Talk:Hay Island (Connecticut)
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Landform[edit]
Is Hay Island actually a peninsula (and an Island in name only)? 67.86.73.252 (talk) 01:54, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure what the criteria are for notability of geographical features, I seem to remember reading that all features are notable. I don't think this is a clear cut case, although it would help if the article stated the size of this feature. It is beside the point that it may not be a real island, see e.g. the Black Isle or the Isle of Dogs. PatGallacher (talk) 18:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Removal of footnotes[edit]
I removed a footnote from the U.S. Coast Guard book because, looking through the book and doing a search for "Hay Island" I couldn't find a single reference in the book to "Hay Island". It does talk about Hay Island Ledge, a rock beneath the surface and offshore, and Hay Island Ledge bouy, but that's it, and neither of those are Hay Island.
I removed the second footnote (one footnote remains to the same source) from the Map website because that satellite map doesn't prove that the two buildings on the island are actually houses. Since I'm sure that kind of information is available in town property records, which should show how many homes or other buildings are on that peninsula, I'm not going to remove the sentence about the houses, but I added back the "citation needed" tag.
I'm being hard-nosed about sourcing because it's being used to show that the article meets notability requirements. If I thought there actually were sources about this island that meet WP:N, I'd support keeping the article. But having looked for sourcing offline and online, I have no reason to believe it exists anywhere. -- Noroton (talk) 02:16, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
The William Ziegler obit shows at least one home on Hay Island:[1][2]. Will modify the sentence to reflect 2 structures and one a home.