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There's a strange and disturbing paragraph written in this section that was added by a disgruntled user about the "average Pittsburgh citizen". I tried to delete it but the text wasn't showing up when I wanted to edit it. If someone could remove this paragraph then that would be great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.165.206.133 ( talk) 20:36, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
In its current state, the article describes the Civic Arena as the former home of the Penguins and has a photograph of the location with the description. However, the arena is currently demolished. Should the picture be removed in the article to avoid any confusion? Text could also be added to the description on the page that the arena has been demolished. 136.142.58.41 ( talk) 19:25, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
Looks like I wasn't signed in... Seems like a consensus was achieved, so I removed the image and added the link to the Civic Arena wiki-page in the text. Rgrasmus ( talk) 16:28, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
Our crime rate table shows "metro" with per-100k numbers but "city" with raw numbers. We should make both per-100k. Also, note that the FBI crime stats page [1] only shows data for the City of Pittsburgh; we may need to remove the "metro" numbers completely if we can't find a reference for them. Nathant408 ( talk) 15:35, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
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"I would like an improved section on ethnic population breakdown as well as a section on religious population breakdown." -69.174.58.188
Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 20:34, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
This article uses {{ Pittsburgh Film}}, {{ Pittsburgh etymology}}, {{ Pittsburgh Names}}, {{ Pittsburgh history}} templates in the lead to create multi-references. To me, this is a deviation from standard editing procedure and the citations should be broken-out separately. For example, this is what {{ Pittsburgh Film}} produces:
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Currently, the articles reads that Pittsburgh has 446 bridges, which is considered "world record for cities." I would like to notify you that Hamburg, Germany, has 2,485 bridges, more than Venice, Stockholm and Amsterdam combined and is thus listed in the Guinness Book of World Record as "City with most bridges in Europe". [1]-- 84.119.221.1 ( talk) 15:34, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia! It may be helpful to register as we can't tell if this is one person or two or even more writing these comments (and without talk pages nor any other edits). The link you provided on the 12:42 post is interesting but very much not a RS, besides its obvious OR there is a massive & obvious error on the Pittsburgh stats. That said there may be more research needed before a claim can be listed like this encyclopedically. Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 20:04, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
I disagree with the section splitting proposed however there is some room to trim down poorly fitting and sometimes repetitious syntax that appears like it has been thrown together over months and years. A few parts of the article even have the same thing expressed in two areas between what are obviously add on minor edits as time went on. The (ibids) edits I made took nothing of substance out of the article but trimmed down and compacted the important ideas in the sections. For basketball I even added the women's programs that were absent from the article.
My view is that most every topic still should belong on this article but if other editors wish to trim down the language or syntax that alone can streamline the article to roughly match the bytes of say a St. Louis or Los Angeles while retaining all the topics presently on the article. Thank you. Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 20:00, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 02:25, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
The size of the Pittsburgh article has been hovering around 170kB - 200kB bytes for the past few months. The guidance from Wikipedia:Article_size says that 30kB - 50kB is ideal for readability, and that any article over 100kB "almost certainly should be divided." The Pittsburgh article is much longer than the articles for other cities of comparable size (see eg, Cincinnati). The art in wiki editing is not to compile as much info as possible, the art is to select what to include and what should be split off (or deleted). I'm not going to get into a prolonged argument or edit war over this, but in its current state the Pittsburgh article has so much info that it is unreadable. Barryjjoyce ( talk) 21:43, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
Only in Pittsburgh do people have a fetish about some corporate sponsored best or most livable city poll. These polls are biased. They don't consider that unemployment/underemployment and low wage jobs are rampant, evictions and mortgage forclosures are escalating and more and more are falling into the ranks of the poor with less and less social benefits available due to defunding and privatization by finance capital. Pennsylvania's unemployment rate is skyrocketing especially among the youth. One in four Pennsylvanians earn poverty wages based on the annual report, released On August 28, “The State of Working Pennsylvania 2013,” authored by Mark Price and Stephen Herzenberg, who both hold PhDs in economics. Social wages have been terminated and slashed creating austerity like Pittsburgh has never seen before. So a $179,000 for a house is a mute point when fewer people can even afford a home. Pittsburgh is especially hard hit.
