Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Illinois/Archive 2

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Archive This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.
← Archive 1 |
Archive 2
| Archive 3 →


Contents

Somthing I believe to be incorroect

In the Grayslake Article it says that Scottie Pippen considers Grayslake his 2nd home town. I doubt he even has been there.

Maps

Is there any place specific that we are placing maps of Illinois? Especially the ones that show the locations of cities/towns/villages? --Kranar drogin 22:09, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I think most are located in Wikimedia Commons at commons:Category:Maps of Illinois and commons:Category:Illinois county locator maps. There are a few at Category:Illinois maps. If you have free licensed ones, I'd recommend putting them in the commons. As for a gallery page of maps, I don't know of one. --Dual Freq 22:21, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Not a free license, it is basically those county ones, except instead of the whole county in red, it would just be the city or whatnot like if you were to click on my Illinois cities in the Wikipedia already. Here is an example [1]. --Kranar drogin 00:01, 3 January 2007 (UTC)


Alright, I have started moving the city maps of the articles that I am working on over to that Category.--Kranar drogin 02:22, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Here is another suggestion maybe, should we make another Category to keep all Illinois pictures in, or is there one already? Looking at the skyline of Chicago, I see that the picture isn't stored in a Category, but is this something that we should add that way we have all Illinois pics in one area? Maybe one for city picutures or something?--Kranar drogin 03:45, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Per Help:Image_page#Categorizing_images "Images can be in the same category as other pages." I'd say categorize the images the same as the article. Or, if there are a bunch for Peoria, for example, make a category, like Category:Images of Peoria, Illinois and make it a sub cat of Category:Images of Illinois then categorize the images there. I'd also say not to upload a bunch of images just for the sake of having a gallery. Only upload images that are useful in wikipedia articles, upload gallery material to the commons and like the wikipedia article to commons. --Dual Freq 00:08, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Possible todo list item

I don't know who's watching this page, but commons:Category:Age pyramids for counties in Illinois has a bunch of age pyramids for Illinois counties, used in the German wikipedia, (for an example see: de:Adams County (Illinois)). Maybe we could add those images to Illinois counties here as well. Just a thought. Thanks for the help. --Dual Freq 01:29, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

That would be nice to have if they have them for all the counties, but it seems it is only to the "Ls". --Kranar drogin 01:51, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Oops, I didn't even notice the list only contained 52 of the 102 counties. --Dual Freq 01:59, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I've added the age pyramids to the county articles. Some of them are quite interesting, like Jackson County, Illinois with the large university. It is skewed heavily toward 18-24 year olds. And Brown County, Illinois with the large male state prison is skewed heavily toward males. It would be nice to get the rest, but the creator seems to have moved on to other things. I've moved on to creating infoboxes for the counties starting at the beginning alphabetically, I'm about halfway done. --Dual Freq 15:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Seals and Flags

I have been using this city template for towns and cities of the county I am working on, example Oregon. The map blew up big time since I don't have a seal or flag for it yet. Is there maybe generic images we can plug into there that might shrink this map down? I should prolly have them in a few days hopefully this week. Thanks.--Kranar drogin 14:59, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I fixed some of the template errors. You must have copied from an article that used an older version. Take a look at Template:Infobox City for more details. --Dual Freq 15:25, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Ah, ok. Well, I got the one I used from where I can choose templates, but I must have chosen the wrong one. Thanks for the assistance.--Kranar drogin 21:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Also, just because information is in the infobox it doesn't need to be removed from the text. Some of the information is part of the standardized what that all the city articles are laid out. It gives the encyclopedia a standardized look and feel. --Dual Freq 21:56, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Settlements?

