Wikipedia:WikiProject Seattle

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Suburbs

Neighborhoods

See Neighborhoods of Seattle and Category:Neighborhoods in Seattle for a more or less complete list.

A lot of these could be improved by using a more normal citation style.

Buildings and structures

• See List of Seattle landmarks for a complete list of official landmarks. Many need articles.
• Ditto for National Register of Historic Places listings in Seattle, Washington
  • One of the most surprising omissions is Seattle Hebrew Academy
  • Also, the Mann Building, now home of the Wild Ginger and Triple Door, once home of the Embassy Theater
• King County Landmarks (and other county equivalents) need lists and articles
• Washington State Convention and Trade Center
• Seattle Cinerama
• Historic Chinatown Gate (Seattle) (unveiled 9 Feb 2008; images at Commons:Category:Historic Chinatown Gate (Seattle); is one of many articles we could cite, but we should also find something about controversy over the name (both "historic" and "Chinatown" were controversial.)

Parks

See this page for a complete list. The local, far from complete list is at List of Seattle parks.

People

• About half of the winners of the Stranger Genius Awards lack articles, and several of the articles we do have are short. Also, most lack photos. Winners are mostly individuals, although about 20% are organizations. Among the 50+ award winners over the course of a decade are:
  • Sherman Alexie, semi-decent article as of 2012, but has potential for a very major article
  • Lori Goldston, cellist, Stranger Genius Award winner, played with Nirvana; looks like as of 2018 someone has done a decent job on this one
  • Jeffry Mitchell, artist. Stranger Genius Award winner, major 2012 show at the Henry.
  • Jonathan Raban
  • Susan Robb, artist, one of the first Stranger Genius Award winners.
• Very few of the local artists in the recent Frye Art Museum exhibit M_w Moment Magnitude have articles; some are among the people listed below, some aren't. There is a good bit of overlap with the Stranger Genius Awards.
• Another overlapping list: winners of Seattle Art Museum's Betty Bowen Award. Bowen herself has slightly more than a stub.
• Ralph Anderson (Seattle architect), a key figure in the revival of Pioneer Square. We now have a good starter article; could definitely use some images of private houses he designed.
• Kichio Allen Arai, "Seattle's first Asian American architect to design buildings under his own name." "Kichio Allen Arai on historylink.org"., see also Rash, David A. (2014). "Kichio Allen Arai". In Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl; Suttles, Wayne P (eds.). Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295993485. OCLC 856647647.
• William Rankin Ballard
• Powell Barnett: musician, athlete, activist, has a Seattle park named after him.
• Ross Palmer Beecher, artist; work has hung in places ranging from the Seattle Art Museum to the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, with permanent installations at (among others) Safeco Field and Seattle Tacoma International Airport. Documentary film of Beecher; basically an interview, possibly good for quotations, should certainly be linked once we have an article.
• Jherek Bischoff, musician, good piece on him here by Brendan Kiley that mentions enough collaborations with prominent musicians to make the notability thing pretty clear.
• Gregory Blackstock (artist)
• Carson Boren (one of Seattle's founders), way under-cited, and probably a bit stubby (mostly just family stuff)
• Stan Boreson, b. 1925, "King of Scandinavian Humor"
• Kay Bullitt (philanthropist), philanthropist
• Calvin Brainerd Cady, major influence on Nellie Cornish; she was eventually able to hire him as associate director of the Cornish School
• Kenneth Callahan, mid-20th century artist, barely a stub
• Buddy Catlett, jazz musician
• Frank B. Cooper, two decades as superintendent of schools
• Claire Cowie, artist
• John Curley: current TV and radio personality and host of KING 5's "Evening Magazine"
• Thelma Dewitty, first African American teacher in Seattle Public Schools
• Aaron Dixon, activist. Good starter article, but clearly no one has worked through his memoir as a source.
• Paul Dorpat, Seattle historian
• Jesse Epstein, pioneer of Seattle public housing and, with Yesler Terrace, of racial integration.
• Bob Ferguson (politician) reads like a campaign ad as of 2012-11-26, needs work.
• Buddy Foley: musician, "ladybug guy," all-around character. Most known just as a highly visible figure on the Seattle scene for the last half-century or so. Should be plenty of third-party documentation.
• Richard Fuller (Seattle Art Museum), founder of SAM
• Daniel Hunt Gilman, (as in "Burke-Gilman Trail")
• Nicola Griffith, British-born writer, lives in Seattle
• Austin E. Griffiths, "father of Seattle's playgrounds" says Richard C. Berner
• Ivar Haglund
• Barry Henthorn, CEO of ReelTime.com.
• Adrian Hanauer, CEO of Northwest Framing Company, owner of Seattle Sounders (USL)
• Richard Hugo, not much more than a stub.
• Thomas J. Humes, mayor for 6 years during the "open city" Yukon Gold Rush era
• Indigo Blue, probably the city's most prominent present-day burlesque performer
• Bertha Knight Landes, first woman to be mayor of a major American city, we have a stub
• Erika Langley, photographer, memoirist ("The Lusty Lady").
• Ed Leimbacher - writer and producer of classic Rainier Beer TV ads of 1970s to 1990s. See HIS BLOG for general background getting started.
• Gary Little, judge, suicide over accusations of child abuse
• Kelly Lyles (artist): might be a marginal call for notability, but certainly quite a Seattle character, and I suspect that with a bit of work notability could be established. - Jmabel | Talk 02:07, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
• Roy McMakin, artist
• J. A. Moore: Moore Theatre, main developer of Capitol Hill and University Heights. Also, promoter in 1906 of a less ambitious scheme for a lock at Ballard that stimulated the one that was ultimately built.
• Mark A. Matthews, Presbyterian minister, prominent Prohibitionist
• Thomas T. Minor, mayor, disappeared on a canoe trip
• Asa Mercer
• Charles Mudede: article is a bit stubby as of November 2012, and citation apparatus is a mess.
• Abe Osheroff, Spanish Civil War vet and activist extraordinaire (died April 6, 2008). We have a bit more than a stub. http://abeosheroff.org/ has numerous links to articles that would be a basis to expand this.
• Norm Rice
• James T. Ronald, mayor, prominent judge (including the trial of the Wobblies after the Everett Massacre)
• James Delmage Ross (as of 2015-08-05, just a redirect to Skagit River Hydroelectric Project; usually just called James D. Ross, there should be a redirect between these once there is an article) of Ross Dam and Ross Lake fame: important in the history of City Light.
• Ann Rule
• Eli Sanders, Pulitzer-winning writer for The Stranger
• Cecelia Schultz, most prominent Seattle impresario of the 1930s and 1940s
• E.O. Schwagerl, Seattle's first Park Supervisor
• Paul Schell, mayor - pretty decent B-class article as of December 2018
• Bill "The Beerman" Scott - legendary Seattle sports beer vendor; see Rick "The Peanut Man" Kaminski for possible in-links.
• Tiberio Simone, chef. See http://www.lafigaproject.com, http://imageevent.com/mbates/tiberiosvillage
• Sam Smith (politician), first African-American to serve on the city council.
• Bill Speidel
• Norm Stamper
• Sidney Dix Strong, pacifist Congregationalist minister, author, father of Anna Louise Strong
• Victor Steinbrueck
• Margaret Tompkins, artist. Why is it not surprising that of the many artists whose works are cast in concrete at the Betty Bowen Viewpoint, the only one who doesn't have a Wikipedia article as of December 2012 is the one woman?
• George Francis Vanderveer, "Counsel for the Damned"
• Charles "Wappy" Wappenstein, famously corrupt police chief
• Henry Yesler
• Many red links at List of University of Washington Presidents; of these, at least Thomas Franklin Kane deserves an article.
• Several red links in List of mayors of Seattle

