Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Boston

message: I am helping User:Dominic with the upload of Historical photographs of public schools in Boston to Commons. All together I will upload ~350 historical images from Boston. I am already doing some basic categorization, but I am unfamiliar with the city, its geography and history, so I can use some help categorizing those images (and subcategories of Category:Public schools in Boston by name), geotagging them and adding them to articles. Thanks --Jarekt (talk) 03:59, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[commons:Category:Historical photographs of public schools in Boston|Historical photographs of public schools in Boston]] 

message: Hello! I updated the Neighborhoods in Boston article to reflect the City of Boston's new neighborhood designations, but I'm not familiar enough with the sub-neighborhoods in "List of places and squares within neighborhood areas" to properly split Allston-Brighton and Dorchester & Mid Dorchester. I moved a few sub-neighborhoods from Dorchester to Mid Dorchester based on the City website's description, but can someone else check if any of the neighborhoods listed under Dorchester belong under Mid Dorchester? And can someone split up Allston & Brighton? Thanks! Nadhika99 (talk) 08:37, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neighborhoods in Boston update 

message: Can anyone in the Boston area get some free shots of the "Good Will Hunting" bench in the Public Gardens, as people are currently using it as a tribute for Robin Williams and it would be nice to get some shots of that for his article. (Will also ask as Mass. project). --MASEM (t) 03:23, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo requests of the "Good Will Hunting" bench for Robin Williams tribute 

message: Hi all, there currently is a discussion on the talk page at Fort Hill, Roxbury about moving the page to Fort Hill, Boston. Fort Hill, Boston currently redirects to Fort Point, as an indicator for the hill that previously was located in the neighborhood. There is also a suggestion about leaving [Fort_Hill,_Boston|Fort Hill, Boston]] as a disambiguation page. Any input would be appreciated. Chambers617 (talk) 23:38, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to move the page for the Fort Hill neighborhood located within Roxbury to Fort Hill, Boston 

message: I've been thinking that it's time the MBTA had its own WikiProject, so I've created a proposal page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this! Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty | Averted crashes 19:48, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority 

message: Note your input is also sought on the several proposed names and scopes, made as this proposal has been reviewed.
Your input is still sought on the proposed WikiProject Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Thank You — Lentower (talk) 20:36, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Several proposed names/scopes

message: This is a notice about :Category:Boston articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 18:34, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expert attention 

message: I started some Chinese-language articles on Quincy, Massachusetts (:zh:昆西 (马萨诸塞州)) subjects and I also added some Chinese descriptions to images. Is anyone interested in checking them out?
WhisperToMe (talk) 11:43, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese articles on Quincy 

message: Lombardo's Function Facility is in Randolph, and it could use some work. I've done what I can, but it's still up for deletion. Any help is appreciated. ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 05:41, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lombardo's Function Facility in Randolph 

message: A WP:COI editor has questions and wishes to add non-neutral, coi content to Armenian Heritage Park. Please see Talk:Armenian Heritage Park and respond. Thanks, --Hammersoft (talk) 19:57, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Talk:Armenian Heritage Park]] 

message: An anonymous editor posted a claim at Talk:The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog#Original quotation that The Boston Journal published the phrase over a month before the currently known oldest publication of the phrase. According to the editor, it was published in the Monday, February 9, 1885 edition. Could someone go to the Boston Public Library and confirm this (preferably with a scan to post on Commons)? The Boston Public Library has the The Boston Journal on microfilm (call number AN2.M4B6435). Kaldari (talk) 04:44, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: First person to post a scan wins a barnstar! Kaldari (talk) 04:49, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

text: Library stuff, right up your alley, right?  I'm in Seattle until the end of the week for a WMF offsite; if no one tackles this before I get back, I might be able to chase the reference down. (It would be helpful to remind me on the 24th.) C. Scott Ananian (talk) 16:46, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Back in Boston? Surely there are few activies in Boston more fun than combing through old microfilm looking for pangrams! Kaldari (talk) 06:34, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ok, going to go this afternoon!  Should be fun... C. Scott Ananian (talk) 17:05, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

text:  The BPL's microfilm of the Boston *Weekly* Journal is missing all issues between 22 Sep 1881 and 23 Dec 1886.  Trying the Boston *Morning* Journal now, maybe that's the one; its entry says "aka The Boston Journal".  There's no paper called just "the Boston Journal", except for one started in 1991. C. Scott Ananian (talk) 20:51, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sounds like The Boston Journal article might need some updates as well :) That's too bad about the missing issues. Hope it's in the Boston Morning Journal instead. Kaldari (talk) 20:57, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done!  It was actually the Feb 10, 1885 issue.  Uploaded to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boston_Journal_1885-02-10.pdf http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boston_Journal_1885-02-10_(first_page_only).png http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boston_Journal_1885-02-10_(crop).png and (for completeness) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boston_Journal_1885-02-09.pdf .  I'm on the library computer now; please help w/ categories, linking, etc.  Very exciting to find this, especially after reading all of the Feb 9, 1885 issue and coming up blank. C. Scott Ananian (talk) 22:07, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can anyone in Boston help me verify something? 

