User:Starstriker7/Project FA Lincolnshire

The Lincolnshire Village Hall.

My goal here is to raise the article "Lincolnshire, Illinois" to Featured Article status.

Important Links

Peer review page - First good article review page - Article page - Talk page

Goals per the Lincolnshire peer review and of Talk page comments

More photographs (User:Dtbohrer)

• Find some way of acquiring more photos of the village; one for each section?
  •  Done Education
  •  Done Second Education Photo?
    • Possibility: Half Day Intermediate School, L-PV School District 103
    • Used? Vernon Area Public Library
  •  Done Heading
    • Possibility: Village hall (used, contacted someone and gained it in that manner)
  •  Done Geography / Climate / Transportation
    • Possibility: Picture of Half Day Road (used, contacted someone and gained it in that manner)
  •  Not done History / History Subsections
  •  Not done Demographics (Exempt?)
    • Possibility: Graphed version of Lincolnshire statistics
  •  Done Economy and Commerce
    • Possibility: Village Green (used, contacted someone and gained it in that manner)
  •  Done Government
    • Used? Secondary picture of the Lincolnshire village hall
  •  Done Culture and Media
    • Possibility: Taste of Lincolnshire/Art Festival Pics? (not used)
    • Used? A picture of Spring Lake Park (used, contacted someone and gained it in that manner)
  •  Not done Sports and Recreation
    • Possibility: North Park Entrance/Fields?
  •  Not done Safety
    • Possibility: Something to do with DARE

• • Exempt: References, External Links

More Sections (User:Epbr123, User:Dtbohrer, User:Maclean25)

• Add more sections.

• •  Done Culture Section
  •  Done Media Section
  •  Done Economy Section
  •  Done Government Section
  •  Done Sports/Parks/Recreation Section(s)

• Now elaborate on them.

• •  Done Culture Section (combined with Media, elaborated upon)
  •  Done Media Section (combined with Culture, elaborated upon)
  •  Done Economy Section (Sufficient?)

Good Introduction (User:Ruhrfisch)

• Make it good. Use WP:LEAD for additional help.

• • COMPLETE?  Done

Criteria

• Something from each section should be mentioned in the lead.

• Two-three paragraphs. No more than four, and don't forget no less than two.

• Don't make it a teaser.

• Keep it general, nothing specific; only then most notable stuff. That's what the article is for. (Questionable...was it used in the article correctly?)

Citation Problems Need to be Fixed (User:Ruhrfisch, User:Maclean25, User:Epbr123)

Internet References (User:Maclean25, User:Ruhrfisch)

• Use {{cite web}} for all possible internet references.  Done

• •  Done Fix all citations that do not use CITE WEB.
  •  Done Focus on putting all Internet references into CITE WEB format from this point on.

More History Section Citations (User:Epbr123, User:Maclean25)

• Look for local books (that might be a problem) or encyclopediae that may be used to find more ways to cite the History of Lincolnshire.

• Possibility: Search all Chicago online encyclopediae for data on the history of Lincolnshire, and any surrounding villages that may have affected it (Eg. Vernon Hills, Half Day, Lake Forest, etc.)

Fill in the History Gaps (User:Maclean25, User:Ruhrfisch, User:IvoShandor)

• Find out what happened in said gaps and cite them accordingly.

SUGGESTION FROM RUHRFISCH: Generalize at the beginning of the history section, using the history of Lake County's information as it remain relevant to the village.

Early History to 1834

 Done

From 1834 to 1855

 Done

From 1855 to Post World War I

 Not done *Not available

From 1957 to 2008

 Done

Copyediting (User:Ruhrfisch, User:Ukexpat)

Criteria

 DoneCopyediting of the article took place under the supervision of Ukexpat.

•  Done Reword all nonencyclopedic sentences. (Ukexpat's copyediting)

•  Done Remove unnecessary words per User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a (Ukexpat's copyediting)

•  Done Add all necessary wikilinks (Ex. Vernon Hills, Illinois and Vernon Township, Lake County, Illinois)

•  Done Combine short and "stubby" sentences, especially in the Geography section. (Ukexpat's copyediting)

•  Not done Use {{Convert}} to resolve some problems in the Geography section.

Optional, but suggested

•  Done Call for some help on WP:PRV

Break Apart the Notable People Section (User:IvoShandor)

Find a way to move its information into different sections of the article.  Done

Sports

•  Done Andrea Jaeger

•  Done Matt O'Dwyer

•  Done Robert Berland

Television

•  Done Alison LaPlaca

•  Done Kyle Brandt

Goals to Achieve Good Article Status

This article was reviewed for GA by epicAdam.

Reorder per WP:USCITY

•  Done This article should have its sections reordered to match those in the United States settlements guideline.

Suggested order:

• • History
  • Geography
    • Climate
  • Demographics
  • Arts and Culture
  • Sports
  • Parks and Recreation
  • Government
  • Education
  • Media
  • Infrastructure
    • Transportation
    • Utilities
  • References and Notes

Order completed:

•  Done

• • History
    • Early History
    • Recent History
  • Geography
    • Climate
  • Demographics
  • Economy and commerce
  • Culture and media
    • Sports and recreation
  • Government
    • Safety
  • Education
  • Infrastructure
    • Transportation
    • Utilities

Place References Where Necessary

 Not done References should not be bunched up at the end of paragraphs, but instead should be distributed throughout the actual article's text.

Appears In

•  Not done History section
•  Not done Economy section
•  Not done Education section

Reword the Lead Paragraphs

•  Done The lead should be rewritten per the Manual of Style with tips from the lead guideline and the American Cities guideline.

Find a Solution for fair use violations in pictures

•  Done The Andrea Jaeger picture in the the Sports section may cause the fall of this article, as it is fair use. A replacement should be found, although at the least it should be removed.

Demographics Problems

•  Done The citation is not cited correctly, as it does not link directly to the Lincolnshire data page. This should be fixed.
•  Done Cite every single paragraph in the section.

Make Sections Focused on their Relation to Lincolnshire

Irrelevant information that does not relate to Lincolnshire directly should be removed.

Sections in Question

•  Not done Education
•  Done Culture and Media

Inline Names of Magazines Should be Fixed

•  Done U.S. News and World Report

Find Photographs that Uniquely Describe the Village

To Replace:

•  Not done Image:Route 22 Lincolnshire IL.jpg

Copyediting Goals per Comments from User:Jordan Timothy James Busson

Lead Problems

 Not done Per WP:LEAD, the lead should not only summarize the article, but it shouldn't be overly long. This should be fixed.

Cumbersome Sentences

Some sentences are so long that they restrict flow.

Can be found at:

•  Done "The first non-Native Americans to arrive in Lake County were the French Jesuit explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, who sailed down the Des Plaines River and made contact with the local Potawatomi in the area; one of the Potawatomi villages that they encountered stretched along the west bank of the Des Plaines River from present-day Illinois Route 22 south to present-day Aptakisic Road, the first real settlement in the Lincolnshire and Half Day region."

Remove some Red links

 Done Some red links that can be found in the article are unnecessary and only lessen the viewability of the article. These should be removed or stubbed.

Locations:

• Y Removed Community Rating System in Safety section
• Y Removed Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad in History section
• Y Removed FQI in Sports and recreation section
• Y Removed Aptakisic Road in History section
• Y Removed Quill Corporation in Economy section
• Y Stubbed WAES-FM in Culture and media section
• Y Stubbed Lincolnshire-Riverwoods Fire Protection District in Safety section
• N Left alone Louis Leverone in History section per WP:BOLD
• N Left alone Edward Ryerson in History section per WP:BOLD