Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Seattle/Archive 1

message: Can we make some assertion like "all related pages should be classified either in :Category:Seattle, WA, :Category:Seattle metropolitan area, or a subcategory of one of these categories? 
-- Jmabel 19:31, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)
:Done. ShadowDragon 19:43, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

message: I spent part of my lunch break yesterday wandering around taking pictures of landmarks close to my work that have articles.  (Pike Place Market, Alaskan Way Viaduct, Nordstrom)  I started compiling a list of things that I think I ought to photograph on  my user page, but I'm wondering if it would it be useful to have a list of Seattle-area articles that would like photographs on the project page?  I'm not sure if this is within the project scope so I thought I'd ask. -- wac 19:49, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Man, this has been languishing for about 2 years. Let's start a list of what photos are still needed; maybe a few of us could do some photo expeditions to fill in the blanks? - Jmabel | Talk 04:47, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Can we throw an update of the map in here? --Lukobe 05:24, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Sure, add it! (List is on project page.) - Jmabel | Talk 02:10, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Photos

message: I like this template they have for Portland, Oregon: 
...should we do something similar here? What's our architecture coverage like? --Lukobe 21:25, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  architecture 

message: Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Titoxd(?!? - help us) 18:51, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team|Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team]] cooperation 

message: Please join the discussion at Talk:Seattle, Washington. Thanks. --Polaron | Talk 14:24, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move "Seattle, Washington" --> "Seattle" 

message: I just noticed that the project does not have a banner.  I am personally trying to place the banner of every project on the talk page of every article I run into.  Would you want me to tag articles relevant to your project, possibly with the {WikiProjectNotice|Seattle} tag, or not to tag at all?  Badbilltucker 17:04, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just made one (or at least the draft of one): . - Jmabel | Talk 01:00, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there a project banner? 

message: Note from llywrch on my talk page:
:[copied]
:I've been trying to get some more information out of Jimmy Wales about his visit to Portland, but I haven't heard anything back from him. Maybe I don't have the right email address to contact him about this. -- llywrch 18:17, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: [end copied]
- Jmabel | Talk 18:26, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: Portland Meetup 

message: Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory.  This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.   B2T2 19:25, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project directory 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention.  Badbilltucker 22:25, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: Two things:
1) Joe, sorry to see you go inactive.
2) I just created this template, based on the one for Philadelphia/Delaware Valley. Modifications are more than welcome. Template:Seattle_Corporations
--Lukobe 18:17, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seattle Corporations / Jmabel 

message: I've noticed that there does not seem to be a Washington Wikiproject. I'm wondering if there would be any interest in establishing one, or any objection if I chose to set one up. Regards, Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 04:15, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Washington]] 

message: Is there anyone interested in helping me with some of the Seattle related transportation articles?  I've created articles for South Lake Union Streetcar and University Link. I've also worked on expanding Link Light Rail to include a partial history section. As you can tell from the edit histories for those articles I went on a bit of a tear late Feb/early Mar, but ran out of steam since then. I'll probably start updating the articles (Particularly the Link Light Rail article) in the next week or so, but I could definitely do with some assistance with the content. Thanks!--Bobblehead 08:26, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks--made a few tweaks. --Lukobe 06:18, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transportation articles 

message: At :Commons:Category:Kubota Garden, I've added some rather nice pictures of Kubota Garden. However, I know very little about plants, and about the formalities of Japanese gardens, and right now the captions just say that it is part of this (20 acre) garden. If anyone can help identify particular plants or formal elements, please enhance my captions. - Jmabel | Talk 04:50, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Joe--are any of the shots featuring water of Mapes Creek? --Lukobe 06:17, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kubota Garden 

message: Does anyone know anything about this contingent at the Fremont Solstice Parade and Pageant? I'd guess that they are actual sufis, not people just dressing up for a parade. If someone knows more about them, could you ping me on my user talk page, because I'm not active enough on Wikipedia these days to be using my watchlist. - Jmabel | Talk 22:35, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I got something of an answer. They are the "Lovers of Mevlana" and, yes, they are "real". - Jmabel | Talk 23:38, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fremont Fair: sufis? 

