wikiproject. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 03:48, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

Discussion on adding Redirect Class to Template:WikiProject Pennsylvania
There is a discussion on adding the redirect class to Template:WikiProject Pennsylvania happening currently at Template Talk:WikiProject Pennsylvania. <b style="color: #ea5a5a;">Tartar</b>Torte 22:07, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Larrys Creek
I have nominated Larrys Creek for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 15:22, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Requested move: Acrisure Stadium → Heinz Field
A requested move is under discussion at. –– FormalDude   talk   21:15, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Hurricane Gloria under FA Review
I have nominated Hurricane Gloria for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. George Ho (talk) 02:36, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Featured Article Review for H.D.
I have nominated H.D. for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here Paradise Chronicle (talk) 20:01, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Featured Article Save Award for H.D.
There is a Featured Article Save Award nomination at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review/H.D./archive2. Please join the discussion to recognize and celebrate editors who helped assure this article would retain its featured status. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  01:35, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Pls see discussion
Please consider participating in discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. It could lead towards revision, merger, or other change of the Allentown, Pennsylvania and List of historic places in Allentown, Pennsylvania and List of city parks and recreation facilities of Allentown, Pennsylvania and National Register of Historic Places listings in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania articles. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 01:44, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Gettysburg has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:57, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for James Hood Wright
James Hood Wright has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  22:40, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

FAR for USS Wisconsin
I have nominated USS Wisconsin (BB-64) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 21:43, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Acrisure Stadium
Acrisure Stadium has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 21:54, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:39, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Wissahickon Skating Club
Would someone from this WikiProject take a look at Wissahickon Skating Club? The article has been around since 2010 and it doesn't appear to have ever been assessed for Wikipedia notability. Pretty much all of the article is unsupported content and it might have been subject to COI editing over the years. Googling the club's name get hits to its official website and various social media posts, but not too much more. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:24, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi. Thanks for your question. I just did a quick search on Newspapers.com, and a list of 755 articles was returned, many of which were from major newspapers. This organization has been around for more than fifty years. In addition, Princess Grace and Prince Rainier III were both in attendance when the club officially opened on October 28, 1956. They were there to watch their niece present a skating exhibition. So, just from a quick review, I'd say it does appear to be notable and worth saving. I'll take a closer look over the next several days and will add some new inline citations and address the other issues addressed by the tag. - 47thPennVols (talk) 02:44, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * That's fine and thank you for taking a look at this. I only did some very minor cleanup and if others are able to flesh things out more than that would be great. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:54, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * My pleasure. I've re-worked the article and have added more than a dozen inline citations; so, it's now in much better shape after having the two of us work on it. (It turns out that several Olympians and professional skaters have trained here. So, this gave me the chance to learn something new.) Best wishes for continued success with your editing! - 47thPennVols (talk) 05:26, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree that the article is in much better shape than it was when I posted above, and that's mainly due to your efforts. I do, however, don't really see any need for stand-alone "Pro shop" and "Public session" sections and perhaps they can be incorporated into some other part of the article, or a new more encompassing "Facilities" section could be added which could cover more information about the structure itself (if such information can be found). -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:11, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Quite honestly? I don't see a problem with these two sections being left as they are. The remaining text doesn't feel at all promotional, but instead just shows two of the historical aspects of a non-profit that has been operating for more than half a century. Also? There are so many articles on Wikipedia that are in far worse shape (awful grammar, formatting that isn't reader-friendly, historically inaccurate, and stubs about sports figures who played for less than full seasons who never truly achieved notability, for example) that I think we can both spend our time more productively by moving on to other articles that really could use our attention. - 47thPennVols (talk) 07:44, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Pennsylvania Route 237
Pennsylvania Route 237 has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 19:11, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Dthomsen8 has passed
Hello WikiProject Pennsylvania, it's been brought to my attention on my talk page prolific Wikipedian David Thomsen passed away in November 2022. He was also a prolific copy-editor at the Guild of Copy Editors, of which I'm a member. As he was a somewhat active member of this WikiProject, I'm asking if anyone here would want to collaborate on a short obituary for The Signpost. I'm also going to ask at WikiProject Philadelphia, which seems less active than this project. Feel free to get in touch on my talk page or here; I'll watchlist. Best regards,  Baffle☿gab  14:16, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 * David's obituary has been published here. Best regards,  Baffle☿gab  18:22, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Pennsylvania Dutch
I fear that, despite what may be good intentions, the articles on the Pennsylvania Dutch and the Fancy Dutch have become sprawling monstrosities in desperate need of an editorial weedwacker. Many of the claims in the interminable articles appear to be fact-free, lacking context, or poorly sourced. I don't have the time or the sanity to review all the content myself, but it is a glaring problem for what was once a sensible article. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 11:10, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Aleppo Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Aleppo Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject.  ❯❯❯  Raydann  (Talk)   20:49, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Conversation on standardization of township page names
Just a heads up that I have started a conversation at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names) to try to achieve a consensus on the page names for Pennsylvania's townships. Input from anybody here is welcome. Star Garnet (talk) 22:36, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

2022 Philadelphia shooting
2022 Philadelphia shooting has been nominated for deletion, if any project members care to participate in the ongoing discussion or otherwise improve the entry. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 14:35, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

List of speakers of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
I'm not sure if this is the correct form for this message - apologies if not. See Talk:List_of_speakers_of_the_Pennsylvania_House_of_Representatives for what I think is a piece of major and longstanding vandalism. May I seek comments? Alekksandr (talk) 20:48, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Rfc: Should the Eras Tour be mentioned in the lead of Sabrina Carpenter?
An RfC has been made here regarding whether Carpenter opening Taylor Swift's Eras Tour should be mentioned in the lead of Carpenter's biography article or not. You are invited to participate.  ℛonherry  ☘  18:09, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:16, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:7:11AM 11.20.1979 79°55'W 40°27'N
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:7:11AM 11.20.1979 79°55'W 40°27'N that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Warm Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 06:13, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Three Rivers Stadium
Three Rivers Stadium has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 18:07, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2006 West Nickel Mines School shooting
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2006 West Nickel Mines School shooting that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 09:21, 22 February 2024 (UTC)