Portal talk:Philadelphia

message: This is nice, but who is going to maintain this?evrik 20:04, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you mean? Medvedenko 20:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I put your name there along with mine, because you had been maintaining the portal since creating it and I plan to help as long as I contribute to Wikipedia. Medvedenko 01:19, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I stopped tending to this at least eight years ago. --evrik (talk) 20:34, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

text: Feel free to improve this. --evrik (talk) 20:34, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Maintenance

message: ===February 2010===
I'm a rookie at Wikipedia, but I would like to post this as the featured picture for February 2010: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Philadelphia/Selected_picture_archive
If anyone could do this for me, I appreciate it. I've had no luck. Thanks. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 03:25, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the picture for you. The pictures are randomly selected from a list and are not selected for an entire month. Medvedenko (talk) 02:43, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Monthly Notes

message: I'm a rookie at Wikipedia, but I would like to post this as the featured picture for February 2010: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Philadelphia/Selected_picture_archive
If anyone could do this for me, I appreciate it. I've had no luck. Thanks. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 03:25, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the picture for you. The pictures are randomly selected from a list and are not selected for an entire month. Medvedenko (talk) 02:43, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: February 2010

message: Just did it. Almost last minute --evrik (talk) 18:58, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: June 2007

message: I just finishd secting articles for the month. --evrik 04:13, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: July 2006

message: *Done -South Philly 04:06, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: August 2006

message: *Done --evrik 18:40, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: September 2006

message: * -South Philly 04:06, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: October 2006

message: Do we want to apply for feature status? --South Philly 00:41, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Feature Status

message: ===Arts===
Interesting idea... think you should have asked first? --evrik 15:00, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I wonder what others think about keeping this section. I don't think there enough good articles related to Philadelphia to fill up three infoboxes. Medvedenko 20:41, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I think that would be too much, we have four selected article sections here already. Sports can be featured in any of the existing categories, I would even count it as part of culture. Medvedenko 20:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Changes

message: Interesting idea... think you should have asked first? --evrik 15:00, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I wonder what others think about keeping this section. I don't think there enough good articles related to Philadelphia to fill up three infoboxes. Medvedenko 20:41, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Arts

message: Should we add a box for sports related information. --South Philly 04:08, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that would be too much, we have four selected article sections here already. Sports can be featured in any of the existing categories, I would even count it as part of culture. Medvedenko 20:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sports

message: I have added a selected anniversaries section to this page. I'm keeping it hidden until the New Year, because I'm replacing the Music Arts & Culture section with it. This frees up a lot more articles to be selected between the Selected biography and Selected article sections. There are just not enough non stub culture articles to make that section worthwhile. Selected anniversaries can include any type of Philadelphia related topic, no matter the quality of the article. Medvedenko 04:03, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Selected anniversaries

message: The following images have been tagged for deletion, at first on grounds that their descriptions do not show their source URLs.  Five or more of these are in Philadelphia and illustrate articles about their sites.  At least one has been a Philadelphia portal DYK or other featured photo.
   1. :Image:JohnColtraneHouse.png
   2. :Image:MtPleasantFairmountPk.jpg
   3. :Image:PhilaSchoolofDesign.jpg
   4. :Image:RaceStMeetinghouse.jpg
   5. :Image:USSBecuna.jpg
   6. :Image:Cliveden-mansion.png
   7. :Image:Stenton-mansion.png
   8. :Image:St-James-the-Less-Church.png
   9. :Image:PennaAcademyofFineArts.png
  10. :Image:Woodford-mansion.png
  11. :Image:Wyck.png
The first 5 are probably copied from National Historic Landmark program webpages of the National Park Service (NPS), and if locations are provided then there is a further issue that they are probably in violation of copyright.  Not all images on NPS webpages are public domain.  These images were tagged as being taken by a NPS employee but that is not documented.  The NPS also uses photos taken by others, and those are not public domain.  The uploader has been notified.  If others wish to address these problems by providing URLs, please do.  Otherwise they will be deleted.  Personally, I feel conflicted about proceeding with this, as I have also worked on articles about Philadelphia area sites, such as List of National Historic Landmarks in Philadelphia and it is my wish for such articles to be well illustrated, but this is where i am at in discussion with the uploader on his talk page.  No hard feelings intended.  (similar notice posted elsewhere, too) doncram (talk) 00:51, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, OK, I added sources.--BillFlis (talk) 14:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images tagged for deletion 

message: To whom it may concern , I am the daughter of a patient who is admitted to Byberry  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.54.62.87 (talk) 14:47, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Byberry Mental Hospital 

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