message: I was surprised that there wasn't an article on him considering he's being covered by CNN and Fox News. I went ahead and started one but "true crime" and news related articles are certainly not my forte. Any help would be appreciated. AgneCheese/Wine 01:39, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Terapon Adhahn]]

message: Hello all, I joined the project today.  I made a template for Seattle Skyscrapers and put it at Template:Seattle_Skyscrapers.  Then I added it to the articles about all the buildings listed at over twenty floors in the list of Seattle Buildings.  I know that there are more.  The list seems quite incomplete.  Apparently, there's no article about the Municipal Tower, for example (or it's officially known by a different name, I'll keep searching).  I also added the WikiProject Seattle tag to all of the articles about the buildings as well as the articles about the Paramount Theatre and the Carlin Hotel.  
I wanted to make a category of Seattle Templates, to group all of our templates under one roof so we can see how many we have and add them to articles that need them.  I tried to do that, but I don't think I did it correctly.  The link still appears red.  Any help?  
Peace, Joshua Crowgey 22:02, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Including templates in a category is tricky. I believe what you need to do is to add the category to each relevant template, but inside a <noinclude> section to avoid including it when using the template. - Jmabel | Talk 08:24, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Looks like a Palestinian flag to me, but kinda hard to tell for sure. Murderbike 19:43, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Seattle buildings

message: I'm going to be doing some photo taking around the Burien/Des Moines/Federal Way/Kent area suburbs to help with those pages. I did ones for the Highline Botanical Garden and Highline High School. There's a lot of the smaller suburbs that have pages but no pics, and I'm working on fixing that. I also want to get one of the T-Mobile USA headquarters in Factoria, since that page only has a pic of some random store in San Jose. -- Jwinters | Talk 18:32, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Burien-area suburbs photos 

message: As part of the Notability wikiproject, I am trying to sort out whether Stop the Draft is notable enough for an own article. I would appreciate an expert opinion. For details, see the article's talk page. If you can spare some time, please add your comments there. Thanks! --B. Wolterding 09:40, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expert review: Stop the Draft 

message: This is now about 90% complete, but some of what remains is probably going to be difficult. Here's a list of the ones that I think are going to be at least somewhat tough; please help maintain the list as we sort some of this out.
(Status details, previously here, are now at Talk:List of Registered Historic Places in King County, Washington#Seattle photos status.)
*Adventuress: Now in Port Townsend
* John B. Agen Property
*Duwamish Number 1 Site: Discussed above
*MV Vashon
*MV Westward
*Judge James T. Ronald House: Location a mystery Solved Jmabel | Talk
*SS San Mateo: dying up in Canada, as discussed above
*Schooner Martha
*Showboat Theater: Demolished. Does anyone have a photo?
*(Old) Temple De Hirsch: I have a picture of the ruins; does anyone have an old photo of the building intact?
;Tracy House: actually in Normandy Park
;Wagner Houseboat
;Zodiac: I believe it's now in Bellingham DONE - Jmabel | Talk 07:42, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: DONE Jmabel | Talk
Note, by the way, that for a lot of these it would still be great to get interiors; there are only about 15 or 20 with any interior shots to speak of, mostly churches. - Jmabel | Talk 19:40, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

text: I had to run to Spokane for a couple days, so won't be back in Seattle to get those til the weekend. HOWEVER, I'll be in Bellingham next week, so if you know where the Zodiac is moored, I can get that too. Murderbike 22:18, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fairhaven Cruise Terminal, if it is in port. It apparently winters in Seattle, so if you don't get it in B'ham, no crisis. - Jmabel | Talk 23:51, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Seattle/NRHP photos status

message: Take a peek at :Everett Public Library and help decide if it should stay or go. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 03:51, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Visit the suburbs 

message: Seattle, Washington has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. LaraLove 17:16, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks to me like we've pretty much gotten this back together. Does anyone want to make an editorial  pass through for style, etc.? - Jmabel | Talk 20:26, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article definitely needs some copy editing. Lukobe has volunteered to do some when he gets time, but I'm not entirely sure how much time the article has before the the FARC hammer comes down. Although, I'm not sure on how together we have the rest of the article. They keep mentioning citation problems, but we've added about a hundred since this whole thing started and they haven't been overly descriptive as to what citation problems remain. --Bobblehead (rants) 21:30, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll do a copyedit pass now and will slap a "please let me work" tag on while I'm doing it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lukobe (talk • contribs) 23:18, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops! Anyway--I made it as far as "Culture"--gotta stop for today. --Lukobe 00:27, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Definite improvements so far.  --Bobblehead (rants) 02:24, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like the article passed its FAR movement! Thanks everyone.... --Lukobe (talk) 03:54, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  FAR notice 

message: Just FYI, Ballard Carnegie Library is up for GA review, if anyone wants to take a pass at it. It's a old library building in Seattle. • Lawrence Cohen 15:04, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pending GA review of [[Ballard Carnegie Library]] 

message: Joe Szwaja is also up for GA review, if you can lend a hand. He is a Green party politician in Seattle. • Lawrence Cohen 15:06, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pending GA review of [[Joe Szwaja]] 

