Talk:White Pines Forest State Park

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White Pines Forest State Park has been listed as one of the Geography and places good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
July 8, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
August 25, 2008	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
May 27, 2009	Good article reassessment	Kept
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 7, 2007. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that there are fords at Illinois' White Pines Forest State Park* (*crossing pictured) allowing visitors to drive through the stream?
Current status: Good article

Successful good article nomination

I am glad to say that this article which was nominated for good article status has succeeded. This is how the article, as of July 8, 2007, compares against the six good article criteria:

1. Well written?: The article is well written and follows the manual of style.

2. Factually accurate?: Article is well referenced with sources to verify the information.

3. Broad in coverage?: Very thorough and detailed sections about the park.

4. Neutral point of view?: Article is written in a neutral point of view.

5. Article stability? Article is very stable except for the occasional vandalism revert (which doesn't really count).

6. Images?: Article contains sufficient images and they are all properly tagged.

If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to take it to a GA review. Thank you to all of the editors who worked hard to bring it to this status. — --_Hdt83 ^Chat 04:31, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The only thing I want to add is that the article contains a lot of red links. They should be removed if the subject is not notable. --_Hdt83 ^Chat 04:36, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The only one I am really unsure about is the poet, everything else needs an article. IvoShandor 11:46, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sources for expansion

Hiking Illinois IvoShandor 01:18, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Map or image in Infobox or both?

Hi Ivo, Kranar asked me to update some Illinois park pages with missing locator maps here so I added the map back in. I have no problem with the image in the infobox - might I suggest the use of {{Geobox Protected Area}}, which allows both an image and a locator map? All of the Pennsylvania state park articles use them - see for example Worlds End State Park. If there is no image, the map can come first. Just an idea. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 12:26, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm all for including the map, if there is a better way to do it, I didn't mean to slight you, and the edit summary was meant as light hearted toward you two. Drop that infobox in if you want, we'll see how it looks with both the image and the map. --IvoShandor (talk) 15:29, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I will see what I can do - converting from the infobox to the Geobox is non-trivial (especially when I have not done a conversion in a while). No offense taken - in fact I chuckled at the edit summary. Nice pic. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 01:44, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:White Pines Forest State Park/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

GA Sweeps: Pass

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. I went through the article and made various changes, please look them over. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. Altogether the article is well-written and is still in great shape after its passing in 2007. Continue to improve the article making sure all new information is properly sourced and neutral. I would recommend updating the access dates of the sources. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I have updated the article history to reflect this review. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 22:25, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]