Talk:Rockford, Illinois

message: For the most part, the talk page seems to be very dormant, so any feedback is appreciated.  As far as a "to-do" list, the article does have a few things that need attention:
*The reference to the largest city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan area is a bit misleading despite being factually correct.  It makes the appearance on a first read that Rockford is the 2nd largest city, when in fact its 3rd.  Maybe I'm nitpicking here a bit but even I fell victim to the way its written.  Instead of referencing the Chicago Metropolitan area, why not just state Rockford is the third largest city outside of Chicago and Aurora respectively? Dpalme (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 17:18, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Fixing things up a bit

message: As there hasn't been anything new in the past 2-3 years and the discussions have pretty much been resolved, I've archived the past discussions.  
--SteveCof00 (talk) 05:10, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Talk Page Archived

message: This is somewhat of a missing section.  In articles about cities of comparable size, it does go into the healthcare systems seen in the area, and I've noticed that there is nothing to go on so far (even though Rockford has 3 hospitals).  --SteveCof00 (talk) 05:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Healthcare information

message: Currently, this consists of a list of aldermen and a table of crime rates...any suggestions for expanding this?  It would be worth looking the same sections into other articles of larger Illinois cities for comparison.  --SteveCof00 (talk) 22:14, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Law and Government section

message: Is there even such a thing as unforced rape? By definition, rape is forced sexual intercourse (or other sexual activity). The "forcible" part should be removed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.212.252.255 (talk) 03:32, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: These statistics were something that came from the FBI website (although it appears the link may have changed; it would be nice to get data more recent than 2007).  I'm not sure of the logic behind calling it that, but it was not the decision of the editor who included the crime statistics here.  -SteveCof00 (talk) 07:51, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: FYI:  in some states, any criminal sexual conduct is called rape (not sure about Illinois), so yes there certainly is rape that is not forcible.  Statutory rape, for example. John from Idegon (talk) 08:22, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Forcible" rape? 

message: Seeing as the whole Cheap Trick guitar museum content is starting to border on vaporware, I think this section needs to be redone from the ground up.  Any ideas for real-life content? --SteveCof00 08:17, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looking into the future section 

message: This section is in dire need of attention and reconstruction.  For one thing, there is no sense of chronological order to the present day.  Additionally, to say the section has neutrality issues is an understatement.  Yes, the Forbes and WSJ entries may be true, but there are ways of not having them dominating the section without sugar-coating the facts as well.  --SteveCof00 "suggestion box" 09:49, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline 2000-present 

message: I updated the city council members since it was flagged as not current. I'm new to this so I'm not sure how sections get flagged and un-flagged.Mellieclem (talk) 19:56, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated City Council 

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message: At this point, this section of the article is starting to become worthy of its own and is certainly worthy of splitting into an article of its own.  (This looks more towards the organization of Chicago over the Illinois cities of similar size; most have far less content).  In addition to give this content its proper space, it allows for editing and expansion of additional content; currently, things seem to stop past 2002.  
Thoughts?  --SteveCof00 (talk) 10:17, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree it is a bad precedent. Plus, I think it would be harder for users to find the history of Rockford. 2601:247:C501:CD0:6DED:775F:5FFA:2A6A (talk) 00:13, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of Rockford: separate article? 

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message: Rockford is well-known for its active prostitution subculture.  Why doesn't the article mention this?
I've attempted to add some basic information.  These edits were reverted initially on the grounds that the material was unsourced. (It should have been given a ref-needed tag instead of simply reverted, but never mind.) So I provided three references.  Then it was reverted again on the grounds that they violating wikipedia's "notdirectory" rule, I guess because I had mentioned some locations with too much specificity and the names of its brothels.  So I removed those specific items.
Now the edits have been reverted again on the grounds that they could be said of "nearly every city in North America."  But since when is that a reason to revert an edit?
And besides, it's just not true.  Not every city has an active red light district.  And even among those that do, Rockford's RLD is a heck of a lot more active than most.  And how many cities have two active brothels?
I think these edits are just being reverted because it makes Rockford look bad, and because prostitution is a touchy subject to begin with.  But those aren't good reasons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.36.84.82 (talk) 2019-08-05T21:52:07 (UTC)
:Not to start a big discussion here, but the "basic information" is being blown way out of proportion.  A few arrests related to prostitution stings do not make a brothel make (one of the articles is also sourced from 2003...); we need information from this decade to be more accurate.  --SteveCof00 (talk) 10:52, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  red light district 

message: There is a pretty big historical reenactment scene in rockford, such as a reenactment of the christmas truce and several ww2 reenactments every year https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040233/http://www.wrex.com/story/30676457/2015/12/05/midway-village-hosts-a-reenactment-of-the-christmas-truce
Should it be mentioned? Viesna14 (talk) 19:07, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section about historical reenactment?