message: I've recently done major work on Century 21 Exposition, and have nominated it for GA. - Jmabel | Talk 18:06, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: GA nomination: [[Century 21 Exposition]] 

message: I've started :Commons:Category:Seattle, Washington before 1950. Unsurprisingly, it's mostly images that were published pre-1923, hence public domain. But any nth-generation Seattlites with old family photos are very encouraged to add them. And anyone with access to old books, similarly.
Does anyone have the official program of the A-Y-P exposition? I imagine it contained some images worth having. How about a postcard of Luna Park from while it still existed? (If you have things like this and you are in the Seattle area but lack a scanner, contact me and we can work something out). - Jmabel | Talk 20:34, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you checked this page out:  It has a large number of A-Y-P images. The page says the images are protected, but being from 1909 I'm not sure if that's possible.. Could be vague enough to exclude their use though. --Bobblehead (rants) 22:55, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's their permissions request form. http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/reproduction/permissions.html -- could ask, or could just use under the theory the photos are so old. --Lukobe 23:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Seattle images 

message: We really need a good map for the Seattle article. (I removed the old one a while back because it was a work in progress and work stopped rather early in that progress). Any thoughts? The request seems to be going unnoticed. --Lukobe (talk) 04:15, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you give an example of a map of another city that is the sort of thing you have in mind? - Jmabel | Talk 00:35, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hmm--I looked at Philadelphia, New York, and L.A., and none of them had what I was thinking of...but basically an updated version of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Seattle_map.png --Lukobe 07:48, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Looks like the new Portal:Seattle's using the old map.. --Lukobe 07:50, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

text: Other than changing "Seahawks Stadium" to "Qwest Field", what else would you want changed? - Jmabel | Talk 07:32, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess I mean expanded, not updated--there are no landmarks on this map north of Woodland Park or south of Alki Point (with the exception of Seward Park). The freeways and some major arterials might be nice as well. --Lukobe 07:34, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree on the freeways. And maybe we should add the route of the new Link Light Rail? As for landmarks, though: I'd be hard pressed to name a landmark north of Woodland Park. Maybe North Seattle Community College and the Northgate Mall?  Not a lot south of Alki, either. Maybe Georgetown? Columbia City? If we're adding those then, more centrally, either Capitol Hill or the Broadway District as such merit mention. The only other landmarks to the south I can think of are (in the southwest) South Seattle Community College and (in the southeast) Kubota Park. Anyone have others to propose? - Jmabel | Talk 22:06, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, since it looks like some parks make it as landmarks (e.g., Discovery), then Magnuson and Golden Gardens would count in the north, too, and Jefferson in the south... ---Lukobe (talk) 07:02, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not being a golfer, I rarely think of Jefferson Park as anything but an obstacle, but I suppose that to many it is a landmark. Then should we add Jackson Park, too? And by the way, does someone want to take on doing this? - Jmabel | Talk 21:24, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: Hey guys, i thought i'd do you a favour and create a shortcut to your page, just type in WP:STL and you'll get a direct link to the WikiProject, its much easier i have found after creating my WikiProject, WP:WLA or WikiProject Los Angeles, if you dont like it feel free to delete it. Cheers, (♠Taifarious1♠) 22:24, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm all for shortcuts, though this one might confuse people, as STL is the code for St. Louis, Missouri. Maybe WP:SEA is available? Murderbike (talk) 22:35, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There doesn't seem to be a wikiproject for St. Louis, so I went ahead and created WP:SEA and we now have both pointing towards this Wikiproject. If St. Louis ever gets a wikiproject, they can swipe the STL link. --Bobblehead (rants) 22:45, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Does'nt worry me, I just thought it'd be easier. (♠Taifarious1♠) 06:39, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Shortcut

message: I took a ton of photos on Monday, which I am uploading in :Commons:Category:Moore 100 Open House Celebration (or in some cases just in :Commons:Category:Moore Theatre and Hotel). Mostly, I can identify the notable people in these images, but there was a somewhat rotating "house band" at the end, where I cannot identify all the individuals. I'm going to be asking for some help here. Photos should appear here over the next several days. Photos are all uploaded 23:53, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm pretty sure that's not Dave. Last time I saw him, in September 2007, his hair was indeed short and curly. Even if he'd let it grow since then, I don't think it'd have had time to get that long by now, and also it would be very curly. He gets a bit of an afro when he lets it grow. I doubt he's taken to using an iron :) --Lukobe (talk) 00:47, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, Kate just wrote me again and says basically so much for ID'ing people from a distance at the tail end of a party. - Jmabel | Talk 05:04, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moore 100 Open House Celebration