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News Sources

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 (alt newspaper)^[1]

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.

Urban Connection (community paper)^[2]

Links to a facebook group with less than 100 members is not an official news source

References

^ "MODE". 2012-07-23. Archived from the original on December 24, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
^ "Urban Connection Nov-Dec. Issue by Urban Connection". Issuu.com. 2011-11-01. Retrieved 2017-01-28.

"Places adjacent to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania"

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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21 July 2023

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. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GMDCVA (talk • contribs) 02:27, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GMDCVA, the "European Settlement" value in the Infobox is not claiming that it is only a European Settlement, but rather to list the date at which Europeans first settled the area. The first paragraph under the History subheading addresses the Native American inhabitants, as well as the article History of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Coincidentally, I have also personally been currently researching historical sources regarding African-American populations. Much less info is documented about the Native Americans, but it is a goal of mine as well. Hopefully you can be of some help researching and improving the article along with us? Penndyl (talk) 14:20, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Internet "Links"

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 and https://LoveHarrisburg.com Anything 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]

https://www.visithersheyharrisburg.org/ (Not an official website for Harrisburg, PA)

https://www.harrisburgregionalchamber.org/ (Not an official website for Harrisburg, PA)

Removed these two "sources". Wikipedia is not an advertising area for websites simply related to a location.

The two websites removed are not official websites, they are independently owned by a marketing/advertising agency in York, Pennsylvania that sells advertising for their websites. (Example: You own a restaurant and pay them their advertising fee, they will list you on the website). 2601:98D:C080:67DD:0:0:0:17 (talk) 13:38, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "MODE". 2012-07-23. Archived from the original on December 24, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2015.

[2] "Urban Connection Nov-Dec. Issue by Urban Connection". Issuu.com. 2011-11-01. Retrieved 2017-01-28.

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