Talk:Fox River (Illinois River tributary)

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[edit] Merge

• Agree: right now, Fox Valley doesn't have enough extra information. Eventually, if this article gets too big, we could consider a split. --- hike395 12:19, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
• Disagree, a bit. The content of Fox Valley should perhaps be merged here, but in the vast majority of Wisconsin, people would be surprised to learn that anyone refers to anything but the watershed of the Fox River (Wisconsin) as the "Fox Valley".  :-) So...I guess what I'm saying is merge the content if you like, but regardless, Fox Valley should be a disambig if anything, not a redirect here. Tomer^talk 05:28, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Then Fox Valley should redirect to Fox River, a disambig page. — goethean ॐ 15:41, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

If that was a motion, I second. :-) Tomer^talk 23:38, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

• Not sure what the final outcome is, but it sounded like...

1. Move Fox Valley → Fox Valley (Illinois)
2. Create Fox Valley disambiguation page
3. Create Fox Valley (Wisconsin) and redirect to Fox River (Wisconsin)
4. Leave Fox River (Illinois) alone

Is this right? —Rob (talk) 08:23, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

You all forget that "Fox Valley", for Illinois, is an actual region, and also a really, really, really big mall. There's no reason to merge anything, unless you're planning on splitting Fox Valley into "Fox Valley Wisconsin" and "Fox Valley Illinois." Which might make sense. -- Jazzypaul.

No one replied to me last time, so I'll take action as I indicated above, but I added a redirect to Fox River (Wisconsin). —Rob (talk) 20:46, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

• This seems to make sense. Because of the relative importance of these two rivers in their respective regions there will always be some confusion. Especially as one who lives in Wisconsin on part of the 70+ miles of Illinois listed river. I added the "Wisconsin" section to reflect that, but this is probably as clear as it can be at this point. - Vdub144 7/26/06

• Better idea; let's do Fox River (Illinois River tributary) as Fox River (Illinois) isn't really true attm. —Rob (talk) 19:52, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

• Fox River should not be part of the same article as Fox Valley. Fox Valley is used in the Elgin area and south, where most of the population lives, but not all the way south to the confluence with the Illinois river. Most people in McHenry (whose watertower reads "Heart of the Fox") or Johnsburg, much further north, would not even recognize that term, and associate more closely with the Chain of Lakes. North of the border people would better associate with "Southeastern Wisconsin" or a county name. This article should describe the river, the whole river. It is fine to link to it from some measly article about the Fox Valley. Jim