Wikipedia:WikiProject Connecticut/Latest article changes

Recent changes

Recent changes to WikiProject Connecticut pages.

Alerts

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

• 02 Sep 2026 – Burndy Library (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by ABehjat (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 30 Sep 2026 – Chris Cantelmo (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Voorts (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 29 Sep 2026 – Alexandra Olivia (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by PeriodicEditor (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
• 10 Sep 2026 – Doug Allen (meteorologist) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bonadea (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 29 Sep 2026 – Sycamore Place (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by MrFib (t · c): WP:NOTABILITY, building does not have enough useful information to warrant an article. Lacks significant coverage, most information is trivial (WP:GNG)

Categories for discussion

• 29 Sep 2026 – Category:Connecticut road articles needing KML (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by X5163x (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Sep 2026 – Category:Historic New England (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Sep 2026 – Category:People from Farmington, Connecticut, by occupation (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Sep 2026 – Category:People from Wilton, Connecticut, by occupation (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion
• 09 Jul 2026 – Category:People enslaved in colonial Connecticut (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 07 Sep 2026 – Francis Clifford Smith (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by BeanieFan11 (t · c); start discussion

Requests for comments

• 03 Sep 2026 – Candace Owens (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by JerryGraf (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 15 Sep 2026 – Matthew Griswold (governor) (talk · edit · hist) move request to Matthew Griswold (Connecticut politician) by PA Uploader (t · c) was moved to Matthew Griswold (Connecticut politician) (talk · edit · hist) by Maltazarian (t · c) on 29 Sep 2026; see discussion
• 15 Sep 2026 – Joseph Trumbull (governor) (talk · edit · hist) move request to Joseph Trumbull (politician) by PA Uploader (t · c) was moved to Joseph Trumbull (politician) (talk · edit · hist) by Maltazarian (t · c) on 29 Sep 2026; see discussion
• 15 Sep 2026 – Henry Roberts (governor) (talk · edit · hist) move request to Henry Roberts (Connecticut politician) by PA Uploader (t · c) was moved to Henry Roberts (Connecticut politician) (talk · edit · hist) by Maltazarian (t · c) on 29 Sep 2026; see discussion

Articles to be split

• 16 Feb 2025 – Thomas Ian Griffith (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Bricks&Wood (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 22 Sep 2026 – Draft:Even Year Logano (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Zacnascarguy 88 fan (t · c)
• 13 Sep 2026 – Draft:Nathan Gold (Born 1623) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tuppence Glossup (t · c)

Assessment log

Recently assessed or reevaluated WikiProject Connecticut pages.

• Donald Boughton (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Importance. (rev · t)
• Lucien DiMeo (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Importance. (rev · t)
• Myron Abell (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t)
• The Final Death of the Buddha Sakyamuni (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Importance. (rev · t)

• Hartford and Tolland Turnpike (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
• Stephen Somma (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)

• Michael Kraus (psychologist) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t)

• Draft:Nathan Gold renamed to Draft:Nathan Gold (Born 1623).

• Valentin Senn (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Importance to Low-Importance. (rev · t)

• 2026–27 Central Connecticut Blue Devils women's basketball team (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t)
• Category:Violence against African-American women in Connecticut (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Importance. (rev · t)

• Henry Roberts (governor) renamed to Henry Roberts (Connecticut politician).
• Joseph Trumbull (governor) renamed to Joseph Trumbull (politician).
• Matthew Griswold (governor) renamed to Matthew Griswold (Connecticut politician).

• 1984 Connecticut Senate election (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Importance to Low-Importance. (rev · t)
• Cathy Cook (politician) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Importance to Low-Importance. (rev · t)
• St. John's Episcopal Church (New Haven, Connecticut) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)

• Frank Hubbell (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Importance. (rev · t)

• Cynthia Matthews (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• Paul Munns (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)

• American Classical Orchestra (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t)
• Cathy Cook (politician) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Importance. (rev · t)
• Category:Connecticut city userboxes (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Importance. (rev · t)
• Category:Connecticut college and university userboxes (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Importance. (rev · t)
• Category:Connecticut userboxes (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Importance. (rev · t)
• St. John's Episcopal Church (New Haven, Connecticut) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Importance. (rev · t)

• Category:Connecticut city user templates (talk) removed.
• Category:Connecticut college and university user templates (talk) removed.
• Category:Connecticut user templates (talk) removed.

• 2024 United States presidential election in Connecticut (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)

• Cynthia Matthews (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Importance. (rev · t)
• Category:People from the Dominion of New England (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Importance. (rev · t)
• Sycamore Place (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Importance. (rev · t)

• Category:Dominion of New England (talk) removed.

• War Office (Lebanon, Connecticut) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)

• Stephen Somma (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Importance. (rev · t)

• File:ChesterCTseal.JPG (talk) removed.
• File:CromwellCTseal.gif (talk) removed.
• File:DeepRiverCTseal.gif (talk) removed.
• File:DurhamCTseal.jpg (talk) removed.
• File:LitchfieldCTseal.JPG (talk) removed.
• File:MiddlefieldCTseal.jpg (talk) removed.
• File:MorrisCTseal.jpg (talk) removed.
• File:PlymouthCTseal.gif (talk) removed.
• File:PortlandCTseal.jpg (talk) removed.

