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History

This article doesn't tell us when Bristol was founded or any other history. Does anyone know? Locarno 03:05, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Bristol Chamber of Commerce website has some basic historical info --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 04:38, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Milli Vanilli

Altough not that Important, Bristol was the city in which Milli Vanilli made the infamous concert in which their vocal track skipped.. Girl you know I'ts, Girl you know I'ts, Girl you know I'ts, Girl you know I'ts... Would Like to add it as trivia. Ryoga 01:05, 13 AUG 2006 (UTC)

I don't think that's notable enough for inclusion in this article, but perhaps on Milli Vanilli's article, if there's mention of the track skip, it could be mentioned it happened at said concert. --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 18:20, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More focus should be put on ESPN. I don't want to hurt the feelings of the people from the town but that is what they are known for. On Mike & Mike in the Morning Mike Greenberg when he was describing the town went to great lengths to describe how small and out of the way it is. Harvey100 10:55, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Library

The picture of the libary is outdated because it was recebtly redone — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.252.162.235 (talk) 02:06, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Preamble

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The Bristol Commons is a large and popular shopping plaza on Route 6. The east half of route 6 in bristol is kind of "the main strip". To sum it up, Bristol, Connecticut is a diverse community.

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This is NPOV and poorly written, from the preamble. Can someone sort it out please? Jake the Editor Man 17:50, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

City Flag

Bristol Connecticut has a City flag flying over City hall. It is over the Fire Station HQ and it is over the City Hall and Police DPT. when I talked to the City Clerk to pay my car tax she told me it was the Official city flag.

I did do a little research on the subject I found this Bristol Press article from 2002 but no follow up article. http://www.bristolpress.com/articles/2002/10/17/front%20page/5734389.txt

I made a art work I copied the flag from memory to my house then made a artwork Photoshop for the Flag seen for freeuse if you need feather evidence I will go to city hall and the fire house to take a picture of them.

Photoshop art http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3452/3282264636_51cc99df9a.jpg?v=0 --Sheven18 (talk) 17:00, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If there is an official city flag, then I would like to display it on this article. I wasn't aware of such a flag, and appreciate your investigation into this topic. I would, however, like to see a reliable source regarding the flag's authenticity (also, that flickr link isn't working right now). I've commented out the image for the time being.-- aBSuRDiST -^T ☺ ^C- 03:53, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal on Mum parade

I've already copied the Mum Parade in Connecticut article's data into Bristol. I can't see any reason to keep it as a seperate page. Markvs88 (talk) 15:18, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Offhand, it seems like a notable annual event, now 50 years old. It's a bit lame that there are no longer mums produced in Bristol in any major way, since 1986, but it is still notable. There could be more developed about it in its separate article, and i think there's now too much about it in the Bristol article. (And what's here in the Bristol article should get an inline reference or two properly pointing to the one current source in the separate article.) So, I think it should not be merged. --doncram (talk) 17:10, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Certainly a big gallery of pics would be appropriately added to the separate article, but only one or two pics at most would be added to Bristol article. --doncram (talk) 17:19, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bristol isn't even a third of the Yale article, and that one has quite a few breakouts. While I do believe the Mum Parade is notable, I don't believe it necessarily is notable outside of Bristol and (at best) the surrounding region. I can't find any major media coverage about it (NYT, Boston Globe, WSJ, etc). There's no reason to break this out at this time as far as I can see, if ever. Best, Markvs88 (talk) 18:58, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL. Trying. I do think the Bristol article should get reduced coverage of this, but i said that already. Hopefully some others might comment. --Doncram (talk) 00:11, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

IMO, a better solution would be to do a Mum Festival article and include the parade as it's a part of that. Best, Markvs88 (talk) 15:59, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, that would be fine. Go ahead. Be bold and just do that. I think the merger proposal should be removed. --Doncram (talk) 02:15, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I moved the article to Bristol Mum Festival and removed the merger tag. --do ncr am 20:23, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Inventions

We could add some information about how the push doorbell and bicycle coaster brake were invented in Bristol by Albert Rockwell. He was the founder of New Departure. Also there could be info on how Bristol was a major producer of ball bearings during world war II. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moonmasterj (talk • contribs) 22:55, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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What is the argument against Aaron Hernandez being described as a convicted murderer under notable people?

A previous edit describing him as a convicted murderer was reverted and removed, according to Aaron Hernandez' own vandalism protected Wikipedia page, the opening paragraph begins as such - "Aaron Josef Hernandez[A] (born November 6, 1989) is a former American football tight end and convicted murderer." - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Hernandez

I understand if it's to protect the reputation of the city of Bristol but his own Wiki page makes it quite an important point to describe him as a convicted murderer, so too should this page. Based on basic respect for the victims and their families he should be described for what he is, a convicted murderer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.227.127.250 (talk) 04:53, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you - it's a significant fact, perhaps the most significant fact, about him. I re-added it in the most neutral POV way possible (I think). If he's notable enough to be in this section, the current two facts about him are what he's notable for. If not, he should be deleted altogether (and the reputation of the city should not be what's at stake. plenty of lovely cities are unfortunate enough to have given us murderers.) Thanks for bringing this to talk. Altenmaeren (talk) 20:15, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Orphaned references in Bristol, Connecticut

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Bristol, Connecticut's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Census 2020":

From South Windsor, Connecticut: Stuart, Christine. "Census Data Shows Shifts In Connecticut's Demographics". CT News Junkie. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
From West Hartford, Connecticut: "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: West Hartford CDP, Connecticut". U.S. Census Bureau. August 2021. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
From New Haven, Connecticut: {{https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newhavencityconnecticut/POP010220#POP010220
From Brookfield, Connecticut: "United States Census Bureau QuickFacts Brookfield town, Fairfield County, Connecticut". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
From Danbury, Connecticut: "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2020 Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Danbury city, Connecticut". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 13, 2021.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 21:29, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]