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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

; 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.

Current events

=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)
  • 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. —JJBers 02:38, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
  • 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
  • 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)

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

  • 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)
  • : 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. —JJBers 14:19, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
  • ::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)

=Recent developments to WikiProject Connecticut pages=

{{Further|Wikipedia:WikiProject Connecticut/Latest article changes}}

  • Quick access to [http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/transcluded_changes.py?namespace=&page=Template:WikiProject_Connecticut recent changes]

=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.

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Participants

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Sister projects

=Work pages=

Articles

=Articles in need of creation=

==Connecticut US Attorneys==

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==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: [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1052], 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)

Towns known to not have flags http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-ctmun.html:

  • 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.

=[[Image:Cscr-candidate.png|22px|FAC]] Featured article candidates (FAC) for peer review=

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

=[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px|GA]] Good articles (GA) for peer review=

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

=[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px|GA]] GA for reassessment=

The following GA rated articles are in reassessment:

=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.

=Connecticut related AfDs=

{{See|Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Connecticut}}

=Assessments=

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Connecticut articles by quality statistics}}

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Articles of achievement

=[[Image:Featured article star.svg|20px|FA]] Featured articles=

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

= Did you know (DYK?) =

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

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= 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.

Formerly recognized content

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=Collaboration and review=

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

; Collaboration of the week

; Peer review

Categories

Images

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 {{tl|WikiProject Connecticut}} populate the category.

  • To request an image for an article, use the "imageneeded=yes" parameter in the {{tl|WikiProject Connecticut}} article talk page template. Please use the "in=" parameter in the {{tl|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 {{tl|reqphoto}} and its multiple "in=" parameters.

Templates

=Barnstars=

These barnstars are awarded for exemplary work within the Wikiproject.

{{The WikiProject Connecticut Barnstar}}

{{Connecticut Photographer's Barnstar}}

=Infoboxes=

  • {{tl|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=

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

=Topicons=

  • {{tl|Wikiproject Connecticut top icon}} — Topicon for use by members of the project. {{tmbox|text=This template is not blank; it adds a little icon in the top-right corner.}}

=Stubs=

  • {{tl|Connecticut-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Connecticut. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
  • {{tl|Connecticut-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Connecticut geography. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
  • {{tl|Connecticut-politician-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Connecticut politicians. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
  • {{tl|Connecticut-school-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Connecticut schools. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
  • {{tl|Connecticut-road-stub}} - Used to mark state highway articles that are stubs.
  • {{tl|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=

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{{usbk|Template:User WikiProject Connecticut}}

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=Other templates=

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

{{tl|WikiProject Connecticut}} looks like this:

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

{{Portal|Connecticut}}

Resources

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  • Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
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