Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania

Goals

1. Improve Pennsylvania articles to featured status.
2. Standardization - Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania/Rules and Standards
3. Building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles, including elimination of all redlinks.

Announcements

Pennsylvania Article received a GA rating.

Participants

1. Alphageekpa
2. ChrisGriswold (talk · contribs)
3. ClairSamoht
4. Dddstone
5. --M@rēino
6. PAWiki
7. Ruhrfisch
8. User:Scott Mingus, Pennsylvania Civil War articles
9. South Philly - email me for my opinion
10. Squamate
11. SkaBat169
12. Jmpenzone
13. Thisisbossi - Small fixes, assessments, and larger mods to LanCo/Berks area.
14. Myselfalso ^(talk)
15. Dincher
16. Internazionale
17. WTGDMan1986
18. wikipeep 494
19. User:dhaluza
20. BSA Archery -The Poconos
21. Coemgenus
22. Marphilly
23. V60 ^{VTalk - VDemolitions}
24. Wikihermit ^{Htalk - Hworks}
25. Superken - Revolutionary History

Participants in WikiProject Philadelphia available to help

1. evrik

Structure

General strategy, Goals, Projects and discussion forums

• /General
• /Rules & Standards – Our agreed-upon rules and standards

WikiProject requests list

Please add new requests here

• New Requests
• Hollidaysburg Area Public Library
• Hinduism in Pennsylvania
• Martin Meylin Gunshop
• Housing in Pennsylvania‎. Sources:
  • Category:Housing in Pennsylvania‎
  • Housing Needs By State: Pennsylvania‎, Washington, DC: National Low Income Housing Coalition, retrieved October 24, 2020
  • "Pennsylvania‎", COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard, Eviction Lab, retrieved October 24, 2020
  • "Pennsylvania‎ Homelessness Statistics", Usich.gov, Washington DC: U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, retrieved October 24, 2020
  • (Pennsylvania‎+housing), Digital Public Library of America (assorted materials)
  • (Pennsylvania‎+housing), UK: Core.ac.uk (assorted materials)
  • (Pennsylvania‎+housing), Germany: Base-search.net (assorted materials) -- Best regards, -- M2545 (talk) 14:09, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
• Eighth Ward in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Penndyl (talk) 14:48, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Assessment

Pennsylvania articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	8	44	44			98
FL		4	9	11			24
A			5				5
GA	2	21	91	334		1	449
B	13	185	738	904		27	1,867
C	8	168	671	3,624		54	4,525
Start	11	65	3,291	21,315	1	77	24,760
Stub		1	99	6,263	1	55	6,419
List		16	83	492	9	12	612
Category			1	2	6,597		6,600
Disambig				2	262		264
File					354		354
Portal					99		99
Project				2	34		36
Redirect		2	36	649	1,137		1,824
Template		1		1	680		682
NA					3		3
Other				1	40		41
Assessed	36	471	5,068	33,644	9,217	226	48,662
Unassessed			1	3	1	230	235
Total	36	471	5,069	33,647	9,218	456	48,897
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 186,907			Ω = 4.90

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• WikiProject Pittsburgh
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Images

Free image sources for the United States
Source	License	Tag
Wikimedia Commons (Cat:United States)	Various	N/A
Historic American Buildings Survey ([1])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov}}
Historic American Engineering Record ([2])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov}}
Historic American Landscapes Survey	P.D	{{PD-USGov}}
National Park Service ([3] and [4])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}}
U.S. Coast Guard ([5])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DHS-CG}}
Library of Congress - American Memory ([6])	P.D.	{{LOC-image}}
Library of Congress - Prints and Photographs ([7])	P.D. (not all)	{{LOC-image}}
NOAA ([8])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DOC-NOAA}}
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ([9])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov}}
Creative Commons (by,sa) on Flickr ([10])	C.C.	{{cc-by-2.0}}{{cc-by-sa-2.0}}
U.S. Department of Agriculture ([11])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov}}

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