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For 2008 WikiProject Connecticut talk.

Middletown, Connecticut

It may be helpful of some folks with knowledge of the history of the state could weigh in on the discussion page of Middletown, Connecticut. Thanks! :)--Pgagnon999 (talk) 16:29, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

First Connecticut FA

Metacomet Ridge has become the first (according to the category list, anyway) Connecticut related featured article. --Pgagnon999 (talk) 01:05, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

redirection of county navigation templates to state template

See reasoning at Template talk:Connecticut#All towns listing. Individual county templates were removed in favor of a state template that has been expanded to list all towns and boroughs. Comments are requested. --Polaron | Talk 16:37, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

How best to disambiguate page name of CT neighborhoods

Disambiguation of page names for CT neighborhoods appears to vary greatly - some examples below:

• Silvermine, Connecticut
• Saugatuck (Westport)
• Aspetuck
• Moodus (village)
• Canaan (CDP), Connecticut
• Lime Rock (Salisbury, Connecticut)

Can we decide on one method of disambiguation and use it uniformly? Gjs238 (talk) 13:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

The Wikipedia-wide usual way of disambiguation is to use a term in parenthesis that best differentiates it from other topics having the same name. If there are no other articles having the same name, no disambiguation is needed. See [1] and [2] for more information on the conventions used for neighborhoods in US cities. Basically there are two ways of titling neighborhoods of US cities: (1) "neighborhood, city, state" or (2) "neighborhood (city)"/"neighborhood (city, state)". The second case is the one currently used in Connecticut (e.g. Saugatuck and Lime Rock). In the case of Moodus, the only naming conflict is with a fictional character so the use of "(village)" as the disambiguator is entirely appropriate. In the case of Aspectuck, there are no other similarly named articles so no disambiguation is needed. The case of Silvermine is unusual in that it is a neighborhood located in three municipalities so it is named as a distinct community (i.e. "community, state"). Canaan village in North Canaan town needs to be distinguished from Canaan town and the "(CDP)" is currently the term that is used since it is also a CDP. So in short, there is no inconsistency here. It follows what most articles in Wikipedia do for disambiguation. --Polaron | Talk 18:07, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

So then why is Lime Rock (Salisbury, Connecticut) not titled Lime Rock (neighborhood) or Lime Rock (Lakeville) or Lime Rock (Salisbury)? Or why is Saugatuck (Westport) not titled Saugatuck (neighborhood) or Saugatuck (Westport, Connecticut)? Pick one way that works for most if not all applications and apply it uniformly.Gjs238 (talk) 01:12, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Look at the naming conflicts. There is a Saugatuck in Michigan and a Lime Rock in Rhode Island so these places need to be disambiguated by the containing place. Admittedly, Lime Rock can be at "Lime Rock (Salisbury)". The only issue is Salisbury is not a particularly well-known town. Otherwise, there is nothing inconsitent here. --Polaron | Talk 01:48, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject Connecticut tags

I've just finished tagging every Connecticut town or city article. I didn't add the quality class to all of them, so they are unassessed. Branson03 (talk) 15:43, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Connecticut

For Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Connecticut, I created county subcategories to make it easier for Wikipedian photographers to find location-specific requets for photos. GregManninLB (talk) 17:13, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

I revised Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Connecticut, Template:WikiProject Connecticut, and WikiProject Connecticut images to give WikiProject Connecticut and Connecticut based photographers better information regarding Connecticut articles needing photographs. GregManninLB (talk) 16:50, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

George Comer

Hello. I just created an article on the East Haddam whaler, George Comer. There are several online references to the fact that he was a member of the Connecticut "State Legislature" after he retired from polar exploration, but I can't find a government document that places him in the State Senate or State House. If anyone on this project has access to older public documents with this info, I'd appreciate if you'd update the article. Thanks. Cheers. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:50, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Area Code 475

I just received a call from area code 475, Wikipedia still lists it as "proposed" but it is apparently active now. Does anyone have more information on this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lgedeon (talk • contribs) 20:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.

• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot (Disable) 22:03, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup

Currently, 1334 articles are assigned to this project, of which 250, or 18.7%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place a template on your project page.

If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:41, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Connecticut

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:50, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Image needs replacement - Sleeping Giant (Connecticut)

Hello all...

An image used in the article, specifically Image:Gianttower.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.

You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.--Jordan 1972 (talk) 00:54, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

New article on the American Civil War

Please see Connecticut in the American Civil War, part of a continuing series of articles being written by members of Wikipedia's American Civil War Task Force. Let me know of any major changes or omissions, please. 8th Ohio Volunteers (talk) 15:29, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Colonial Governor, 1708-1724

I found the article on Nathan Gold, which claims he was Governor of Connecticut between 1708 and 1724. But the List of colonial governors of Connecticut gives Gurdon Saltonstall for the same era. Neither article has any sources. Help would be appreciated. Huon (talk) 14:39, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

New York City Wikipedian Meetup November 16

New York City Meetup Next: Sunday November 16th, Columbia University area Last: 6/01/2008

In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, finalize and approve bylaws, interact with representatives from the Software Freedom Law Center, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the June meeting's minutes and the September meeting's minutes).

We'll also review our recent Wikis Take Manhattan event, and make preparations for our exciting successor Wikipedia ♥ Art bonanza, being planned with the Brooklyn Museum for February.

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.

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Hey, we're all part of the Tri-State Region!--Pharos (talk) 22:02, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Hartford Meetup

A page has been started to discuss a possible Meetup in Hartford, see Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Hartford. —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 22:08, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Connecticut articles needing geographic coordinates

1 articles in Category:Connecticut articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that Connecticut is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:45, 25 November 2008 (UTC)