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I made extensive changes to the size and positioning of numerous images. Most thumbs were oversized (upright=1.1) for no apparent reason. I think an 1800px wide image panorama is excessive (I reduced to 1600px). I have a 1080x1920 resolution monitor which would not display the entire image. There probably is too many images in the article but I do not think I could get a consensus about which ones to eliminate. Personally, I like most of the images. Unfortunately, they get in the way. That is why I added a gallery of the historic paintings and engravings. I think it improved the section greatly. Also, the business of being a "Featured" article. An assessment from 2006 is of no use. There are plenty of references (200+ may be too many) nor did not notice too many lists. The "Presidential Elections Results" table should go. P.S. I hope the changes I made did not require approval through this forum. I do not think I changed the content of the article, only the presentation which I agree is important. User-duck ( talk) 23:00, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
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Are you suggesting that all of the above tourist sites be added in simple bulleted list form? Most of them are already in the text, except the shopping items which are more relevant to the Wikivoyage article; however, there is some precedent for writing entire articles about tourism in big cities and tourist site lists here in Wikipedia. If you want to start a new article like that for Philadelphia, ga head. Always keep in mind that Wikipedia is not a tourist-style guidebook and avoid promotional listings. I'm not volunteering to help with a new article. Brian W. Schaller ( talk) 00:21, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
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The derivation of the name "Philadelphia" should state that it is based on the roots of two nouns, "philia", meaning "love", and "adelphos", meaning brother. The etymology currently in the article references "philos", an adjective meaning "dear" or "(be)loved" instead of "philia" - but it's really the roots of these words that were used to compose the name. Any comments (yes, no, meh)? AAIRON ( talk) 02:15, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
As long as we don't know William Penn's intention with certainty, I think it would be best to say Penn named his new city 'Philadelphia' after the hellenistic city of Philadelphia, in Asia Minor, mentioned in the New Testament (Revelation 1.9-11), doubtless bearing in mind the existence of a different though cognate Greek word, also transliterated in English as 'philadelphia' and meaning "love of the brethren" or "brotherly love". 87.67.31.82 ( talk) 17:40, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
In the Christian Bible, there is the mention of a town called by its Greek name "Philadelphia," famed in Christianity for being one of the first Seven Churches. It is established that Philadelphia's founders were concerned with Quaker scripture and doctrine, and thus its natural to infer that their choice of the name "Philadelphia" came from the Bible. So then we look for evidence where this is declared, but we also frown on those who say its unnatural to infer this, unless there is literal specific record, which could be missing for one reason or another, such as in jousts the Free World has with the aristocratic group. - Inowen ( NLFTE) 05:54, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
There is no mention of the original Philadelphia in the article, or link to it, or place in new testament - one of the best known cities in it, which William Penn surely was inspired from as his reason for founding it, which was >religious< and his "a city on the hill quote" is also from the New Testament,which is (Matthew 5).
Although this is surely how the name Philadelphia came about, this is neither here nor there, as the first city to bear the name - the namesake - and why the name was widely known before the choosing of it (many places in the new world were named after old places- "New York", "New England", etc) would surely have at least >one line< in any article. Ie the first city to bear the name of the city Philadelphia was...
/info/en/?search=Ala%C5%9Fehir#Ancient_Philadelphia
Worse yet, there isn't even a link to the original in the Philadelphia (disambiguation page), and the above link is a badly written article that goes out of it's way to mention the modern city by it's Turkish name and buries the historical (which arguably has little connection). This is a hatchet job. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.42.179.151 ( talk) 19:15, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
A quick check of the other large US cities shows that their coordinates point to things other than their geographical center. Often they point to city hall, or to the first intersection back when the city was founded. For example, Chicago's original center was a ford across the Chicago River at what is now Damen Ave, and that's where the coordinates point. NYC's points to City Hall. Anyway, pointing to an ugly freight terminal minds me of something Emerson wrote. Abductive ( reasoning) 21:25, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
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Does anybody living near " Museum of the American Revolution" take a shot to the "George Washington's personal flag", and load-it on Commons?
