Talk:New Britain, Connecticut

Hi -- This is a nice start on the Wikipedia entry for New Britain, Conn. There's nice section on the city's Polish community, but no real history about the city, no discussion of the city's other ethnic communities. I'll read up on on how Wikipedia operates and see about building this out some. If anyone is interested in contacting me, send an email. I wrote the 1989 book, New Britain, City of Invention. I can be reached at dcblogs@gmail.com

Update, July 10, 2006. I put in list of very straight forward books about New Britain's history to supplement what earlier reference that someone (I don't know whom) put in about Camp's history. All my work was deleted by whoever, but yet the reference to Capitol Lunch remains. Seems a little self-promoting. Aren't there other restaurants with long established roots in the city? Meadowlands? Romas? East Side?

I don't know who removed the list, but I think that may have been done because it was out of place for the article. There may be a way to incorporate it in the form of a references section. As for the restaurants, feel free to edit the existing text and add more! Frankg 23:37, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup

Polish Community section needs cleanup; it's POVed, with adresses of restaurants, shops etc....DONE

neclecting the other New Britain

What is it with only talking about New Britain's polish community?

While large, they aren't the majority, Puerto Ricans are probably more populous in New Britian now.

And what is it with the KKK? They were far from a major part of the city's history.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.182.233.230 (talk • contribs) 06:24, 9 August 2006

WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE? WHAT ABOUT MR. WILLIE HALL?? HE PLAYED IN SUPER BOWL XI??

YOU PEOPLE ARE VERY DISRESPECTFUL. BUT OUR MOTHER RAISED ALL OF US BETTER THAN THAT.....—Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.210.248.44 (talk • contribs) 02:54, 27 December 2006

Of course they are going to talk about the Polish community. It is unique. The Polish population is a huge and important part of the city. Have you ever been to Broad Street. Even the police speak Polish. Credit is due to the Polish for cleaning up parts of New Britain —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.248.28.112 (talk • contribs) 23:42, 19 June 2007

I agree, the Polish section is completely unsourced and excessively long, much more so than warranted, and makes the entire article seemingly Polish-centric. Most of it is complete nonsense and sounds like it was added by a Polish supremacist.

Since it's been more than three years and no one has cleaned it up, I'm removing the entire thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.60.4.90 (talk) 03:36, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

That's a little radical, as the Polish are a major part of New Britain. The section was pretty hyped, but did include a citation and no one ever tagged anything SPECIFIC to clean up. So I've added back about 25% of it, with CN tags. I'll see about getting a few more citations into the body. Best, Markvs88 (talk) 15:37, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Fair enough, I never realized there was such a large Polish community when I lived there, but perhaps that is because I was young.

I'll do the same. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.60.4.90 (talk) 00:09, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Lets not forget that there was a high Irish population in the city in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Ralelen (talk) 05:53, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

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 Done—Elipongo (Talk|contribs) 10:23, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Bees

Technically they can't be called "minor league" unless they are affiliated with Major League Baseball; and they are not. The previous team in NB was Minor League. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.179.187.53 (talk) 22:22, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

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