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Welcome to the Connecticut WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Connecticut.

Goals and scope

• The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Connecticut by expanding articles on people, places, and things resident in or native to Connecticut.
• This project proposes to work with all pages related to the state of Connecticut and its history, geography, and people. All these articles should be included in the Category:Connecticut or one of its subcategories.
• All members should always feel free to patrol the articles in the project assessment table Wikipedia:WikiProject Connecticut/Assessment to note improvements, other changes, or vandalism of articles.
• Recruit new membership from Category:Wikipedians in Connecticut and from articles that you're working on.

Connecticut infobox vote

Please consider the following question: should we as a project include transportation in the infobox of a municipality?

There is no particular standard to go by. Some articles have their airport(s) listed such as Louisville, Kentucky and Chicago while some do not such as Salt Lake City and Seattle. The same is true for roads, bus-lines, and rail. With over 20 airports in the state and scores of cities and towns with bus and/or rail service, we should set a standard.

Please vote FOR or AGAINST inclusion. Voting will close at 12.01 (PM) on 11 November 2018.

• Abstain - I have no particular inclination on this issue. Markvs88 (talk) 19:56, 27 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• For - I don't really have much issue with them in general. (I never removed the airport section off of Hartford, Connecticut, someone else did) Just don't add too many. —JJB^ers 02:38, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• For - Infrastructure such as major highways, airports and commuter rail lines are vital pieces of infrastructure to any city, and deserve mentioning in the infobox. Being that many other US cities list these items in their infoboxes, it seems only appropriate that Connecticut cities have the same pieces of information included in their infoboxes.--AirportExpert (talk) 20:45, 28 October 2018 (UTC)AirportExpert[reply]
• Comment: I only offer one comment regarding infoboxes. Some infoboxes or their features do not allow for a left alignment of images. While the MOS warns against left alignment of images, it does not forbid the practice. Sometimes left alignment of narrow images is appropriate for placing them adjacent to the relevant text. I am currently dealing with an infobox which is preventing such a left alignment. I am offering this only as a consideration as to the downside of a long infobox in the context of incorporating left aligned images. This may be a consideration in determining how much content should be included in a particular infobox. Oldsanfelipe (talk) 23:30, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That's interesting, thanks for the heads up! Markvs88 (talk) 11:38, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• For - New York City actually does have its area airports (including Newark) listed in the infobox. I'm surprised at how relatively sparse the Connecticut articles' infoboxes are. For example, with Stamford, there should be both an interactive map and a pushpin map, the latter to instantly click on to delineate at minimum its location within the jurisdiction of the U.S. Castncoot (talk) 04:00, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  New York City's infobox still only lists the three major airports in the area. Hartford only has one major airport in the area. Plus, Hartford's infobox has more info than what NYC's infobox has. —JJB^ers 14:19, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  Are you looking at the same Hartford and Stamford pages that I am? Because they're pathetically sparse, without even a national pushpin map, like every other city of any significant size has got. We need to update these Connecticut pages to bring them out of the horse and buggy era and into the 21st century. Castncoot (talk) 16:34, 3 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Recent developments to WikiProject Connecticut pages

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Articles pending merge or other

Please announce articles with merge ongoing discussions here and indicate after a merge is completed or a decision not to merge is reached. Please participate in merge discussion at talk pages of articles involved.

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 09 Apr 2024 – New Britain Mules (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Let'srun (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 02 Apr 2024 – LesserEvil (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Jtrrs0 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
• 03 Apr 2024 – Muneer Alshowkan (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Klbrain (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 10 Apr 2024; see discussion (4 participants)
• 01 Apr 2024 – Liam McLaughlin (baseball) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Namiba (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 08 Apr 2024; see discussion (8 participants)
• 31 Mar 2024 – Marion Hepburn (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Allan Nonymous (t · c) was closed as keep by Xymmax (t · c) on 07 Apr 2024; see discussion (6 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 03 Apr 2024 – New Britain Mules (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Let'srun (t · c) was deproded by Kvng (t · c) on 09 Apr 2024
• 03 Apr 2024 – Hartford Hurricanes (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Let'srun (t · c) was deproded by Kvng (t · c) on 09 Apr 2024

