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WikiProject Connecticut

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

Guidelines[edit]

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 or native to Connecticut.
• This project proposes to work with all pages related to the state of Connecticut, 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 you're working on.

Current events[edit]

WikiProject Connecticut was featured in the Signpost

Recent developments to WikiProject Connecticut pages[edit]

• Quick access to recent changes

Articles pending merge or other[edit]

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[edit]

Articles for deletion

• 06 Jan 2017 – Hartford Fire Ants (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Zackmann08 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 06 Jan 2017 – Connecticut Blaze (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Zackmann08 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 08 Jan 2017 – Odyssey Toys (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Piotrus (t · c): The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies) requirement. If you disagree and deprod thi ...
• 31 Dec 2016 – ElmCityCycling (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Darthbunk Pakt Dunft (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

• 22 Dec 2016 – Category:Theatres in Connecticut (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Od Mishehu AWB (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Dec 2016 – Category:Theatre in Connecticut (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Od Mishehu AWB (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Dec 2016 – Category:Theatre companies in Connecticut (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Od Mishehu AWB (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 20 Dec 2016 – GEORGE W. BUSH (talk · edit · hist) →George W. Bush was RfDed by Champion (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Nov 2016 – Bushian (talk · edit · hist) →George W. Bush was RfDed by Champion (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 06 Jan 2017 – Foster Furcolo (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Magicpiano (t · c); start discussion

Peer reviews

• 03 Jul 2016 – New England (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by TimothyDexter (t · c); see discussion

Membership[edit]

Please feel free to add your name in here.

Sister projects[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

Articles in need of creation[edit]

• Hemlock Reservoir
• William B. Franklyn
• Connecticut State Guard
• Connecticut State Guard Reserve

Articles in need of improvement[edit]

• 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[edit]

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.

Missing town seals

All done!

Town flags

• Currently we have 20 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)

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, Sommers, & 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[edit]

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

Good articles (GA) for peer review[edit]

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

New articles[edit]

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.

• Wethersfield State Prison - former CT state prison in Wethersfield, CT. Created 6 November 2013 by Eggishorn
• Bergin Correctional Institution - Former CT state prison in Storrs, CT. Created 11 October 2013 by Eggishorn
• Bridgeport Correctional Center - CT state prison in Bridgeport, CT. Created 11 October 2013 by Eggishorn
• Sidney Mason Stone - 19th century New Haven-based Connecticut architect. Created 17 September 2013 by Paperchaser29
• List of companies based in Westport, Connecticut by WestportWiki (talk) 00:17, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
• Father Panik Village - The first public housing in the state, located in Bridgeport. Created 24 November 2011 by Twillisjr. Markvs88 (talk) 15:39, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
• Ritz ballroom - A major music venue from the 20s through 1961, located in Bridgeport. Created 13 December 2011 by Twillisjr.
• Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School - A school in New Haven. Created 20 February 2012‎ by Tqnr. Markvs88 (talk) 20:16, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
• Connecticut Adjutant General - A listing of all of the Adjutant Generals in CT National Guard History. Pages are being created for each. Hobbamock (talk) 15:11, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
• Andrew H. Embler - CT Adjutant General, Medal of Honor recipient, and one of the founders of SNET Hobbamock (talk) 15:11, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
• Ebenezer Huntington - CT Adjutant General, Congressman, Officer in the American Revolution Hobbamock (talk) 15:11, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Connecticut related AfDs[edit]

Assessments[edit]

Connecticut articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	3			8
FL		2	1	5			8
A				1			1
GA	2	15	17	66		4	104
B	26	49	65	50		5	195
C	27	147	314	396	3	20	907
Start	24	341	645	1,882	1	130	3,023
Stub		101	288	2,039	11	183	2,622
List	7	36	64	53	3	4	167
Category		1	2	3	2,779		2,785
Disambig				1	35		36
File			1	1	557		559
Portal					1		1
Project		1			49		50
Redirect				28	388	10	426
Template	1		1	2	230	1	235
NA				1	4		5
Other					67		67
Assessed	87	695	1,401	4,531	4,128	357	11,199
Unassessed				3		303	306
Total	87	695	1,401	4,534	4,128	660	11,505
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7004332320000000000♠33,232			Ω = 5.13

Articles of achievement[edit]

Featured articles[edit]

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?)[edit]

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...[edit]

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.

Formerly recognized content[edit]

Former featured articles

• Hopkins School - Demoted on December 18, 2007.

Delisted Good Articles

Collaboration and review[edit]

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

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Categories[edit]

• Category:Connecticut

Images[edit]

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.

Templates[edit]

Barnstars[edit]

These barnstars are awarded for exemplary work within the Wikiproject.

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Infoboxes[edit]

• {{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[edit]

• {{Law of Connecticut}} — Navbox to be used on all pages relating to the Law of Connecticut

Topicons[edit]

• {{Wikiproject Connecticut top icon}} — Topicon for use by members of the project.

  This template is not blank, it adds a little icon in the top-right corner.

Stubs[edit]

• {{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[edit]

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
{{Template:User interest Connecticut|10}}	This user is interested in the U.S. State of Connecticut	Usage
{{Template:User interest Connecticut|12}}	This user is interested in the U.S. State of Connecticut	Usage
{{Template:User WikiProject Connecticut}}	This user is a participant of WikiProject Connecticut.	Usage
{{Template:User WP Connecticut}}	This user participates in WikiProject Connecticut	Usage
{{User:Dailynetworks/ubx/Connecticut}}	This user has visited Connecticut.	Usage

Advertisements[edit]

For userpages only, please! {{wikipedia ads|ad=262}}

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Other templates[edit]

{{WikiProject Connecticut}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar.

{{WikiProject Connecticut}} looks like this:

WikiProject Connecticut	(Rated Project-class)	ConnecticutWikipedia:WikiProject ConnecticutTemplate:WikiProject ConnecticutConnecticut articles
v t e This page is within the scope of WikiProject Connecticut, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Connecticut on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  Project  This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale.

{{Portal|Connecticut}} can be placed in See Also sections of relevant articles and looks like this:

Resources[edit]

Tools[edit]

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist[edit]

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Connecticut