Do Illinois residents think of their cities as settlements? Well, check out Category:Settlements in Illinois that's as of today in your category hierarchy. I reverted it out for Kentucky, and I recommend all states do it as well. Kentucky uses "Subdivisions" and Massachusetts uses "Administrative divisions" (both reasonable). "Settlements" are for pioneer days, not for contemporary political subdivisions. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 04:15, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject Illinois new assessment function

I've added some additional functionality to Template:WikiProject Illinois adding |small=yes creates a smaller version if there is little room for the template, like on Talk:Abraham Lincoln. Additionally to aid is article improvement, I've added a "class=" variable. Classes are FA, A, GA, B, start, stub, dab, image, redirect, Template, category or list. Assignment places the article in the appropriate category. All articles join Category:WikiProject Illinois articles and all articles without a class= variable are assigned to Category:Unassessed WikiProject Illinois articles. Assessments should be done according to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment. Category:WikiProject Illinois is where to start looking for WP:Illinois articles and allows viewing of related subcategories. --Dual Freq 22:19, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

There currently over 1000 unassessed articles, I'll be classifying obvious stubs with AWB, but the rest of the articles will probably have to be manually done. --Dual Freq 22:19, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Since this one deals with templates, I was going to bring this up. I have noticed that a few county templates are different than the standard we established such as DuPage County. There are a few others. How do we want to change these? Should we? I like what we have now, but should we have anything else listed in them? I think schools is pointless, transportation would be for your airports, and Points of Interest? Not sure on that one either really. Thoughts?--Kranar drogin 22:00, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
The DuPage Cty template may work for that county, but ranking by size won't be worth the time for a county like Coles or Adams. I added the airport item, but I suppose it's not needed. It seemed like something all the counties would have in common and would be notable enough to have a wikipedia article. As for other items, I'm not sure it's worth including them. Where do we draw the line for points of interest? I could see where schools could get out of hand especially if every one in the county is included down to K-8 schools. However, as an example, for Jackson County, Illinois, SIUC is probably more important than Southern Illinois Airport so maybe there is some room for 4 year Colleges. The last thing we need is another huge template as large as the Illinois template taking up the whole screen at the bottom of every county article. My comments on other templates have not held much weight so in the interest of peace it's probably best to leave the Chicagoland county templates alone. Since I copied a Pennsylvania template, I guess I won't feel bad if someone wants to change them. --Dual Freq 01:08, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Well, looking at other states, like Colorado Springs, Colorado, San Diego, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada do not list the cities by that extensive of a population. Maybe for Chicagoland area that is fine, but honestly, I just feel that for county templates that there should be a uniform for the entire state. oh well.--Kranar drogin 01:32, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree with a common county template idea, maybe you would have better luck negotiating a common format before there are a dozen different templates. I've tweaked the DuPage county one a bit to give it a similar feel, but I still oppose splitting other counties into sizes in a similar manor. I also made a project page to show all the templates we have side by side. Wikipedia:WikiProject Illinois/Templates. I could see the transportation section, but it might just become a big list of interstates and US Highways. Points of interest also seem rather subjective and may be hard to nail down the criteria for template inclusion. --Dual Freq 03:37, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Illinois now has an assessment page (stolen borrowed from WikiProject Missouri) at Wikipedia:WikiProject Illinois/Assessment. I'm not master assessor, but I did an AWB run to move items already ranked as stubs from the unassessed category. It looks like anyone can make an article a stub or start, but class B, GA, A and FA require specific guidelines be followed. Feel free to move items from unassessed to stub or start as you see fit. B class can be assigned to the better articles, but make sure they are worthy of it. GA and FA go through a specific process beyond our control. Thanks for the help. --Dual Freq 02:52, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Township Questions

