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Recent changes to WikiProject Connecticut pages.

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Recent developments to pages under the scope of WikiProject Connecticut. For an archive of older alerts, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Connecticut/Article alerts/Archive.

Did you know

28 Oct 2024 – Zeng Laishun (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Generalissima (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

29 Nov 2024 – Mary-Rose Papandrea (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bearcat (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
20 Nov 2024 – Alan White (DJ) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bearcat (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
19 Nov 2024 – Chantal Fernandez (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 02 Dec 2024; see discussion (2 participants; relisted)

Good article nominees

01 Oct 2024 – Connecticut Colony (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gazingo (t · c); start discussion
30 Jun 2024 – WUVN (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Sammi Brie (t · c); start discussion

Requests for comments

08 Nov 2024 – Storrs, Connecticut (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Jonathanhusky (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

28 Nov 2024 – Mansfield, Connecticut (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Mansfield, Connecticut by Aaron Liu (t · c); see discussion
28 Nov 2024 – Storrs, Connecticut (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Mansfield, Connecticut by Jonathanhusky (t · c); see discussion
15 Jul 2024 – Hampshire and Hampden Canal (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to New Haven and Northampton Canal by Beland (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

22 Nov 2024 – Draft:Yale Summer Session (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Agfds141 (t · c)
18 Oct 2024 – Draft:CT Insider (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mtdesalvo (t · c)

Assessment log

Recently assessed or reevaluated WikiProject Connecticut pages.

December 3, 2024

Reassessed

Anita McBride (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
Reginald Beamon (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
Ted Graziani (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

Chris DePino (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
File:Harold Bloom, literary critic, author, teacher at Yale.jpg (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as File-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Richard Donovan (composer) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

December 2, 2024

Reassessed

Category:1687 establishments in Connecticut (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Category-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t)
Category:1687 in Connecticut (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Category-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t)
Jordan Samuels-Thomas (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
Nancy Beals (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
Nancy Kerensky (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
Template:Windham County weatherbox (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Low-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

Category:21st-century members of the Connecticut General Assembly (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Tweedy, Browne (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

December 1, 2024

Reassessed

Arthur Henderson Smith (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
Gary Orefice (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
Howard Scipio (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
Walter Pawelkiewicz (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

Category:High school football coaches in Connecticut (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Pendleton Hill (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

November 30, 2024

Renamed

2023–24 Bridgeport, Connecticut, mayoral election renamed to 2023–24 Bridgeport, Connecticut mayoral election.

Reassessed

Anthony Tercyak (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
Barnum Museum (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
Eclectic Society (fraternity) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
Kevin DelGobbo (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
Norwalk Public Schools (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
Sabino (steamer) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
Spade and Grave (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
Totoket Mountain (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

2023–24 Bridgeport, Connecticut mayoral election (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Boundaries (band) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Edith H. J. Dobelle (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

November 29, 2024

Renamed

2023–24 Bridgeport, Connecticut mayoral election renamed to 2023–24 Bridgeport, Connecticut, mayoral election.

Assessed

2023–24 Bridgeport, Connecticut, mayoral election (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Anthony Tercyak (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
Category:Pornographic film actors from Connecticut (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)

November 28, 2024

Reassessed

Tage Thompson (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

Nancy Beals (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

November 27, 2024

Renamed

Draft:William S. Case renamed to William S. Case.

Reassessed

Joe Morris (guitarist) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

Howard Scipio (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

November 26, 2024

Renamed

The Byram Cemetery renamed to Byram Cemetery.

Reassessed

Gary Franks (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
George Spyrou (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
USS J. C. Kuhn (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
Wolf's Head Society (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from NA-Class to B-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

Anita McBride (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Byram Cemetery (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Yank Townsend Trophy (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

Deletion discussions

Transcluded from and further information found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Connecticut.

