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This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles relating to the Seattle metropolitan area, especially the city of Seattle itself.

WikiProject Seattle's parent project include WikiProject Cities and WikiProject Washington ( WikiProject United States).

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Active participants

1. Foxtreetop ( talk · contribs) - Location = South Lake Union, Bellevue
2. Jmabel ( talk · contribs) - Location = Wedgwood
3. Digital20 ( talk · contribs) - Location = Queen Anne
4. Wsiegmund ( talk · contribs) - Location = Ravenna/Bryant, Images mostly
5. FrogofTime ( talk · contribs) - Location = Capitol Hill
6. Admrboltz ( talk · contribs) - Location = SLC, but originally from Issaquah/Renton/Bellevue
7. Cosman246 ( talk · contribs) - Location = Redmond/Sammamish
8. SchmuckyTheCat ( talk · contribs) - Location = China/Seattle
9. Shannon Garcia ( talk · contribs) - Location = U-D/Ravenna/Roosevelt
10. Publichall ( talk · contribs) - Location = The East Side, Mostly historical data
11. Bluerasberry ( talk · contribs) - Location = u-district
12. Nikkywikky321 ( talk · contribs) - Location = Upper Queen Anne
13. Dennis Bratland ( talk · contribs) - Location = Ballard
14. Ibadibam ( talk · contribs) - Location = Central District
15. Bo Kinney ( talk · contribs) - Location = Central District; works at Seattle Room of downtown library
16. Tgrosinger ( talk · contribs) - Location = Maple Leaf
17. Anstosa ( talk · contribs) - Location = University District
18. Waij ( talk · contribs) - Location = University District
19. Alanchi1 ( talk · contribs) - Location = University District
20. Stilbes ( talk · contribs) - Location = Ravenna
21. Paymoney ( talk · contribs) - Location = University Village
22. Hpeoples ( talk · contribs) - Location = Seattle, Rainier Valley
23. SounderBruce ( talk · contribs) - Location = Marysville; I mostly work on transportation articles
24. Peaceray ( talk · contribs) - Location = The portion of the Atlantic neighborhood that Wikivoyage might consider as South Seattle
25. Jaldous1 ( talk · contribs) - Location = Bothell and Newcastle (it's complicated)
26. LeeColleton ( talk · contribs) - Location = Mostly Beacon Hill, Seattle also everywhere
27. Another Believer ( talk · contribs)
28. MBlairMartin ( talk · contribs) - Location = Downtown/Belltown
29. 19adam99 ( talk · contribs) - Location = Lake Stevens, Work mostly on Railroad/Transportation articles
30. Dweymouth ( talk · contribs) - Location = Downtown
31. VigilantPenguin ( talk · contribs) - Location = Eastside (for now)
32. Bsoyka ( talk · contribs) - Location = Steilacoom
33. Mccunicano ( talk · contribs) - Location = Rural Japan, but I will be moving to Seattle in the near future
34. Gerald Waldo Luis ( talk · contribs) - Location = Indonesia; interested in the city.
35. Subzidion ( talk · contribs) - Location = Downtown
36. CascadeUrbanite ( talk · contribs) - Location = Everett/Lynnwood/Mukilteo
37. Gnisacc ( talk · contribs) - Location - north seattle
38. Ajohns90 ( talk · contribs) - Location - First Hill
39. Waylon111 ( talk · contribs) - Location = Anacortes
40. AsimovtheCat ( talk · contribs) – Location = Ballard

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Subpages

• List of all subpages of this page

Cities in the Seattle metropolitan area

See Category:Cities in the Seattle metropolitan area.

Many of these need serious work, as they aren't far from the auto-generated entries. List of cities in Washington (by population) might help with this; it highlights Seattle-area cities in green.

Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington is a featured article and appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as "Today's featured article" on October 17, 2005.

Seattle neighborhoods

See Category:Neighborhoods in Seattle and List of Seattle neighborhoods.

So far, we have named neighborhoods XXXXX, Seattle. As of August 2008, virtually all articles have at least been started, though many are still rather stubby.

Selected Tasks

Use {{ WikiProjectSeattleTasks}} to include the template below on your user page or elsewhere.

