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Goals

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

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As of Sept 8 2021, all articles have now been assessed. Please see "To Do" section for more areas requiring attention. Thanks! Penndyl (talk) 13:25, 8 September 2021 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Username_policy

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Script error: No such module "user".-Sports, Central and Eastern PA, etc..
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Script error: No such module "user". 14:53:47, 31 October 2019 (UTC) - Native and (almost) lifelong resident, can help with state highway system, state parks, state forests, recreation. Especially northwestern and north-central.
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Script error: No such module "user". - Politics, Government, Sports
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Script error: No such module "user". - Central PA esp.
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Script error: No such module "user". - sports
Script error: No such module "user". - Will help out where I can. Will probably be best with northeastern PA (Pike, Monroe, Northampton counties...)
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Script error: No such module "user". - Mainly Erie and Franklin Counties
Script error: No such module "user". 06:14:25, 20 May 2020 (UTC) - Resident of Llanerch, Pennsylvania with interests in Delaware County
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Script error: No such module "user". - Lancaster, Central PA, Politics, History, Parks/Landmarks
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Script error: No such module "user". - Northeastern PA, especially Wayne County
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Script error: No such module "user". - Anything, anywhere KatieBU (talk) 23:34, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
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Script error: No such module "user". -(MEDegnan) Geology & Hydrology in PA, & environmental concerns
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Script error: No such module "user". - Long Island, New York/New Jersey-based, but spends a lot of time in PA.
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Script error: No such module "user". - Underground Railroad and Abolitionists, Biography, York County
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Script error: No such module "user".—Primarily things related to Western Pennsylvania. I'm active in contributing photographs to Commons.
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Script error: No such module "user". - PA state parks, river awareness, SE PA, EACs, Environmental Issues
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Script error: No such module "user". - Primarily Delaware Valley
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Script error: No such module "user". - Hummelstown
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Script error: No such module "user". - Eastern PA, Lehigh Valley, Politics federal and statewide
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Script error: No such module "user". - Revolutionary History
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Articles

Did You Know?

... that even though Lower Merion Library System accounts for only 7% of the county's population, it accounts for over 20% of its circulation?
... that Wendall Woodbury was the first television anchor in the United States to report on the unfolding Three Mile Island accident in 1979?
... that Early Archaic peoples used the Houserville Site in Pennsylvania ten millennia ago?
... that John Pittenger, former Pennsylvania Secretary of Education and dean of Rutgers School of Law–Camden, was the first legislator to utilize high school legislative pages in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives?
... that in its heyday, the historic Mountain Springs Hotel in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, hosted U.S. Presidents Lincoln, Grant, and Buchanan?
... that the Ghost Town Trail in Western Pennsylvania utilizes Script error: No such module "convert". of donated and abandoned railroad and features many abandoned mining ghost towns?
... that Teedyuscung, known as the King of the Delawares, lost much of his territory to colonial Pennsylvania in the Walking Purchase and later sought retribution for the massive land loss?
... that the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, stands on the site of a 1777 Second Continental Congress meeting?
... that the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 was a primary reason for the creation of a separate federal district to serve as the capital of the United States?
... that when the Lackawanna Steel Co. moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to New York in 1902, its relocation led to the founding of Lackawanna, New York?

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... that the Photuris pennsylvanica (pictured), a species of lightning bug, is Pennsylvania's state insect?
... that in 2006 the Philadelphia City Council proclaimed "Edie Huggins Day" in honor of her 40th anniversary as a reporter and journalist for WCAU-TV?
... that the smallest Natural Area in Pennsylvania protects a stand of box huckleberry, but another stand nearby is the oldest plant in the United States?
... that the Pine Creek Path, a Native American trail along Pine Creek in Pennsylvania, was later used by lumbermen, then its course was followed by a railroad, and today it is a rail trail (pictured)?
... that Congregation Beth Israel, a Conservative synagogue in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was designed by Percival Goodman to mirror the barns of nearby Pennsylvania Dutch farmers?
... that the Erie Gauge War in 1853 was nicknamed the "Peanut War" because its outcome affected the street vendors who sold peanuts to travelers in Erie, Pennsylvania the most?
... that American Revolutionary war officer Anthony Wayne's bones are buried at St. David's Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, while the rest of him is buried hundreds of miles away in Erie, Pennsylvania?
... that the metal finishing on more than 10,000 Olympic torches used in the torch relay for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia was done by the Erie Plating Company?
... that Frank W. Preston invented the furnace which made Corelle glassware possible and worked to establish Moraine State Park in Pennsylvania?
... that the Millersburg Ferry (pictured) in Pennsylvania is the last ferry on the Susquehanna River and the last authentic wooden double stern-wheeled paddle boat operating in the United States?
... that of the 30 covered bridges that once stood in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, only Forksville, Hillsgrove, and Sonestown remain, all of which were built in 1850?
... that the Franklin County Courthouse incorporates the walls and columns left after Confederate forces burned the previous courthouse during the American Civil War?
... that the meandering Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line took Script error: No such module "convert". to connect Baltimore, Maryland and York, Pennsylvania although the two cities are only Script error: No such module "convert". apart in a straight line?
... that despite being the first hot blast iron furnace in Centre County, Pennsylvania, Bellefonte Furnace was idle for more than six of its first ten years of existence?
... that the Pond Eddy Bridge, built in 1904, is the only artery to access 22 homes in Pennsylvania?
... that, during a Fersommling, the only language spoken is Pennsylvania Dutch and that anyone who speaks English has to pay a fine for each word?
... that the 1852 Lombard Street Riot capped thirteen years of recurring racial violence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
... that the Philadelphia Phillies were the last of the original 16 Major League Baseball franchises to win the World Series?
... that prison contemplative programs like meditation were used in 19th century Pennsylvania as an early prison reform?
...that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama refused to hand out street money, a political tactic common in Philadelphia, during the 2008 Pennsylvania primary?
...that the Philadelphia Lazaretto is the oldest surviving quarantine hospital in the United States?
... that Birely, Hillman & Streaker was the only Philadelphian manufacturer of wooden ships to survive the post-Civil War slump?
...that when the YMCA of Berwick was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1883, the majority of the organization's trustees were current executives of Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company?
...that John Heisman, namesake of the Heisman Trophy, played for the Brown Bears before eventually transferring to the University of Pennsylvania?
...that Mid-State Regional Airport is a Keystone Opportunity Zone to promote economic growth, but, to protect the Pennsylvania state park and forest (pictured) it was formed from, cannot legally expand?
...that the decision of a Pennsylvania provincial court in 1764, The King v. Haas, is one of the first attempts to apply the writ of habeas corpus in the Thirteen Colonies?
...that the Script error: No such module "convert". West Rim Trail along the Grand Canyon was selected by Outside Magazine as the best hike in Pennsylvania?
...that six latrines at Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania are listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
...that Oregon State athletic director Percy Locey claimed that the Philadelphia Athletics stole John Leovich from the college, yet he ended up playing only one major league game?
...that the Intelligencer Journal of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, established in 1796, is one of the oldest newspapers in the United States?
...that James Gwyn was awarded the rank of brèvet major general by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864?

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