Templates for discussion

• 04 Apr 2024 – Template:Connecticut cities and mayors of 100,000 population (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Woodensuperman (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 08 Mar 2024 – September 2023 New York floods (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Tails Wx (t · c); start discussion
• 16 Feb 2024 – Edith Roosevelt (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Thebiguglyalien (t · c); start discussion

Peer reviews

• 12 Apr 2024 – United States congressional delegations from Connecticut (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Staraction (t · c); see discussion
• 31 Mar 2024 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by SafariScribe (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 08 Apr 2024 – Draft:Sneako (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Rambling Rambler (t · c)
• 01 Mar 2024 – Draft:Marquand and Co. (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Southport1639 (t · c)
• 11 Feb 2024 – Draft:Eastern Diocese of the Polish National Catholic Church (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tony24644 (t · c)
• 29 Jan 2024 – Draft:John Canning Studios (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Restoration-gal (t · c)

To join WikiProject Connecticut, add your username to our participant list.

• The WikiProject University of Connecticut is dedicated to articles related to the University of Connecticut.
• The U.S. Roads/Connecticut task force works on the improvement and standardization of information in articles about Connecticut State Routes and Interstate Highways in Connecticut.

Work pages

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Connecticut women: for needed Connecticut articles related to women.
• Connecticut communities workpage: for town, neighborhood, area and other related issues.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Connecticut/Connecticut article guidelines: work on the proposed WPCT article guidelines.

Articles in need of creation

• Connecticut State Guard Reserve
• Missing encyclopedic articles about United States judges and justices from Connecticut

Connecticut US Attorneys

• Elisha S. Abernathy
• George H. Cohen (Connecticut)
• Robert P. Butler
• Adrian W. Maher
• Simon S. Cohen
• Harry W. Hultgren Jr.
• F. Owen Eagan
• Stewart H. Jones
• Harold J. Pickerstien
• Stanley A. Twardy Jr.
• Albert S. Dabrowski
• Current: Vanessa R. Avery. Her page is thankfully all set

Articles in need of improvement

• Amistad Memorial (New Haven) (April 11, 2017)
• Governor's Foot Guard (February 26, 2014)
• Governor's Horse Guard (February 26, 2014)
• Connecticut Naval Militia (February 26, 2014)
• Connecticut State Militia (February 26, 2014)
• Farmington River (September 14, 2011)
• Basset Brook (April 21, 2011)
• Connecticut State Capitol (April 9, 2010)
• Flag of Connecticut (April 9, 2010)
• George P. McLean (April 9, 2010)
• Seal of Connecticut (April 9, 2010)
• Jonathan Trumbull (April 9, 2010)
• United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (April 9, 2010)

Connecticut seals & flags project

As some of you might have noticed, I've spent some time uploading town seals onto the various town pages. However, there are some which I can not seem to find. Any help in this matter is appreciated.

Note: According to US Federal law (15 U.S. Code § 105, available here: [1], the trademark registration for the “flag or coat of arms or other insignia of . . . any State or municipality" is forbidden. Therefore all state and municipal flags and seals are de facto public domain.

Missing town seals

All done!

Town flags

• Currently we have 21 municipality, 1 designated city and 1 borough flags in the Category:Flags of Connecticut. As with the seals, any and all help is appreciated! Markvs88 (talk) 19:04, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Towns known to not have flags ^[1]:

• Fairfield County: (9) Brookfield, Easton, Monroe, New Canaan, Newtown, Redding, Ridgefield, Shelton, & Wilton.
• Hartford County: (9) Berlin, Canton, East Granby, Farmington, Newington, Suffield, South Windsor, West Hartford, & Windsor.
• Litchfield County: (5) Harwington, Litchfield, Plymouth, Warren, & Washington.
• Tolland County: (4) Bolton, Hebron, Somers, & Tolland.
• Middlesex County: (2) Cromwell, Durham.
• New Haven County: (6) Branford, East Haven, Guilford, Madison, North Branford, & Southbury.
• New London County: (2) Colchester, Waterford.
• Windham County: (7) Plainfield, Putnam, Scotland, Sterling, Thompson, Windham, & Woodstock.

