Wikipedia:WikiProject Illinois

WikiProject Illinois (Talk)
	Founded; 2005-09-24
	Shortcuts; WP:Illinois • WP:ILLINOIS • P:ILL
	Task forces; Central Illinois; Cook County; Eastern Illinois; Northern Illinois; Southern Illinois; Western Illinois;
	Project links; Category • Deletions • Illinois • Index • Meta • New articles • Portal
	Project pages; Assessment • Cities • Collaboration • Government • Historic Places • People • Physical geography • Recent changes • Templates • To do • Townships • Transportation
	Descendant project links; Chicago • Illinois State Routes • Frank Lloyd Wright collaboration
	Other related pages; Categories (Lists, Wikipedians) • Portals (Illinois, Chicago • Projects (Chicago • Illinois State Routes • Frank Lloyd Wright collaboration)
	Project parentage; United States • US regions • US states

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process.
Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information.

Illinois portal

Shortcut: WP:ILLINOIS

Points of interest related to Illinois on Wikipedia
Portal – Category – WikiProject – Stubs – Deletions

This WikiProject was formed on September 24, 2005, to better foster and improve articles about the U.S. state of Illinois with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on the formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at this project's talk page. To participate, simply add your name to the participants section.

[edit] Goals

To better foster and improve articles about the U.S. state of Illinois with a spirit of cooperation.

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject is centered around articles relating to the U.S. state of Illinois.

[edit] Guidelines

{{WikiProject Illinois}} - Project template for placing at the top of talk pages, not article pages, stating that a particular article/image/category/stub/template is part of this WikiProject. When using the project template, please make sure to add the page and its associated talk page to: WikiProject Illinois/Illinois recent changes.

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Assessment

[edit] Current proposals

To join the discussion on current proposals or add a new one to the list, see: proposals.

[edit] Participants

To add your name to the list, see: WikiProject Illinois/Participants

[edit] Project divisions

For a complete list of subpages, see: WikiProject Illinois/List of Subpages

Assessment (talk) — article assessment
Cities (talk) — cities, towns, villages and counties
Collaboration (talk) — collaborations of the week, fortnight, nominees and discussion
Government (talk) — governance, as well as federal, state and local politics, in relation to Illinois
Historic Places (talk) — list of historic places in Illinois
Navbox (talk) — navbox of Illinois topics
Newsletter (talk) — beta version of newsletter
People (talk) — includes Illinois natives and those residents who have shaped Illinois
Physical geography (talk)— regions, parks, climate and physical features
Templates (talk) — list of templates for Illinois articles
Townships (talk) — list of townships for Illinois articles
Transportation (talk)— roads, trails and rails, in and around Illinois

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Parent

WikiProject Illinois is one of the United States WikiProjects.

National	United States \| U.S. Roads \| U.S. Streets \| Superfunds
Regional	U.S. regions \| U.S. cities \| U.S. counties \| U.S. special districts
States	U.S. states \| U.S. state capitols \| Alabama \| Alaska \| Arizona \| Arkansas \| California \| Colorado \| Connecticut \| Delaware \| Florida \| Georgia \| Hawaii \| Idaho \| Illinois \| Indiana \| Iowa \| Kansas \| Kentucky \| Louisiana \| Maine \| Maryland \| Massachusetts \| Michigan \| Minnesota \| Mississippi \| Missouri \| Montana \| Nebraska \| Nevada \| New Hampshire \| New Jersey \| New Mexico \| New York \| North Carolina \| North Dakota \| Ohio \| Oklahoma \| Oregon \| Pennsylvania \| Rhode Island \| South Carolina \| South Dakota \| Tennessee \| Texas \| Utah \| Vermont \| Virginia \| Washington \| West Virginia \| Wisconsin \| Wyoming List of U.S. State-level WikiProjects and their sub-projects
Territories	Caribbean: Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands \| District of Columbia \| Micronesia: Guam, Johnston Atoll, Northern Mariana Islands, Wake Island \| Midway Atoll \| Polynesia: American Samoa
Borders	Canada \| Mexico
Government	U.S. Government \| U.S. Presidents \| U.S. Congress \| U.S. courts and judges \| U.S. Governors \| U.S. politicians \| U.S. Supreme Court cases
Culture	American cinema \| U.S. History \| U.S. military history \| National Register of Historic Places
Society	African diaspora \| Asian Americans \| Indigenous peoples of North America \| Latinos \| Mexican-Americans

[edit] Descendant projects

WikiProject Illinois/Spoken Illinois - project to make Illinois Articles Spoken Articles with Spoken Wikipedia
WikiProject Illinois State Routes

[edit] Chicago

WikiProject Chicago

[edit] Collaborations

[edit] U.S.

