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Erie, Pennsylvania is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on February 4, 2011.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
April 9, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed
May 21, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
June 2, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
July 7, 2007	Featured article candidate	Promoted
January 16, 2021	Featured article review	Demoted
Current status: Former featured article

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Not a lot of talk about the Eriez Indians

The article pens in the third sentence: "Named for the lake and the Native American Erie people who lived in the area until the mid-17th century."

This is not entirely accurate. According to many maps in the 1700's, both British and French referred to the Native Americans as the 'Eriez Indians.' See: http://www.mapsofpa.com/18thcentury/1762-6602.jpg / http://www.mapsofpa.com/18thcentury/1763sayer.jpg

3rd paragraph states that the Niagara was Perry's Flagship - this is not historically accurate as the original flagship was the Lawrence. Oliver Hazard Perry was never officially in command of the Niagara, but instead took over when Captain Jesse Duncan Elliott did not fulfill his duties by staying in the fight. "When Perry’s flagship, the “Lawrence,” was disabled, he transferred to the “Niagara,” winning the battle within the next 15 minutes by sailing directly into the British line, firing broadside. In his official report of the British surrender he said, “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oliver-Hazard-Perry

Fstrumil (talk) 18:40, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New skyline photo needed

A new photo of the Erie skyline is needed. The photo currently being used is from 2007 and is quite outdated. New development has happened on the bayfront over the past 12 years that is quite evident in newer photos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jfugs2394 (talk • contribs) 05:06, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Featured article review needed

This is a 2007 featured article which has not been maintained to FA standards, and needs updating and reworking to avoid a Featured article review.

There are unanswered queries on talk, indicating the article might not be watched.
There is MOS:SANDWICH and an excess of images.
The citations need considerable work, one sample only, Chapter MDCCCXLIV", p. 240
There are duplicate wikilinks.
MOS:DONTHIDE
There is considerable uncited text.
There is old data cited, with no "as of" date, eg According to the Association of Religion Data Archives,[44] cited to 2006 and "Erie Public Schools enroll 12,527 students in primary and secondary grades." cited to 2007.
Most of "Economy" is cited to dated sources.
A copyedit would help ... there are numerous sentences and paragraphs that being with "Erie is ... "

This is only a brief list of sample problems; a top-to-bottom rewrite is needed to retain FA status. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:57, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Pizza Bomber?

Weird that there is no mention of The Pizza Bomber. I think he is the most famous person from Erie. It's the only crime of its kind, ever. Death of Brian Wells 141.238.157.246 (talk) 19:57, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Equidistant

Should we add that Erie is equidistant between Buffalo and Cleveland? @Canterbury Tail does not seem to think so here. 208.127.190.114 (talk) 18:48, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well it's not even true that it's equidistant, it's about 10 miles closer to Buffalo than Cleveland measured to their centres. That's way over a 10% variance. Canterbury Tail talk 18:50, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So why don’t you delete this part in the article then? 208.127.190.114 (talk) 18:52, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What would be a 10% variance? 208.127.190.114 (talk) 18:52, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate you being very specific here by the way. 208.127.190.114 (talk) 18:53, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Mackensen your thoughts?208.127.190.114 (talk) 00:12, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Community College

What would be good sources to add to the section about the community college? It just graduated its first class of students last month. Smk (talk) 20:36, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Distance to Pittsburgh

Should we mention the distance to Pittsburgh? Erie is closer to Buffalo than Cleveland although there is a roughly 5-10 mile difference from each point? Despite sources saying Pittsburgh is equidistant as well, it is apparently nearly 130 miles from Erie. 2600:100C:A213:E54D:99B1:77D8:9226:50B6 (talk) 21:50, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Erie is 128 miles from Pittsburgh via I 79, 92 miles from Buffalo via I 90, and 103 miles from Cleavland via I 90 71.195.89.90 (talk) 20:34, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]