User:SpokaneWilly
I love Wikipedia and love working to make Wikipedia the best thing on the internet. Frankly, I think it might be the only truly good thing that has come from the internet. It's worth making even better.
Most of the photos listed below are my work, but photos with an * are by someone else and historic photos with a † are images I found in archives and added to commons. None of the non-photographic images are my work. All images are from the page linked to.
Also, quick disclosure. I am a regular freelance contributor for the Inlander. I use Inlander articles as sources and reference them in my editing regularly (local newspaper does a good job covering local area, who would have guessed) but I do not use any stories I have personally worked on and I do not favor Inlander sources over any others. In fact I probably cite the competitor paper even more than I do Inlander stories because it's a daily and Inlander is a weekly. End disclaimer.
Spokane Historic Places Project
Having made full articles for each of Spokane's official neighborhoods, my next project is to build full articles on each property in the Spokane area listed on the National Register of Historic Places —— save for single family homes still utilized as single family homes that are not notable for any reason other than being on the NRHP.
A list of properties can be found at National Register of Historic Places listings in Spokane County, Washington. It's about 40/60 to 50/50 right now between blue and red links on that list. I see this project having four major facets, in no particular order:
- Taking updated photos for all properties which have 10+ year old photos at the moment, and taking additional photos for those with more recent photos.
- Expanding the already extant pages, most of which are stubby stubby stubs.
- Creating new articles for landmark buildings currently lacking.
- Creating new articles for the rest of the buildings currently lacking.
This is where I'm keeping track of progress.
Began: June 24, 2022
Individual building articles made
Individual building articles expanded
(these pages are extant, and will be linked to once expanded)
Grand Coulee Hotel
Otis Hotel
Historic Districts needed and made
Browne's Addition Historic District
East Downtown Historic District
Hillyard Historic Business District
Mission Avenue Historic District
Historic Districts needing expansion and expanded
Nine Mile Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District
Hutton Settlement District
Historic buildings not on the NRHP made
Spokane Neighborhood Project
For more than a decade I've wanted to see a day when each of Spokane's neighborhoods had its own article. In the fall of 2021 I started actually working towards that goal. This is where I'm keeping track of progress.
Began: October 27, 2021 Completed: June 19, 2022 ("completed" is obviously not a thing on Wikipedia, but all neighborhoods now have a full article, each following the same template)
Pre-existing
Downtown Spokane
Hillyard, Spokane
West Central, Spokane
Created
Inland Northwest places
Places created
Places significantly expanded
Other articles created
Other articles significantly expanded
Life
Yeoman Editor service award.
Currently, this editor has earned the To get to the next level, Experienced Editor, they need to meet the editing requirement. Progress towards the next level (by edits): [ 43 / 2000 ]2.2% completed
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