U.S. Collaboration of the Week

These two weeks, United States is the US Collaboration of the Week. (Shortcut: WP:USCOTW +/-)

Help select the next USCOTW now! Nominate an article you think needs improvement or vote for one of the candidates here.

[edit] Illinois

The current WikiProject Illinois Collaboration(s) of the Fortnight is/are Peoria, Illinois .
Please help improve the article to the Good article standard or higher.

[edit] Chicago

List of Chicago Landmarks update is the current Chicago Collaboration of the Week.

Every week, a Chicago-related article that is in need of substantial improvement is selected to be the Chicago COTW. Visit CHICOTW to nominate and vote for future COTWs. Please help improve this week's article to a higher standard of quality. See the To Do List to suggest a change or to see a list of open tasks. See past CHICOTWs. Note our good articles.

[edit] Frank Lloyd Wright

Check out the new WikiProject National Register of Historic Places Frank Lloyd Wright Collaboration. An effort to expand Wikipedia's coverage of Registered Historic Places designed by this most important architect.

To join the collaboration or help out you can visit the collaboration subpage or the collaboration talk page.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Article alerts

Proposed deletion

2 Feb 2010 – Ryan E. Heppe (talk) has been deleted.
1 Feb 2010 – PROD tag removed from MacArthur Middle School (talk).
26 Jan 2010 – Esther J. Cepeda (talk) has been deleted.

Articles for deletion

3 Feb 2010 – Plaza del Lago (talk) nominated for deletion by SchuminWeb; see discussion.
28 Jan 2010 – Hillcrest Elementary School (Downers Grove, IL) (talk) has been redirected to Downers_Grove,_Illinois#Education; see discussion.
26 Jan 2010 – Craig Robinson (basketball) (talk) was kept; see discussion.

Featured article candidates

3 Feb 2010 – The Avery Coonley School (talk) is nominated by Nasty Housecat.
27 Jan 2010 – Jay Pritzker Pavilion (talk) is promoted to FA status.

Good article nominations

6 Feb 2010 – Benet Academy (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Benny the mascot.
31 Jan 2010 – Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
29 Jan 2010 – Antonin Scalia (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Wehwalt.
28 Jan 2010 – The Avery Coonley School (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
26 Jan 2010 – Ulysses S. Grant (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Cmguy777.
12 Dec 2009 – Tai Streets (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by TonyTheTiger; see discussion.
12 Dec 2009 – Ping Tom Memorial Park (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Torsodog; see discussion.
5 Nov 2009 – Illinois Route 22 (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by RoadView.

Good article reassessment

2 Feb 2010 – Timothy Blackstone (talk) retains GA status; see discussion.

Peer review

8 Feb 2010 – Peer review for Ernest Hemingway (talk) closed.
6 Feb 2010 – Peer review opened for Benet Academy (talk) by Benny the mascot.
6 Feb 2010 – Peer review for Ferris Bueller's Day Off (talk) closed.
4 Feb 2010 – Peer review for The Avery Coonley School (talk) closed.
31 Jan 2010 – Peer review opened for Antonin Scalia (talk) by Wehwalt.

Today's featured article

9 Feb 2010 – Cloud Gate (talk) was featured on the main page.

Did you know

5 Feb 2010 – A fact from Bohemian National Cemetery (talk) appeared on the main page.
29 Jan 2010 – A fact from Ian Brennan (writer) (talk) appeared on the main page.
29 Jan 2010 – A fact from O'Brien Schofield (talk) appeared on the main page.

Copyright problems

9 Feb 2010 – The copyvio tag was removed from Blind John Davis (talk).

Other news

11 Jan 2010 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out
30 Dec 2009 – WikiProjects and Portals who want to have automatically-updated "Walls of Recognized Content" (see WikiProject Physics' WoRC) can go here and follow instructions. For details, contact JLaTondre.
10 Dec 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
7 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details. Contact Headbomb for questions and help.
28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.

Archives

(5 more...)