Featured article candidates (FAC) for peer review

The following B rated (or better) articles are in review as Featured article candidates:

Good articles (GA) for peer review

The following B rated articles are in review as Good article candidates:

GA for reassessment

The following GA rated articles are in reassessment:

• Josiah Holbrook

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Connecticut-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please), with date. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

• 2018 Connecticut elections created 19 February 2024 by TheGreenNate
• 2022 Connecticut Question 1 created 13 February 2024 by TheGreenNate
• Rita Morley created 10 March 2022 by Nutmeg39.
• Scenic Byways in Connecticut created 4 February 2022 by user:Dbroer.
• Connecticut v. ExxonMobil Corp. created 14 September 2020 by user:Elijahandskip.
• Canterbury Female Boarding School created 29 July 2019 by user:Deisenbe.
• Connecticut Department of Administrative Services created 4 June 2019 by Horse Eye Jack.
• Connecticut Department of Public Works created 4 June 2019 by Horse Eye Jack.
• Gaffney, Bennett and Associates created 23 May 2019 by Horse Eye Jack.
• Connecticut Juvenile Training School created 8 May 2019 by Horse Eye Jack.
• Irving J. Stolberg created 5 May 2019 by Horse Eye Jack.
• Tomasso Group created 4 May 2019 by Horse Eye Jack.
• Shari Cantor created 2 May 2019 by Horse Eye Jack.
• Thomas D. Ritter created 2 May 2019 by Horse Eye Jack.
• William H. Taft Mansion created 27 September 2018 by Markvs88.
• Trumbull Center (Trumbull) created 25 September 2018 by Markvs88.
• Paul J. Silvester created 3 July 2018 by Horse Eye Jack.
• Metropolitan District Commission of Connecticut created 1 July 2018 by Horse Eye Jack.

Connecticut related AfDs

Assessments

Connecticut articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		3	4	9			16
FL		2	1	6			9
GA		14	22	108			144
B	21	55	85	138		12	311
C	22	163	394	812	3	22	1,416
Start	18	338	745	3,886		236	5,223
Stub		92	305	2,107	1	276	2,781
List	6	26	67	77	7	12	195
Category		1	2	3	3,752		3,758
Disambig					30		30
File			1	1	566		568
Portal					90		90
Project		1			24		25
Redirect		12	24	130	605		771
Template			1	2	351		354
NA					1		1
Other					45		45
Assessed	67	707	1,651	7,279	5,475	558	15,737
Unassessed				4		99	103
Total	67	707	1,651	7,283	5,475	657	15,840
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 49,668			Ω = 5.02

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Featured articles

Articles on Connecticut-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject.

• Hurricane Gloria, April 1, 2006
• List of Connecticut tornadoes, October 25, 2008
• Metacomet Ridge, main page January 26, 2008
• USS Connecticut (BB-18), main page February 22, 2009

Did you know (DYK?)

Connecticut articles that have appeared in the Main page's Did you know? section:

• Paul Calle, appeared on January 5, 2011
• Waterbury Union Station, appeared on January 11, 2011
• Prudence Crandall House appeared January 13, 2011, in lead position with pic
• Nancy McKenzie, appeared on January 14, 2011
• Main Street Connect, appeared on January 19, 2011
• Bob McCurdy, appeared on January 25, 2011
• Mary Jobe Akeley, appeared on February 9, 2011
• Elton Hotel, appeared on February 13, 2011
• John Morton Blum, appeared on November 20, 2011
• Ritz Ballroom, appeared on December 28, 2011
• Danbury Trashers, appeared on January 29, 2012

On this day...