Pittsburgh has one of the worst particulate pollution problem in the country. In 2008 it ranked #2 in short term particulate matter second only to Bakersfield, CA. Currently it ranks in the top 7 in STPM and in the top 8 in Year Round Particulate Pollution, the only city outside of California in the top 9 and top 8 respectively.
Pittsburgh's mass transit system doesn't even make the national rankings and has been cut by 34% according to PAT. Mass transit is a major factor contributing to living standards,well being and safety. $789.00 in rent is not cheap especially when there are few livable wage jobs and many who are employed are paying half or more than half of their take home pay to private property owners. As for culture the average worker cannot afford to expose themselves and children to the arts. A $15.00 Pirate ticket doesn't count.
Other cities don't even talk about their rankings or "image". Pittsburgh has less and less to offer and more and more to boast about, apparently. As for health care, it is part of the service sphere. Under capitalist relations of production the service sphere takes on a parasitic tendency. Even in those areas of health care that are truly needed like emergency care, fewer and fewer people can afford it. There are no social service networks for those under 65 and injured or sick and don't have a car. People have to pay exploitative taxi rates just to get to the grocery store or walk and breath in the exhaust from passing commuters.
Pittsburgh is effectively a police state. It's one of the most overly patrolled cities and metro areas in the US. It is thinly disguised as "crime" prevention but it is ever in reality a form of oppression of the working class to protect private property i.e. monopoly merchant capitalists, banks, courts etc... Try walking in a south suburban neighborhood after 8 pm and sit on a bench with a cup of coffee. Police swarm around like flies on sugar.
Pittsburgh still has a lot of good to offer but let's play the livable city polls down a bit. There are many millions and even billions of people in the world that live in disaster free areas that doesn't make their cities "livable". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.239.250.100 ( talk) 03:55, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I'm going through all the US Cities (as per List of United States cities by population) in an effort to provide some uniformity in structure. Anyone have an issue with me restructuring this article as per Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline. I won't be changing any content, merely the order. Occasionally, I will also move a picture just to clean up spacing issues. I've already gone through the top 20 or so on the above list, if you'd like to see how they turned out. Thoughts? Onel5969 ( talk) 19:50, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
I posted an interesting link over at the Wikiproject page. Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 01:17, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
I will sit on this for a few weeks, given the maturation of the Pittsburgh article with such additions as Health care and Utilities etc. and the concern about the article being too long I propose migrating all Airport information to either Transportation or Metro Pittsburgh articles and most of the Highway and Port info too. I'm on the fence about it but the deciding factor for me is we need some room on the main article and 90% of the transportation data isn't within Pittsburgh city limits. Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 07:55, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
While going through the key historical moments of significance pertaining to Electric Power Transmission on internet, I came to this website where it is mentioned that, "Stanley had been working in Pittsburgh which was Andrew Carnegie's steel town and had the worst air quality in the US, it was also known as "Sooty City", and this contributed to William Stanley's poor health." Then I further checked to confirm the validity of the fact.
Here are some links which suggest the use of a non-colloquial name given to Pittsburgh
This very fact, of being a polluted city at that time, seems to have led to unimaginable, unquantifiable consequences as it led to poor health of people of a time when art, science and technology were still developing, which could possibly have led to the poor health of persons with talent of significance either to mankind or to universe or both, in general, who would otherwise have contributed by discovering new knowledge, previously undiscovered, and subsequently achieved acclaim for the same, if they wouldn't have fallen sick. So, I strongly believe that the fact that Pittsburgh was called by public, Sooty City, is a significant and, more importantly, a verified fact and thus deserves mention on Wikipedia. So, I suggest to add to the article, references pointing out that the city once was called "Sooty City". I'll add the final version of the text after reaching a consensus with the editors who would want to suggest another version. Rishidigital1055 ( talk) 14:01, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
I'm wondering if the last three sections of the lede should be moved out of there (or at least condensed) and merged into their respective subsections (economy, culture, etc). That would make this article more in line with similarly sized cities ( Cleveland, Cincinatti, Baltimore, Charlotte, North Carolina, Portland,_Oregon, etc. OhNoitsJamie Talk 19:47, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
What is missing from the city timeline? Please add relevant content. Thank you. -- M2545 ( talk) 11:08, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
This article is one of the most beautifully written promotional pieces I've ever seen about a city. It's a monument to positivity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.136.159.226 ( talk) 21:28, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Press releases are mostly a no-no for citing in Wikipedia, is it not?