I see that other states have this category, Category:Townships in Illinois, is this something we should create to have all of Illinois' townships in?--Kranar drogin 03:00, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure about that one, List of townships in Illinois has a few townships, but most of the linked ones seem to point to a village or city at the heart of the township. I don't if there is enough information to differentiate between say Alhambra, Illinois and Alhambra township, Illinois. Do you have a more concrete example? --Dual Freq 03:31, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Well, here are a couple examples, Category:Townships in Michigan, Category:Townships in Ohio, and Category:Townships in Pennsylvania.--Kranar drogin 04:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Those look like they were created by rambot, the automated census bot. Illinois must have a different way of doing the census or rambot ignored Illinois. I have no problem with a category with that name, but without automation, it's going to be an uphill battle to fill it. --Dual Freq 12:31, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
So is there a way to get rambot to do it for Illinois? I really don't know that whole aspect of the Wikipedia, but I can set up the Category in a little bit.--Kranar drogin 23:39, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
User:Rambot operated by User:Ram-Man is an automated bot that made many of the city and town articles around 2002. The reason I asked about an Illinois specific township was so I could check to see if it was already covered somewhere. One problem I see is Alexander County, Illinois. Looking at US Census factfinder I see that the county has no townships. Alexander County subdivisions are listed as precincts. Cairo Precinct population is 3,632 which matches the Cairo, Illinois city population. In this case a duplicate article would not be worthwhile. However looking at Ogle County, Illinois Oregon-Nashua township, Ogle County, Illinois has a population of 5,310 and that doesn't match Oregon, Illinois. I'm not sure what kind of article that would make, but it's definitely a separate governmental and census entity. --Dual Freq 00:43, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I DO NOT know how to program but couldn't this bot be used to cover all the townships in Illinois and if a county is divided into precints it could ignore them or be modified to produce the pages? George 01:12, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree. For now it would have to be set up to ignore precints and just stick with townships. It would save a ton of time, due to the fact that that one for Ogle County is one that I would have to write-up (sticking mainly with Ogle areas). We can always come back to precints later on.--Kranar drogin 02:52, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
I was merely offering a possible explanation for why the articles were not created to begin with. I would suggest that you ask User:Ram-Man, the operator of User:Rambot, why the townships were not created for Illinois. Beyond that, I don't think I can help any further. Sorry. I would also note that rambot hasn't made an edit since August 2006, so you might be out of luck. --Dual Freq 03:16, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
For what it's worth, looking at the Ohio ones, (a few I randomly clicked from Category:Townships in Ohio) they seem to be hand created and the ones I clicked looked very stubby, one was only a sentence and a stub tag. It seems like a monumental task to create all of them, 1445 townships and 261 precincts --Dual Freq 03:30, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Oh, I agree, that is a lot of townships and precints, but it is part of Illinois, and I now that the towns I live in, the towhship is a totally seperate entity of government. I put the question in to User:Ram-Man, so we will see what he says.--Kranar drogin 03:32, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I created the category. It looks like we are going to have to come up with an alternative to rambot created township articles. I think we will have to manually create stubs to de-redlink List of townships in Illinois similar to the stubs in Category:Townships in Ohio. Wikipedia:WikiProject Ohio townships has some basic rules for township articles, I think we should follow those rules and stick to the naming convention used in the list article, List of townships in Illinois ( Township name, County name, Illinois ). All I can find for maps are these two links: township pdf maps and county pdf maps. Unfortunately those will have to be converted to be used here. --Dual Freq 05:59, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I have created a map for Ogle County, and will have those uploaded a little later. Have to fill in the red areas, and see if that is how we want to approach it. Where should we put the maps at? Just want to make sure.--Kranar drogin 13:38, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I propose we name the images similar to: Image:Map of Ogle County Illinois highlighting Brookville Township.png Of course use the extension that is correct. I think the preferred extension is .svg or .png. I don't have software to create .svg files so I will probably upload .png files. As for categories, please create a subcategory of Category:Illinois maps with an appropriate name like Category:Maps of Ogle County Illinois and put all the maps for that county there. If you have a separate account for the commons and the file is public domain, upload it there and categorize them in commons:Category:Maps of Illinois with a similar category name. --Dual Freq 15:12, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

You know, I just got done uploading all the maps to Category:Maps of Ogle County Illinois, and realized I didn't use .png files but used .jpeg. Should I go through and change all of them then? Don't have the time right this min to create files on all the townships, but will do so at my earliest convience tomorrow if no one else beats me too it. We should basically just set them up like how Ohio does, correct?--Kranar drogin 23:04, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Those look fine. The reason for png is that they are simple line drawings and I believe that png is more efficient for those types of drawings. Also, you should include a source and description for images you upload. For example you could use Template:Information. See Image:Buffalo Township Ogle.JPG for an example, just fill in the blanks for each one that is empty. Source is very important so others can confirm that the basemap was not copyrighted. Also, I'd like to know the source so I can find similar ones for other counties. Thanks. --Dual Freq 00:09, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