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I changed Quimhneachain into Cuimhneachàin. This is correct without doubt. However, it could be that "na Gael" must be "na nGael". I am no expert in the very complicated Irish grammar. Anyhow, it is correct that the second letter of "nGael" is a capital. Handige Harrie ( overleg) 16 mei 2019 12:41 (CEST)
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Can you mention how it lost the honor of being the 5th most populous city in July 2016 to Phoenix, AZ? 2600:387:5:807:0:0:0:61 ( talk) 20:30, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
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Ok I've done a quick check of a view things, and while there's no real immediate grounds for failure (no copyvio that I can see, no tags, no edit warring) there are a couple of red flags. First, the citations in some areas seem to be lacking, with whole paragraphs of the history of the city being completely unreferenced despite several different claims. Second, the nominator of the article isn't one of the major contributors to the article. They have only made one edit to the article in the last two years that I can see, which was adding a ref to a citation needed tag immediately before nominating the article. I think I'll have to fail the article, but I'll still go through the criteria to see where it still needs improvement. OCL97 ( talk) 01:31, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
Please see the recent article history and the changes made by User:Worldhistoryguru67, my reverts of those changes, and our edit summaries. Please let us know whether, and why, it would be correct to list Tamanend as a city co-founder. Thanks. Brian W. Schaller ( talk) 05:11, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
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Under the politics section it says that "Democrats currently hold 14 seats including nine of the ten districts and five at-large seats, while Republicans hold two at-large seats and the Northeast-based Tenth District. ". This information is outdated and needs updated to account for the results of the 2019 elections in which republicans lost one at large seat to the working families party. It should be changed to "Democrats currently hold 14 seats including nine of the ten districts and five at-large seats, Republicans hold 2 seats including one at-large seat and the Northeast-based Tenth District, and the Working Families Party hold one at-large seat." Jdoebler ( talk) 05:22, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
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The line "This official status lasted until the English capture of New Netherland" is cited on the History of Philadelphia article, but here a citation is needed. The citation from the history article can be used on the main article. 172.8.210.218 ( talk) 14:39, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
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With the release of the 2020 census data, the population of the City of Philadelphia should be updated. As of April 1, 2020, the population of the City of Philadelphia was 1,603,797.
Other census data suggests that demographics likewise need to be updated. Information can be found here: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/philadelphiacountypennsylvania 98.225.156.108 ( talk) 21:12, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
The Parks section is very short and just mentions Fairmount Park; it isn't particularly notable enough to be its own section. Thoughts on moving it to a subsection of Geography -- similar to what New York City does? It would seem to fit nicely there alongside the description of the city planning and five parks/squares, etc. Another option is a subsection of Culture? Cstanford.math ( talk) 16:46, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
The text "Northeast magalopolis" needs to be corrected to "Northeast megalopolis". The link is fine. Although this could be a typo, I suspect it's the result of vandalism. VaporTraces ( talk) 17:53, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
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The Unions aren't based in the city and aren't that popular in it especially by comparison, which should be noted and reflected in how prominent they are indicated. Wennyd ( talk) 16:13, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
Can’t seem to revert bc seems to be semi-protected but this edit needs to go, no one calls it “Cobble City” and this does not belong. Dhueishsgehe ( talk) 13:09, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
The formatting of this is wrong, but I’m not sure how to correct it. MapReader ( talk) 00:25, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
The first sentence of this article is missing a conjunction between the second and final elements in its list. It should read “Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., and the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City.” It currently reads “Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City.” 73.193.140.234 ( talk) 00:05, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
The map in this article has no Pennsylvania-Maryland border- that ought to be fixed. BigCheddah ( talk) 12:24, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
The image gallery has six images with eight descriptions. I think I could bring them into alignment, one way or the other, but I don't know Philadelphia well enough to be confident. It appears that this edit by TheLionHasSeen changed the gallery but not the caption. JamesMLane t c 06:16, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing that out! I've removed the two extra descriptions. ManOfTheArk ( talk) 15:41, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
the following wording in 18th centurey history needs to be corrected: "The state capital was moved from Philadelphia to Lancaster in 1799, then to Harrisburg in 1812, and ultimately to Washington, D.C., in 1800 upon completion of the White House and U.S. Capitol buildings." Rta10313 ( talk) 19:18, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