message: Does Andrew P. McArdle Memorial Bridge exist? Thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:24, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It was created and deleted (for being a hoax) ca 2015, but it's listed in Google Maps here:  and it is mentioned in Boston Globe articles from end of 2013 to beginning of 2014. ( and ) I have a feeling there's something obviously fake about it (seeing that it was deleted) but I'm not seeing it (although the actual content of the article may provide more clues). Sn1per (talk) 03:31, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Andrew P. McArdle Memorial Bridge 

message: This guy is listed under articles that should be created. Just wondering if that's the same person as Peter Oxenbridge Thacher --MopTop (talk) 17:16, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oxenbridge Thacher 

message: There is a discussion at Talk:Charlestown Bridge that would benefit from some additional participation. Should the article be renamed to "North Washington Street Bridge (Boston)"? What is the "common name" of that bridge? —BarrelProof (talk) 20:24, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  RM at [[Talk:Charlestown Bridge]] 

message: : cross-post with modification Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Skyscrapers#One Dalton Street, Boston
Talk:Christian Science Center- Belvidere/ Dalton evidently concerns early (June 2014) plans for One Dalton Street aka the new Four Seasons. Its one citation of the Boston Globe is legitimate and that item may report the first public announcement of the development (2015 to 2019). 
Presumably the stub contains tidbits that belong in the article, a very one-sided merge. --P64 (talk) 17:07, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  One Dalton Street 

message: I have created an article for Mass and Cass. There is much more that could be said, and I would appreciate the help in expanding it. --Slugger O'Toole (talk) 02:45, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mass and Cass 

message: If a project member in Boston is able to take a photograph, The Alley Bar is currently unillustrated. Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 16:56, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image request: The Alley Bar 

message: I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
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thread_title:  User script to detect unreliable sources 

message: I have nominated Ellis Paul for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk)  15:00, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ellis Paul Featured article review 

message: If anyone feels like a trip out to Mount Auburn Cemetery at some point, here are some notable people whose graves don't have photos on Commons, along with their GPS coordinates from Find a Grave:
 Nick Number (talk) 18:25, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  potential photos at Mount Auburn 

message: You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content assessment#Proposal: Reclassification of Current & Future-Classes as time parameter, which is within the scope of this WikiProject.  This WikiProject received this message because it currently uses "Current" and/or "Future" class(es). There is a proposal to split these two article "classes" into a new parameter "time", in order to standardise article-rating across Wikipedia (per RfC), while also allowing simultaneous usage of quality criteria and time for interest projects. Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 21:30, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion at [[Wikipedia:Content assessment]] 

message: * Statue of Josiah Quincy III
---Another Believer (Talk) 03:52, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Statue of AfD 

message: Cross post from WP Massachusetts
Boston Medical Center program merge-in discussion (Round House Hotel) 
Boston Medical Center is operating a clinical service/addiction service at the former site of a Best Western's round shaped hotel in Mass and Cass in Boston. It's a temporary stint that started in February 2022 and was supposed to sunset in July, but has been extended until September 2023. It has a lot of press now due to its current controversy, but I don't believe the less than two year stint has enduring notability to warrant having its own permanent article and I feel it merged into Boston Medical Center. Do you all have suggestions for different target or should the stand-alone article for Roundhouse Hotel (public services) remain permanently?  Discussion at Talk:Boston Medical Center Graywalls (talk) 03:43, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Round House Hotel 

message: Talk:Mass_and_Cass#Tania_Fernandes_Anderson_cell_phone_incident - the discussion is whether to include the incident or not into Mass and Cass Graywalls (talk) 19:37, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Requesting input on Councillor Anderson's cell phone snatching incident 

message: For any of y'all who live in the Boston area, there'll be a casual meetup at MIT on Saturday September 30 at noon (see Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Casual Meetup to RSVP). Please stop by! Duckmather (talk) 22:06, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meetup at MIT on September 30 

message: See here for what it looks like. There are no known photos, drawings, or paintings of Rebecca Lee Crumpler, so a photo of the headstone would be helpful. Thanks in advance for any help! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 19:49, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo request: Headstone of Rebecca Lee Crumpler in Fairview Cemetery in Hyde Park