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I think this is a very well written article. All of the external links work and I think it is cool how Pittsburgh has many random sister cities. There is a lot of valuable information within this page.
Bwolfson95 ( talk) 04:11, 6 February 2018 (UTC)2/5/18
This article is well done. I am looking to edit the air quality and water quality sections. The air quality section has more information than water quality. Water quality is important in the Pittsburgh region and it could be useful to add information here. Furthermore, it could be worthwhile to separate it into independent sections for both air and water quality.
Mdrogotzke ( talk) 00:12, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Get rid of the pullout quotes. They sound like they were added by city employees. 93.136.52.160 ( talk) 00:42, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
"America's 1980s deindustrialization laid off area blue-collar workers and thousands of downtown white-collar workers when the longtime Pittsburgh-based world headquarters moved out.[10] "
longtime Pittsburgh-based world headquarters of what company? It wasn't US Steel, because they never left. Is the writer trying to say that all Pittsburgh-based world headquarters moved out? That wouldn't make any sense at all.
This sentence needs help but I am not sure how to fix it because I don't know what the writers intent was. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.146.74.185 ( talk) 16:18, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
@ Danbloch: the maps that are "found in nearly every US city article" take up almost half the infobox. For Pittsburgh, there's a separate map for (top to bottom, left to right): the county within the state, city within the county, the city borders, city within the state, and city within the country. That counts to be 5 different maps - that's ridiculous, and more than most cities, really. {{ maplink}} is new, but far better than the old pushpin or svg maps. For one thing, you don't have to redraw File:Allegheny County Pennsylvania incorporated and unincorporated areas Pittsburgh highlighted.svg, the map simply updates when OpenStreetMap updates. The maps are zoomable, letting you see street-level, national, and even global views of where the location is, all in one map. It's also easier and faster for the average editor to create, and brings Wikipedia into the 21st century with actually interactive media.
In fact, Pittsburgh as it was and as you restored it, actually has a maplink map, but it's poorly formatted, so it's off-center, has an unnecessary frame, and large bright red borders. These are all things I had fixed. And I brought it in line with other US cities, like Chicago and Columbus, Ohio that utilize these two mapframe maps to easily show a reader the city's boundaries, and position in the US, all while taking up far less room than is shown here.
I'm confused and frustrated you haven't seen how poorly the current maps are formatted and how much room they're taking up, while my new maps accomplish more, but are smaller, well-organized, and modern. ɱ (talk) 02:17, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
Some pittsburgh music history of Norman Nardini's previous band Diamond Reo. The late Robbie John's on drums. Mattygeetarross ( talk) 21:06, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
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"Both flagship hospitals annual rank as among the best overall in the United States, with UPMC being among U.S. News & World Reports' "Honor Roll"."
