Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iowa/Archive 2

Carter Lake
I created an article for Carter Lake, the lake (Carter Lake (lake)). If one types in Carter Lake, one is redirected to Carter Lake, Iowa. I would like it if someone could create a disambiguation page for the two. DandyDan2007 22:34, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. --Iowahwyman 23:39, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

J. Roger Porter
I found his article on WP:DEAD. I think he'd be a great biography subject, but I don't care enough about him. Maybe you folks do. YechielMan 05:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

NRHP project related collaboration
Cross project participation is being highly encouraged, sign up today, as Frank Lloyd Wright designed a number of important buildings in Iowa. IvoShandor 03:01, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Article threatened

 * Camp Mitigwa --evrik (talk) 18:34, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I've removed the merge tags - no consensus to merge. --Tim4christ17 talk 21:53, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

New articles
Dear Wikipedians, a list of possible Iowa-related articles found by bot is available at User:AlexNewArtBot/IowaSearchResult. Colchicum 14:44, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Awesome! I'll get right on tagging the Iowa articles with Project Iowa and categorizing any appropriate stubs.  Thanks!  --Tim4christ17 talk 21:49, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Possibly useful map
I made a locator map for Iowa. Similar ones are in use in infoboxes in state park articles (for example Ricketts Glen State Park) or city articles (for example Elmwood, Louisiana). I hope this is useful, Ruhrfisch 02:01, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Help on the Congressional Districts for Iowa
I have been updating the pages for the 5 Congressional Districts Iowa has, along with the 6-11 districts that are no longer in existance. I was wondering if my pages could be added to the WikiProject Iowa? I feel like they all could be expanded, but more noteably the 6-11 districts. Since they are defunct, I'm not sure what to put there and would like some help deciding on that.

If you visit my pages (here is the first district, you can access the rest of them through that page), you will notice I have set up tables to show all the past United States Representatives from the state of Iowa for each individual district. Right now they only go back to 1920 because the government source I am using only goes back to 1920. I will be adding representatives prior to 1920 eventually, it will just take a little more digging. If anyone would like to help on that, it would be greatly appreciated. --Ivalum21 19:49, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Any page related to Iowa is part of the Wikiproject - and any editor interested in them may consider himself/herself to be part of the project as well. :)  If you wish to mark the articles as part of the project feel free to use the template  .  If you wish to signify your membership in the project, feel free to add yourself to the members section of the project and possibly apply the membership userbox to your user page.


 * As my primary focus is on current state legislators, I'm afraid I don't have time to help out on your project presently. I will however do some style-editing if you wish - and I encourage other editors who have extra time on their hands to help with your important project.


 * Also, if you want ideas for articles on obsolete congressional districts, the articles in this category may be of some help. --Tim4christ17 talk 20:21, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Request for assessment: Burlington, Iowa
Over the past few months, I have added a lot of information to the article on Burlington, Iowa. Would someone from WikiProject Iowa mind assessing it? I think it has improved enough to enter the B-class. I'd do it myself, but grading myself just doesn't feel fair. -- Mookie89 08:01, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Davenport
I personally think that more attention should be done to Davenport, Iowa ==. Living there for along time, I KNOW there is alot missing from the article on it it. There is so much more that can be said about that city. Someone, please get some better pictures, I don't mind the ones that are there now, and I know they don't have to be pretty, but there's so much more to Davenport than what is being shown. I mean, come on you guys. Even Dubuque has a better article than Davenport (no offense to the people working on that article, but it seems like no one wants to put that much detail into Davenport). I think we should all get to working. Iamanadam 17:42, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Townships
I've begun creating articles for the townships in Iowa, attempting to include as much useful information as I can gather, and I wondered if this might be the time to set up some stub sorting to avoid having too many entries in the main Category:Iowa geography stubs category. This has been done in some other states, such as Indiana. Omnedon (talk) 14:34, 6 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Speaking of which -- do the Iowa township articles that I've made so far look OK to people here? Omnedon (talk) 12:38, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I skimmed through a few of them, and they look good. There really isn't much details that you can even put about a township, and u covered it well!  C t j f 8 3  talk 19:02, 7 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback. There is a small issue on which I believe there is need for some local input from people who have more direct knowledge of local government in Iowa.  In some cases, I gather that townships were created to have the same boundaries as cities, such as with Centerville, Iowa in Appanoose County, Iowa.  I included this township in the navigational template, since it does exist as a separate entity from the city and (I felt) therefore needed to be part of the list of townships.  However, there is a different view that there should not be two links to the same article within the template.  I do see the logic of this; however, although the city and township are described in the same article, it does refer to two separate entities with two similar but nevertheless different names and different GNIS IDs.  One solution would be to go back to having a separate article for the township; the relevant township articles have so far been merged with the city articles, since there was not much unduplicated information.  However, there might be more information that should be added to one that would not apply to the other, and vice versa.  In any case, is there any guidance on what would be most appropriate from an Iowa standpoint, before this work proceeds much further?  Thanks! Omnedon (talk) 03:33, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think they should both be linked, because they both go to the same page. If you have enough info to have a separate article for the twsp, then i say go for it!  C t j f 8 3  talk 09:05, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Clean up
I don't know how many people from the project are regularly active, but I just did a major clean up to the Iowa page. It still needs work, esp reformatting the sports, and maybe being pickier who we list as famous iowans. Also, it would be nice to add like an "attractions" section, listing major stuff such as adventure land, the amanas, and hoover stuff. that is where i'd need help, cause i'm not too familiar with attractions outside the QC area. I'm also going to reformat the "transportation" and "law and gov." sections to be more like minnesota, which is an FA. Also, i'm not sure we need the "Important cities and towns" section, since they are already listed on the template at the bottom  C t j f 8 3  talk 20:49, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I definitely agree that the "Famous Iowans" section is getting really long because there aren't any standards for notability. I probably wouldn't object to it being deleted altogether -- considering that Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, or Missouri don't have such sections -- but I'll let the rest of the community decide. I've been really busy with other things lately so I haven't had time to do any significant improvements. --Iowahwyman (talk) 00:58, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It's a toss up for me...it is kinda interesting to see who is from or lived here...but then again Minnesota doesn't have a section, and it is an FA  C t j f 8 3  talk 02:02, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * i cleaned up the sports section along with the transportation section and other various clean up and added an attractions section.  C t j f 8 3  talk 04:00, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Famous Iowans
✅ cleaned up
 * does anyone have ideas on cleaning up this section? Does everyone think it just needs a major clean up, with standards on listing people, or just delete it all together? It is very listcruftish as it stands now  C t j f 8 3  talk 04:38, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Slipknot Peer Review
Recently I requested peer reviews for the article Slipknot (band), seeing as it's listed within your project I was wondering if a participant of the project could leave a review here. Rezter (talk) 14:37, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Request for assessment: Slipknot (band)
Over the past few weeks, I have added a lot of information to the article on slipknot (band). Would someone from WikiProject Iowa mind assessing it? It has passed as a GA and since the article has developed further and I feel it will be ready for a FAC soon. Rezter (talk) 12:05, 22 December 2007 (UTC)