Title
WikiProject Philadelphia
Introduction
WikiProject Philadelphia is a project to better organize information in articles related to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all.
To help, please inquire on the discussion page and see the to-do list there.
Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate, organize and develop all Wikipedia activities concerning the City of Brotherly Love and the Delaware Valley.
Parentage
The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities.
Descendant WikiProjects
No descendent WikiProjects have been defined as of yet.
Participants and primary areas of interest
- CComMack
- CobaltBlueTony 01:29, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
- Evrik
- Gorgeousp
- ike9898
- john k 06:28, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
- Kyle
- Looper5920
- MechBrowman 21:02, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
- meebly 06:10, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
- Pacdude
- South Philly - South Philly, of course
- Spikebrennan 23:12, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
- Thoth
Structure
Naming conventions
Categories
I think we should name all the subcategories the same. They should be in either this format:
Landmarks of Philadelphia
Media in Philadelphia
Neighborhoods of Philadelphia
Organizations in Philadelphia
or this format
Philadelphia Landmarks
Philadelphia Media
Philadelphia neighborhoods
Philadelphia organizations
and not mixed. South Philly 02:02, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Articles
No naming conventions have yet been defined.
Hierarchy definition
The top level page for this is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
No secondary level pages have yet been defined.
Goals and Projects
Goals
- Improve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to featured status.
- Standardization - Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia/RulesStandards
- building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles, including elimination of all redlinks on List of Philadelphia neighborhoods.
- Standardization of articles relating to SEPTA.
WikiProject ToDo list
- Improve upon Portal:Philadelphia part of the Wikiportals.
General strategy and discussion forums
Templates
- {{portalpar|Philadelphia}} Please put this at the top of all article main pages (see the "How you can help" section on this page for more details)
- {{WikiProject Philadelphia}} Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages.
- Article Templates
- {{User WikiProject Philadelphia}}
- {{user Philly}} to place the Philadelphia Userbox on your page
This user lives in or hails from Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Meetup
Of interest to members of this project in travel distance of Center City, Philadelphia; it has been proposed to have a Wikipedia Meetup in the near future, and possibly on a regular basis if there is sufficient response. See the meetup page for details.
Similar WikiProjects
Other WikiProjects covering individual cities can be a good source of mutual inspiration:
- US Cities and regions
- Canadian Cities
- European Cities
- Australian Cities