Correction: ...annually rank among the best..... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.239.250.100 ( talk) 03:35, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
As anyone who cares to edit this page would know, Heinz Field has been renamed to Acrisure Stadium. I edited all references to Heinz Field to now say Acrisure Stadium. It might be appropriate to include somewhere that Acrisure Stadium was formerly known as Heinz Field, but I will leave that up to other editors. Just wanted to make things accurate for now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:547:CA00:9B70:9095:5754:6CC2:5017 ( talk) 01:22, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
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There's a strange and disturbing paragraph written in this section that was added by a disgruntled user about the "average Pittsburgh citizen". I tried to delete it but the text wasn't showing up when I wanted to edit it. If someone could remove this paragraph then that would be great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.165.206.133 ( talk) 20:36, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
In its current state, the article describes the Civic Arena as the former home of the Penguins and has a photograph of the location with the description. However, the arena is currently demolished. Should the picture be removed in the article to avoid any confusion? Text could also be added to the description on the page that the arena has been demolished. 136.142.58.41 ( talk) 19:25, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
Looks like I wasn't signed in... Seems like a consensus was achieved, so I removed the image and added the link to the Civic Arena wiki-page in the text. Rgrasmus ( talk) 16:28, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
Our crime rate table shows "metro" with per-100k numbers but "city" with raw numbers. We should make both per-100k. Also, note that the FBI crime stats page [1] only shows data for the City of Pittsburgh; we may need to remove the "metro" numbers completely if we can't find a reference for them. Nathant408 ( talk) 15:35, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
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"I would like an improved section on ethnic population breakdown as well as a section on religious population breakdown." -69.174.58.188
Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 20:34, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
This article uses {{ Pittsburgh Film}}, {{ Pittsburgh etymology}}, {{ Pittsburgh Names}}, {{ Pittsburgh history}} templates in the lead to create multi-references. To me, this is a deviation from standard editing procedure and the citations should be broken-out separately. For example, this is what {{ Pittsburgh Film}} produces:
Any other thoughts?--
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Currently, the articles reads that Pittsburgh has 446 bridges, which is considered "world record for cities." I would like to notify you that Hamburg, Germany, has 2,485 bridges, more than Venice, Stockholm and Amsterdam combined and is thus listed in the Guinness Book of World Record as "City with most bridges in Europe". [1]-- 84.119.221.1 ( talk) 15:34, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia! It may be helpful to register as we can't tell if this is one person or two or even more writing these comments (and without talk pages nor any other edits). The link you provided on the 12:42 post is interesting but very much not a RS, besides its obvious OR there is a massive & obvious error on the Pittsburgh stats. That said there may be more research needed before a claim can be listed like this encyclopedically. Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 20:04, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
I disagree with the section splitting proposed however there is some room to trim down poorly fitting and sometimes repetitious syntax that appears like it has been thrown together over months and years. A few parts of the article even have the same thing expressed in two areas between what are obviously add on minor edits as time went on. The (ibids) edits I made took nothing of substance out of the article but trimmed down and compacted the important ideas in the sections. For basketball I even added the women's programs that were absent from the article.
My view is that most every topic still should belong on this article but if other editors wish to trim down the language or syntax that alone can streamline the article to roughly match the bytes of say a St. Louis or Los Angeles while retaining all the topics presently on the article. Thank you. Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 20:00, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 02:25, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
The size of the Pittsburgh article has been hovering around 170kB - 200kB bytes for the past few months. The guidance from Wikipedia:Article_size says that 30kB - 50kB is ideal for readability, and that any article over 100kB "almost certainly should be divided." The Pittsburgh article is much longer than the articles for other cities of comparable size (see eg, Cincinnati). The art in wiki editing is not to compile as much info as possible, the art is to select what to include and what should be split off (or deleted). I'm not going to get into a prolonged argument or edit war over this, but in its current state the Pittsburgh article has so much info that it is unreadable. Barryjjoyce ( talk) 21:43, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
Only in Pittsburgh do people have a fetish about some corporate sponsored best or most livable city poll. These polls are biased. They don't consider that unemployment/underemployment and low wage jobs are rampant, evictions and mortgage forclosures are escalating and more and more are falling into the ranks of the poor with less and less social benefits available due to defunding and privatization by finance capital. Pennsylvania's unemployment rate is skyrocketing especially among the youth. One in four Pennsylvanians earn poverty wages based on the annual report, released On August 28, “The State of Working Pennsylvania 2013,” authored by Mark Price and Stephen Herzenberg, who both hold PhDs in economics. Social wages have been terminated and slashed creating austerity like Pittsburgh has never seen before. So a $179,000 for a house is a mute point when fewer people can even afford a home. Pittsburgh is especially hard hit.
