Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iowa/Archive 4

FYI
USS Iowa (BB-61) just cleared FAC, and has received a bronze star. Thought you all might like to know. TomStar81 (Talk) 05:43, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 06:50, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * You are welcome. Incidentally, is this WP:IOWA's first featured article? It appears to be the only one you have at the moment, but I find it hard to believe that no other Iowa related article has gotten to FA. TomStar810 (Talk) 17:54, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I think we may have had one or two others - though I'm not finding any. There's been a recent drive to get Davenport, Iowa up to featured status, and we have several GA-Class articles.  On a similar note, I've added the other featured articles related to the USS Iowa to the Project. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:32, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * You'll also have a Featured Topic within two months once we finish all the housekeeping matters related to maintaining 2-year-old Featured Articles. User:TomStar81/Iowa class battleship featured topic work group. -MBK004 19:39, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Featured Topic Candidate: Featured topic candidates/Iowa class battleships (Thought you'd like to know) -MBK004 22:51, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I am happy to report that this topic has been featured: Featured topics/Iowa class battleships -MBK004 22:13, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

History of Iowa
Boy, the History of Iowa page is in sad shape, alomst no refs, very scattershot subjects, etc. I've helped with the very early history, but once it leaves the Native American period I am out of my field of expertise. Any history majors out there? Bill Whittaker (talk) 16:58, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

One question the article did not answer for me - did the early settlers in Iowa purchase their land or were there land grants from the government similar to the homesteading act? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.212.130.250 (talk) 02:54, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

C-Class
Per request, I've added C-Class compatibility to Project Iowa. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 15:06, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks. — Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:17, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 13:56, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Ladora Savings Bank
I came across this article and tagged it with your project.  APK  How you durrin?  17:18, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 09:14, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps invitation
This message is being sent to WikiProjects with GAs under their scope. Since August 2007, WikiProject Good Articles has been participating in GA sweeps. The process helps to ensure that articles that have passed a nomination before that date meet the GA criteria. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. Instead of reviewing by topic, editors can consider picking and choosing whichever articles they are interested in.

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IA GA Drive
I have started a drive to get Iowa up to WP:Good Article status. If anyone would like to help, I have started a subpage at User:Ctjf83/Iowa, with ideas/suggestions. Feel free to add/modify any of it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! :)  C T J F 8 3 Talk 03:49, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad GA Sweeps: On Hold
I have reviewed Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since the article falls under the scope of this project, I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 03:29, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Assessing Iowa Related Articles
I have been working to improve the article for Stone City, Iowa and others articles related. Could you please help by asessing the article and adding to the discussion ways to improve the article? If you have time, please take a look. Another question I have is how to use or create maps like the one featured in the Anamosa, Iowa page? Kepper66 (talk) 08:16, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Historical population data
The following files contain population data for every city in Iowa, for every decade each city existed:


 * http://data.iowadatacenter.org/datatables/PlacesAll/plpopulation18502000.pdf
 * http://data.iowadatacenter.org/datatables/PlacesAll/plpopulation18502000.xls

I don't have the time or patience to add the data, but it would be great if someone could. I recommend using Historical populations.  Psych  less   00:02, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Added two cities today as a trial run on this. Curious about which template is preferred.  The Des Moines template is USCensusPop, but also found a template called "Historical Populations".  Compare the display between Des Moines and Indianola for examples.  Which should be used?  I think I may be able to automate this so want to do it correctly.

GrandpaDave (talk) 02:53, 5 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Seems that the Historical Populations template may eventually supersede the USCensusPop template, so moving ahead with that one. Concentrating on county seats to start. Not convinced that we need to go beyond that. Does every little backwater town in Iowa need a historical population table?  Thinking also in terms of maintenance after the 2010 census.  Thoughts?

GrandpaDave (talk) 21:55, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Ya, it would take far too much time and effort to do every city, without a bot of some sort. Either county seats, or perhaps cities over, say 10,000? But in Iowa, there might not be a whole ton of cities over 10,000  C T J F 8 3 Talk 22:05, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Iowa Rivers
Have done quite a bit of work adding geographic coordinates and geobox2 templates to Iowa rivers and creeks. Many of these articles need improvement. I'm not certain that many of the little creeks meet notability status, but somebody apparently thought so. The Missouri river articles are very well done and have lots of detail and references. It would be nice to get the Iowa river articles up to the state of the Missouri river articles. This will take some time and I don't currently have a lot of references. Looking for some volunteer help on this. -- GrandpaDave (talk) 01:34, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Photo request
Would anyone mind photographing the Iowa Department of Transportation headquarters in Ames? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 05:54, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The article itself is in grave need of attention. --Fredddie™ 16:18, 25 October 2009 (UTC)