Transportation

Organizations

Geography

• Bailey Peninsula
• Cherry Grove–Shannon Township, Carroll County, Illinois, where the Denny Party came from. See for a quite decent article, written by someone born 1992, so presumably still in high school, but published on the very solid HistoryLink site.

Events

• Major annual events at Seattle Center
  • Bumbershoot
  • Northwest Folklife Festival
  • Festál
  • Bite of Seattle
• Seattle Hempfest is not much of an article for such a prominent event. Also, its executive director Vivian McPeak, who has written a book about Hempfest, may well deserve an article in his own right.

Miscellaneous

We have a near stub on the 2012 Seattle cafe shooting spree. We do not have much biographical information on the victims (even though at least two were rather well-known musicians) nor on the Café Racer (Seattle) even though it is a pretty prominent music venue, and it would be easy to find third-party articles about the music scene centered there. - Jmabel | Talk 02:04, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Photos wanted

See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Seattle for the main list of articles needing photos. Free images, of course. For some of these, we have fair use images, but those aren't really a good solution.

• If anyone wants to do a photo expedition some weekend, or (once the days get long) evening, let me know. - Jmabel | Talk 02:43, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
• People
  • Dead
    • William Rankin Ballard
    • John Considine (Seattle)
    • Gwendolyn Knight
    • Jacob Lawrence
    • Abe Osheroff
  • Living
    • Norm Stamper
    • Colleen J. McElroy
    • current public office holders
    • ballet dancers at PNB
• Buildings
  • We're still a bit short on the craftsman houses that are probably the most typical Seattle architecture of the 1910s and 1920s.
  • Landmarks: a (very) few of the List of Landmarks in Seattle still lack images as of August 2015:
    • Loyal Heights School, 2501 NW 80th Street
    • MV Malibu
    • Martha Washington School, 6612 65th Avenue South (demolished?)
  • Other demolished buildings
    • Film Exchange Building
    • Does anyone have a picture of the previous downtown library (the Paul Thiry building that was there between the Carnegie Library and the present Rem Koolhaus building)?
    • How about the Jewish Chapel that used to stand at 12th & Spruce
• Neighborhoods
  • See commons:Category:Neighborhoods of Seattle
  • Feel free to make requests here for anything you think is under-covered
• Transportation in Seattle
  • We have some relevant pictures, but we could use some that are more to the purpose. Especially it would be good to have pictures showing multi-modal transportation: park-and-ride lots; cars, bikes, and motorcycles on a ferry; bikes on the front of a bus.
• Surrounding area: We have a reasonable number of Seattle images (though of course there are many specific ones still to be added) but barely a handful of images of most nearby communities.

Section updated by Jmabel | Talk 00:18, 6 August 2015 (UTC)