Pittsburgh has one of the worst particulate pollution problem in the country. In 2008 it ranked #2 in short term particulate matter second only to Bakersfield, CA. Currently it ranks in the top 7 in STPM and in the top 8 in Year Round Particulate Pollution, the only city outside of California in the top 9 and top 8 respectively.
Pittsburgh's mass transit system doesn't even make the national rankings and has been cut by 34% according to PAT. Mass transit is a major factor contributing to living standards,well being and safety. $789.00 in rent is not cheap especially when there are few livable wage jobs and many who are employed are paying half or more than half of their take home pay to private property owners. As for culture the average worker cannot afford to expose themselves and children to the arts. A $15.00 Pirate ticket doesn't count.
Other cities don't even talk about their rankings or "image". Pittsburgh has less and less to offer and more and more to boast about, apparently. As for health care, it is part of the service sphere. Under capitalist relations of production the service sphere takes on a parasitic tendency. Even in those areas of health care that are truly needed like emergency care, fewer and fewer people can afford it. There are no social service networks for those under 65 and injured or sick and don't have a car. People have to pay exploitative taxi rates just to get to the grocery store or walk and breath in the exhaust from passing commuters.
Pittsburgh is effectively a police state. It's one of the most overly patrolled cities and metro areas in the US. It is thinly disguised as "crime" prevention but it is ever in reality a form of oppression of the working class to protect private property i.e. monopoly merchant capitalists, banks, courts etc... Try walking in a south suburban neighborhood after 8 pm and sit on a bench with a cup of coffee. Police swarm around like flies on sugar.
Pittsburgh still has a lot of good to offer but let's play the livable city polls down a bit. There are many millions and even billions of people in the world that live in disaster free areas that doesn't make their cities "livable". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.239.250.100 ( talk) 03:55, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I'm going through all the US Cities (as per List of United States cities by population) in an effort to provide some uniformity in structure. Anyone have an issue with me restructuring this article as per Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline. I won't be changing any content, merely the order. Occasionally, I will also move a picture just to clean up spacing issues. I've already gone through the top 20 or so on the above list, if you'd like to see how they turned out. Thoughts? Onel5969 ( talk) 19:50, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
I posted an interesting link over at the Wikiproject page. Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 01:17, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
I will sit on this for a few weeks, given the maturation of the Pittsburgh article with such additions as Health care and Utilities etc. and the concern about the article being too long I propose migrating all Airport information to either Transportation or Metro Pittsburgh articles and most of the Highway and Port info too. I'm on the fence about it but the deciding factor for me is we need some room on the main article and 90% of the transportation data isn't within Pittsburgh city limits. Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 07:55, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
While going through the key historical moments of significance pertaining to Electric Power Transmission on internet, I came to this website where it is mentioned that, "Stanley had been working in Pittsburgh which was Andrew Carnegie's steel town and had the worst air quality in the US, it was also known as "Sooty City", and this contributed to William Stanley's poor health." Then I further checked to confirm the validity of the fact.
Here are some links which suggest the use of a non-colloquial name given to Pittsburgh
This very fact, of being a polluted city at that time, seems to have led to unimaginable, unquantifiable consequences as it led to poor health of people of a time when art, science and technology were still developing, which could possibly have led to the poor health of persons with talent of significance either to mankind or to universe or both, in general, who would otherwise have contributed by discovering new knowledge, previously undiscovered, and subsequently achieved acclaim for the same, if they wouldn't have fallen sick. So, I strongly believe that the fact that Pittsburgh was called by public, Sooty City, is a significant and, more importantly, a verified fact and thus deserves mention on Wikipedia. So, I suggest to add to the article, references pointing out that the city once was called "Sooty City". I'll add the final version of the text after reaching a consensus with the editors who would want to suggest another version. Rishidigital1055 ( talk) 14:01, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
I'm wondering if the last three sections of the lede should be moved out of there (or at least condensed) and merged into their respective subsections (economy, culture, etc). That would make this article more in line with similarly sized cities ( Cleveland, Cincinatti, Baltimore, Charlotte, North Carolina, Portland,_Oregon, etc. OhNoitsJamie Talk 19:47, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
What is missing from the city timeline? Please add relevant content. Thank you. -- M2545 ( talk) 11:08, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
This article is one of the most beautifully written promotional pieces I've ever seen about a city. It's a monument to positivity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.136.159.226 ( talk) 21:28, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Press releases are mostly a no-no for citing in Wikipedia, is it not?