You could also add the Template:Infobox Township to each new stub, most of it would be blank, but you could fill in the blanks later and it gives an idea what other township articles have. I'm looking for a population source for townships, I saw it somewhere I just need to find it again. --Dual Freq 16:14, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I should have added in a comma between the county and the state here shouldn't I have Category:Maps of Ogle County Illinois. Let me know before I create for other counties. Might have to fix that one then, but I am still a little new at the whole creating pages and stuff.--Kranar drogin 16:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Population and other info for townships can be found at factfinder.census.gov Select Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1) 100-Percent Data and detailed tables then on the next page from Select a geographic type chose county subdivision then pick the state, county and township you want adding it to the list at bottom. Then it should printout the population for the township. For Example, selecting all subdivisions for Ogle County yields 3 pages the first page showing this:

Township Total population
Brookville Township, Ogle County, Illinois 253
Buffalo Township, Ogle County, Illinois 2,941
Byron Township, Ogle County, Illinois 5,840
Dement Township, Ogle County, Illinois 825
Eagle Point Township, Ogle County, Illinois 249
Flagg Township, Ogle County, Illinois 13,276
Forreston Township, Ogle County, Illinois 2,122
Grand Detour Township, Ogle County, Illinois 742
Lafayette Township, Ogle County, Illinois 180
Leaf River Township, Ogle County, Illinois 1,260

--Dual Freq 16:35, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, testing this one out, lets see how it went of what else we can fill in as we go along. I think I am going to just do it this way for now, unless you can set this one up so I then have an example for an Illinois township. Brookville Township, Ogle County, Illinois--Kranar drogin 17:08, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
We may have to create Category:Townships in Ogle County, Illinois, what do you think? Doesn't bother me at all.--Kranar drogin 17:56, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
I could go either way on the categories, if all 1445 townships are created, the Township in Illinois page will only list 200 on the first page. Either way will work. --Dual Freq 18:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

It might be worth making a template for each county like Template:Bucks County, Pennsylvania that lists all the townships of the county. Alternately you could just append Template:Illinois, but I personally think that thing is too big and the list of towns looks like it should be named template:chicagoland instead. I made a lame Template:Vermilion County, Illinois before I saw the Pennyslvania one, so I might redo it. --Dual Freq 18:15, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

That template is pretty nice from Pennsylvania. We should prolly try and mimick that template. Might want to do that Category, just to make it look good and all. I'll be back later on to work on this some more. I want to get the Ogle County townships done, and I have maps done for Winnebago County also.--Kranar drogin 18:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Category has been created. Check out what I have done with Brookville. If I get the ok, then I will do that from now on with the rest of them.--Kranar drogin 02:09, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I fixed the double category thing. I think the rest is OK. I found a 12 MB PDF file that includes township maps at the end. 700+ pages maps are in section F. --Dual Freq 02:16, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I have finished the Ogle County townships, and will be moving on to Winnedbago County once all the categories have been created. I have to upload the maps I created for them also. Want to do another one of those templates for Winnebago Dual Freq?--Kranar drogin 04:11, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

It seems to me that it would be most efficient to name township articles with "name Township, Illinois" than than "name Township, name County, Illinois" for several reasons: 1) users are more apt to type the shorter version in the GO or Search windows. 2) authors are more likely to refer to the shorter version in text (eliminating the need for pipes in every reference.) 3) township names are unique. In general, article names should reflect the official or proper name of the entity. The county name is not a part of the official or proper name of the township. Racepacket 05:25, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Minnesota does not include county names in the name of their township articles. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Racepacket (talk • contribs) 06:28, 9 February 2007 (UTC).
Honestly though, if you put in the township name in the search area it will take you too a disambiguation in theory. Type Marion Township in the Search area and see what you get, or Rockford Township. Marion simply lists an entire page full of them that are listed by Township, County, State. If you also look, Minnesota is the only exception on that list that doesn't include the County. Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania all use counties in their titles. Heck, even some of the Minnesota ones do. Eventually what you are going to have is a bunch of disambiguation pages that list all the townships of that name in each state with each county.--Kranar drogin 11:46, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Most users will type the township a comma and the state, as they would to access a municipality, so they will not go to a disambiguation.
US Census Bureau lists them like Brookville Township, Ogle County, Illinois including the county name. --Dual Freq 11:50, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
To quote the Illinois Code, "The corporate name of each township shall be either '.... Township' or 'The Town of .... (name of township)'." 60 ILCS 1/Art. 85. The Census Bureau listing is a matter of data base organization. It does not have any bearing on the official name of a township. See, WP:NC "Generally, article naming should prefer to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature. This is justified by the following principle: Names of Wikipedia articles should be optimized for readers over editors; and for a general audience over specialists. " —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Racepacket (talk • contribs) 19:04, 9 February 2007 (UTC).
Then we should stay along those lines then if the US Census Bureau does it. People will find the township if they are looking hard enough for it. All they have to do is go to the County page and there is a list of the townships in the template and on the county page.--Kranar drogin 11:53, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
The county name is not a part of the legal name of the township. It is not clear to me what the goal is here -- to write articles that people can find or to create articles that will be hard to find. In the Chicago area, township government is important and addresses the needs of a 15,000 population. Township provide libraries, transportation, etc. In the south part of the state, there are townships with only 250 people. Let's focus on what is important and what users would expect from an encyclopedia.

