Talk:Rock Island, Illinois

message: Rock Island isn't an island per se, but parts of it are, I believe, considered to be an island on the Mississippi River.  The Rock Island Arsenal is located on an island (Arsenal Island) and only accessible via bridges.  At least, that's how I remember it.  :)  corey 18:58, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Information detailing how Rock Island got its name would improve this article.  Was one of the islands considered Rock Island Proper?  Was it a mistake on the part of early explorers traveling up the Mississippi river?  The true history of the name should be detailed if it is available.  --12.217.104.215 04:56, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Adding information from this link to the article: http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil/rockislandhistory/intro.htm  --DavidGC 05:03, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rock Island, not an island

message: You forget that WQAD was the Moline TV station, you erred in saying on 2 TV stations in Quad Cities, Jim King was the longtime Anchorman and All Star Wrestling host in studio, Acri Creature was a fave of mine, featuring shorts with Vincent and Emmet. WQAD was the ABC affiliate.
Harold Stewart
:Through the 1950s and early 1960s, WOC-TV (now KWQC-TV) and WHBF-TV were the only two TV stations in the QC area.  WQAD came later - in the mid-1960s.  Wws 05:10, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: TV Stations

message: How is it that the Quad cities number five?  Did one of them split from the original?Parkwells (talk) 12:43, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a good question, one that is answered at the article Quad Cities.  HuskyHuskie (talk) 13:08, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's a link from the local visitor's bureau that says it straight out: The Quad Cities area consists of Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa, and Moline, East Moline and Rock Island in Illinois. HuskyHuskie (talk) 13:11, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It was initially the Tri-Cities (RI, Moline, Davenport), then the Quad-Cities (RI, Mol, Dav, with Bettendorf and East Moline fighting it out), then they tried the Quint-Cities, but that didn't stick. So Bettendorf and East Moline are still squabbling. Cptmrmcmillan (talk) 02:37, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Quad cities?

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message: It only took a quick glance at Google Maps to find a much larger island, French Island, Wisconsin. It has an area of 4.549 square miles, which is roughly three times the area of Arsenal Island. There may be other larger islands, too; this is just the first one I saw. I am modifying this article to remove the claim. Skimpburger (talk) 13:54, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arsenal Island is not the largest island on the Mississippi river 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Rock Island, Illinois's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "2020CensusP2":
From Joliet, Illinois: 
From East Moline, Illinois: 
From Moline, Illinois: 
From Peoria, Illinois: 
From Decatur, Illinois: 
Reference named "2010CensusP2":
From East Moline, Illinois: 
From Peoria, Illinois: 
From Joliet, Illinois: 
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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 04:39, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Rock Island, Illinois]] 

message: Second paragraph currently reads like an ad. I’d change it, but I suddenly feel compelled to scope out housing prices in Rock Island, Illinois. Morganfitzp (talk) 02:28, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV