Talk:List of county courthouses in Illinois

Latest comment: 7 years ago by Doncram in topic Wikilinks, anchors, and disambiguation

Wikilinks, anchors, and disambiguation edit

Shouldn't many of the courthouses here be listed without redlinks, but rather just in black ink (without wikilinks)? That's what is done in List of county courthouses in North Carolina, where only courthouses that already have articles are wikilinked. Perhaps wikilinks should be used where there's some reason to believe the courthouse is individually notable and an article is expected relatively soon. Perhaps limited to when there's an assertion of notability and at least one source in the Comments column.

Either way, I think that courthouses in common county names like Adams and Boone should be mentioned on the corresponding disambiguation pages (Adams County Courthouse, Boone County Courthouse). In a few edits just now I delinked the Adams and Boone courthouse names here, but put in anchors to their table rows using the names any future article should use, if they turn out to be individually notable and someone actually does create articles for them. And I set up redirects from Adams County Courthouse (Quincy, Illinois) and Boone County Courthouse (Belvidere, Illinois) to the table rows. And I added them to the disambiguation pages. This is straightforward and will be easy to maintain, if done this way.

If a given courthouse with ambiguous name is to show as a redlink, it can/should still be added to the corresponding disambiguation page, without need for an anchor or redirect, and by an entry on the disambiguation page like "White County Courthouse (Carmi, Illinois), one of Illinois' county courthouses".

To take this forward, could the soon-to-be-articled / more obviously notable ones be designated differently here? --doncram 19:14, 12 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