By your reasoning, I assume this is Racepacket since you never sign your posts, then you should not have Illinois in the title also. That in all honesty it should only be the township name. Really, in a perfect world, I would agree, but with there being so many townships out there, adding in the county is the best solution and it stays uniform with the other states that have done townships already. A person coming to the Wiki is going to type in the name of the township in all actuallity, and leave out the state and the term township. I also don't see your reasoning here with the populations, are you saying that because townships near Chicago are larger than the smaller counties that they are more important? I don't agree with that at all. I will have an Admin step in and give his suggestion. I think this will be fair and I will abide by what he suggests we do.--Kranar drogin 22:20, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

people who were born/grew up in Illinois

I think that a page on this should be developed. Illinois is home of many smart people, and great coaches(Sean Payton, the New Orleans Saints coach, grew up in Naperville) Znsga 01:09, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

There is really no need for a list that will never be finished and could contain millions of names. The project is better off just adding the person to Category:People from Illinois or one of its subcategories. List of people from Illinois is for very notable people in Illinois history, so sports and pop culture is not needed there. --Dual Freq 05:21, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Historical apportionment

It would be nice to get some details as to the area that Illinois congressional districts covered over the years. Does anyone have a source of maps or descriptions of the Illinois congressional districts prior to 2003? History of 19th Century congressional redistricting in Ohio looks like almost an ideal article to strive toward. --Dual Freq 05:25, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Illinois Blue Books from 1900 to 2000 has maps of districts and biographies of congressmen from that time period, in case anyone is interested. I think the copyright expired on the early 1900s stuff, but double check before you copy it verbatim. I can alter some images like I did on Illinois's 11th congressional district if anyone needs old congressional district maps. (assuming the district is the whole county) --Dual Freq 04:06, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Metro-East

Any Metro-east experts here? The article was created listing 10 counties, then it was changed to 11 counties last year. Now it is down to 6 counties. Greater St. Louis only includes 5 Illinois counties. Does anyone have any cited info on what Metro-east actually is? --Dual Freq 19:05, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I think they might be basing it off of this link [2].--Kranar drogin 19:14, 3 February 2007 (UTC)


New child project?

I thought I would pose this question here. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in a child project focused on water bodies of Illinois. I had two thoughts here. One was that we could do Illinois Waterways, rivers, streams, creeks etc, of which coverage is woefully inadequate and/or highly unorganized. The other thought was that we could do water bodies of Illinois, basically all of the aforementioned plus lakes and major ponds. We could settle questions like naming conventions, which are, at the best helter-skelter. That kind of question is something we could pass along to other state projects. Anyone interested? Have any thoughts? Post them here, if we have enough support we shall propose said project.A mcmurray 06:19, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I can help you do this, once I have all the townships posted at least. I still have MANY to go yet, so it will be at least a month or so. I wanted to get these all on here and stubbed, so that way people who live in those areas come on they might take the opportunity to research their areas. I also am trying to get either Oregon, Illinois or Rockford, Illinois up to better write-ups, but have been so busy that I haven't been able to get to them.--Kranar drogin 21:59, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, we've got Category:Lakes of Illinois and Category:Illinois waterways with Category:Rivers of Illinois listed under it. User:M dorothy was involved in many of those articles, may they could help. As for a child project, it seems compatible with and within the scope of this project. You can create what ever subpages you need, similar to the ones listed in Wikipedia:WikiProject_Illinois#Project_divisions. There is also a Wikipedia:WikiProject Lakes and a Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers. I bet they have naming conventions and infoboxes that Illinois lakes and rivers can / should use. --Dual Freq 02:32, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

