Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lehigh Valley

Photographing every municipality in Pennsylvania

Several of us are engaged in a project to make sure that every municipality in the state has a photo in its article. That's one photo for every city, borough, town, and township. We'll probably leave census-designated places and unincorporated communities for next year.

There are 2562 municipalities in the state, which is likely the largest for any US state. So far we have about 1,869 of them photographed, with about 700 left to go. You can see what photos are needed, divided by county at User:Nyttend/Pennsylvania

You can also see the entire list at List of municipalities in Pennsylvania. Please take photos and upload them, first to the article for the municipality and then to the list article. We'd like to be finished with this project by July 4th, 2015.

What should you take photos of?

If you live in the area, you probably know better than we do what's the most important or most beautiful part of the municipality. But just in case you need a few ideas, try these subjects.

• the town hall
• railroad station
• fire station or police station
• a building on the National Register of Historic Places
• a school or library
• a bridge
• a church
• a park, perhaps with a Civil War monument
• the corner of State and Main Streets
• other street scenes, including residential areas and rural areas
• the most beautiful building in town
• the tallest building in town

When uploading the files to Commons, please include a category for the name of the municipality, or if no such category exists, the name of the county.

There is a "watchlist banner" running during June for all registered editors with a PA located IP. Even before the banner started running we had about 5 photographers working on this already: 1 in Western, PA, about 3 in SE PA, and 1 in NE PA. It looks like we need some folks in Western and Central PA!

If you have any questions, just ask, either here or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pennsylvania ‎.

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 13:57, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Pls see discussion

Please consider participating in discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places#List of historic places in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It could lead towards revision, merger, or other change of the Allentown, Pennsylvania and List of historic places in Allentown, Pennsylvania and List of city parks and recreation facilities of Allentown, Pennsylvania and National Register of Historic Places listings in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania articles. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 01:46, 6 February 2023 (UTC)