What's left edit

Courthouse Image Location Comments on published county histories
Bond   Greenville
38°53′33″N 89°24′46″W / 38.89250°N 89.41278°W / 38.89250; -89.41278 (Bond County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Boone Belvidere
42°15′54″N 88°50′42″W / 42.26500°N 88.84500°W / 42.26500; -88.84500 (Boone County Courthouse)
Newer than current courthouse
Bureau Princeton
41°22′5″N 89°27′57″W / 41.36806°N 89.46583°W / 41.36806; -89.46583 (Bureau County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Cass   Virginia
39°57′2″N 90°12′38″W / 39.95056°N 90.21056°W / 39.95056; -90.21056 (Cass County Courthouse)
Newer than current courthouse
Champaign   Urbana
40°6′43″N 88°12′23″W / 40.11194°N 88.20639°W / 40.11194; -88.20639 (Champaign County Courthouse)
Newer than current courthouse
Christian   Taylorville
39°32′56″N 89°17′44″W / 39.54889°N 89.29556°W / 39.54889; -89.29556 (Christian County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
DuPage   Wheaton
41°52′7″N 88°8′19″W / 41.86861°N 88.13861°W / 41.86861; -88.13861 (DuPage County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Edwards   Albion
38°22′39″N 88°3′26″W / 38.37750°N 88.05722°W / 38.37750; -88.05722 (Edwards County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Effingham   Effingham
39°7′18″N 88°32′35″W / 39.12167°N 88.54306°W / 39.12167; -88.54306 (Effingham County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Ford   Paxton
40°27′47″N 88°5′57″W / 40.46306°N 88.09917°W / 40.46306; -88.09917 (Ford County Courthouse)
Contemporary with current courthouse
Fulton Lewistown
40°23′49″N 90°9′20″W / 40.39694°N 90.15556°W / 40.39694; -90.15556 (Fulton County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Greene   Carrollton
39°18′6″N 90°24′30″W / 39.30167°N 90.40833°W / 39.30167; -90.40833 (Greene County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Grundy   Morris
41°21′25″N 88°25′23″W / 41.35694°N 88.42306°W / 41.35694; -88.42306 (Grundy County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Hancock   Carthage
40°24′47″N 91°8′7″W / 40.41306°N 91.13528°W / 40.41306; -91.13528 (Hancock County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Iroquois Watseka
40°46′18″N 87°43′8″W / 40.77167°N 87.71889°W / 40.77167; -87.71889 (Iroquois County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Jo Daviess   Galena
42°25′6″N 90°25′32″W / 42.41833°N 90.42556°W / 42.41833; -90.42556 (Jo Daviess County Courthouse)
Newer than current courthouse
Kane   Geneva
41°52′47″N 88°18′30″W / 41.87972°N 88.30833°W / 41.87972; -88.30833 (Kane County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Kendall Yorkville
41°39′34″N 88°27′43″W / 41.65944°N 88.46194°W / 41.65944; -88.46194 (Kendall County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Knox   Galesburg
40°56′40″N 90°22′14″W / 40.94444°N 90.37056°W / 40.94444; -90.37056 (Knox County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Lake   Waukegan
42°21′38″N 87°49′59″W / 42.36056°N 87.83306°W / 42.36056; -87.83306 (Lake County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
LaSalle   Ottawa
41°20′46″N 88°50′32″W / 41.34611°N 88.84222°W / 41.34611; -88.84222 (LaSalle County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Lee   Dixon
41°50′32″N 89°28′53″W / 41.84222°N 89.48139°W / 41.84222; -89.48139 (Lee County Courthouse)
Newer than current courthouse
Livingston   Pontiac
40°52′48″N 88°37′45″W / 40.88000°N 88.62917°W / 40.88000; -88.62917 (Livingston County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Logan   Lincoln
40°8′46″N 89°21′45″W / 40.14611°N 89.36250°W / 40.14611; -89.36250 (Logan County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Macoupin   Carlinville
39°16′45″N 89°52′45″W / 39.27917°N 89.87917°W / 39.27917; -89.87917 (Macoupin County Courthouse)
Newer than current courthouse
Madison   Edwardsville
38°48′45″N 89°57′28″W / 38.81250°N 89.95778°W / 38.81250; -89.95778 (Madison County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Marshall Lacon
41°1′30″N 89°24′28″W / 41.02500°N 89.40778°W / 41.02500; -89.40778 (Marshall County Courthouse)
Newer than current courthouse
Mason   Havana
40°18′2″N 90°3′42″W / 40.30056°N 90.06167°W / 40.30056; -90.06167 (Mason County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Massac   Metropolis
37°9′7″N 88°43′59″W / 37.15194°N 88.73306°W / 37.15194; -88.73306 (Massac County Courthouse)
Newer and older than current courthouse
McHenry Woodstock
42°20′28″N 88°26′27″W / 42.34111°N 88.44083°W / 42.34111; -88.44083 (McHenry County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
McLean Bloomington
40°28′40″N 88°59′39″W / 40.47778°N 88.99417°W / 40.47778; -88.99417 (McLean County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Menard   Petersburg
40°0′39″N 89°50′56″W / 40.01083°N 89.84889°W / 40.01083; -89.84889 (Menard County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Monroe   Waterloo
38°20′9″N 90°8′58″W / 38.33583°N 90.14944°W / 38.33583; -90.14944 (Monroe County Courthouse)
Newer than current courthouse
Montgomery Hillsboro
39°9′40″N 89°29′36″W / 39.16111°N 89.49333°W / 39.16111; -89.49333 (Montgomery County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Peoria   Peoria
40°41′34″N 89°35′24″W / 40.69278°N 89.59000°W / 40.69278; -89.59000 (Peoria County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Piatt   Monticello
40°1′30″N 88°34′21″W / 40.02500°N 88.57250°W / 40.02500; -88.57250 (Piatt County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Rock Island   Rock Island
41°30′35″N 90°34′47″W / 41.50972°N 90.57972°W / 41.50972; -90.57972 (Rock Island County Courthouse)
Newer than current courthouse
Stark Toulon
41°5′36″N 89°51′57″W / 41.09333°N 89.86583°W / 41.09333; -89.86583 (Stark County Courthouse)
Newer than current courthouse
Vermilion   Danville
40°7′29″N 87°37′46″W / 40.12472°N 87.62944°W / 40.12472; -87.62944 (Vermilion County Courthouse)
Newer than current courthouse
Warren   Monmouth
40°54′45″N 90°38′57″W / 40.91250°N 90.64917°W / 40.91250; -90.64917 (Warren County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
White   Carmi
38°5′28″N 88°9′32″W / 38.09111°N 88.15889°W / 38.09111; -88.15889 (White County Courthouse)
Contemporary with current courthouse
Will Joliet
41°31′28″N 88°4′56″W / 41.52444°N 88.08222°W / 41.52444; -88.08222 (Will County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Winnebago   Rockford
42°16′18″N 89°5′47″W / 42.27167°N 89.09639°W / 42.27167; -89.09639 (Winnebago County Courthouse)
Older than current courthouse
Woodford Eureka
40°43′19″N 89°16′20″W / 40.72194°N 89.27222°W / 40.72194; -89.27222 (Woodford County Courthouse)
Newer than current courthouse