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Mimi is going to pittsburgh. There is Zoe in pittsburgh. There is Wasif in Pittsburgh. I'm coming to Pittsburgh with mimi. Pittsburgh speaks English. Help Special pages Page information Upload file What links here Recent changes Contact page Related changes — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.108.115.117 ( talk) 16:32, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
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the pittsburgh steelers were named after the "pittsburgh steel co." (now wheeling-pittsburgh co.) based in monessen/allenport (pittsburgh metro-area), as the man who 'named' them worked there. 174.107.134.81 ( talk) 10:31, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
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I think this is a very well written article. All of the external links work and I think it is cool how Pittsburgh has many random sister cities. There is a lot of valuable information within this page.
Bwolfson95 ( talk) 04:11, 6 February 2018 (UTC)2/5/18
This article is well done. I am looking to edit the air quality and water quality sections. The air quality section has more information than water quality. Water quality is important in the Pittsburgh region and it could be useful to add information here. Furthermore, it could be worthwhile to separate it into independent sections for both air and water quality.
Mdrogotzke ( talk) 00:12, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Get rid of the pullout quotes. They sound like they were added by city employees. 93.136.52.160 ( talk) 00:42, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
"America's 1980s deindustrialization laid off area blue-collar workers and thousands of downtown white-collar workers when the longtime Pittsburgh-based world headquarters moved out.[10] "
longtime Pittsburgh-based world headquarters of what company? It wasn't US Steel, because they never left. Is the writer trying to say that all Pittsburgh-based world headquarters moved out? That wouldn't make any sense at all.
This sentence needs help but I am not sure how to fix it because I don't know what the writers intent was. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.146.74.185 ( talk) 16:18, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
@ Danbloch: the maps that are "found in nearly every US city article" take up almost half the infobox. For Pittsburgh, there's a separate map for (top to bottom, left to right): the county within the state, city within the county, the city borders, city within the state, and city within the country. That counts to be 5 different maps - that's ridiculous, and more than most cities, really. {{ maplink}} is new, but far better than the old pushpin or svg maps. For one thing, you don't have to redraw File:Allegheny County Pennsylvania incorporated and unincorporated areas Pittsburgh highlighted.svg, the map simply updates when OpenStreetMap updates. The maps are zoomable, letting you see street-level, national, and even global views of where the location is, all in one map. It's also easier and faster for the average editor to create, and brings Wikipedia into the 21st century with actually interactive media.
In fact, Pittsburgh as it was and as you restored it, actually has a maplink map, but it's poorly formatted, so it's off-center, has an unnecessary frame, and large bright red borders. These are all things I had fixed. And I brought it in line with other US cities, like Chicago and Columbus, Ohio that utilize these two mapframe maps to easily show a reader the city's boundaries, and position in the US, all while taking up far less room than is shown here.
I'm confused and frustrated you haven't seen how poorly the current maps are formatted and how much room they're taking up, while my new maps accomplish more, but are smaller, well-organized, and modern. ɱ (talk) 02:17, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
Some pittsburgh music history of Norman Nardini's previous band Diamond Reo. The late Robbie John's on drums. Mattygeetarross ( talk) 21:06, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
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"Both flagship hospitals annual rank as among the best overall in the United States, with UPMC being among U.S. News & World Reports' "Honor Roll"."
Correction: ...annually rank among the best..... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.239.250.100 ( talk) 03:35, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
As anyone who cares to edit this page would know, Heinz Field has been renamed to Acrisure Stadium. I edited all references to Heinz Field to now say Acrisure Stadium. It might be appropriate to include somewhere that Acrisure Stadium was formerly known as Heinz Field, but I will leave that up to other editors. Just wanted to make things accurate for now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:547:CA00:9B70:9095:5754:6CC2:5017 ( talk) 01:22, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
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