Wikipedia: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.

Goals

• 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.

Scope

• 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.

Contents 1 Guidelines 2 Open tasks 3 Members 4 Images 5 Articles 5.1 Featured articles 5.1.1 Education 5.1.2 Geography 5.1.3 History 5.1.4 Landmarks 5.1.5 Notable Connecticut residents 5.2 Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC) 5.3 Good articles (GA) 5.4 New articles 5.5 Did you know (DYK?) 5.6 Connecticut related AfDs 6 Formerly recognized content 6.1 Departments 6.2 Collaboration and review 7 Templates 7.1 Infoboxes 7.2 Stubs 7.3 Other templates 8 Categories 9 Resources 10 Related WikiProjects

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Connecticut:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Here are some tasks you can do:

• All articles should be added to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Connecticut/Articles list by category.
• All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list to note improvements, other changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.
• Recruit membership from Category:Wikipedians in Connecticut

[edit] Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. User:Hotchkisshaka 13:10, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
2. Cmprince 17:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
3. Mikemillerdc 23:01, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
4. Elipongo 06:26, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
5. Sohailstyle 23:04, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
6. Jd2718 17:42, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
7. Leebo 13:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
8. Noroton 20:48, 7 March 2007 (UTC), Fairfield County, towns, history
9. Lord Balin 02:57, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
10. chriskid123 08:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
11. Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)|HISTORY} 13:38, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
12. RunningOnBrains 15:28, 8 June 2007 (UTC) May as well sign up, will likely contribute to Fairfield County articles.
13. tmurt 09:54, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
14. monsieurdl 15:55, 17 July 2007, Prominent figures in my CT ancestry, general help
15. Beginning 01:55, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
16. Branson03 02:10, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
17. KotosB 03:47 PM, November, 23, 2007, My interests are in Fairfield County and trying to convince the state that a county government would be more efficient for Connecticut towns, cities, and villages financially.
18. pdobkinh 06:18, 15 January 2008 (UTC), CT history generally; New Haven & Middletown in particular
19. Drhamad (talk) 17:04, 24 March 2008 (UTC), Southbury, CT and related subjects (Pomperaug High School, Southbury Training School, Middlebury, CT)
20. Dc 160 (talk) 21:20, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
21. ragesoss (talk) 01:31, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Connecticut}} to their userpages to identify themselves as members of the project.

{{User WikiProject Connecticut}} looks like this:

[edit] Images

WikiProject Connecticut uses Category:Connecticut articles needing images 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 both these categories.

• 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|nested=yes|unref=yes}}

• If you need to specify four or more locations (such as a road passing through eight Connecticut counties), use {{reqphoto}} and its multiple "in=" parameters.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured articles

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

[edit] Education

• Connecticut Technical High School System

[edit] Geography

• Movement to Secede Black Rock from Bridgeport to form a separate municipality.

[edit] History

[edit] Landmarks

[edit] Notable Connecticut residents

[edit] Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:

[edit] Good articles (GA)

The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:

Art, architecture and archaeology

Economics and business

Culture and society

Engineering and technology

Food and drink

Geography

History

Language

Mathematics

Music

Politics and government

• George W. Bush

Religion

• The First Cathedral

War and military

• Connecticut Wing Civil Air Patrol

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Connecticut-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for Connecticut, so that the articles will appear there. Also, if possible, add each new article to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Connecticut/Articles (still under construction) so that they can be viewed for recent changes.

• List of National Historic Landmarks in Connecticut
• History of West Haven, Connecticut
• John H. Brockway
• John Webster, Governor of the Colony of Connecticut
• Hanging Hills
• Talcott Mountain
• Chauncey Peak
• Beacon Hill (Branford, Connecticut)
• List of mammals of Connecticut
• Jonathan Parsons
• William Brenton Hall
• Samuel Holden Parsons

[edit] Did you know (DYK?)

Recently created Connecticut articles appeared in the Main page's Did you know? section:

• Barnum Museum, appeared on March 10, 2007
• Portland Brownstone Quarries, appeared on March 10, 2007
• List of Connecticut tornadoes, appeared on June 8, 2007
• Chester - Hadlyme Ferry, appeared on June 24, 2007
• Connecticut Route 108, appeared on July 9, 2007
• Connecticut Route 136, appeared on February 4, 2008

[edit] Connecticut related AfDs

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Connecticut

[edit] Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

• Hopkins School - Demoted on 18 December 2007.

Delisted Good Articles

[edit] Departments

[edit] Collaboration and review

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

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

• {{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

[edit] Stubs

• {{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.

[edit] Other templates

{{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:

This article is part of WikiProject Connecticut, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Connecticut, United States on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

[edit] Categories

• Category:Connecticut

[edit] Resources

[edit] Related WikiProjects

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