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Primary goal: Featured Article status

  • Minimize the lists, point to full list elsewhere.
  • Expand transportation section since Illinois is a crossroads.
  • Add an Agriculture sub-section of the Economy section, focusing on Corn, Soybeans and maybe some byproducts Biodiesel / Ethanol fuel etc.
  • Expand recreation.
  • Expand culture / demographics section to include more than just numbers.
  • Find / make a free / public domain image depicting climate data.
  • Nominate for Peer review then Featured Article when ready.
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[edit] Significance of Lincoln Douglas debates

Two points—

  • This did not "launch Lincoln's political career"; he had been elected to Congress more than a decade earlier.
  • This was not what would "draw national attention to the issue of slavery in the territories", as that had already been the single biggest issue facing Congress for nearly 40 years, as evidenced by the Missouri Compromise (1820) and the Compromise of 1850. Unschool 22:49, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Automated Peer Review

I am going to post here the Peer Review so we can check it off as we do them. I would like to start working on getting this back to GA. Here they are:

The following suggestions were generated by a semi-automatic javascript program, and might not be applicable for the article in question.

You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, APR t 22:08, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that AndyZ, see what we can do.--Kranar drogin 22:54, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IP Edits

There have been a lot of IP edits to the article lately, particularly from User:207.193.87.114 and many of these have been reverted (including by me). After a message on my talk and review of this user's edits I now believe that this is a good faith editor trying to correct incorrect information in the pre-Columbian history section of the article. See here User talk:207.193.87.114 for more info. I'd suggest checking IP edits to this article very carefully before reverting (I didn't!). Cheers and good luck with the GA submission. Paxse 02:35, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

What's there now was briefly discussed in the past Talk:Illinois/Archive_2#Native_American_numbers and is currently cited. The changes made directly conflicted with the cited materials. Personally, I'd trust User:Rjensen before an anon contributor, I think he wrote the current section. --Dual Freq 02:53, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
If you check the recent history the changes attempted by the IP editor also have citations. She/He also reverted their own changes when the cites failed to appear correctly. This is clearly a new user who is learning our sometimes complex and illogical wiki markup system and a good faith editor who is trying to correct what they believe is erroneous information. If you are aiming for GA and then FA status it would be worth while checking the cited facts in the article in any case - and it would be good to have another productive and interested editor helping to polish the article. Cheers, Paxse 03:26, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Smoking

Illinois has just banned smoking in public places - effective 1/1/2008.[1] Given that whole contries as well as other states(?) have enacted such legislation, perhaps we need a category for this type of information. It sure would give traveling folks a heads-up when trip planning. Rklawton 20:50, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

You make sense that for sure, but you should that maybe other states will enact such legislation .... :) Albo4show29 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.238.46.71 (talk) 01:26, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit Protect?

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Lots of Vandalism on this page. ---Redmarkviolinist (talk)Editor Review 04:11, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Plus many more.


N No edit specified. If you want to have the page protected, please see WP:RPP. Sandstein (talk) 06:41, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Peoria a proverbial social and cultural bellwether - not

Re. lead section -- Peoria has always stood for social and cultural averageness, as in: But will it play in Peoria? Will the average American accept whatever the proposition is? Of course, there is nothing wrong with (and there is everything good with) standing for average America. However, "average" conflicts with "bellwether," an entity that "serves to create or influence trends or to presage future happenings." (If averageness is thought to sound too negative, read normalcy.) -- Iterator12n Talk 02:00, 4 February 2008 (UTC)