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If Jim Thome (b. Peoria) & Billly Wagner (b. Tannersville, Va.) are on this list, then hall-of-fame baseball players who played in Philadelphia, such as Pete Alexander, Harry Wright, Jimmie Foxx, & Chuck Klein should also be included. But none of these guys is from Philadelphia; they just worked there for a while. Ballplayers from Philadelphia might include Reggie Jackson (b. Wyncote, Pa.), Tommy Lasorda & Mike Piazza (b. Norristown, Pa.), & Herb Pennock (b. Kennett Square, Pa.). These towns are currently in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, but may not have been when these people were growing up.
I'm going to let this page stand, but I urge anyone who agrees to make the appropriate edits.
I Broke down the people into some categories, that way the list is a bit more readable, i have put them in catories which they would be more assoicaed with, considering that some could be listed as multiple, and i am still tossed up on some others. -- Boothy443 | comhrÚ 08:35, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
How about Pete Conrad, astronaut?... What category does he belong in? - Bri 16:37, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Sorry if I am misusing the template above. I am going to start trying to insert references to justify the includion of people on the various "People from (wherever)" lists that might be out there, but am in over my head trying to figure out how to insert them. Could someone please create notes after the names William Penn and Benjamin Franklin indicating that the following information is the reference source for their inclusion, which would also show up in the references section at the bottom, so that I can see how to do it in the future for the rest of the names? Thank you very much.
The source is Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896, Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1967. I intend to use this single source as much as possible, so I would be deeply grateful if I could be shown how to repeatedly cite something as well.
Thank you again. Badbilltucker 17:04, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
A page similar to this one. List of people from San Francisco, is currently under review as an article for deletion, for reasons which would apply to this article as well. I am conducting an RfC on the talk page of the above-mentioned list to determine whether the concensus agrees on keeping such lists or not. Any and all comments are more than welcome. Badbilltucker 16:21, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
By your logic, Gavin.s, a naturalized citizen would not be a real American because he wasn't actually born in America . . . even if he lived in the U.S. for 20 years. And Benjamin Franklin wouldn't be a real Philadelphian, since he was born in Boston. The notion that you would exclude Mike Schmidt, Allen Iverson, Randall Cunnigham, Donovan McNabb, and even Julius Erving from a list of people from Philadelphia is -- to quote you -- "asinine". 65.215.37.164 - 17:45, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
I have re-removed
Yes, the Aqua String Band has people as members, but the string band is NOT those people. It is an organization. If the membership changes 100%, it is still the Aqua String Band.
More directly, if the Aqua String Band is a "person" from Philadelphia, so are the Eagles, the Phillies, every business in the city, every organization in the city, etc.
I've tightened some of the descriptions. Many of them included full sentences, including awards, etc. that are already in the bios. I also tried to remove the redundant links and have placed all the names in categorical alphabetical order. I think this has improved the page quite a bit. PAWiki 14:31, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm adding Benjamin Franklin. His bio confirms residency in the Intro. Is there some reason he of all people was not listed herein? Simesa ( talk) 01:57, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
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Added Seymour Remenick. His work had been exhibited in Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, has been been auctioned at Christie's, had also been elected as an academician to the National Academy.
Surly he should be here, either on the list of historic persons or on the business list. Perhaps the most eminent Philadelphian of all. Seadowns ( talk) 18:46, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
As I conducted some cleanup edits, I notice there appears to have been an initial effort to chronicle Philadelphia basketball players and their respective high schools. If these players are notable and have some city of Philadelphia connection, they should be included here without reference to the high school (which should be in the bio). But the effort is a good idea for a possible stand-alone article. Whoever was at work at that should consider that approach, not one of creating it on this page. Keystone18 ( talk) 01:08, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
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If Jim Thome (b. Peoria) & Billly Wagner (b. Tannersville, Va.) are on this list, then hall-of-fame baseball players who played in Philadelphia, such as Pete Alexander, Harry Wright, Jimmie Foxx, & Chuck Klein should also be included. But none of these guys is from Philadelphia; they just worked there for a while. Ballplayers from Philadelphia might include Reggie Jackson (b. Wyncote, Pa.), Tommy Lasorda & Mike Piazza (b. Norristown, Pa.), & Herb Pennock (b. Kennett Square, Pa.). These towns are currently in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, but may not have been when these people were growing up.
I'm going to let this page stand, but I urge anyone who agrees to make the appropriate edits.
I Broke down the people into some categories, that way the list is a bit more readable, i have put them in catories which they would be more assoicaed with, considering that some could be listed as multiple, and i am still tossed up on some others. -- Boothy443 | comhrÚ 08:35, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
How about Pete Conrad, astronaut?... What category does he belong in? - Bri 16:37, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Sorry if I am misusing the template above. I am going to start trying to insert references to justify the includion of people on the various "People from (wherever)" lists that might be out there, but am in over my head trying to figure out how to insert them. Could someone please create notes after the names William Penn and Benjamin Franklin indicating that the following information is the reference source for their inclusion, which would also show up in the references section at the bottom, so that I can see how to do it in the future for the rest of the names? Thank you very much.
The source is Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896, Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1967. I intend to use this single source as much as possible, so I would be deeply grateful if I could be shown how to repeatedly cite something as well.
Thank you again. Badbilltucker 17:04, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
A page similar to this one. List of people from San Francisco, is currently under review as an article for deletion, for reasons which would apply to this article as well. I am conducting an RfC on the talk page of the above-mentioned list to determine whether the concensus agrees on keeping such lists or not. Any and all comments are more than welcome. Badbilltucker 16:21, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
By your logic, Gavin.s, a naturalized citizen would not be a real American because he wasn't actually born in America . . . even if he lived in the U.S. for 20 years. And Benjamin Franklin wouldn't be a real Philadelphian, since he was born in Boston. The notion that you would exclude Mike Schmidt, Allen Iverson, Randall Cunnigham, Donovan McNabb, and even Julius Erving from a list of people from Philadelphia is -- to quote you -- "asinine". 65.215.37.164 - 17:45, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
I have re-removed
Yes, the Aqua String Band has people as members, but the string band is NOT those people. It is an organization. If the membership changes 100%, it is still the Aqua String Band.
More directly, if the Aqua String Band is a "person" from Philadelphia, so are the Eagles, the Phillies, every business in the city, every organization in the city, etc.
I've tightened some of the descriptions. Many of them included full sentences, including awards, etc. that are already in the bios. I also tried to remove the redundant links and have placed all the names in categorical alphabetical order. I think this has improved the page quite a bit. PAWiki 14:31, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm adding Benjamin Franklin. His bio confirms residency in the Intro. Is there some reason he of all people was not listed herein? Simesa ( talk) 01:57, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
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Added Seymour Remenick. His work had been exhibited in Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, has been been auctioned at Christie's, had also been elected as an academician to the National Academy.
Surly he should be here, either on the list of historic persons or on the business list. Perhaps the most eminent Philadelphian of all. Seadowns ( talk) 18:46, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
As I conducted some cleanup edits, I notice there appears to have been an initial effort to chronicle Philadelphia basketball players and their respective high schools. If these players are notable and have some city of Philadelphia connection, they should be included here without reference to the high school (which should be in the bio). But the effort is a good idea for a possible stand-alone article. Whoever was at work at that should consider that approach, not one of creating it on this page. Keystone18 ( talk) 01:08, 5 September 2022 (UTC)