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I don't have any proposed versions of these; they're just things that need work from someone, and I expect I'll be the one doing it. Feel free to be bold and/or add comments to my talk page.

Quick cleanups needed

• Peoria Notre Dame High School
• Virginia, Illinois

Articles

• The Battle of Hatchie's Bridge was also called Metamora or Big Hatchie River, but disagrees on the state with Troop engagements of the American Civil War, 1862
• Computer Based Learning probably shouldn't be capitalized. Also, there seem to be related articles, variously capitalized and hyphenated, that overlap and need massive clean-up. I'm thinking of combining some of these into one or two articles and letting someone with more knowledge clean it up and resplit them with more reasonable names:
  • Computer assisted instruction and its redirects Computer aided instruction, Computer-Assisted Instruction
  • Computer-based training
  • Online training (And what's the difference between that and Online learning?)
  • more specific CBL topics which probably should stay in their own articles but should probably be linked to the stuff above somehow:
    • Computer-assisted language learning
    • Computer-adaptive test looks like it can probably stand alone without a merge.
    • Collaborative Networked Learning needs major cleanup and wikification.
    • E-learning and Online learning are about to be merged probably.
    • Learning management system
    • M-learning — learning by mobile devices.
    • Networked learning
    • Virtual learning environment
    • Web-based training is a stub but with several links and see-alsos. It's part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative education so maybe this grand merger should be announced there also.
• He Thinks He's Ray Stevens needs links and wording changed from the erroneous He Think's He's Ray Stevens.

• Government of Illinois is very lacking in substance (as of April 2008)
  • Illinois Secretary of State is very lacking in substance (as of April 2008)
    • List of Illinois Secretaries of State appears to be wrong: contradicts other articles; cited source admits that it's not complete

• Category:Hijackings probably needs to exist and be populated with subcategories
  • Santa Maria hijacking and related articles
    • Henriques Galvao
    • SoLant Amity

• Interstate 72/Interstate 172 could use some history. (See related Illinois State Route 336)

• Metamora, Illinois
• Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags

• Northern Department Store Group, sold to Bon-Ton by Saks Incorporated: all need to be cleaned up, have proper stub and category tags added, and have information about corporate mergers possibly consolidated into one article:
  • Bergner's (downstate Illinois)
  • Boston Store (Wisconsin)
  • Carson Pirie Scott (Chicago area)
  • Herberger's (Colorado to Wisconsin)
  • Younkers (mostly Iowa/Wisconsin)

• Pentonville is both a city (Pentonville) and a prison (Pentonville (HM Prison)).
  • Special:Whatlinkshere/Pentonville shows many pages that should be linked to the prison article rather then the city article.
  • Many HM Prison articles are titled "HM Prison Xxx" rather than "Xxx (HM Prison)".
  • Perhaps Pentonville should be disambiguation page or a redirect to Pentonville, London, England instead of vice versa.
• Rock Island Arsenal and Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois should be merged or cross-referenced. Possibly the same for other United States military bases that are also Census-designated places.
• Telecom Argentina (split from France Télécom)
  • Edit Argentina communication articles (Communications in Argentina, etc.) to make sure they link to Telecom Argentina correctly

• University of Illinois at Galesburg (or some such) was a campus from 1946 to 1949.
• WCC (radio station) and related articles
• Weirton Steel and ISG Weirton Steel need merged and we need to figure out what they're called these days.

