Wikipedia:WikiProject Illinois

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.

Goals

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

Scope

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

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.

Article assessment

 * Assess articles in Category:Unassessed WikiProject Illinois articles

Current proposals

 * To join the discussion on current proposals or add a new one to the list, see the project's proposals and talk pages.

To do list

 * Please add tasks to the list here.

Recent changes patrol

 * /Illinois recent changes

Project divisions

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

Descendant projects

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

Chicago

 * WikiProject Chicago

Popular pages
For the project's list, see: /Popular pages.

Former featured articles

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

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.

Articles nominated for deletion

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

Review and assessment

 * Peer review
 * Assessment

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:

Alternatively, you may use:

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.

Barnstar

 * - Substitutable template for adding barnstar.

Navboxes

 * Central-Illinois - Navigational template for central counties. Includes Peoria and Springfield.
 * Chicago metropolitan area - 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 House of Representatives - Navigational template for current legislators; used at bottom of article.
 * Illinois State Senators - Navigational template for current legislators; used at bottom of article.
 * Public universities in Illinois - Navigational template for Illinois public colleges and universities; used at bottom of article.
 * Southern-Illinois - Navigational template for southern counties. Includes metropolitan St. Louis cities.
 * USCongDistStateIL - Navigational template for Illinois Congressional Districts; used at bottom of article.

Portal

 * - Illinois portal link, for placing on article pages in the 'See also' section.
 * - Illinois portal link with alternate icon.

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.

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

 * Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Illinois