Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pittsburgh/Archive 4

Infoboxes and coordinates
Many of the Allegheny County municipalities are missing infoboxes and/or geographic coordinates. If you could help add them, it would be greatly appreciated - you can use Infobox Settlement or. Thanks. --Schzmo (talk) 21:10, 7 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Coordinates can be added using coord. If you don't know the coordinates, you can add at the foot of the article to attract the attention of someone who might know them, or be able to find them. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 22:46, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Pittsburgh Inclines
I started a category for Pittsburgh inclines Category:Pittsburgh inclines. I know that there are historic inclines missing. I am trying to document the "Walton's coal incline", which seems to have been along the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Becks Run and Hays area. If anyone has further information, I would appreciate it. Pustelnik (talk) 03:38, 9 January 2009 (UTC) It looks like Walton ran the mines in West Elizabeth. Pustelnik (talk) 23:51, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Pennsylvania Pit Bulls and Pittsburgh Xplosion: to merge or not to merge?
Subsequent to an AfD of Pittsburgh Hardhats (closed as "merge to Pennsylvania Pit Bulls"), I proceeded to do the merge as it seemed that nobody else wanted to take a shot at it. As I was looking for additional text to "beef up" the new (combined) article, it became obvious to me that the Hardhats/Pit Bulls and the Xplosion were in fact the same franchise. But before I would try to move forward on yet another merge, I wanted some feedback regarding this and tagged both articles for a proposed merge. If there is consensus, or if there is no opposition, I intend to move ahead and perform it about 26 January 2009. What do you Pittsburghers think? B.Wind (talk) 03:08, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Perfectly okay so long as the names are noted in the Franchise history section of the infobox.  Grsz  11  03:11, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Since there has been no opposition (either here or on the target's talk page), I'll perform a "quick and dirty" merge (franchise history has already been updated) and leave the fine-tining to the appropriate people. B.Wind (talk) 18:47, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Possibility of Wikipedia Loves Art at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
I'd like to invite you folks to participate in the Wikipedia Loves Art project at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. We're in talks with them now, and it's not certain yet, but it would be great for them to know they have local people to work with, which could really increase the likelihood of this going forward. Please e-mail me soon if you're interested in helping organize, because this is starting in February. Thanks!--Pharos (talk) 03:35, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I think this is an excellent idea, and I'll try to help as much as I can. But we need others to help as well, folks (I am technically just a foreign student in Pittsburgh anyway... :). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 07:50, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I have created a subpage to decribe the event and help with organization. See Wikipedia Loves Art/Carnegie Museum of Art rules. It would be nice if more people would express interest :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 17:25, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia Pittsburgh meet-up this weekend
See details: Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Pittsburgh.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:18, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

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Origins of Towel Waving disputed by Vancouver
In the article Towel Power about the Vancouver Cannucks tradition that started in 1982, there is an editor who refuses to do research but claims towel waving in sports started with them. Despite the fact that a large portion of article is dedicated to  describing the general sports towel waving phenomia, with mention of the Homer Hanky etc, this editor insists on removing all mention of the Terrible Towel in order to further his rewriting of history. I need help maintaining the accuracy of that article, as I will soon run into the 3 revert rule. You may want to check out and help with the article and the article's discussion and add it it your watch list. CrazyPaco (talk) 18:37, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

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WikiProject Pittsburgh Three Sisters Award
I have started the Three Sisters Award for atleast one Pittsburgh-related article featured in WP:FC, WP:GA, and WP:DYK. Editors wishing to nominate themselves or others for the award can do so here. Please help me in recognizing those who have contributed to increasing Wikipedia's coverage of Pittsburgh and related topics, and I encourage you to continue doing the same. Thanks,  Grsz 11  00:53, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Nice; please add the award info to our project main page - otherwise it will get lost in talk.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 01:42, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Pittsburgh Marathon could use some love
The Pittsburgh Marathon is coming up tomorrow and is a pretty big event for the city, but the page needs some work. For reference, here are some other Marathons: -SColombo (talk) 15:19, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Boston Marathon
 * New York City Marathon
 * Los Angeles Marathon
 * Baltimore Marathon
 * List of marathons

McKeesport, Pennsylvania needs attention
Hey everyone! Just wanted to ask if you could add McKeesport, Pennsylvania to your watchlist; there have been IPs busy adding masked nonsense concerning residents. Maybe the section could be condensed into a category; each entry would need fact checked. The article is in need of references as well. Thanks for your help with this. ~ All is One ~ (talk) 13:04, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

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 10:20, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of Tepper School of Business
I have done the GA Reassessment of Tepper School of Business as part of the GA Sweeps project. I have found that the article does not meet the current GA Criteria. My review can be found here. I have put the article on hold for one week pending fixes. I am notifying all the interested projects of this. If you have any questions please contact me on my talk page. H1nkles (talk) 20:17, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Michael Chabon
I have reviewed this article as part of the GA sweeps process. The article is basically OK, but there are a number of dead links which need fixing. I have put the assessment on hold whilst these are addressed. Comments at Talk:Michael Chabon/GA1. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:34, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

New Article: Allegheny County Alcoholic Beverage Tax
I just created the Allegheny County Alcoholic Beverage Tax, which could use some expansion. I took it as far as I could...-_Blargh29 (talk) 05:24, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Collaboration request
To anybody interested, I am looking for editors interested in collaborating on Kennywood. I would like to improve this article to good article status, and hopefully later featured. Anybody interested, please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks!  Grsz 11  14:37, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

New Article: Light Up Night
I just created an article called Light Up Night, and I'd love some help beefing it up a little. If anyone knows of any good pictures from the night, that would be a tremendous boost to the article. In any case, I'm curious now how to include this article on the importance/quality project lists. Light Up Night really is one of the best parts of Pittsburgh, and it seems to be a very unique tradition. I'd love to see some links set up to it now from other Pittsburgh articles. --Blicarea (talk) 20:29, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

New Article: Pittsburgh Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority
This is a stub I just created about the Pittsburgh Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority.--Blargh29 (talk) 15:56, 28 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 add your comments.--DThomsen8 (talk) 17:29, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Economy of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Economy of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a former WPPITT requested article, is a current subject of an educational assignment and a Good Article Nominee. Please feel free to join the review and suggest at that article's talk page how it may be further improved.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 20:44, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Port of Pittsburgh Commission is a state agency
The Port of Pittsburgh Commission, an agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, does port development and operations in twelve southwestern Pennsylvania counties. An article on this agency is needed. Starting reference:

http://www.port.pittsburgh.pa.us/home/index.asp

Allegheny County Port Authority is a transit agency, and despite its name, has nothing to do with port development. Perhaps at its inception it was authorized to do so. Perhaps some history buff for Pittsburgh can find out the details, but it is a trivial point. --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:10, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Good free image source on Flickr
Here is a good source of free Pittsburgh-related images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccbarr/. Many of them are from festivals and events around Pittsburgh, including the Three Rivers Arts Festival and Pittsburgh Three Rivers Regatta.--Blargh29 (talk) 04:21, 10 December 2009 (UTC)