• Zzyzx, California articles
  • Change indirect links in Special:Whatlinkshere/Mohave_tui_chub to Mohave tui chub.
  • Add categories (see Lake Tunedae) to pages like Curtis Howe Springer, Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, maybe Mohave tui chub

Peoria, Illinois area

See also: #Peoria/Bloomington broadcasters below

• Category:Peoria metropolitan area Add/change category for articles that apply across counties; add/leave article in the appropriate county category if the article only applies to one city or county.
• County categories to add articles to, and to add to Peoria area category when created:
  • Category:Peoria County, Illinois
  • Category:Tazewell County, Illinois
  • Category:Woodford County, Illinois
  • probably Category:Fulton County, Illinois: Peoria's the only metro they're near
  • maybe Category:Marshall County, Illinois: Does Lacon, Illinois associate more with Peoria or with La Salle, Illinois?
  • maybe Category:Stark County, Illinois: Does Toulon, Illinois associate more with Peoria or with Galesburg, Illinois?
• Camryn Manheim is mispelled all over the place: "Camyrn Mannheim", "Camryn Mannheim", etc. Need to find and quash misspellings. She was born somewhere else, raised in Peoria until age 12, then moved to Long Beach, California.
• National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (USDA Northern Lab)
• Peoria Journal Star is still a stub
• Peoria Lake (which is not Upper Peoria Lake)
• Pimitoui or Pimiteoui, sometimes Pimetoui or Pimeteoui, is the name of both an Indian tribe and what is now Peoria Lake.
• Upper Peoria Lake (which is not Peoria Lake)

• Roads (see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Illinois_State_Routes for some state route pointers)
  • Illinois Route 6
  • Illinois Route 29 has no Adams/Washington switch.
  • Illinois Route 40 has problems.
  • Illinois Route 89 has an incomplete course description.
  • Interstate 474 (Illinois)
  • Peoria, Illinois bridges has the Shade-Lohman but not the Pekin/McNaughton, and probably isn't even the right title overall.
• Schools (All need the school template added.)
  • List of school districts in Illinois misspelled "Heights". (See "Peoria Heights".) I wonder if that's misspelled across all similar lists.
  • Metamora Township High School needs cleanup and wikification.
  • Peoria High School (Peoria, Illinois), oldest HS in Illinois (allegedly)
  • Richwoods High School already exists but needs expansion.
  • Manual High School (Peoria, Illinois)

Peoria area railroads

• Recent railroads (last 50 years or so)
  • Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway (fallen flag) was sold to Chicago and North Western Railway (C&NW).
  • Peoria and Pekin Union Railway: it now leases all its property to the Tazewell and Peoria Railroad. (Image:1885 Chicago & Alton map only.jpg might be useful.) Does this count as active?
    • Keokuk Junction Railway (KJRY) (active) [1] bought the Peoria area track from TP&W.
  • Pioneer Railcorp is active; see [2].
    • Pioneer Industrial Railway (PRY) (recent fallen flag, 2005)
  • Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway (TP&W) is now a subsidiary of RailAmerica; article needs checked for copyvio, then wikified.
  • Tazewell and Peoria Railroad (TZPR) (active) is owned by the Genesee & Wyoming

• Old railroads — see Illinois railroad map legend, Rock Island's Family Tree, Kellar Branch & Peoria RIRR history
  • Chicago, Ottawa and Peoria Railway
  • "CP&S" from Image:1885 Chicago & Alton map only.jpg ran through Washington, Eureka, Minonk, Streator
  • Fond du Lac, Amboy and Peoria Railway
  • Peoria and Bureau Valley Railroad
  • Peoria and Eastern Railway (P&E) ran Peoria, Pekin, Leslie, Tremont, Menert, Mackinaw, then on to Bloomington, Illinois, and Indianapolis
  • Peoria and Rock Island Railway (which later merged with the Rock Island and Peoria Railway)
  • Peoria, Decatur and Evansville Railway (P, D & E)
  • Peoria Railway Company (or was that the RI&P?)
  • Peoria Traction Company, later Peoria Terminal Railway Company, Peoria Terminal Company, Peoria Railway Terminal Company; bought Peoria and Pekin Terminal Railway Company and Peoria, Hanna City and Western Railway
  • St. Louis and Peoria Railroad (St L & P)
  • Rock Island and Peoria Railway (R I & P), which was sold to the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway — Built from Peoria to Coal Valley, Illinois, (79 miles) via Keller (now part of Peoria), Alta, Dunlap, Princeville, Wady Petra, Stark, Wyoming, Toulon, Lafayette, Galva, Bishop Hill, Ulah, Cambridge, Osco, Orion, and Crampton by 1872. [3] says: "The Rock Island & Peoria Railway ran between the towns of the same name from 1877 to 1903. It was nicknamed simply 'The Peoria Route.'"
  • Terre Haute and Peoria Railroad (T H & P)

