Talk:Springfield, Illinois

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Springfield, Illinois was the subject of a WikiProject Illinois Collaboration of the Fortnight. The talk sessions are now archived. They may contain ideas you can use to improve this article.

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Requests: Government of Springfield
Copyedit: Soon to be submitted to theLeague of Copyeditors.
Expand: Sister cities of Springfield - City Water, Light & Power - Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop - Reisch Beer - Memorial Medical Center (Springfield, Illinois) - Southeast High School (Springfield, Illinois) - Lanphier High School - Ursuline Academy (Illinois) - Lutheran High School (Springfield, Illinois) - St. John's Hospital
Other: See the relevant discussion below.

[edit] Wrapping up? Nope - outstanding issues

Kranar wants to wrap this collaboration up, I think he may have moved on. But before this article makes it to GAC there are a number of open issues that still have not been satisfactorily addressed. They are listed below. Cross them off as they are done, then we can archive this, the peer review and go for GA.

Should submit to League of Copyeditors once all other concerns are addressed.
Geography section is still basically about Lake Springfield.
Looks like the consensus on tornadoes was keep as is, just as a note.
The Government of Springfield article should be written and Sister cities of Springfield, Illinois should be merged with it per the Detroit, Michigan FA model.
The history section is still being worked on, I still need to look at it too, so its partially my fault as well.
The pertinent points in David's table above should all be adequately referenced in both the main history article and here.
Lead needs to conform to WP:LEAD and should not contain inline cites. In addition the lead should be a summary of the article and any points (barring outstanding and extraordinary claims) can be cited where they appear in the body of the article, and they should all appear in the body of the article.
Refs needed for films and a few other statements in the culture section, IMDB doesn't count as reliable.
Sports section needs to be expanded to at least mention past team names, another sentence or two on current teams wouldn't hurt. We need to make sure we have accounted for all activity here.
A couple of the subsections under Culture are pretty short, could use some expansion if possible.
The References issue above is still mostly outstanding.
The cityscape section is about a sentence and would greatly benefit from someone who knows the town and has the cites to back it up.
The media section needs to mention all major outlets.
No crime section yet.
Could use a good further reading section filled with some good books, and some peer reviewed academic articles that we don't use as references.

This is what I see for now. I have also added some images back into the article as well as created a good gallery on Commons and linked it in the see also. IvoShandor 06:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Locator map

I've replaced first map with an auto locator map of Illinois that places the locator dot automatically based on the coordinates in the infobox. Both myself and Kranar drogin think the new map looks better. I like that it matches the color scheme of the 2nd map, making for a much more unified appearnce to the infobox. Does anyone have any comments? VerruckteDan 20:02, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it makes it look 100Xs better. I am going to let the people over at the Illinois Project know too, get their opinions.--Kranar drogin 21:04, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

It looks good. I like it better now, and one day I am going to finish this article, lately I have been caught up with this article. IvoShandor

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