Here are some open WikiProject Seattle tasks; some of these are not started, and all could use expansion and/or better referencing:

• Suburbs: Shoreline, Lakewood, Kent, Auburn, Mercer Island
• Neighborhoods: Beacon Hill, Magnolia, Rainier Valley, Sand Point, Madison Valley, Central District, Gatewood
• Landmarks: Seattle Hebrew Academy, Paramount Theatre, Moore Theatre, Waiting for the Interurban
• Parks: Seattle Parks and Recreation, List of parks in Seattle, Colman Park, Genesee Park, Interlaken Park, Jackson Park, McCurdy Park
• Schools: List of schools of the Seattle School District needs to be updated, some schools do not have pages.
• People: David Brewster, Stan Boreson, John Miller (Washington politician), Art Chantry, Henry Yesler, Victor Steinbrueck, Arthur A. Denny, Carson Boren, Emmett Watson, Timothy Egan
• Transportation: First Avenue South Bridge, Salmon Bay Bridge
• Government: Seattle City Council, King County Council, King County Executive
• Companies: Dendreon, Cutter & Buck, Sur La Table, Briazz, Russell Investments, Un-Cruise Adventures
• Night Life: Pioneer Square, Capitol Hill, Belltown, Fremont
• Templates: Template:Seattle Corporations could use updated (2013) Fortune rankings for companies ranked 501–1000
• Verify: add sources to Unreferenced BLPs

Feel free to edit this list or discuss these tasks.

Complete list

• Work on Seattle (especially by making it more text and fewer lists).
• Partially merge Puget Sound and Seattle metropolitan area.
• You can add {{ WikiProject United States|class= |importance= |Seattle=yes|Seattle-importance= }} to talk pages of Seattle-related articles; it will display as follows, and also place those talk pages into a category related to this project.

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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); [1] 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 [2]
• Frank B. Cooper, two decades as superintendent of schools
• Claire Cowie, artist [3]
• 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) reply
• Roy McMakin, artist [4]
• 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

Bands

Not everything listed here is necessarily notable. Do be prepared to justify notability if you take these on.

• Absolute Monarchs. Pretty prominent current band.
• The Allies (band). New wave era. "Emma Peel"
• Bad Love Sessions. Blues/Rock/ Grunge style band.
• Beat Connection (band), current band, came in 5th on recent City Arts poll [5]
• The Bad Things. Seattle's premier “Junkyard Cabaret” band.
• Best Band from Earth. Space Pop music group. "Silver Scream", "Home"
• The Blowdog and Sneezy Show. Experimental/Psychedelic.
• Boom City. An Indie Rock/ Pop band.
• Campfire OK, current band, came in 2nd on recent City Arts poll [6]
• Crome Syrcus, most notable for their 1967 collaboration with the Joffrey Ballet: Astarte; the latter article could also use a lot of work.
• Curtains for You. Decent article, but needs cleanup and better citations.
• Fresh Espresso (hip hop)
• A Gun That Shoots Knives. Pop and Indie Rock music group. "Make Believe", "Crazy Beach"
• The Georgetown Orbits. A Reggae, Rocksteady, Ska music group.
• The Heats (a.k.a. The Heaters). New wave era. "I Don't Like Your Face".
• Ice Age Cobra. A Garage and Indie Rock style band.
• Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground. Psychedelic rock, Digital Soul.
• Massive Monkees, B-boy group.
• My Goodness, current (?) band, came in 4th on recent City Arts poll [7]
• Mystery Ship. A modern Classic rock and Psychedelic blues rock music group. "Medusa"
• Ravenna Woods, almost certainly among the most prominent local young bands.
• The Seattle SuperSonics. A 2-piece Indie Rock band.
• Shabazz Palaces (hip hop) have barely a stub.
• The Spinning Whips. An Indie Rock music group.
• Strong Killings. An Punk Rock and Experimental music group.
• Thee Emergency Rock and Soul garage rock band. "Can You Dig It?"
• Thee Satisfaction (hip hop)
• Visible Targets. New wave era, produced at one point by Mick Ronson
• Former band Visqueen have a short, decent article but lead Rachel Flotard, now a solo act, lacks one.
• Waxy Moon, probably the city's most prominent present-day male burlesque performer
• The Young Evils, one of the most prominent current young bands in town

Transportation

Bridges and tunnels

Streets

Many other major U.S. cities have articles about their major streets. There are almost none of these for Seattle as of November 2012. See Category:Streets in Seattle, Washington.

