Template talk:Connecticut
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[edit] U.S. state templates
Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. states/state templates lists and displays all 50 U.S. state (and additional other) templates. It potentially can be used for ideas and standardization. //MrD9 07:14, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Connecticut Cities
Hi, I noticed Schzmo recently edited the template and removed certain cities. How do you conclude what is a city and what wasn't? You deleted some bigger ones, Manchester & West Hartford (populations > 50,000) for smaller ones such as Derby & Groton (city) (populations < 15,000). I feel you should start a dicussion in the talk page before making major deletions, thanks. - Sohailstyle July 9, 2006, 16:00 (UTC)
- Most of the time if you look at the official name of the place, you can tell whether it's a town or city, e.g. "Town of Greenwich". Another hint is that a town (in New England; not sure about other places) has a town meeting or town council form of government, while a city (usually) has a mayor. However, some cities are confusingly called "Town of ..." even though they are cities, such as Manchester. So I did make a mistake by deleting Manchester. But some towns are large and still have a town meeting or council form of government, and some cities like Derby are small but they are called "City of ..." and have a mayor. In short, the population of a place does not determine its status as a town or city. Schzmo 18:44, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Manchester is not listed as an incorporated city by the U.S. Census Bureau. Are we using different criteria for what is to be included in the list of cities? --Polaron | Talk 21:38, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
- As a resident and government employee, I can tell you that no, Manchester is not a city. It is incorporated as a town and is only a "city" in the sense that it has a large population. What makes people believe it is the City of Manchester instead of the Town of Manchester is that the town uses the term "city" – small "c" – to describe itself. Even the town seal shows the proper name, which is the Town of Manchester. You can also see the Board of Directors' website for the proper use. I hope that helps clear things up. Beginning 23:45, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] additions/subtraction
I created redirects to Connecticut today for Southwestern Connecticut, Inland Connecticut, Coastal Connecticut, to de-redlink them. I don't mind writing up the articles but I'm confused on something--I'm from CT originally, I can do up something nice for Coastal--easy enough for that. But to me, growing up in Bridgeport and Stratford, "inland" was simply anything not directly on LI sound. Do we really need that as a category/region? It's kind of an oxymoron for a coastal state. As for southwestern, I can write that up as well, as it really should be seperate from the "Gold Coast".
Thoughts on getting rid of "Inland Connecticut" as a category from the template and simply leaving it as a redirect back to Connecticut? If no one objects in a few days I'll remove it. rootology (T) 04:59, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Standardization of state templates
There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding standardization of state templates (primarily regarding layout and styling) at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. states/state templates. An effort was made earlier this year to standardize Canadian province templates (which mostly succeeded). Lovelac7 and I have already begun standardizing all state templates. If you have any concerns, they should be directed toward the discussion page for state template standardization. Thanks! — Webdinger BLAH | SZ 22:40, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
