Talk:White Pines Forest State Park

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Good article White Pines Forest State Park has been listed as one of the Geography and places good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a reassessment.
An entry from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on July 7, 2007.
July 8, 2007 Good article nominee Listed
WikiProject Illinois This article is part of WikiProject Illinois, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Illinois on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Good article GA This article has been rated as GA-Class on the quality scale.
High This article has been rated as High-importance on the importance scale.

[edit] Successful good article nomination

I am glad to say that this article which was nominated for good article status has succeeded. This is how the article, as of July 8, 2007, compares against the six good article criteria:

1. Well written?: The article is well written and follows the manual of style.
2. Factually accurate?: Article is well referenced with sources to verify the information.
3. Broad in coverage?: Very thorough and detailed sections about the park.
4. Neutral point of view?: Article is written in a neutral point of view.
5. Article stability? Article is very stable except for the occasional vandalism revert (which doesn't really count).
6. Images?: Article contains sufficient images and they are all properly tagged.

If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to take it to a GA review. Thank you to all of the editors who worked hard to bring it to this status. — --Hdt83 Chat 04:31, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

The only thing I want to add is that the article contains a lot of red links. They should be removed if the subject is not notable. --Hdt83 Chat 04:36, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
The only one I am really unsure about is the poet, everything else needs an article. IvoShandor 11:46, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sources for expansion

Hiking Illinois IvoShandor 01:18, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Map or image in Infobox or both?

Hi Ivo, Kranar asked me to update some Illinois park pages with missing locator maps here so I added the map back in. I have no problem with the image in the infobox - might I suggest the use of {{Geobox Protected Area}}, which allows both an image and a locator map? All of the Pennsylvania state park articles use them - see for example Worlds End State Park. If there is no image, the map can come first. Just an idea. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 12:26, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm all for including the map, if there is a better way to do it, I didn't mean to slight you, and the edit summary was meant as light hearted toward you two. Drop that infobox in if you want, we'll see how it looks with both the image and the map. --IvoShandor (talk) 15:29, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
I will see what I can do - converting from the infobox to the Geobox is non-trivial (especially when I have not done a conversion in a while). No offense taken - in fact I chuckled at the edit summary. Nice pic. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 01:44, 12 June 2008 (UTC)