Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Chicago, Illinois/Archive 1

Chicago, Illinois

As a resident of the city of Chicago, I feel that the article covers all aspects of the city well, and that it exemplifies the layout set forth in WikiProject:Cities. Not only does it fill the categories with, useful, well-organized and relevant information, it adds on to these and provides extra information without being excessive or overly wordy. The writers of the page provide excellent links to obtain more information, especially the Chicago Timeline, which is easily accessible from the top of the site. Each section of the article is written clearly and with the purpose to deliver a lot of information quickly and efficiently, which directly mirrors the goals of creating the Wikipedia.

• Support Vaoverland 23:17, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Object.
  • The "see also" lists should be turned into prose that summarizes the many related articles. In fact, many of them are so short that they probably don't have to exist as separate articles at all.
  • Despite the above recommendation, the page is already a bit long, a fact which I'd suggest addressing by moving the currently longest section -- geography and climate -- to a separate article and keeping a summary.
  • Single-sentence paragraphs as found in the history section should be avoided.
  • Single-paragraph sections should be avoided. Dealing with my first objection might be sufficient to fix this.
  • Needs references.
  • Could use more images. Fredrik | talk 23:35, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Object: The above problems are glaring. Additionally, the "lead" goes into abstruse detail on some areas (pop. data, for one) and ignores most of what is to come.Sfahey 23:36, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)