Talk:Iowa

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Iowa was nominated as a good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (June 23, 2020). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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Section sizes

Section size for Iowa (67 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	10,219	10,219
Etymology	828	828
History	77	27,657
Prehistory	2,013	2,013
Early colonization and trade, 1673–1808	5,137	5,137
War of 1812 and unstable U.S. control	2,375	2,375
Indian removal, 1814–1832	3,873	3,873
U.S. settlement and statehood, 1832–1860	4,007	4,007
Civil War, 1861–1865	3,257	3,257
Agricultural expansion, 1865–1930	2,602	2,602
Depression, World War II and manufacturing, 1930–1985	2,203	2,203
Reemergence as a mixed economy, 1985–present	2,113	2,113
Geography	43	31,386
Boundaries	2,910	2,910
Geology and terrain	3,959	3,959
Ecology and environment	6,405	6,405
Climate	8,875	10,480
Precipitation	1,605	1,605
Settlements	7,589	7,589
Demographics	17	29,984
Population	13,428	13,428
Birth data	6,149	6,149
Religion	6,627	6,627
Language	3,763	3,763
Attractions	16	12,564
Central Iowa	1,997	1,997
Eastern Iowa	2,653	2,653
Western Iowa	4,642	4,642
Northeast and Northern Iowa	1,961	1,961
Statewide	1,295	1,295
Economy	4,834	32,329
Manufacturing	6,111	6,111
Agriculture	7,323	7,323
Health insurance	3,100	3,100
Other sectors	8,508	8,508
Taxation	2,453	2,453
Education	14	5,937
Primary and secondary schools	3,707	3,707
Colleges and universities	2,216	2,216
Transportation	120	8,867
Interstate highways	1,500	1,500
Airports with scheduled flights	967	967
Railroads	1,208	1,208
Public Transit	5,072	5,072
Law and government	23	26,187
State	1,347	1,347
National	1,223	1,223
Political parties	2,907	2,907
Voter trends	6,005	6,005
Presidential caucus	2,582	2,582
Civil rights	418	12,100
Racial equality	4,874	4,874
Women's rights	4,323	4,323
LGBT rights	2,485	2,485
Culture	12	16,620
Arts	1,697	1,697
Sports	3,823	14,911
College sports	5,089	5,089
Baseball	1,737	1,737
Ice hockey	2,375	2,375
Soccer	519	519
Other sports	1,368	1,368
Sister jurisdictions	1,202	1,202
See also	143	143
Notes	25	25
References	28	28
External links	1,912	1,912
Total	205,888	205,888

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Agriculture section: organic farming

Although I'm a great supporter of organic farming, I can't see any justification for the first para. of this section being dominated by a discussion of organic farming in the state, especially as it's less than 1% of farms there that are organic. Boscaswell talk 22:20, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Iowa/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Wugapodes (talk · contribs) 00:27, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

One of my favorite states; looking forward to reading the article! — Wug·a·po·des 00:27, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A first comment while skimming the article, I feel like the lead may not be an adequate summary. There seem to be sections on "law and government" and "culture" which I don't think is covered in the lead. Also there seems to be an outstanding expansion tag at Iowa#Arts which will need resolved before I can pass the article. — Wug·a·po·des 00:34, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thoughts from an independent reviewer

Not easy for a second reviewer to know what you may feel uncomfortable about, but you're probably right that the lead doesn't fully summarize the article.

More serious are the unaddressed 'citation needed' tags (I've added a few more), and the quantity of uncited material towards the end of the article.

I can't see the point of lists in 'Colleges and universities', given there's already a freestanding list of those, so I'd suggest swift removal, and citation of the small remaining text in that section.

'Geology and terrain' needs more citations.

'Climate' is poorly cited.

'Trade and Indian removal, 1814–1832' is uncited.

'Agricultural expansion, 1865–1930' is uncited.

'Political speech' is uncited.

'Arts' as you note is too short, and needs citing.

'Sports' and its several subsections are almost wholly uncited.

'Iowans' is completely uncited. The single-entry 'Further reading' might be better used actually citing some of these 'Iowans', and then that section can be removed.

The 'External links' look a bit scrappy and numerous; again, it would be best to use most of them to cite the text, and remove them from the section.

Citations like 153, 158 are missing most of their parameters.

When those issues are addressed the article may not be perfect but I think it will be covering "the main points" for GA. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:44, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW it looks like Helloimahumanbeing is making edits to the article, maybe to address these points, but I wanted to ping them to make sure they were aware of the comments and to encourage them to post something on this page to show if the points are/are not being addressed. Kees08 (Talk) 21:23, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to see Helloimahumanbeing is back! I'm willing to start up the review if you'll be around and editing. — Wug·a·po·des 21:29, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Wugapodes: I won't be able to make any edits for a while so I'd put the review on hold. Helloimahumanbeing (talk) 14:22, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Helloimahumanbeing: Do you have a rough idea of how long "a while" would be? It may be easier to renominate the article when you do have time. — Wug·a·po·des 20:54, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Wugapodes: Three weeks at most Helloimahumanbeing (talk) 18:18, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's not too bad; I'll get to work on this and when you have time we can discuss more. — Wug·a·po·des 19:40, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wugapodes, Helloimahumanbeing, it's been nearly six weeks, not three, and nothing has happened. I'd suggest closing the nomination, since this is clearly not a good time for it, and renominating later; this has been open for nearly four months. BlueMoonset (talk) 13:41, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's fair. I've closed the nomination as unsuccessful. — Wug·a·po·des 20:53, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notification: Housing in Iowa

A request has been submitted to WikiProject Iowa for a new article to be created on the topic of Housing in Iowa. Please join the discussion or consider contributing to the new article. Best regards, -- M2545 (talk) 16:41, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

National anthem

I dont want to remove it in case I am wrong but I would be surprise if a German song about a Christmas tree really is Iowa national anthem. Remij00 (talk) 00:35, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pork

Interestingly, the entire page does not contain the word pork. The section of agriculture is greenwashed, stressing sustainable farming . I will flag it. Wuerzele (talk) 20:41, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2020 Census Data

Most (all?) of the articles for cities in Iowa have a demographics section containing data from the 2000 and 2010 censuses. I am planning on adding sections to all of those articles with the 2020 census results. This will result in hundreds of articles being updated. Please let me know if you object to this, or if you know that this updating will occur in some other way! PopePompus (talk) 01:55, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]