City Infoboxes

Wanted to let you all know that the new city infobox can be found here Template talk:Infobox City. When you work on cities and villages, you will want to use this updated one from now on.--Kranar drogin 22:00, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

County maps

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcumber/ilctybnd/ilall.htm has an interesting look at historical county boundaries. It would be nice if we could have something similar for The Illinois county article, maybe an artistic person could take that up. Looking at the images gives some perspective on the initial settling of Illinois, with the southern part organizing into counties before the northern part. It's also interesting that a county like Putnam was huge, taking up the bulk of northern Illinois, but now it is one of the smallest counties in the state, same with Edwards County. Anyway, I'm posting this here in case anyone wants to do anything with it. --Dual Freq 15:07, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, I could give it a try but it is going to take awhile. I highly double I will be able to put that shadow affect in either, I am not THAT good. Which maps would you want to use? Make a list of them and I can give it a shot. Also, we should use all those dates on there when counties were formed to add to the county pages, or if they are already on the pages, I don't think they are in all the infoboxes.--Kranar drogin 15:34, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
I've just made Category:Illinois city locator maps for those types of maps. That one is GFDL and should probably be on commons. Feel free to add the category to other images too. --Dual Freq 00:56, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Good article nominations

DeKalb County Courthouse and University of Illinois Observatory are currently good article nominees. If you haven't contributed significantly to the articles (everyone but me) feel free to evaluate it based on the six good article criteria, just follow the instructions on the good article candidates page.A mcmurray 13:08, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Peer review

Joseph F. Glidden House

A request has been made for Joseph F. Glidden House to undergo a peer review. Please help out at the article's peer review page. Thanks.A mcmurray 10:09, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Group Collaborations

I have seen some Wiki Projects doing some sort of group collaboration for a week or something to that sort. I was wondering if we might want to start doing something like this. I know that right now we have been hitting Springfield pretty hard with getting that up to Good status, maybe that is the sort of collaboration we want to go for, a Good Article Collaboration? Have a template created to post on an article to work on?--Kranar drogin 22:55, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

WP Milhist has a pretty elaborate selection process at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Collaboration, I've blatantly stolen their template and made a new one: Template:WikiProject Illinois Current collaboration. The collaboration article goes in here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Illinois/Collaboration/Current. This project seems to be fairly informal, so I would think the selection process can simply be proposing an article here on this talk page and if there are no objections changing the template to match the article and moving the template to the talk page of the target. The time period is fortnight (from mil hist template), but if someone wants week or month then that's fine too. I put in Springfield as a start since you are working on that right now. --Dual Freq 00:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Well, my initial goal was to get the capital done, then prolly the top 5 in population as of the 2000 census, excluding Chicago. So it would be like Rockford, Aurora, etc. Thoughts?--Kranar drogin 00:05, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
I also think we should have it up at the top of the WikiProject Illinois page so people can see right away when they come here what is currently our collaboration.--Kranar drogin 00:50, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Institute of Design IIT

This article is now nominated for copyvio deletion.--Samuel CurtisShinichian-Hirokian-- TALK·CONTRIBS 19:40, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Illinois peer reviews

There are currently two Illinois related peer reviews posted, Chana School and Springfield, Illinois. This is their first step on the way to GAC and, maybe, one day, FAC. Now is the chance to input and help out. Please post your reviews on the linked pages above. Thanks in advance. IvoShandor 13:24, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Straw Poll: Springfield Tornadoes

I have opened up a straw poll questioning whether or not the inclusion of information about the March 2006 tornadoes in the climate section of the Springfield, Illinois article is a case of recentism. In the end we are trying to decide if the information should be included in the article. Please weigh in on this issue at the ongoing discussion. Any opinions would help. Thanks ahead of time. IvoShandor 14:05, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

broken infobox

Could someone fix the info box for Clarendon Hills, Illinois? I'm not sure what's wrong with it but it's definitely broken. Dismas|(talk) 21:46, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Old vandalism. It's fixed now. --Dual Freq 22:01, 13 March 2007 (UTC)