Connecticut

Mary-Rose Papandrea

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WP:BLP of a lawyer, not properly sourced as passing inclusion criteria for lawyers.
As always, lawyers are not automatically entitled to Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to be shown to be the subject of WP:GNG-worthy coverage about them and their careers in third-party sources independent of their own personal control -- but this cites no GNG-building sources at all, and instead is referenced entirely to a mixture of primary sources self-published by directly-affiliated non-media organizations (e.g. staff profiles and press releases self-published by her own employers), and media hits that briefly namecheck her as a provider of soundbite in an article whose principal subject is something or somebody else, none of which constitutes support for notability: the stuff that's about her isn't reliable, and the stuff that's reliable isn't about her.
Note that this has already been speedy-deleted at least once as a G11, and has gone through more than one round of move-warring as it was sequestered in draftspace by established editors before being moved back into mainspace by its creator without substantive improvement to address the reasons why it was getting draftspaced.
Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to have better referencing than this. Bearcat (talk) 14:43, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women, Law, and Illinois. Bearcat (talk) 14:43, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C.. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 18:40, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The named chairs (one of which is explicitly labeled as a distinguished professorship) make this a clear pass of WP:PROF#C5. She also has good citations for law (often a low-citation field) [1] making a case for #C1 as well. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:11, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Even a PROF pass still has to be supported by reliable sources, not staff profiles and press releases. Bearcat (talk) 05:10, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:NPROF#C5 states "publications of the appointing institution are considered a reliable source". [2], [3] are exactly this. :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 06:10, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per David Eppstein. It seems rather odd to refer to "criteria for lawyers" for a person whose basis of notability is clearly their professorship and academic output. BD2412 T 02:47, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, as the person who approved this submission at AfC per WP:NPROF #5 because she has distinguished professorship positions cited in the article. MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 04:48, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also a note on the alleged "move warring" in this AfD nom that the creator of this article, User:0162739p and the person who submitted it to AfC, User:Psquintero, have not moved the page once.

I'm a reviewer at AfC who accepted it initially per NPROF #5, then it was "draftified" without reason from a user who says they are part of WP:NPP but doesn't have the perm and only has less than 140 edits and a history of reversed bad draftifications (Gratefulking).

It came back up on the AfC feed because it was re-submitted. I accepted this submission again because the criteria was met, leaving a nice comment on Gratefulking's and the article's talk page explaining about WP:NPROF in case they weren't familiar with it.

If this was a WP:INVOLVED action as I previously reviewed it or if it counts as move warring, I am sorry. Please let me know if this is the case (courtesy ping Bearcat) and I will never re-review submissions I have reviewed in the past. MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 05:02, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: I believe we need to focus on academics on Wikipedia and work on creating their articles. As for this subject, it clearly meets the criteria of WP:NPROF. Even the authority control databases indicate the same. Baqi:) (talk) 10:50, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per David Eppstein et al. and the PROF test. This creates a presumption of notability that I think isn’t rebutted. While not a rule, she easily passes my standards for attorneys: named professor at a major law school and a clerkship at SCOTUS. Bearian (talk) 07:14, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alan White (DJ)

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Advertorialized WP:BLP of a radio DJ and a spinoff article about his purported "television show" that may or may not ever have actually existed, with neither article properly referenced as having any strong claim to passing inclusion criteria for media personalities or their shows.
As always, broadcasters are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to show evidence of WP:GNG-worthy third party coverage and analysis about them to establish that they've been externally validated as significant by somebody other than their own public relations agent -- but the BLP is "referenced" to one deadlinked unreliable source, one discogs.com directory entry about somebody else who isn't Alan White and one glancing namecheck of Alan White's existence in a newspaper obituary of somebody else who also isn't Alan White, absolutely none of which constitutes support for the notability of Alan White.
And meanwhile, the "television show" article is actually serving primarily as a coatrack for a largely reduplicated summary of the BLP, and not actually saying even one word at all about a "television show" until the very end, when it finally reveals that the "television show" that's posing as the article's nominal subject is "currently in pre-production" -- except it's said that since the day the article was created in 2011, and the article has never been updated since then with any evidence that the show ever actually started airing. And it's also based entirely on unreliable sources that aren't support for notability, with absolutely no GNG-worthy coverage about either Alan White or the "show" present there either.
Nothing stated in either article is "inherently" notable without GNG-worthy sourcing for it. Bearcat (talk) 05:08, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Radio, Television, and United States of America. Bearcat (talk) 05:08, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I'm getting a headache on this one trying to locate sources. Too many people named "Alan White", and several active in music.4meter4 (talk) 05:24, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople, Music, Connecticut, Georgia (U.S. state), Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:46, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:34, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: The extreme lack of sourcing isn't helping... I tried looking for book reviews, no luck... For someone who seems to be so well-known, I'd expect some coverage in the Atlanta newspapers, which it doesn't seem to have either. Delete unless we can get some sort of sourcing in place that proves this is a notable individual. Oaktree b (talk) 16:44, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just checking, Oaktree b, is that your opinion for both articles nominated here in this AFD? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:05, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
To be honest, I've only reviewed the one about the person, not the TV show, I can look at it in a bit. Oaktree b (talk) 01:00, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]