Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iowa/Archive 3

I recently requested a peer review
Yesterday I applied for a peer review for the article Iowa Democratic caucuses, 2008. Since the article is officially within the scope of your Wikiproject, I was wondering whether someone would be willing to provide some feedback.--Dem393 (talk) 03:37, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

The Daily Iowan
Hi, could you please have a look at the current state of The Daily Iowan? There has been some dispute about the newspaper's practice of publishing criminal records. As I'm living on a different continent, I'm hoping that someone who knows the newspaper and the issues would be able to at least comment the recent edits. Thanks. Avij (talk) 12:44, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Iowa high school athletic association
Could someone please look over this highschool and help me figure out what to add? I spent a lot of time putting those tables together, but now I need to add in more beyond the basic facts but am not sure what. ThanksBradenkeith (talk) 02:17, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Page counts - Cedar Rapids
Hello, I have been dutifully improving your Cedar Rapids, Iowa page and decided to check the traffic stats on it. For just "Cedar Rapids" - You will notice that the past month had been about 100 hits a day until it shot up to 3,000+ last weekend when major reporting of the flood hit. And as for "Cedar Rapids, Iowa" it shot up to 10,000+ hits on the 13th. It's died down now but suffice to say I'm glad I did these improvements in time because the former page was lackluster at best. At Wikiproject Minnesota, we frequently use page stats to tell us what are important and we monitor the news to ensure that our state is well-represented when CNN decides to post a news story. This may be helpful for you. .:DavuMaya:. 19:19, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Articles flagged for cleanup
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Iowa County Courthouses
Somewhere I saw the suggestion we make an article for each of the 99 county courthouses in Iowa. This lead to the List of Iowa county courthouses which shows which ones have pictures, county courthouse articles, and locations as well as links to the county articles themselves. As an intermediate step to the county courthouse articles, we could add the courthouses to the historic section of the county articles. A good source for this seems to be ISAC (Iowa State Association of Counties). Their County Information links page leads to articles that generally have the history of the county courthouse. ChemGardener (talk) 22:23, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Actually there are 100 courthouses. One county has two. At the state fair each year, there is a poster that has pictures of all 100. I think it was something like the Iowa Attorney's Association (or similar name). I like the list, but it is marked as an orphan. It needs to be linked from something. GrandpaDave (talk) 22:15, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Saw this poster at the 2009 State Fair again. Lee County has the two courthouses, and actually has two county seats - one at Fort Madison and one in Keokuk. The list of courthouses is still marked as an orphan and has lots of missing courthouse photos. GrandpaDave (talk) 20:17, 20 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I'll de-orphan the list. I've also added the Lee County courthouses to the list, including preliminary/potential names for the articles.  --Philosopher Let us reason together. 09:23, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't think this list is necessary. We already an article about each county; pictures of the courthouses should be at their respective county's page.  --Fredddie™ 16:15, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Format for State Legislator infoboxes
Please join the discussion about state legislator infoboxes for the state of Iowa at WT:IOWA/G. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 03:15, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Featured picture
Hi, there's a newly promoted featured picture that relates to your project. Best wishes, Durova Charge! 14:27, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting us know! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 16:32, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. :) Durova Charge! 16:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Iowa
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Iowa articles needing geographic coordinates
 articles in Category:Iowa articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that Iowa is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:08, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I have been making good progress cleaning up this list. It was actually up to 309 articles. One thing that would help in the geocoding is to have an actual street address included in the article text. I am amazed how many articles just say "such and such located in Somewhere, Iowa". GrandpaDave (talk) 20:43, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I can help you knock out a few, especially ones close to the Quad Cities, where I know where places are located.  C T J F 8 3 Talk 21:03, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Could use help on either a street address or a coordinate for the following: GrandpaDave (talk) 21:08, 2 September 2009 (UTC) Thanks.
 * Proposed site of Liberty Bank Stadium (Des Moines Menace Soccer)
 * Masonic Building in Osceola
 * Len Jus Building in Mason City
 * Missing geo coordinates are now down to this one building plus two others that have not yet been found by Anomebot2. Anyone know Mason City? -- GrandpaDave (talk) 22:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)


 * A Google search provided me with no help, sorry.  C T J F 8 3 Talk 21:34, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Removed the missing coord tag from the 5 Iowa Area Codes. The AnomeBot talk page indicates area codes will no longer be tagged by his bot. Area Codes are not really suitable to tag with a single coordinate and the maps on those pages clearly show the location. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to try to describe a telephone area code with a specific point. GrandpaDave (talk) 18:19, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Did the same for Iowa Congressional Districts. These are really better represented by a map image than a single geographic point. --GrandpaDave (talk) 18:36, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Do you think the same for rivers too? They are so long, and would probably be better with a map too.  C T J F 8 3 Talk 18:46, 23 September 2009 (UTC)