Wikipedia:WikiProject Illinois/Collaboration

Welcome to the Collaboration Division of WikiProject Illinois. Here is where a coalition of Wikipedians participate in the nomination and selecting of an Illinois-related article for collaboration, with the intent of expanding the article to Good article status or higher.

Every two weeks an article comes along that the editors here collectively decide shall temporarily become known as the WikiProject Illinois Current Collaboration of the Fortnight (aka the WP:ILLCCOTF). Kidding. Sometimes the collaboration will last more than two weeks sometimes less. The key is to bring the article up to GA status or higher through the collaboration. More than one article can be collaborated on at once if enough editors are interested but it should go through the nomination process below to make sure the collaboration has enough interest.

Nominating articles
To this page:

To nominate an article, add, at the bottom of the list of candidates, filling in the name of the article and the nomination text (which should indicate why the article would benefit from a collaboration and what needs to be improved).

Name of article
Nomination text. ~

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Comments

To the article's talk page:

Add: WikiProject Illinois collaboration candidate

Approving an article
If you support the nomination add your signature below the "Support" notation for the entry. Use the form # ~.

If you oppose a nomination, do nothing. Though you are free to leave comments in the Comments section for the entry.

Nominees
Join in on the discussion or express your approval. You don't even have to be a project member to participate in the collaboration process; the nominations or actual work load.

Bloomington, Illinois
Part of the Bloomington-Normal area in central Illinois. Kranar drogin 05:20, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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Comments This page was largely written by a member of the visitors bureau, and reads as such.
 * 1) IvoShandor 06:19, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Jenigmat429 19:17, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Kkemper 16:13, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Belgarion89 (talk) 17:17, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Champaign, Illinois
A major city in eastern Illinois that has the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Kranar drogin 05:20, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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 * 1) Bhuck 06:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Dicewitch (talk) 21:58, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

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DeKalb, Illinois
A major city in DeKalb County that also has Northern Illinois University. Kranar drogin 05:20, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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 * 1) Klaus 09:20, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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Normal, Illinois
Part of the Bloomington-Normal area in central Illinois. Kranar drogin 05:20, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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 * 1) East-West 21:02, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

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Quincy, Illinois
A medium sized city in western Illinois along the Mississippi River. Kranar drogin 05:20, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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Rockford, Illinois
According to the 2000 census, the second largest city in Illinois in northern Illinois. This was once a major industrial center, and the leading center for furniture creating by Swedish immigrants who moved to the area as they came from Sweden. Also the city that houses the famous dinosaur Jane in their museum.Kranar drogin 05:20, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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 * 1) Kranar drogin 05:20, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) PeteJayhawk 04:09, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Bryson08 05:13, September 19 2022 (UTC)

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Ogle County, Illinois
A county that was named after Joseph Ogle in northern Illinois. Has many famous sites in it including the former home of John Deere, the Black Hawk Statue, and the first armed confrontation of the Blackhawk War. Kranar drogin 05:20, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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 * 1) Kranar drogin 05:20, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) IvoShandor 05:56, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) HuskyHuskie (talk) 02:59, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * This article is badly lacking. I did it a couple of things to it which improved its quality outright. Adherence to the U.S. Counties WikiProject article content guidelines shouldn't ever come at the expense of well written encyclopedia article. This article would greatly benefit from a much more in depth look at Ogle County and all of its facets. Sourcing will be of key concerns. I propose that sources come from either .edu, .gov, domains (or other known reliable sources i.e. news sites) or academic sources if we are going to cull stuff from the web. Official sites are okay too. I don't know, perhaps there needs to be a larger discussion about this, or some stated goals here which include the topic of sourcing. IvoShandor 05:56, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Fort de Chartres
I delisted this as a Good article on 21 February 2007, it isn't horrible, it just needs a little TLC and some less ambiguous sourcing to bring it back up to GA status. This project probably wouldn't take horribly long. IvoShandor 08:48, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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 * 1) IvoShandor 08:48, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) PreciousRoi (talk) 19:54, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

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History of Illinois
This very important Illinois article is unfortnately lacking. I have primed it for expansion, all we need do is descend upon it. IvoShandor 12:34, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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 * 1) IvoShandor 12:34, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) PreciousRoi (talk) 19:55, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

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Past collaborations

 * Springfield, Illinois - still needs minor tweaks, see talk page and archive. IvoShandor 02:54, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

SEE:
 * Category:Old WikiProject Illinois collaborations
 * Category:WikiProject Illinois past selected articles
 * Category:WikiProject Illinois past selected pictures
 * Category:WikiProject Illinois past selected biographies