Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Connecticut

Requested move at Talk:Connecticut Panhandle#Requested move 7 January 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Connecticut Panhandle#Requested move 7 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 11:51, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Windsor Locks, Connecticut, tornado GA reassessment

Hi there. As part of the Weather WikiProject GA reassessment, I reviewed Windsor Locks, Connecticut, tornado, which was nominated back in 2009. I identified some issues with the article, which I left on the talk page. I'll leave the reassessment open for seven days, so hopefully someone could help out fixing it up. Keep up the good work you nutmeggers! ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:32, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Stephanie McMahon

Stephanie McMahon has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:47, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Problem with town locator maps in municipal infoboxes

So I've noticed on several articles that the expandable map that shows the town on Google Maps or OpenStreetMap show the municipal boundaries excluding any internal CDPs. This is obviously not correct and needs to be addressed. I've noticed it in the articles for Cheshire and Ridgefield as well as others. VulcanTrekkie45 (talk) 18:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

James angell

I live and work in ct and recently discovered yales eugenics past. James angell its former president was strongly involved with it yet no mentions on his page. 73.142.197.180 (talk) 18:32, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

For those living/editing in Waterbury or nearby...

...you might want to help me out in my long-overdue efforts to develop Wikipedia's article on Silas Bronson (1788-1867), Middlebury philanthropist and the namesake of the Brass City's library (I used to live there). The Bronson page has been on my to-do list for years, and has recently been up for grabs as my next AFC project. During yesterday's research, this next reference came up--but as it's from a publisher of already dubious notoriety, I doubt this will amount to anything worthwhile. (To say this may be the best-looking modern one outside the library's official site, which already counts as PRIMARY, might as well be an understatement.)

• Sullivan, Raymond E. (October 2010). Breakneck: The Early Settlement of Middlebury, Connecticut: From 1657 to Its Incorporation as a Town. iUniverse. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-4502-5632-2. Retrieved 2024-04-29 – via Google Books.

As I'm preparing this post--lo and behold!--a more promising alternative has caught our eye via Open Library.

• Anderson, Joseph (1896). "History of Waterbury: Libraries, Book-stores, Literary Societies -- Silas Bronson". The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut. New Haven: The Price & Lee Company. pp. 1013–1015. Retrieved 2024-04-29 – via Archive.org.

Beyond that, more viable sources are needed; once again, calling on the S.S. Cunard (talk · contribs) and this WikiProject for help. I'll update if I find more in the meantime. (From what I can tell, our sources have more hits on the library than the man himself; even the vast majority of Newspapers.com clippings from his lifespan only amount to passing mentions at best. Perhaps we may try to refocus our mission on coverage of the library in due course?)

Take care, and if all goes well, see you back at the draftyard.

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XPosted from WP:Teahouse (with a slight edit for clarity), at the advice of 57.140.16.48 (talk). Previous correspondence at WP:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1222#Another season, another bio to consider.

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--Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 21:18, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

From here, this is where additional potential sources go. Once enough are gathered, then the page will be considered for AFC; otherwise, the library becomes the focus.

Additional sources

Kekic, Nick (1984). "Chapter Three: The Puritan Roots of Titus Bronson". A Fine Place for a City: Titus Bronson and the founding of Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo: Oak Opening press. p. 44. ISBN 0-9613850-0-6. Retrieved 2024-04-29 – via Archive.org. (Mentions that the surname "was derived from the baptismal name Brownson — son of Brown", and that Titus Bronson [founder of Kalamazoo] was his "distant cousin"; both were born at a certain "Old Bronson Place".) Pidgeon, Daniel (1885). "An Industrial Pioneer". Old-World Questions and New-World Answers. Harper & Brothers. p. 60. Retrieved 2024-04-29 – via Archive.org. (Mentions that Bronson was once a farmer before moving to New York at a young age.) Mitchell, M. W. (1966). An Historical Study of the Silas Bronson Library of Waterbury, Connecticut (Master's thesis). Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU). Retrieved 2024-04-29 – via ProQuest. (Could be a more in-depth starting point for both potential articles than we anticipated; not at WP:Library, but here's hoping WP:Resource requests helps us out. Via Google Scholar.) Honorable mention to... Brooke, Susan (August 2021). "America the Great Melting Pot: Silas Bronson". RootsWeb. Retrieved 2024-04-29. (RootsWeb may be considered highly dubious by WP standards, but this listing--Web 1.0 look and all--represents the most complete portrait of our 19th-century topic in question at this writing. Even features a December 1867 clipping from the Hartford Daily Courant, which we may as well use directly in the article. Also quotes verbatim...) "Silas Bronson (1788-1867)". Silas Bronson Library. Retrieved 2024-04-29. (The official site's biography, but that counts as PRIMARY if I'm not mistaken.)

--Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 01:22, 30 April 2024 (UTC)