Wikipedia:WikiProject Pittsburgh

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WikiProject Pittsburgh was started on August 29, 2006 to coordinate work for and expand coverage of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and related subjects in the English Wikipedia.

Anyone who is interested in contributing, please sign up below and post any ideas and suggestions on the Talk page. Also, feel free to edit this page and add any articles that need serious work or that you feel require attention below in the Tasks section.

Contents 1 Scope 2 News 3 Relations 3.1 Parent WikiProjects 3.2 Sister WikiProjects 3.3 Descendant WikiProjects 3.4 Similar WikiProjects 4 Members 4.1 Meetups 5 Tasks 5.1 Continuous 5.1.1 Change patrol 5.2 Wikiproject Pittsburgh Organization 5.3 Articles needing attention 5.3.1 Specific needs 5.4 Requested articles 6 Resources 6.1 Categories 6.2 Templates 6.3 Images 6.4 Sources and references

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to coordinate development of and improvements to articles related to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the surrounding metropolitan area in Western Pennsylvania, including Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Washington, and Westmoreland Counties.

This works to elevate the Pittsburgh city article to Featured Article status, improve existing Pittsburgh-related articles, and create new articles for Pittsburgh-related subjects that don't have articles yet. We may also seek to create Portal:Pittsburgh.

This is an open project that is owned and controlled by all its members. Its open tasks are a compilation generated by many of its members. All concerns with elements of this project should be discussed on the Talk page.

[edit] News

• August 29, 2006: WikiProject Pittsburgh begins.

[edit] Relations

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

WikiProject Pittsburgh takes over what the following projects would ordinarily handle but which is a Pittsburgh-related subject. Project overlap should be avoided.

• WikiProject Cities / WikiProject U.S. cities
• WikiProject Pennsylvania

[edit] Sister WikiProjects

• WikiProject Philadelphia
• WikiProject Pennsylvania State Highways

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

No descendent WikiProjects have been defined as of yet.

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See also: List of U.S. WikiProjects

[edit] Members

Main article: :Category:WikiProject Pittsburgh members

See also: :Category:Wikipedians in Pittsburgh

To become a project member, please edit this section to add your name, along with a short bio to the bottom. You may also add the {{PittsburghWikiProject-Member}} banner or the {{User WPPGH}} userbox to your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project.

