Talk:Burnham Park (Chicago)

DYK
Any thoughts on a DYK nomination? Maybe the fact that Burnham Park (Chicago) was a candidate to be the United Nations headquarters. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 18:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

the UN headquarters would be my recommendation, due to wide recognition of the UN. the new information about the italo balbo monument being a gift of benito mussolini be interesting as a backup given the text on the inscriptions.ChicagoPimp 00:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Museum Campus
It seems the Museum Campus may technically be in Grant Park (Chicago). Does anyone know for sure? TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 18:13, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Flicker Promontory Point Photo
Who knows the procedure to correctly license an image from flicker (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kim_scarborough/54167350/ ).? TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 06:24, 18 March 2007 (UTC)


 * You can use that one as is ... just pick cc-by-sa-2.5 from the dropdown box on the upload page. Daniel Case 03:49, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

GA nom on hold
This can probably be passed if the following issues are addressed:


 * Wildly inconsistent verb tenses. In the history section, we read that things mostly "were". But sometimes they "are" and a few times they "will be". I suspect this comes from working from a cut-and-paste of the timeline found on the Chicago Park District page credited as a source. In that case, some serious rewriting needs to be done to eliminate the copyvio.
 * started but I am not close to the original material so would rather that someone closer to the ground finished it so I do not adjust material incorrectly.11:00, 18 May 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by VirtualSteve (talk • contribs)
 * ✅ TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 16:22, 18 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Metric. All the measurements I saw were in English units. But people around the world will be reading this article ... they need to see units they're familiar with.✅18:59, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Sloppy organization of key information. A key asset of any park is its area. How big is it? Yet in the intro I read about how long it is ... interesting to know, but not the most important fact. Finally, way down in the next-to-last graf or so, I read that it's ... 598 acres (2.4 km², by the way). That should be in the intro and the infobox (and congrats for using it; infobox park is either not used where it should be or used on where infobox protected area should be).✅18:59, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Some missing citations and other information. The whole 1860-1890 section is missing footnotes save the very last one. I know this usually means the entire graf came from the same source. But this is too much information to leave hanging like this. My suggestion: break it into a couple of smaller grafs with similarly separate footnotes. ✅ TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 18:18, 18 May 2007 (UTC) We read in the intro the exact date (is this really important?)taken out see edit summary - this part✅11:00, 18 May 2007 (UTC) the park was renamed for Burnham, but then the infobox suggests it had had another name for the previous seven years. What was it? Do we know? (Given the level of historical detail in the article and the profusion of information about the United States of America's second-largest city at that time, I would be very surprised if we don't know what that park was called. Also, the Streeterville link doesn't really explain the "peculiar history" (and I question why that detail needs to be in the intro).✅19:05, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Not fatal to a GA, but a worthwhile suggestion anyway, is making some of the pictures larger. This is a park ... show it off!✅11:00, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I believe some serious work with the article can address these issues. I will check back in a couple of days. Daniel Case 13:18, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Alright! Tony buckled down and did the job. I took care of the one remaining bit of future tense in the history that I saw. I'll go to GAC and pass it now ... be back in a few to put the green disc on. Daniel Case


 * Just one more suggestion ... now that we have warm weather again, go out and take another picture of Soldier Field and the monument, if possible, in the sun and bright blue sky. That picture is hard to make out at that size, and just looking at it makes me start turning my collar up. Brrr! Daniel Case 04:25, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Page move
It has been proposed that Burnham Park be renamed and moved to Burnham Park (disambiguation). Please discuss at Talk:Burnham Park.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 15:03, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Obama?
He landed at this park at 10am in February for Valentines Day. This is now Obama Park. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.3.229.222 (talk) 15:41, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

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