Talk:Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford, Connecticut is a dump and a racist city in the middle of a racist state.

Hartford’s North End and Park Street sections are full of Black and Puerto Ricans with no future and no hope. Opportunities are limited for them. Hartford is a one horse town. Insurance is the only industry. If the city’s blacks don’t get work with Aetna or Cigna, they end up not working and selling drugs on Albany Ave, Park Street or Barbour Street.

Blacks should just leave Hartford for the blacks meccas of Atlanta or Washington,DC.

What's the guidelines/precedent for removing text like the above in these Talk pages? AbsolutDan 15:08, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Text like above should not be removed because it's disagreeable. The response is to disagree with it, not remove it.

Coyoty 02:53, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Got it, thanks AbsolutDan 03:39, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No mention of the North End or poverty, eh? Don't want people to know what the city is actually like...

--163.192.21.45 21:38, 12 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Where's the Gazetteer stuff for Hartford, and for Patterson, New Jersey? BobCMU76 03:53 18 May 2003 (UTC)

Try Paterson, New Jersey. :) -- Zoe

Nickname

Is it worth mentioning "Insurance Capital of the World"? Does it have another nickname?

"New England's Rising Star" is plastered all over billboards in the region, but that nickname seems to be more self-promotion than an actual commonly-recognized nickname AbsolutDan 14:33, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can find no source for the nickname "Des Moines of the East", so I reverted the nickname back to Insurance capital of... and rising star... AbsolutDan 14:25, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup - POV and other concerns

Does anyone get the feeling that they are reading something out of a travel brochure? I have been trying to rid the article of as many of these problems as I could. Pentawing 02:16, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I managed to go through the entire article and clean it up as much as I could (format, wikilinks, POV issues). However, I am keeping the cleanup notation up and would appreciate someone else going through the article to determine if the article is indeed cleaned up. What concerns me is that someone might attempt to restore many of the POV problems that the article originally had. Wikipedia is meant to show facts, not to be an advertising board. Pentawing 21:48, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I don't know the city, but I somehow doubt that this city is a major center of finance etc. :-) Perhaps a regional center at best. David.Monniaux 20:40, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Fair... Hartford is bigger than it looks (the city has about 100k, but the metro area is well over 1m, due to a level of suburbanization that you'd never see anywhere else in the Northeast), but isn't one of America's financial capitals or anything... but there's a lot of insurance. MMzach, 00:52, 31 Jul 2005 (UTC)

I would actually characterize Hartford as a major center of finance. It is known as the insurance capitol of the country and is home to most of the US's major insurance companies, and as such, certainly qualifies as a financial center. Keep in mind that CT is for all intents and purposes one large city that stretches between Boston and NYC so although Hartford, New Haven, etc. seem provincial, they aren't really.

Are we ready to remove the cleanup tag? RJFJR 03:21, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I went through the article, and after some copyediting removed the cleanup tag. Pentawing 21:21, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Needs more photos.

Although the article has photos, it needs more photos especially pictures of its skyline. This should show the obvious developement of hartford.

I have lots of Hartford photos that I have taken myself I am just slowly trying to figure out how to put them on the site....if anyone knows how to easily get the photos on here let me know...Thanks

The return of POV

The entire Revitalization section is looking more and more like an advertisement, special thanks to the edits of Ctman987 (whom I suspect might be, or be an advocate of, architect Cesar Pelli). Much of the section should be trimmed (perhaps leaving a small overview paragraph of the projects). --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 18:25, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]