Talk:Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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I removed online blogs that claim to be official news sources, one such blog has been inactive since 2004.
Here is the sections I removed with reasons for each:
Mode Magazine was a copycat magazine for the real Mode Magazine. It had been published ONLINE as a blog since 1998. You'll notice the url is dead. The person that listed this was trying to wrongfully claim that Harrisburgpa.com is the official website for the city of Harrisburg, which is not true, Harrisburgpa.gov and LoveHarrisburg.com are the city's 2 official websites.
Links to a facebook group with less than 100 members is not an official news source
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I'm an outsider, having been once to Harrisburg, and having taken a transit bus to Hershey, nearby. I know for a fact Altoona is not adjacent. Nor is Baltimore. Should "places" be replaced by "metro areas"? I don't even think that would be right, because Selinsgrove sounds like an immediate suburb, which is what I was expecting out of this section. I don't even think Hershey (or anywhere in Derry Twp.) quite borders Hbg, but what does? That's what that section needs.YellowAries2010 (talk)19:30, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Harrisburg is not simply a “European Serrlement” Native peoples lives there thousands of years before European settlers arrived in the region. It would be good to know how many enslaved and freed Africans lived in Harrisburg at its founding.— Precedingunsigned comment added byGMDCVA (talk •contribs)02:27, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Rem digitalharrisburg.com (Not an official website for Harrisburg, PA) Wikipedia is not an advertising area for websites simply related to a location. Making a website about a geographic location and linking to it on Wikipedia in an article does not make it an "official" wikipedia website link. The person above a few years ago had it correct, "There are only 2 official websites for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.https://Harrisburgpa.gov andhttps://LoveHarrisburg.comAnything else is not an official website or internet portal for Harrisburg.Please stop listing privately owned facebook groups as "Official" websites for Harrisburg..."
At this point, I am not even sure if the tourism websites (Advertising local businesses) should be listed in this article. Instead of removing them, I have left them for discussion. If no discussion takes place after several months, I will remove them.2601:98D:C080:67DD:0:0:0:5F (talk)13:56, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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