Talk:Northeast Philadelphia

message: :...a section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania predominantly populated by those of Italian, Polish, Russian, Eastern European Jewish and Irish Catholic descent.
I'm sure there are also plenty of WASPs, German-Americans and Western European Jews living in the Northeast. Since the area is so vast, might it be better to avoid listing ethnic groups, especially which ones predominate, in the opening sentence?
--Pastricide! <I>Non-absorbing</I> 16:54, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're probably right.  I think that the author just wanted to avoid saying "the Northeast is predominantly white." Which it is. If you think there's a better way to write that sentence, why not go for it?  Coemgenus 02:09, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, hell with it, I just did it myself.  What do you think? Coemgenus 02:17, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ethnic groups?

message: I lived near the Roosevelt Mall for 26 years. Not once did I hear the the term "Near Northeast". Never. I went to Northeast High School, not Near Northeast High School. When did that term come into use? RockinRob 03:42, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm from Juniata Park myself, and I've never heard the term "Near Northeast." I've only ever heard it referred to as the "Lower Northeast." J-Red 22:40, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: From Juniata as well... I've only regularly heard "Northeast Philly" and "The Greater Northeast" or "Far Northeast" in normal usage.  I usually take these to mean Fishtown to about Mayfair as "the Northeast" and areas beyond Mayfair, such as Torresdale and Burholme as the "Greater Northeast" - Anonymous reader  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.36.4.195 (talk) 05:14, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fishtown, Kensington, (19125, 19134) are NOT part of NE Philly.  They are considered part of the "River Wards". NE Philadelphia ends at the Tacony Creek. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankford_Creek Centerone (talk) 19:38, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Near Northeast?

message: The Raj Bhakta "Save the Northeast" campaign seems like advertisement for Raj's campaign - 68.32.34.152 00:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  I think just deleting the one sentence about Bhatka's campiagn strategy, along with the characterization "moderate" should suffice to remove the POV. --Coemgenus 01:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: :1. Well written? Pass
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It has pretty much what is needed for such an article. Throughly well written and easy to read. It would need more book references to expand the article but as of now it has enough references. Lincher 18:01, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: GA passed

message: Hope no one minds, I started to flesh-out the area for Parkwood...Appreciate any and all help Shoessss 15:21, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Parkwood

message: The city fully incorporated the entire county in 1950, not 1854.  This included major areas of the Northeast, including Bustleton, Rhawnhurst, Foxchase, Somerton, etc.  The 1854 date may have validity for other sections of the Northeast, but I believe they were in the lower Northeast.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Rjlemi (talk • contribs) 
:In 1854, all municipalities in Philadelphia County were merged into the City of Philadelphia.  I think what you are talking about in 1950 was the City Charter, which consolidated the city and county offices and made the County of Philadelphia a legal nullity.  But the all townships, boroughs, and districts in Philadelphia County other than the City of Philadelphia ceased to exist in 1854. Coemgenus 19:25, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Full Incorporation Date 

message: Here is a book reference for the Northeast, unfortunately only one page, but relevant to more sections of the article than the inline citations I have added to the text.   
:The Weigley book is a good one.  Unfortunately, most Philadelphia histories focus on Center City, with a little bit of South Philly and Germantown.  I'll see what I can find, but there's not much out there.  Coemgenus 16:04, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You have done quite a bit to improve the inline citations, and probably enough for GA status. Too bad we only have a week, when I have house guests for much of that week. Maybe I can find another book source or two, if I am quick about it.  --DThomsen8 (talk) 17:10, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A week is a guideline rather than a carved-in-stone rule. If editors are willing to work on the article, I have no problem with extending the hold to a timeframe that suits you better. It would obviously be unfair to demand that a Wikipedia editor place my arbitrary timeframe over their real life. GaryColemanFan (talk) 20:00, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have a new book being shipped that should work to fill in the remaining  tags.  Should be here by the end of the week.  Coemgenus 14:11, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Book reference

message: A while ago there was an IP based editor who kept inserting unreferenced statements in regards to the Irish in regards to their demographics and history of the Northeast.  Several editors continued to revert his edits, and ask for clarification.  If not a discussion here, there were certainly notes on it in the edit reverts. Well, it seems like over time the editor has come back, and while it seems like these unreferenced claims have been added to the article over time.. at very least they were balanced by other edits.  Well, it looks like he is back with a vengance.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/71.226.216.220 and has recently added four categories (one of which doesn't exist) to this article.  In addition, he's clearly made repeated edits related to the Irish to numerous other articles as you can see from his contributions above.  The main problem I believe, apart from being unreferenced, is that the edits attribute an undue weight to the topic. Centerone (talk) 03:47, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: He's at it again.  I encouraged him to discuss it on the talk page, but we'll see. --Coemgenus (talk) 12:07, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attack of the biased, Irish-motivated Anonymous Editor 

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