1. ChrisGriswold (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves) — I've lived in Pittsburgh since 1997, when I began my studies at the University of Pittsburgh. I am a producer for Friday Nite Improvs, Pittsburgh's longest-running comedy/theatre show and the creator of the "overheard" site Overheard in Pittsburgh.
2. FireSpike (talk • contribs) - I live in Pittsburgh and I'm looking for a way to help Wikipedia and boost my edit count.
3. Myselfalso (talk • contribs) - I lived in Pittsburgh from 1985 - 1990 and have been a frequent visitor since. I still consider it home.
4. Paschmitts (talk • contribs) - Went to college in Pittsburgh from 1979 to 1984, returned to become permanent resident in 1991.
5. Squamate (talk • contribs) - Born in the Pittsburgh metro area and lived there for over 20 years.
6. Nathan412 (talk • contribs) - High school student, lives in McKees Rocks.
7. Rauterkus (talk • contribs) of the South Side, Libertarian, candidate for public office, activist, swim coach, parent, and blogger, [1].
8. Weatherman1126 (talk • contribs) - born and raised in Pittsburgh
9. Cat Parade (talk • contribs) - Been living in pgh for 5 years now, minus some minor excursions elsewhere. Moving to Ireland (hopefully) soon, but until then I'm trying to enjoy pgh to the fullest. Bike messenger, computer engineer, minor-edit wikipedian, and downtown resident (yes, people do live downtown).
10. RiverHockey (talk • contribs) - Lived in Greenfield section of Pittsburgh my entire life.
11. Carboneyes (talk • contribs) - I am a student here.
12. Typofixer76 (talk • contribs) - 25-year resident of the metro area, esp. familiar with roads & bus system.
13. Peteritism (talk • contribs) - Live in the Pittsburgh metro area. Work especially on Washington County including the local towns and education.
14. ronjamin (talk • contribs) - Chief Information Officer for Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation.
15. brighterorange (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves) — CMU student since 1997. Admin, likes photographing things.
16. Clarkbhm (talk • contribs) - I've lived in Pittsburgh since 2000, both in Squirrel Hill and Mt. Lebanon
17. Globalburgh (talk • contribs) - I married into Pittsburgh, but currently live in the Front Range of Colorado. I am currently engaged in a project to network the Pittsburgh Diaspora: [2].
18. Tomcool (talk • contribs) - I live in Miami, but grew up near Pittsburgh. The family's roots in Pittsburgh go back several generations; for example, my ggg-grandfather, William Alston, worked on the second Courthouse and first Ninth Street bridge. I contribute to the History of Pittsburgh article and other Pittsburgh-related articles.
19. Deedee19482 (talk • contribs) - I currently live on the Allegheny/Westmorland County border. I grew up in Washington County and lived on the East End and eastern suburbs for fifteen years. I was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania. I'm now 35.
20. Sand Squid (talk • contribs) - Born in Pittsburgh. Lived in various cities worldwide, currently living in Williamsburg, Virginia.
21. Pudowski (talk • contribs) - I've been living in Pittsburgh for 10 years and have grown to love it. I'd like to help grow the amount of information about Pittsburgh in the Wikipedia. I'd enjoy taking photos to contribute to Pittsburgh-related articles.
22. spidersense215 (talk • contribs) - My fiance just moved to the city, and I'll following her sometime in May-June of '07, and visiting frequently until then. I'd love to help in anyway I can.
23. AgentSka (talk • contribs)- I grew up in Pittsburgh and am attending Duquesne.I'd be happy to help with video footage for wiki.
24. BlackBear (talk • contribs) - I don't currently live in Pittsburgh, but I visit it a lot and would be glad to help.
25. Harmar5 (talk • contribs) - I'm a college student born in Pittsburgh, living in the Burgh. I plan on adding much content to the founding and history of the city.
26. Alekjds (talk • contribs) - I've lived in Pittsburgh my entire life, and am interested in helping to add anything useful to Pittsburgh-related articles.
27. Piotrus (talk • contribs) - living here since mid-2005 and likely till 2010.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  03:59, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
28. Rebelyeahright (talk • contribs) - I've lived here most of my life and will continue for at least several more years.
29. hholt01 (talk • contribs) - Pittsburgh born and bred though now in the sunbelt, have a great passion for everything and anything Pittsburgh especially things that make us #1 or world's first, someday I hope to be Rick Sebak!!
30. Jvbishop (talk • contribs) Live in Pittsburgh now but originally from KC
31. Patricknoddy (talk • contribs)
32. AMStecker (talk • contribs) — Born and raised in the 'Burgh, would love to be involved, even though I'm new to the wikicommunity.
33. Write_On_1983 (talk • contribs) - Born and raised in Pittsburgh and love everything about this fair tahn.
34. pontzer78 (talk • contribs) - Just moved here but know the city extremely well. Love this unique city.
35. jwander (talk • contribs) - A Republican elected local official.

[edit] Meetups

For information on meetup opportunities involving Pittsburgh Wikipedians, see Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Pittsburgh.

[edit] Tasks

Feel free to add any Pittsburgh-related articles that need to be addressed or improved, in addition to general tasks. When adding an existing article, ensure that the article is catalogued for the project ({{PittsburghWikiProject}} is on the article's talk page).

[edit] Continuous

• Keep Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as compact as possible, moving as much details into sub-articles as is reasonable.
• Keep all Pittsburgh-related articles properly categorized.
• Patrol changes to Pittsburgh-related articles.
  • I went article by article in the Pittsburgh Film list and clarified and added information about each films Pittsburgh connections mostly 2000's and 1990's so far. I encourage others to help on this, I am focused on making it tasteful and informative not simply local boosterism.Hholt01 22:38, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
  • I am going down the list of WVU football and basketball stars (many of whom are from the 7 county metro) and adding the metro born ones that are not already on the People from Pittsburgh site and the non-category site as well.Hholt01 22:38, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
• Add {{PittsburghWikiProject}} to the talk pages of all Pittsburgh-related articles.
• Add the {{Pittsburgh-stub}} template to all existing Pittsburgh-related stub articles.
• Add all Pittsburgh-related articles that get frequent changes or are susceptible to vandalism to the Project Watchlist.
• Target Pittsburgh-related articles to take to Good or Featured status.