Article alerts are updated daily by ArticleAlertbot. — Tips /Report a bug / Got ideas? / Suggest news / Feedback

[edit] Recognized content

WikiProject Illinois articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	3	10	12	13		1	39
FL		3	5	2			10
A		1					1
GA	1	63	39	76		10	189
B	16	52	162	377		7	614
C	3	18	32	199		7	259
Start	7	256	610	4,597		99	5,569
Stub	3	140	1,117	9,516		510	11,286
List	1	13	37	62	44	18	175
Category		1		58	1,334		1,393
Disambig			1	34	8		43
File	3	3	11	401	2,214		2,632
Portal					12		12
Project	2				18		20
Redirect			4	16	12		32
Template			1	6	174		181
Assessed	39	560	2,031	15,357	3,816	652	22,455
Unassessed			3	7		390	400
Total	39	560	2,034	15,364	3,816	1,042	22,855

[edit] Featured articles

Barack Obama - Listed 2004 August 12
Ronald Reagan - Listed 2007 August 25
Alison Krauss
List of Chicago Landmarks promoted to WP:FL on 2007-06-30
Chicago Board of Trade Building - promoted to WP:FA on 2007-08-06
USS Illinois (BB-65) - promoted to WP:FA on 2008-01-22

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Did you know (DYK)s

Worthy S. Streator - 24 November 2008
Fabyan Windmill - 22 February 2008
Roseland Christian School - 2 May 2007
George Stickney House - 15 January 2007
Egyptian Theatre (DeKalb, Illinois) - 11 January 2007

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

Abraham Lincoln - Delisted 15:31, October 8, 2006 per Featured article review/Abraham Lincoln

[edit] Former good articles

Illinois - Listed 01:56, May 7, 2006, Delisted 20:55, September 10, 2006 for insufficient number of references for an article of its size.

[edit] Articles nominated for deletion

For further information, see: WikiProject Deletion sorting/Illinois

Camp Robert Drake is now a redirect page for Prairielands Council. (2008-09-15)

[edit] Review and assessment

[edit] Images

WikiProject Illinois uses Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Illinois to monitor all Illinois articles needing images. In addition, this category helps Wikipedian photographers, living in Illinois, to locate those subjects near where they typically take photographs. The imageneeded= and in= parameters of {{WikiProject Illinois}} populate this category.

To request an image for an article, use the imageneeded=yes parameter in the {{WikiProject Illinois}} talk page template. Please use the in= parameter in the {{WikiProject Illinois}} template to specify the Illinois county, where the photograph may be taken. Up to three locations may be specified, for example:
{{WikiProject Illinois|class=Start|importance=Low|imageneeded=yes|in=DuPage County, Illinois|in2=Will County, Illinois|in3=Cook County, Illinois|unref=yes}}

Alternatively, you may use: For Illinois-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphoto|in=Illinois}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Illinois. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.

The Image Existance [sic] Checker shows articles in this list that have images.

[edit] Templates

WikiProject Illinois Barnstar, to be awarded for outstanding contribution toward Illinois related articles.

[edit] Project banner

{{WikiProject Illinois}} - Project template for placing at the top of talk pages, not article pages, stating that a particular article/image/category/stub/template is part of this WikiProject. When using the project template, please make sure to add the page and its associated talk page to: WikiProject Illinois/Illinois recent changes.

[edit] Barnstar

{{subst:IllinoisBarnstar|message ~~~~}} - Substitutable template for adding barnstar.

[edit] Navboxes

{{Chicagoland}} - Navigational template for Chicagoland communities; used at bottom of article.
{{Governors of Illinois}} - Navigational template for biographies of Illinois Governors; used at bottom of article.
{{IL-FedRep}} - Navigational template for biographies of Illinois Federal representatives; used at bottom of article.
{{Illinois}} - Navigational template for Illinois; used at bottom of article.
{{Illinois Tollway}} - Navigational template for Illinois tollways; used at bottom of article.
{{Nuke-NRC3}} - Navigational template for Nuclear power facilities in NRC region 3, which includes Illinois. Used at top of article.
{{Public colleges and universities in Illinois}} - Navigational template for Illinois public colleges and universities; used at bottom of article.
{{USCongDistStateIL}} - Navigational template for Illinois Congressional Districts; used at bottom of article.

[edit] Portal

{{portal|Illinois|Flag of Illinois.svg}} - Illinois portal link, for placing on article pages in the 'See also' section.
{{portal|Illinois|IL-icon.png}} - Illinois portal link with alternate icon.

[edit] Stub

{{Illinois-stub}} - Stub notice for all other Illinois articles; placed at the bottom of article page.
{{Illinois-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for Illinois articles dealing specifically with locations or geographical features in Illinois; placed at the bottom of article pages.
{{Illinois-politician-stub}} - Stub notice for Illinois political representatives; placed at the bottom of article pages.
{{Illinois-school-stub}} - Stub notice for Illinois schools; placed at the bottom of article pages.
{{Illinois-struct-stub}} - Stub notice for Illinois buildings and structures; placed at bottom of article pages.