Deletion discussions

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

Connecticut

Chris Cantelmo

AfDs for this article:

• Articles for deletion/Chris Cantelmo
• Articles for deletion/Chris Cantelmo (2nd nomination)

Chris Cantelmo (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Restore redirect to Dimethyltryptamine#Cantelmoism per the previous AfD. There is still no SIGCOV beyond the Vice article. The remaining sources here seem to be sketchy clickbaity websites. voorts (talk/contributions) 00:41, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: People, Biology, Chemistry, and United States of America. voorts (talk/contributions) 00:41, 30 September 2026 (UTC)
• Comment: for clarity, the first nomination from January ended in deletion. No redirect was proposed at the time, but one was boldly created in July–which was overwritten this week with the return of article content. (No opinion.). WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:48, 30 September 2026 (UTC)
• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: California and Connecticut. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:48, 30 September 2026 (UTC)
• Redirect. Indeed, none of the sources aside from the Vice article are reliable, and at least one was written by Cantelmo himself. Toadspike [Talk] 09:41, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

Keep - While the sourcing could be better, I do think it just comes by SIGCOV. As far as I can see the sources are not unreliable, but again it could be better. AFeatherlessBipehead (talk) 13:30, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

@AFeatherlessBipehead: the consensus at the last AfD was that the only SIGCOV was the Vice article. What new sources have you uncovered showing notability? voorts (talk/contributions) 18:15, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

I will note that all of the sources presently in the article were in the last version, which also had additional (unreliable) sources. I debated tagging this as G4, but this version is not sufficiently identical to the last version. voorts (talk/contributions) 18:18, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

See side discussion on the G4 issue. voorts (talk/contributions) 18:22, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

Note that the discussion resulted in a change to G4 that would now make this page eligible for speedy deletion. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:42, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

Yeah okay the sourcing is not great, my vision here was more so address the issues of the article having a weird POV and style of writing, which was mentioned by users in the previous AfD. Would like to change my vote to weak keep on this one. AFeatherlessBipehead (talk) 18:28, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

The article was deleted for lack of notability, not the writing style. You should not be recreating an article that was deleted by consensus unless you can establish that the subject is now notable. voorts (talk/contributions) 18:33, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

It wasn't deleted strictly for lack of notability, it was nominated for it. AFeatherlessBipehead (talk) 18:43, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

All of the !votes were about notability. One editor said that the article was not notable and that there were tone issues; the other three !votes (including myself) were only about notability. Articles don't get deleted at AfD because of a slightly promotional tone (see WP:DINC), and I would not have nominated the article for deletion if that were the only issue with it. voorts (talk/contributions) 18:48, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

• Redirect to Dimethyltryptamine#Cantelmoism per nom, still only one good source, which is not enough for GNG. Kelob2678 (talk) 20:54, 30 September 2026 (UTC)
• Redirect to Dimethyltryptamine#Cantelmoism per Voorts. The Vice piece is the only solid source; the rest are self-written, clickbait or unreliable death databases. One article cannot carry a biography under WP:BASIC, and the earlier deletion still stands. Onatic (talk) 23:17, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

Alexandra Olivia

Alexandra Olivia (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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All sources are run of the mill so do not show notability or meet WP:NAUTHOR. PeriodicEditor (talk) 19:56, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Women, and United States of America. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:58, 29 September 2026 (UTC)
• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Connecticut and New York. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 20:10, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

None of the sources are run of the mill? Book reviews are how authors obtain notability. What? PARAKANYAA (talk) 20:42, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

• Delete. This article currently has two sentences and fails WP:GNG. It seems there may not be significant coverage of this person but it is possible there may be of some of their work. Aneirinn (talk) 21:11, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

Keep. Meets AUTHOR#3. msk 22:37, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: WP:NAUTHOR says "a person is likely to be notable if" they meet either #1, #2, or #3, not necessarily that they are. They still have to pass WP:GNG, which the article does not as it does not have anywhere near significant coverage of this individual. It can be debated if they even meet #3. The second is a review by a literary agent of an agency of which she is a client , and the third is not by a reliable source. Aneirinn (talk) 22:55, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

  Didn't catch that, thanks. Weak delete. msk 23:14, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

  They do not necessarily have to pass GNG if they meet NAUTHOR. See this recent RfC where everybody agreed that the status quo is, if you have two (theoretically) notable works, even if they do not have their own article, then you meet NAUTHOR and can be kept. 1brianm7 (talk) 23:50, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

  I am not voting yet because you need at least 2 notable books to pass NAUTHOR and only 1 has been demonstrated. But no, that is not the case. If you pass NAUTHOR you are notable. All that means is no one is absolutely notable, no matter what guideline they pass - but that also goes for GNG. That is why GNG is a presumption. If we find a compelling enough reason we can rebut the presumption of any notability guideline, including the GNG. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:39, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

Doug Allen (meteorologist)

Doug Allen (meteorologist) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Biography that doesn't make any real claim to notability. The person is evidently a competent guy who did a good job and was known and appreciated locally, but all sources are very local and there is no significant coverage of him in them (from what I am able to tell – the two references to wgal.com are not available in my part of the world, but since that is a local news website it wouldn't count towards notability anyway). bonadea contributions talk 15:24, 10 September 2026 (UTC)

• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: People, Television, and Pennsylvania. bonadea contributions talk 15:24, 10 September 2026 (UTC)
• Comment: Even if wgal.com's nature as a local news website didn't keep it from contributing from notability, the nature of that being the website for WGAL–the television station Allen worked for–would disqualify it as a non-independent source. (No direct opinion on the article itself at this time.). WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:48, 11 September 2026 (UTC)
• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Radio, Weather, Connecticut, Florida, and Massachusetts. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:49, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Star Mississippi 16:54, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

• Delete: Purely a local personality, not meeting our requirements for notability. Had a long career, retired, very routine. Oaktree b (talk) 18:31, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 01:13, 26 September 2026 (UTC)