[edit] Change patrol

To ensure that all changes to Pittsburgh-related pages are sound, here are "recent changes" pages to aid in that endeavor:

• ALL CATALOGUED: Recent changes to all pages catalogued for WikiProject Pittsburgh
• MAIN ARTICLE: Recent changes to all pages linked to from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania article
• SELECTED LIST: Recent changes to project-covered articles that get frequent changes or are susceptible to vandalism
  • Edit /Watchlist to add articles to this list

[edit] Wikiproject Pittsburgh Organization

• Identify and list all Pittsburgh-related infoboxes and navigational templates on a subpage, and consider the development of new ones.
• Update {{PittsburghWikiProject}} to accept parameters for the article's project task priority and quality assessment grade, which would affect how the template displays as well as how the article is categorized for the project.
• Add a quality assessment scale on a subpage, listing all pages that fit into various grade levels.
• Plan and develop Portal:Pittsburgh (See Portal:Philadelphia for an example).
• Develop a guideline for creating new Pittsburgh-related articles.
• Create an award to honor exceptional contributions to the project (See WikiProject Philadelphia's Liberty Bell).

[edit] Articles needing attention

A continuous goal of this project is to improve sub-articles referenced in the Pittsburgh city article as well as any article related to the subject of Pittsburgh. This section aims to list the articles with the greatest current need.

Also, see the full list of all Pittsburgh-related stubs. Project members should try to improve stubs at least to the point where the stub notices can be removed.

[edit] Specific needs

[edit] Requested articles

These are potential articles that project members have requested be created for the Wikipedia. If you know of a notable subject for an article that isn't listed here and want to create the article right away, please do so.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Categories

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | WikiProject Pittsburgh | WikiProject Pittsburgh Members | Pittsburgh stubs | Wikipedians in Pittsburgh | Wikipedia requested photographs in Pennsylvania

[edit] Templates

The following are templates related to WikiProject Pittsburgh:

What to type / Why to use	What it makes
{{PittsburghWikiProject}} Designates an article as part of WikiProject Pittsburgh. Placed on the article's Talk page.	WikipediaWikiProject Pittsburgh is part of WikiProject Pittsburgh, which is building a comprehensive guide to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, its metropolitan area on Wikipedia. To participate, you can edit the attached article, join or discuss the project. Editors are currently needed to tag Pittsburgh-related articles with {{pghproj}}. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.
{{PittsburghWikiProject-Member}} Designates a user as a member of WikiProject Pittsburgh. Placed on a member's user page and/or talk page.	{{PAGENAME}} is a member of WikiProject Pittsburgh, a project which aims to coordinate work for and expand coverage of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and related subjects on Wikipedia. Please feel free to join the project.
{{Pittsburgh-stub}} Designates an article as a Pittsburgh-related stub. Placed at the bottom of the article.	This Pittsburgh-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{User WPPGH}} Designates a user as a member of WikiProject Pittsburgh. Placed on the member's user page and/or talk page. Can be used in addition to or instead of the above banner.	This user is a member of WikiProject Pittsburgh.
{{User Pittsburgh}} Designates that a user is from Pittsburgh. Placed on the member's user page and/or talk page. Doesn't require membership to use.	This user lives in or hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
{{Pittsburgh Star}} Recognizes an editor's efforts to improve articles concerning the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, as well as WikiProject Pittsburgh. Just add "{{subst:Pittsburgh Star|message ~~~~}}" to an editor's talk page, filling in a message to let them know why they have received it.	The Pittsburgh Star {{{1}}}

[edit] Images

Free image sources for the United States
Source	License	Tag
Historic American Buildings Survey ([3])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-HABS}}
National Park Service ([4] and [5])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}}
U.S. Coast Guard ([6])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DHS-CG}}
Library of Congress ([7])	P.D.	{{LOC-image}}
NOAA ([8])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DOC-NOAA}}
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ([9])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-FWS}}
U.S. Department of Agriculture ([10])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-USDA}}
Add more free image sources

For Pennsylvania-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphotoin|Pennsylvania}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Pennsylvania. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

[edit] Sources and references

Please list helpful references below:

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Pittsburgh City Paper
• Pitt News
• The Tartan (CMU's paper)