Spain

• Airports
  • es:Aeropuerto de Murcia-San Javier could use some cleanup.
  • Alicante Airport, also known as El Altet Airport, needs expansion and infobox.
  • Murcia-San Javier Airport needs redirected links changed.
• Borbon and Borbón have been redirected to the disambig Bourbon, which needs Borbon and Borbón entries added to it.
• Cortes Generales (Spanish legislature) has no information about the operation of the Cortes itself, only a history through 1978
• Costa Calida — Looks like User:Jvmills got this! Just needs some wikification and cleanup and checking to make sure it's not copied from a copyrighted source.
• San Javier, Spain (the city) doesn't have an article. Maybe it's too small to be notable in English. Someone redirected it to Murcia-San Javier Airport instead.
• Segura (river) needs cleanup and expansion.
• Spanish government
  • es:Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (LAE) is one of the oldest lotteries in the world. It doesn't have an article, but seems to have several links to it, including Spanish Lottery and Spanish National Lottery. Not sure what to call it in English — http://onlae.terra.es/lae/internacional/ingles_index.htm calls it by its literal name, "State Lotteries and Betting".
  • SEPI is a substub. SEPI owns most of the Spanish government's companies. See http://www.sepi.es/default.aspx?cmd=0001&IdContainer=90&idLanguage=_EN for a full list. It owns 5.24% of Iberia Airlines, 5.52% of EADS, 20% of the Spanish electric network company REE, and nearly all of the following Spanish organizations:
    • EFE (the Spanish news agency) is a substub.
    • RTVE (Radiotelevisión Española, the Spanish public broadcaster)
    • ENSA (nucelar energy company)
    • Hipodromo de la Zarzuela (Madrid horse racing track; SEPI 90% LAE 10%)
    • Navantia, the Spanish military shipbuilder, was spun off from the bankruptcy of Izar.
• Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (es:Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena) doesn't have an English article, but I'm not sure it's that important in English.

Broadcasters

Peoria/Bloomington

Basically every article related to Peoria/Bloomington broadcasting was incomplete, including this list. The situation may have improved since this list was first made. City of license is given if not Peoria.

