Wikipedia:WikiProject Illinois

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WikiProject Illinois (Talk)

Founded
2005-09-24

Shortcuts
WP:Illinois • WP:ILLINOIS • P:ILL
Task forces
Central Illinois
Cook County
Eastern Illinois
Northern Illinois
Southern Illinois
Western Illinois

Project links
Category • Deletions • List • Illinois • Meta • New articles (Illinois Portal)

Project pages
Assessment • Cities • Collaboration • Physical geography • Transportation • Culture • People • Government • History • Templates • Townships • Historic Places • To do

Descendant project links
Chicago • Illinois State Routes • Frank Lloyd Wright collaboration

Other related pages
Categories (Lists, Wikipedians) • Portals (Illinois, Chicago • Projects (Chicago • Illinois State Routes • Frank Lloyd Wright collaboration)

Project parentage
United States • US regions • US states
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WP:ILLINOIS

This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the U.S. state of Illinois with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page. To participate, simply add your name to the participants section.

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Contents

[edit] Current project news

  • Feel free to add to the discussion on current proposals or add a proposal to the list.

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject is centered around articles relating to the U.S. state of Illinois.

[edit] Project Participants

See List of participants to add yourself to the list of project participants.

[edit] Things to Keep in Mind

[edit] Project divisions

List all sub-pages

  • Assessment (talk) — Article assessment
  • Cities (talk) — Cities, towns, villages and counties
  • Collaboration (talk) — WikiProject Illinois collaboration of the fortnight, nominees and discussion.
  • Physical geography (talk)— Regions, parks, climate, physical features
  • Transportation (talk)— Roads, trails and rails in and around Illinois
  • Culture (talk)— Music, art, icons, mass communication
  • People (talk) — includes Illinois natives and those residents who have shaped Illinois
  • Government (talk) — Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Illinois
  • History (talk) — history of Illinois during and prior to statehood
  • Templates (talk) — list of templates for Illinois articles
  • Townships (talk) — list of townships for Illinois articles
  • Historic Places (talk) — list of historic places in Illinois



[edit] Related projects Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Illinois is one of the United States WikiProjects.

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Assets US Interstate Highways | US Highways | US Roads | Historic Places

Also related, and often overlapping heavily with US topics, are WikiProject Canada and WikiProject Mexico.

[edit] Child WikiProjects

Chicago
Illinois State Routes
Frank Lloyd Wright collaboration
Spoken Illinois - project to make Illinois Articles Spoken Articles with Spoken Wikipedia

[edit] Collaborations

U.S. Collaboration of the Week

These two weeks, United States is the US Collaboration of the Week.  (Shortcut: WP:USCOTW  +/-)

Help select the next USCOTW now! Nominate an article you think needs improvement or vote for one of the candidates here.
The current WikiProject Illinois Collaboration(s) of the Fortnight is/are Peoria, Illinois.
Please help improve the article to the Good article standard or higher.
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Chicago Collaboration of the Week
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List of Chicago Landmarks update is the current Chicago COTW
Every week, a Chicago-related article that is in need of substantial improvement is selected to be the Chicago COTW. Visit CHICOTW to nominate and vote for future COTWs. Please help improve this week's article to a higher standard of quality. See the To Do List to suggest a change or to see a list of open tasks. See past CHICOTWs. Note our good articles.
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago
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Check out the new WikiProject National Register of Historic Places Frank Lloyd Wright Collaboration. An effort to expand Wikipedia's coverage of Registered Historic Places designed by this most important architect.

To join the collaboration or help out you can visit the collaboration subpage or the collaboration talk page.

[edit] Recognized content

WikiProject Illinois
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 5 10 6 8 29
Featured list FL 2 1 3
A 1 1
Good article GA 2 66 35 27 130
B 15 67 177 408 4 671
Start 8 256 559 3749 29 4601
Stub 1 141 1105 10472 113 11832
List 1 12 45 71 1 130
Assessed 32 555 1928 14735 147 17397
Unassessed 1 2 72 75
Total 32 555 1929 14737 219 17472

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Did you know (DYK)s

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Articles nominated for deletion

Also, you may add Illinois related deletions to: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Illinois

[edit] Images

WikiProject Illinois uses Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Illinois to monitor all Illinois articles needing images. In addition, this category helps Wikipedian photographers living in Illinois to locate those subjects near where they typically take photographs. The "imageneeded=" and "in=" parameters of {{WikiProject Illinois}} populate this category.

  • To request an image for an article, use the "imageneeded=yes" parameter in the {{WikiProject Illinois}} article talk page template. Please use the "in=" parameter in the {{WikiProject Illinois}} template to specify the Illinois county where the photograph may be taken. Up to three locations may be specified, such as {{WikiProject Illinois|class=Start|importance=Low|imageneeded=yes|in=DuPage County, Illinois|in2=Adams County, Illinois|in3=Sacramento County, California|nested=yes|unref=yes}}

[edit] Templates

WikiProject Illinois Barnstar, to be awarded for outstanding contribution toward Illinois related articles.
WikiProject Illinois Barnstar, to be awarded for outstanding contribution toward Illinois related articles.
  • {{User WikiProject Illinois}} - Use this on your user page if you'd like a user box, it states that you're a member of WikiProject Illinois.
  • {{WikiProject Illinois}} - Template stating this article/image/category/stub/template is a part of this wikiproject; placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages - also when used, please make sure to add the item and its associated talk page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Illinois/Illinois recent changes.
  • {{Illinois-stub}} - Stub notice for all other Illinois articles; placed at the bottom of article page.
  • {{Illinois-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for Illinois articles dealing specifically with locations or geographical features in Illinois; placed at the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Illinois-politician-stub}} - Stub notice for Illinois political representatives; placed at the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Illinois-school-stub}} - Stub notice for Illinois schools; placed at the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Illinois-struct-stub}} - Stub notice for Illinois buildings and structures; placed at bottom of article pages.
  • {{Chicagoland}} - Navigational template for Chicagoland communities; used at bottom of article.
  • {{IL-FedRep}} - Navigational template for biographies of Illinois Federal representatives; used at bottom of article.
  • {{ILGovernors}} - Navigational template for biographies of Illinois Governors; used at bottom of article.
  • {{Illinois}} - Navigational template for Illinois; used at bottom of article.
  • {{Illinois Tollway}} - Navigational template for Illinois tollways; used at bottom of article.
  • {{Nuke-NRC3}} - Navigational template for Nuclear power facilities in NRC region 3, which includes Illinois. Used at top of article.
  • {{Public colleges and universities in Illinois}} - Navigational template for Illinois public colleges and universities; used at bottom of article.
  • {{USCongDistStateIL}} - Navigational template for Illinois Congressional Districts; used at bottom of article.
  • {{User Illinois flag}} - Userbox template with Illinois Flag for users from Illinois.
  • {{User Illinois}} - Userbox template with image of Abraham Lincoln for users from the Land of Lincoln.
  • {{subst:IllinoisBarnstar|message ~~~~}}. Substitutable template for adding barnstar.

For Illinois-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphoto|in=Illinois}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Illinois. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.