A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day... section:

• Pequot War, appeared on May 26 2004.
• Benedict Arnold, appeared on June 1, 2004, June 1, 2005, June 1, 2006, June 1, 2007, and June 1, 2008.
• Yale University, appeared on October 9, 2004
• USS Nautilus (SSN-571), appeared on February 4, 2005, February 4, 2006, February 4, 2007, August 3, 2007, February 4, 2008, August 3, 2008, February 4, 2009, and February 4, 2010.
• Nathan Hale, appeared on September 22, 2005, September 22, 2006, and September 22, 2007.
• Eli Whitney, Jr., March 14, 2006 and March 14, 2007.
• Amistad (1841), appeared on March 9, 2007, March 9, 2008, March 9, 2009, and 9 March 9, 2010.
• Mark Twain, appeared on April 21, 2010.
• King Philip's War, appeared on August 12, 2005, August 12, 2008, August 12, 2009, and August 12, 2010.

Former featured articles

• Hopkins School - Demoted on December 18, 2007.

Delisted Good Articles

Collaboration and review

Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

• Category:Connecticut

WikiProject Connecticut uses Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Connecticut to monitor all Connecticut articles needing images. In addition, Wikipedian photographers living in Connecticut use the subcategories at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Connecticut to locate those subjects near where they typically take photographs. The "imageneeded=" and "in=" parameters of ((WikiProject Connecticut)) populate the category.

• To request an image for an article, use the "imageneeded=yes" parameter in the ((WikiProject Connecticut)) article talk page template. Please use the "in=" parameter in the ((WikiProject Connecticut)) template to specify the Connecticut county where the photograph may be taken. Up to three locations may be specified, such as ((WikiProject Connecticut|class=Start|importance=Low|imageneeded=yes|in=Litchfield County, Connecticut|in2=London|in3=New Haven County, Connecticut|unref=yes))

• If you need to specify four or more locations (such as a road passing through multiple Connecticut counties), use ((reqphoto)) and its multiple "in=" parameters.

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Infoboxes

• ((Infobox Settlement)) — Infobox to be used for all types of settlements such as cities, towns, and villages. Examples: Bridgeport, Hartford, and the town of Branford.

Navboxes

• ((Law of Connecticut)) — Navbox to be used on all pages relating to the Law of Connecticut

Topicons

• ((Wikiproject Connecticut top icon)) — Topicon for use by members of the project.

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Stubs

• ((Connecticut-stub)) - Stub template for articles relating to Connecticut. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
  • ((Connecticut-geo-stub)) - Stub template for articles relating to Connecticut geography. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
  • ((Connecticut-politician-stub)) - Stub template for articles relating to Connecticut politicians. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
  • ((Connecticut-school-stub)) - Stub template for articles relating to Connecticut schools. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
  • ((Connecticut-road-stub)) - Used to mark state highway articles that are stubs.
  • ((Connecticut-struct-stub)) - Stub template for articles relating to buildings and structures in Connecticut. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.

NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.

Userbox templates

Code	Result
((Template:User Connecticut))	This user lives in the U.S. State of Connecticut.	Usage
((Template:User interest Connecticut|6))	This user is interested in the U.S. State of Connecticut.	Usage
((Template:User interest Connecticut|8))	This user is interested in the U.S. State of Connecticut.	Usage
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((Template:User interest Connecticut|12))	This user is interested in the U.S. State of Connecticut.	Usage
((Template:User WikiProject Connecticut))	This user participates in WikiProject Connecticut.	Usage
((Template:User WP Connecticut))	This user participates in WikiProject Connecticut.	Usage
((User:Dailynetworks/ubx/Connecticut))	This user has visited Connecticut.	Usage

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Other templates

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((WikiProject Connecticut)) looks like this:

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