• List of radio stations in Illinois needs changes from the May 2006 AAA Entertainment->Regent Communications->Independence Media station sales.
• Categories:
  • Category:Television stations in Peoria-Bloomington (pretty much done)
  • Radio stations
    • Category:Radio stations in the Peoria market is in the templates, but there are no station articles yet.
    • Category:Radio stations in Bloomington, Illinois not made yet
    • Category:Radio stations in LaSalle/Ottawa/Princeton not made yet
• Templates
  • Template:Central IL TV
  • Template:Peoria AM and Template:Peoria FM. Not sure why these are at the bottom of the TV articles now; maybe because there are no radio articles yet. On 2006-01-27, User:216.124.224.224 added a very broken list of Peoria/Bloomington radio stations to each Peoria/Bloomington TV article. I have no idea why. Anyway, they are now templates. There are few enough stations that perhaps they could be combined.
• TV (FCC TVq) will probably be my priority before radio
  • Full-Power TV: WHOI (TV) (old WRAU-TV/maybe WIRL-TV/maybe WTVH), WEEK-TV (formerly just WEEK?), WMBD-TV, WYZZ-TV Bloomington (old WBLN), WTVP, WAOE
  • Low-Power TV: W50DD (Trinity Broadcasting Network — Oh yay!), W51CT Bloomington (more of the same), W67CW (M.C. Productions, aka Murion C. Burse, 1101 S. Matthews, Peoria — see FCCInfo.com entry)
• AM (FCC AMq): WPEO, WVEL (AM) Pekin (old WSIV(AM)), WJBC Bloomington, WIRL (AM) (was WWFS for a while), WOAM (old second WTAZ/WXCL(AM)), WMBD (AM), WBYS (AM) Canton
• FM (FCC FMq)
  • Commercial FM
    • Peoria: WZPW (old WBGE), WPBG (old WMXP/first WKZW/WMBD-FM), WPMJ Chillicothe (old WCNL/WKSO/first WFXF/second WKZW/WRED/WQEZ), WGLO Pekin (old WSIV-FM), WWCT Farmington (old WXMP/WJPL), WFYR Elmwood, WPIA Eureka (old second WRVP/first WPPY/WEEK-FM/WIVR/WCRI), WIXO Bartonville, WVEL-FM Glasford (simul WVEL(AM) Pekin? old second WPPY/first WRVP/maybe WBDM at startup), WDQX Morton (old first WTAZ), WXCL Pekin (old WXCL-FM/WKQA), WXMP (old WWCT/maybe WOTF), WSWT, WCDD Canton (old WBYS-FM moved from 98.3)
    • Bloomington: WIHN Normal, WBBE Heyworth (briefly WVWN at startup), WDQZ Lexington (simul WDQX Morton, old WCSO/maybe WMOS), WVMG Normal, WBNQ Bloomington, WBWN LeRoy (old WRXZ/WMLA-FM)
  • Noncommercial FM: WBNH (FM) Pekin, WGLT Normal, WCBU, WCIC Pekin
  • Low-Power FM: WCUA-LP, WWKJ-LP, WEWT-LP Bloomington
  • FM translators: Not sure if I even care

Other

• Category:Nexstar Broadcasting Group — Someone has copied a list of stations in artificially at the top of the category rather than just allowing normal Category links. The list also makes no distinction between stations that Nexstar owns and that Nexstar only manages. This artificial list needs to be moved or deleted.
• WMAQ (AM) is woefully underdocumented.

Ambiguous links

• Disambig/other meanings to fix: Wait, Week, WIRL

Templates

• Template:ILGA

Questions

• In the decription of the Malecon in Murcia, what is the correct English word for "contention wall" (literal translation from Spanish)? It is probably "levee" or "retaining wall" but I don't know which.
• Zzyzx Road seems to be the border of the Mojave National Preserve. Is the Zzyzx settlement itself actually in the Mojave National Preserve or just in the Mojave Desert?

Unencyclopedic prose red flags

Phrases that usually indicate unencyclopedic prose (unless in direct quotes from verifiable sources):

• Almost always unencyclopedic:
  • "interestingly" — non-WP:NPOV to say it is interesting, and almost always improper English to say that something was itself done "interestingly" even if it is interesting that it was done
• Possibly also unencyclopedic:
  • "amazingly"
  • "has notably"
  • "is notably"
• Article spam/marketing garbage (see also general tips in Wikipedia:Identifying blatant advertising):
  • "is committed to"
  • "strives to"
  • "is a world-class" (company OR corporation OR business)
  • insource:/®/ (normal people don't insert trademark symbols in text)
  • insource:/™/ (normal people don't insert trademark symbols in text)

• Possibly also marketing garbage:
  • "are committed to"

Dead links to rewrite

Air Force biographies

• Old form: http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5844
• New form: http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5844

Link spam to revert

These are users and sites that I've caught adding link spam to Wikipedia. Please help me wipe them out!

Old

These seem to have quit spamming, or are blocked somehow.

• dover-to-calais.com — first found at Carrefour; links to site front page (a generic-looking portal) with no context; their "site map" has lots of intentional misspellings for the search engines; they seem to have hit articles marginally related to Dover or Calais, like names of major chain stores.