Talk:Wisconsin dairy industry

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:06, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

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• ... that Wisconsin was the leading producer of dairy products in the United States from 1915 until 1993?
  • ALT1:... that Wisconsin's 7000 dairy farms produce 2.44 billion pounds of milk per month?
  • ALT2:... that Wisconsin is known as "America's Dairyland" due to dairy being a major industry in that state?

Created by JackFromReedsburg (talk). Self-nominated at 04:44, 8 December 2020 (UTC).

• ALT3:... that Wisconsin's dairy industry produces 2.44 billion pounds of milk a month from over 7000 farms? Footlessmouse (talk) 02:01, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: WP:DYKcheck says the article is 2133 characters, which seems just about long enough. Earwig report is clean. Either the main hook or ALT3 look fine to me. Joofjoof (talk) 03:41, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

• Note: hooks 0–2 had bold links as: Wisconsin. To avoid MOS:EGG, I included more in the links, without changing any text in the hooks. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 07:50, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

America’s Dairyland: The Next Generation

Some truly good reporting on the future of dairy in Wisconsin which would be great for further work on this article. Best, Thriley (talk) 22:43, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

References

GA Review

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

Reviewer: Some Dude From North Carolina (talk · contribs) 17:51, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Hey, I'm going to be reviewing this article. Expect comments by the end of the week. Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 17:51, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Basic stuff and comments

• Images are free to use.
• "ageing" → "aging" (American English)
• "later half" → "latter half" (both uses)
• Remove the comma after "the farms".
• Remove the comma after "the railroad" (unnecessary).
• Remove the comma after "switched to dairy farming" (near the end of sentence).
• "to higher" → "to a higher"
• "products has" → "products have"
• Remove the comma after "2000".
• "Wisconsin have" → "Wisconsin has"
• Archive sources (either manually or with this tool).
• Also, don't try to have website links (ex. "www." and ".org") present in the "|website=" parameter (find the actual name of the source instead).

• @Some Dude From North Carolina:, I fixed what you recommended. JackFromReedsburg (talk | contribs) 20:21, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Progress

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate. a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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Newspaper sources

A list of newspaper sources that could be added to the article:

• Quality Milk Important to Farm Market
• American dairymen will not be forced to compete with European dairy
• Fewer Herds (of cows), Larger Size (of herds)
• Farmers' Choice: Borrow or Own Smaller Shares
• Farms in Wringer

--JackFromWisconsin (talk | contribs) 13:44, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Documentary

America's Dairyland at the Crossroads (Milwaukee PBS) Maybe useful? The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel did a write-up but they also helped produce it so that's probably not a pure secondary source. Mapsax (talk) 00:08, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Quick review

This article could use improvement in a few areas:

• Expanded products section, including talking about Ice Cream, Milk, etc
• Economic impacts section
• Expansion of the farming section and include Wisconsin dairy barn.
• Rewrite of the history section in conjunction with Agriculture in Wisconsin

I've been meaning to really work on this article more since taking it to GA 4 years ago. I think it could be much better than it currently is and could possibly be a featured article. If anyone else is interested, feel free to use these points to work on it. Otherwise I'll get around to it eventually. JackFromWisconsin (talk | contribs) 22:34, 6 August 2025 (UTC)