Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Seattle/Wikipedia Day 2025

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Seattle articles by quality and importance (Full table)
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Total
FA		3	29
FL			20
GA		9	174
B	2	14	256
C	3	19	878
Start	3	15	3,859
Stub		4	2,583
List		2	128
Assessed	8	66	8,461
Total	8	66	8,469

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Assess : Although currently assessed as "C" class, as of revision 1262119407, the ORES score for article quality was a "B". Use this current revision link for Seattle to get the latest revision number then substitute it for the <revision number> in the https://ores.wikimedia.org/v3/scores/enwiki/<revision number>/articlequality URL.

Here are two criteria assessment links:
• Wikipedia:Content assessment/B-Class criteria
• Wikipedia:Good article criteria.
Cleanup : Bloated sections, such as Sports
Collaborate : Improve other Top-importance articles, such as History of Seattle, and High-importance articles such as Puget Sound, Lake Union, Lake Washington, Tacoma, Washington, University of Washington, Seattle Center, Pioneer Square, Seattle, etc.
Update : several sections in the Seattle article with outdated statistics or information:

Books

Bringing the following library books to the event (so long as my car gets me there); feel free to copy the appropriate citation from this list:

Becker, Paula; Stein, Alan J.; HistoryLink Staff (2011). The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World's Fair and Its Legacy. Seattle Center Foundation. ISBN 9780615469409.
Buerge, David M. (2017). Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name. Seattle: Sasquatch Books. ISBN 9781632171351.
Cummings, BJ (2020). The River That Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295747446.
LeWarne, Charles; Ficken, Robert E. (1988). Washington: A Centennial History. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295966939.
Morgan, Murray (2018). Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295743493.
Thrush, Coll-Peter (2017). Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-over Place (2nd ed.). Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295741345. JSTOR j.ctvcwnvq3.
Williams, Jacqueline B. (2001). The Hill With A Future: Seattle's Capitol Hill 1900–1946. ISBN 9780964417328.

Sounder Bruce 03:37, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here are some expanded citations of the above. I added OCLC Numbers, adjusted ISBNs to standard format, added three links for books fully available on the Internet Archive (another is available just for page preview), links for a couple of partial previews at Google Books, an author link, & an additional JSTOR link.

Becker, Paula; Stein, Alan J.; HistoryLink Staff (2011). The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World's Fair and Its Legacy. Seattle: Seattle Center Foundation. ISBN 978-0-615-46940-9. OCLC 759609759.
Buerge, David M. (2017). Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name. Seattle: Sasquatch Books. ISBN 978-1-63217-136-8. OCLC 1006731267. Partial preview at Google books.
- If one determines a page number, it can be linked to a page preview at https://archive.org/details/chiefseattletown0000buer. For instance, here is a link produced by substituting the page number, in which I put the number "20", at https://archive.org/details/chiefseattletown0000buer/page/20/mode/2up.
Cummings, B. J. (2020). The River That Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish. Seatle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-74744-6. JSTOR j.ctv125jv8s. OCLC 1145091251. Partial preview at Google books.
Ficken, Robert E.; LeWarne, Charles Pierce; Washington Centennial Commission (1988). Washington: A Centennial History. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-96693-9. OCLC 18134601 – via Internet Archive.
Morgan, Murray; Gwinn, Mary Ann (1982). Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-74350-9. OCLC 1162598924 – via Internet Archive.
- The above is an earlier edition of what SounderBruce posted & is available online.
Thrush, Coll-Peter (2017). Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-over Place (2nd ed.). Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-74135-2. JSTOR j.ctvcwnvq3. OCLC 979417359 – via Internet Archive.
Williams, Jacqueline B. (2001). The Hill With A Future: Seattle's Capitol Hill 1900–1946. Seattle: CPK Ink. ISBN 978-0-9644173-2-8. OCLC 52688048.

Peaceray (talk) 06:57, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]