Do we really need the picture of the Naked Bike Ride? I'm not against the event being mentioned, but having the image seems a little much. Is there a consensus among the editors approving that this image is not shocking or explicit? 2601:640:8A00:1A0:951F:2DAA:7A86:B648 ( talk) 03:19, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
This article is incorrect when it claims that the Articles of Confederation were adopted in Philadelphia. At the time of their adoption, Philadelphia was occupied by the British. Because of this, the Articles of Confederation were adopted in the Continental Congress's temporary capital of York, Pennsylvania. Please edit to correct this. Machoooooooooo ( talk) 07:28, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
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I made extensive changes to the size and positioning of numerous images. Most thumbs were oversized (upright=1.1) for no apparent reason. I think an 1800px wide image panorama is excessive (I reduced to 1600px). I have a 1080x1920 resolution monitor which would not display the entire image. There probably is too many images in the article but I do not think I could get a consensus about which ones to eliminate. Personally, I like most of the images. Unfortunately, they get in the way. That is why I added a gallery of the historic paintings and engravings. I think it improved the section greatly. Also, the business of being a "Featured" article. An assessment from 2006 is of no use. There are plenty of references (200+ may be too many) nor did not notice too many lists. The "Presidential Elections Results" table should go. P.S. I hope the changes I made did not require approval through this forum. I do not think I changed the content of the article, only the presentation which I agree is important. User-duck ( talk) 23:00, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
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Are you suggesting that all of the above tourist sites be added in simple bulleted list form? Most of them are already in the text, except the shopping items which are more relevant to the Wikivoyage article; however, there is some precedent for writing entire articles about tourism in big cities and tourist site lists here in Wikipedia. If you want to start a new article like that for Philadelphia, ga head. Always keep in mind that Wikipedia is not a tourist-style guidebook and avoid promotional listings. I'm not volunteering to help with a new article. Brian W. Schaller ( talk) 00:21, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
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The derivation of the name "Philadelphia" should state that it is based on the roots of two nouns, "philia", meaning "love", and "adelphos", meaning brother. The etymology currently in the article references "philos", an adjective meaning "dear" or "(be)loved" instead of "philia" - but it's really the roots of these words that were used to compose the name. Any comments (yes, no, meh)? AAIRON ( talk) 02:15, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
As long as we don't know William Penn's intention with certainty, I think it would be best to say Penn named his new city 'Philadelphia' after the hellenistic city of Philadelphia, in Asia Minor, mentioned in the New Testament (Revelation 1.9-11), doubtless bearing in mind the existence of a different though cognate Greek word, also transliterated in English as 'philadelphia' and meaning "love of the brethren" or "brotherly love". 87.67.31.82 ( talk) 17:40, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
In the Christian Bible, there is the mention of a town called by its Greek name "Philadelphia," famed in Christianity for being one of the first Seven Churches. It is established that Philadelphia's founders were concerned with Quaker scripture and doctrine, and thus its natural to infer that their choice of the name "Philadelphia" came from the Bible. So then we look for evidence where this is declared, but we also frown on those who say its unnatural to infer this, unless there is literal specific record, which could be missing for one reason or another, such as in jousts the Free World has with the aristocratic group. - Inowen ( NLFTE) 05:54, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
There is no mention of the original Philadelphia in the article, or link to it, or place in new testament - one of the best known cities in it, which William Penn surely was inspired from as his reason for founding it, which was >religious< and his "a city on the hill quote" is also from the New Testament,which is (Matthew 5).
Although this is surely how the name Philadelphia came about, this is neither here nor there, as the first city to bear the name - the namesake - and why the name was widely known before the choosing of it (many places in the new world were named after old places- "New York", "New England", etc) would surely have at least >one line< in any article. Ie the first city to bear the name of the city Philadelphia was...
/info/en/?search=Ala%C5%9Fehir#Ancient_Philadelphia
Worse yet, there isn't even a link to the original in the Philadelphia (disambiguation page), and the above link is a badly written article that goes out of it's way to mention the modern city by it's Turkish name and buries the historical (which arguably has little connection). This is a hatchet job. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.42.179.151 ( talk) 19:15, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
A quick check of the other large US cities shows that their coordinates point to things other than their geographical center. Often they point to city hall, or to the first intersection back when the city was founded. For example, Chicago's original center was a ford across the Chicago River at what is now Damen Ave, and that's where the coordinates point. NYC's points to City Hall. Anyway, pointing to an ugly freight terminal minds me of something Emerson wrote. Abductive ( reasoning) 21:25, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
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Does anybody living near " Museum of the American Revolution" take a shot to the "George Washington's personal flag", and load-it on Commons?