Transit

Organizations

Periodicals

• We have quite a few entries at Category:Newspapers published in Seattle; most could use expansion.
• Additional Seattle newspapers:
  • The Argus (Seattle), progressive Republican newspaper edited by Henry Chadwick in the early 20th century. Have a stub, could use more.
  • Railway and Marine News (late 19th and early 20th century) was published in Seattle
  • Seattle Municipal News published for several decades by the Muni League; Warren G. Magnuson was once its editor
  • Seattle Sun (19th century) was extant on May 25, 1895.
  • Seattle Sun (daily newspaper) ran from February 3, 1913, to August 18, 1915, with a hiatus from December 30, 1914, to April 21, 1915.
  • Seattle Telegraph, short-lived, extant 1890, backed by James J. Hill, edited by Thomas Burke (judge) and Daniel Gilman (mentioned in Richard C. Berner, Seattle 1910-1920 (1991), p. 34
  • The Town Crier, early 20th century, voice of the right-wing elite
  • The Union Record, labor newspaper, early 20th century
  • Several late 19th century African American newspapers (all mentioned in Esther Hall Mumford Seattle's Black Victorians 1852-1901, p. 85–92):
    • Most notably The Seattle Republican (1894-1917), edited by Horace R. Cayton (usually referred to as H. R. Cayton). It is the only one of these 19th century African American newspapers for which entire issues survive.
    • Probably the rest of these (and a mention of the Republican) should be lumped into one article, along with any other early Seattle African American newspapers; Mumford is certainly the best source on these, because she tracked down places where most were quoted in other newspapers.
      • The Standard (at least 1891-1893, possibly into 1894)
      • The Amusement Herald (extant 1895)
      • The Northwest Illuminator (1897-1898 or later)
      • Several publications edited by Daniel Webster Griffin, all short-lived: The Western Sun (founded 1898) the Negro World (founded 1899), the Bee (founded 1900)
      • The Washington Exponent (founded 1900, soon moved to Tacoma)
  • There must have been Asian papers before the present era; does anyone know some names?
• Magazines
  • Seattle Metropolitan is a stub
  • There is a present-day Seattle Magazine: http://www.seattlemag.com/
  • There was an earlier Seattle (magazine 1964–70) (I think those dates are right), published by KING-TV and the Bullitt family, edited by David Brewster
  • In the 1980s, the Bullitts had Pacific Search, later Pacific Northwest magazine
  • Also in the 1980s was Washington (magazine)
  • There is a present-day Seattle Woman magazine: http://www.seattlewomanmagazine.com/

Geography

• Bailey Peninsula
• Cherry Grove–Shannon Township, Carroll County, Illinois, where the Denny Party came from. See [8] 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) reply

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) reply
• 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) reply

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• The government archives of Washington state, all the way back to the first election in Washington Territory, have been put online (news article). The website is http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/. Surely there's information here we can slide in to our 'pedia, at the very least, election and office holder records, perhaps even detailed census information. (Mentioned by Golbez 21:07, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC) on Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) He doesn't say anything about whether some of this might not be public domain; a note on that would be useful.)
• HistoryLink is an excellent self-described Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History. The materials are copyrighted, so have respect for that, but the information is uniformly excellent and there are usually numerous useful references on most articles.
• Seattle has an uncommonly good archives department, part of the City Clerk's office. Among other things, Seattle has scanned the entire Kroll 1920 city atlas; search for Kroll 1920.
• Baist's 1912 Seattle atlas is available at pauldorpat.com.
• Baist's 1908 Seattle atlas is available at pauldorpat.com.
• The first two of the three volumes of Clarence B. Bagley, History of Seattle From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company (Chicago:1916) are now online through Google Books. Good source, among other things, for photos of prominent early Seattleites (though not if they are Asian or Black).
• A very early Seattle history, Frederic James Grant, History of Seattle, Washington with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, American Publishing and Engraving Co., 1891, is also online at Google Books although a few pages are poorly scanned. p. 362 et. seq. looks like a pretty good account of early Seattle newspapers.
• And don't forget the thousands of photos at Commons:Category:Seattle, Washington, including hundreds in Commons:Category:Seattle, Washington before 1950 and its subcategories.
• Department of Neighborhoods Historic Preservation Context Statements. A ton of first-rate material, little of which has been mined for Wikipedia, and which usually does not show up high in Google searches.
• Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project describes the history of racial segregation and multi-racial movements for racial justice in the Seattle area during the 20th century.
• Professor James N. Gregory's Pacific Northwest Labor History Projects provide comprehensive online histories of the 1919 General Strike in Seattle, the Communist Party in Washington State, the labor press in Washington, the history of waterfront workers in the Puget Sound, the history of farmworkers in Washington state, workers and unions at the University of Washington, and a history of the World Trade Organization protests in 1999.
• Also, on just plain library resources: the Seattle Public Library has an excellent collection; the particularly good non-circulating collection in the Seattle Room on the 10th floor of the downtown library includes Polk's Directories for Seattle clear back to the 19th century, and the periodicals collection is also quite thorough. Both the Everett and Burien public libraries also have excellent Northwest collections.
• Rob Ketcherside has published a list of historic street renamings in South Seattle. Many of these relate to annexations of extensions to the city.

