User:Starstriker7/Project FA Lincolnshire



My goal here is to raise the article "Lincolnshire, Illinois" to Featured Article status.

Important Links
Peer review page - First good article review page - Article page - Talk page

More photographs (User:Dtbohrer)

 * Find some way of acquiring more photos of the village; one for each section?
 * ✅ Education
 * ✅ Second Education Photo?
 * Possibility: Half Day Intermediate School, L-PV School District 103
 * Used? Vernon Area Public Library
 * ✅ Heading
 * Possibility: Village hall (used, contacted someone and gained it in that manner)
 * ✅ Geography / Climate / Transportation
 * Possibility: Picture of Half Day Road (used, contacted someone and gained it in that manner)
 * History / History Subsections
 * Demographics (Exempt?)
 * Possibility: Graphed version of Lincolnshire statistics
 * ✅ Economy and Commerce
 * Possibility: Village Green (used, contacted someone and gained it in that manner)
 * ✅ Government
 * Used? Secondary picture of the Lincolnshire village hall
 * ✅ Culture and Media
 * Possibility: Taste of Lincolnshire/Art Festival Pics? (not used)
 * Used? A picture of Spring Lake Park (used, contacted someone and gained it in that manner)
 * Sports and Recreation
 * Possibility: North Park Entrance/Fields?
 * Safety
 * Possibility: Something to do with DARE


 * Exempt: References, External Links

More Sections (User:Epbr123, User:Dtbohrer, User:Maclean25)

 * Add more sections.


 * ✅ Culture Section
 * ✅ Media Section
 * ✅ Economy Section
 * ✅ Government Section
 * ✅ Sports/Parks/Recreation Section(s)


 * Now elaborate on them.


 * ✅ Culture Section (combined with Media, elaborated upon)
 * ✅ Media Section (combined with Culture, elaborated upon)
 * ✅ Economy Section (Sufficient?)

Good Introduction (User:Ruhrfisch)

 * Make it good. Use WP:LEAD for additional help.


 * COMPLETE? ✅

Criteria

 * Something from each section should be mentioned in the lead.


 * Two-three paragraphs. No more than four, and don't forget no less than two.


 * Don't make it a teaser.


 * Keep it general, nothing specific; only then most notable stuff. That's what the article is for. (Questionable...was it used in the article correctly?)

Internet References (User:Maclean25, User:Ruhrfisch)

 * Use for all possible internet references. ✅


 * ✅ Fix all citations that do not use CITE WEB.
 * ✅ Focus on putting all Internet references into CITE WEB format from this point on.

More History Section Citations (User:Epbr123, User:Maclean25)

 * Look for local books (that might be a problem) or encyclopediae that may be used to find more ways to cite the History of Lincolnshire.


 * Possibility: Search all Chicago online encyclopediae for data on the history of Lincolnshire, and any surrounding villages that may have affected it (Eg. Vernon Hills, Half Day, Lake Forest, etc.)

Fill in the History Gaps (User:Maclean25, User:Ruhrfisch, User:IvoShandor)

 * Find out what happened in said gaps and cite them accordingly.

SUGGESTION FROM RUHRFISCH: Generalize at the beginning of the history section, using the history of Lake County's information as it remain relevant to the village.

Early History to 1834
✅

From 1834 to 1855
✅

From 1855 to Post World War I
*Not available

From 1957 to 2008
✅

Criteria
✅Copyediting of the article took place under the supervision of Ukexpat.


 * ✅ Reword all nonencyclopedic sentences. (Ukexpat's copyediting)


 * ✅ Remove unnecessary words per User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a (Ukexpat's copyediting)


 * ✅ Add all necessary wikilinks (Ex. Vernon Hills, Illinois and Vernon Township, Lake County, Illinois)


 * ✅ Combine short and "stubby" sentences, especially in the Geography section. (Ukexpat's copyediting)


 * Use to resolve some problems in the Geography section.

Optional, but suggested

 * ✅ Call for some help on WP:PRV

Break Apart the Notable People Section (User:IvoShandor)
Find a way to move its information into different sections of the article. ✅

Sports

 * ✅ Andrea Jaeger


 * ✅ Matt O'Dwyer


 * ✅ Robert Berland

Television

 * ✅ Alison LaPlaca


 * ✅ Kyle Brandt

Goals to Achieve Good Article Status
This article was reviewed for GA by epicAdam.

Reorder per WP:USCITY

 * ✅ This article should have its sections reordered to match those in the United States settlements guideline.

Suggested order:

 * History
 * Geography
 * Climate
 * Demographics
 * Arts and Culture
 * Sports
 * Parks and Recreation
 * Government
 * Education
 * Media
 * Infrastructure
 * Transportation
 * Utilities
 * References and Notes

Order completed:



 * History
 * Early History
 * Recent History
 * Geography
 * Climate
 * Demographics
 * Economy and commerce
 * Culture and media
 * Sports and recreation
 * Government
 * Safety
 * Education
 * Infrastructure
 * Transportation
 * Utilities

Place References Where Necessary
References should not be bunched up at the end of paragraphs, but instead should be distributed throughout the actual article's text.

Appears In

 * History section
 * Economy section
 * Education section

Reword the Lead Paragraphs

 * ✅ The lead should be rewritten per the Manual of Style with tips from the lead guideline and the American Cities guideline.

Find a Solution for fair use violations in pictures

 * ✅ The Andrea Jaeger picture in the the Sports section may cause the fall of this article, as it is fair use. A replacement should be found, although at the least it should be removed.

Demographics Problems

 * ✅ The citation is not cited correctly, as it does not link directly to the Lincolnshire data page. This should be fixed.
 * ✅ Cite every single paragraph in the section.

Make Sections Focused on their Relation to Lincolnshire
Irrelevant information that does not relate to Lincolnshire directly should be removed.

Sections in Question

 * Education
 * ✅ Culture and Media

Inline Names of Magazines Should be Fixed

 * ✅ U.S. News and World Report

To Replace:

 * Image:Route 22 Lincolnshire IL.jpg

Lead Problems
Per WP:LEAD, the lead should not only summarize the article, but it shouldn't be overly long. This should be fixed.

Cumbersome Sentences
Some sentences are so long that they restrict flow.

Can be found at:

 * ✅ "The first non-Native Americans to arrive in Lake County were the French Jesuit explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, who sailed down the Des Plaines River and made contact with the local Potawatomi in the area; one of the Potawatomi villages that they encountered stretched along the west bank of the Des Plaines River from present-day Illinois Route 22 south to present-day Aptakisic Road, the first real settlement in the Lincolnshire and Half Day region."

Remove some Red links
✅ Some red links that can be found in the article are unnecessary and only lessen the viewability of the article. These should be removed or stubbed.

Locations:

 * ✅ Removed Community Rating System in Safety section
 * ✅ Removed Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad in History section
 * ✅ Removed FQI in Sports and recreation section
 * ✅ Removed Aptakisic Road in History section
 * ✅ Removed Quill Corporation in Economy section
 * ✅ Stubbed WAES-FM in Culture and media section
 * ✅ Stubbed Lincolnshire-Riverwoods Fire Protection District in Safety section
 * Left alone Louis Leverone in History section per WP:BOLD
 * Left alone Edward Ryerson in History section per WP:BOLD