(see commons:Category:George Washington's personal flag )
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I changed Quimhneachain into Cuimhneachàin. This is correct without doubt. However, it could be that "na Gael" must be "na nGael". I am no expert in the very complicated Irish grammar. Anyhow, it is correct that the second letter of "nGael" is a capital. Handige Harrie ( overleg) 16 mei 2019 12:41 (CEST)
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Can you mention how it lost the honor of being the 5th most populous city in July 2016 to Phoenix, AZ? 2600:387:5:807:0:0:0:61 ( talk) 20:30, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
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Ok I've done a quick check of a view things, and while there's no real immediate grounds for failure (no copyvio that I can see, no tags, no edit warring) there are a couple of red flags. First, the citations in some areas seem to be lacking, with whole paragraphs of the history of the city being completely unreferenced despite several different claims. Second, the nominator of the article isn't one of the major contributors to the article. They have only made one edit to the article in the last two years that I can see, which was adding a ref to a citation needed tag immediately before nominating the article. I think I'll have to fail the article, but I'll still go through the criteria to see where it still needs improvement. OCL97 ( talk) 01:31, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
Please see the recent article history and the changes made by User:Worldhistoryguru67, my reverts of those changes, and our edit summaries. Please let us know whether, and why, it would be correct to list Tamanend as a city co-founder. Thanks. Brian W. Schaller ( talk) 05:11, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
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Under the politics section it says that "Democrats currently hold 14 seats including nine of the ten districts and five at-large seats, while Republicans hold two at-large seats and the Northeast-based Tenth District. ". This information is outdated and needs updated to account for the results of the 2019 elections in which republicans lost one at large seat to the working families party. It should be changed to "Democrats currently hold 14 seats including nine of the ten districts and five at-large seats, Republicans hold 2 seats including one at-large seat and the Northeast-based Tenth District, and the Working Families Party hold one at-large seat." Jdoebler ( talk) 05:22, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
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The line "This official status lasted until the English capture of New Netherland" is cited on the History of Philadelphia article, but here a citation is needed. The citation from the history article can be used on the main article. 172.8.210.218 ( talk) 14:39, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
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With the release of the 2020 census data, the population of the City of Philadelphia should be updated. As of April 1, 2020, the population of the City of Philadelphia was 1,603,797.
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The Parks section is very short and just mentions Fairmount Park; it isn't particularly notable enough to be its own section. Thoughts on moving it to a subsection of Geography -- similar to what New York City does? It would seem to fit nicely there alongside the description of the city planning and five parks/squares, etc. Another option is a subsection of Culture? Cstanford.math ( talk) 16:46, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
The text "Northeast magalopolis" needs to be corrected to "Northeast megalopolis". The link is fine. Although this could be a typo, I suspect it's the result of vandalism. VaporTraces ( talk) 17:53, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect PhillyD and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 July 20#PhillyD until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Tartar Torte 14:13, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Phillyd and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 July 20#PhillyD until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Tartar Torte 14:13, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Stonewall Heights and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 20#Stonewall Heights until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Tartar Torte 19:33, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
The Unions aren't based in the city and aren't that popular in it especially by comparison, which should be noted and reflected in how prominent they are indicated. Wennyd ( talk) 16:13, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
Can’t seem to revert bc seems to be semi-protected but this edit needs to go, no one calls it “Cobble City” and this does not belong. Dhueishsgehe ( talk) 13:09, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
The formatting of this is wrong, but I’m not sure how to correct it. MapReader ( talk) 00:25, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
The first sentence of this article is missing a conjunction between the second and final elements in its list. It should read “Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., and the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City.” It currently reads “Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City.” 73.193.140.234 ( talk) 00:05, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
The map in this article has no Pennsylvania-Maryland border- that ought to be fixed. BigCheddah ( talk) 12:24, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
The image gallery has six images with eight descriptions. I think I could bring them into alignment, one way or the other, but I don't know Philadelphia well enough to be confident. It appears that this edit by TheLionHasSeen changed the gallery but not the caption. JamesMLane t c 06:16, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing that out! I've removed the two extra descriptions. ManOfTheArk ( talk) 15:41, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
the following wording in 18th centurey history needs to be corrected: "The state capital was moved from Philadelphia to Lancaster in 1799, then to Harrisburg in 1812, and ultimately to Washington, D.C., in 1800 upon completion of the White House and U.S. Capitol buildings." Rta10313 ( talk) 19:18, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
Do we really need the picture of the Naked Bike Ride? I'm not against the event being mentioned, but having the image seems a little much. Is there a consensus among the editors approving that this image is not shocking or explicit? 2601:640:8A00:1A0:951F:2DAA:7A86:B648 ( talk) 03:19, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
This article is incorrect when it claims that the Articles of Confederation were adopted in Philadelphia. At the time of their adoption, Philadelphia was occupied by the British. Because of this, the Articles of Confederation were adopted in the Continental Congress's temporary capital of York, Pennsylvania. Please edit to correct this. Machoooooooooo ( talk) 07:28, 8 January 2024 (UTC)