Newspapers

A wide variety of local newspaper archives are available online with the use of a local library card. Most systems in Washington state are able to give reciprocal cards to members of other Washington state library systems.

• The Seattle Times (1895 to present), via Seattle Public Library: Full images up to 1984, text only from then onwards. Online versions of articles are available up to 1990, but sparse until 2001 or so.
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1901 to 2009 print, online 2009 to present), via Seattle Public Library: Full images up to 1984, text only from the onward.
• Newspapers.com (available through The Wikipedia Library) includes The News Tribune (Tacoma), The Spokesman-Review (Spokane), The Olympian (Olympia), and Kitsap Sun (Bremerton). It also includes other Seattle publications: The Northwest Times (Japanese American, 1947–1955), Seattle Gay News (1977–2019), Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1876–1903), Seattle Star (1899–1947), Seattle Union Record (1918–1928), Washington Staatszeitung (German American, 1900–1936)
• US West NewsStream (1983 to present), via Pierce County Library: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The News Tribune, Spokesman-Review, Puget Sound Business Journal, etc.
• Newspaperarchive.com, via Timberland Regional Library (Thurston County and Olympic Peninsula): Plenty of local newspapers up to the 1970s

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• 25 Mar 2024 – List of Seattle SuperSonics seasons ( talk ·   ·  hist) was FL nominated by SounderBruce ( t ·  c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 19 Apr 2024 – Sweet Alchemy ( talk ·   ·  hist) was GA nominated by Another Believer ( t ·  c); start discussion
• 02 Mar 2024 – Pétur Guðmundsson (basketball) ( talk ·   ·  hist) was GA nominated by Alvaldi ( t ·  c); start discussion
• 10 Jan 2024 – Ken Anderson (animator) ( talk ·   ·  hist) was GA nominated by PrinceArchelaus ( t ·  c); start discussion

Peer reviews

• 18 Apr 2024 – Bill Gates ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been put up for PR by MSincccc ( t ·  c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 08 Oct 2023 – Kreielsheimer Promenade ( talk ·   ·  hist) is proposed for merging to McCaw Hall by SounderBruce ( t ·  c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 01 Mar 2023 – Kemper Freeman ( talk ·   ·  hist) is proposed for splitting by Fish bowl ( t ·  c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 05 Apr 2024 – Draft:Earl George ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mathieulalie ( t ·  c)
• 03 Apr 2024 – Draft:Cindy Domingo ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mathieulalie ( t ·  c)
• 07 Mar 2024 – Draft:Founders Hall, University of Washington ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by 2601:602:8B00:ABE0:9919:4194:74C8:9968 ( t ·  c)
• 28 Feb 2024 – Draft:Nickolas Rossi ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by SinemaBuff ( t ·  c)
• 02 Feb 2024 – Draft:Seattle All City Marching Band ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Red-tailed hawk ( t ·  c)
• 31 Jan 2024 – Draft:God Committees ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Edcous ( t ·  c)
• 12 Apr 2024 – Draft:Post Alley Pizza ( talk ·   ·  hist) submitted for AfC by Another Believer ( t ·  c) was accepted to Post Alley Pizza ( talk ·   ·  hist) by ToadetteEdit ( t ·  c) on 15 Apr 2024

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