Talk:Harrisburg, Illinois

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[edit] Sources

Where are the sources? You can't just type in "word of mouth" topics and expect them to be accepted as fact. Also, I have noticed alot of wording trying to make Harrisburg, Illinois sound like a large city. I have deleted the "metro" population listing. A small city with less than 10,000 people is not even close to being a metropolitan area. And to say that Harrisburg has several suburbs, is a gross example of exaggeration. Not to mention the locals calling the Clearwave building the "Harrisburg Skyscraper". This article needs an overhaul. It needs sources. It needs personal opinion taken out. And especially, it needs the major use of exaggeration taken out.

[edit] This Page needs A MAJOR Update

MAJOR referencing, formatting update is needed, This page has much potential, but much is just local fact and knowledge that really isn't PUBLISHED anywhere. People who live here just know it happened. How can you solve that?

[edit] Known Demolished public structures

Is it really necessary to list Known Demolished public structures? I'm sure many towns have many demolished structures I see no real need to list every structure in this article. I suggest reducing it to a reasonable number or delete the entire list. --Dual Freq 18:27, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

I'll reduce it down to the ones only around the square. 206.125.139.81 09:24, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rating

I have been rating articles lately for Illinois, and I have come across the arguement going on here about Walmart. It is great this article is being expanded, but there isn't a lot of the facts being cited. Not only that, but Walmart really isn't that important for an encyclopedic entry. I mean, is this the national HQ of Walmart? No. What you need to do is start modeling this article after Springfield, Illinois which is a GA city, and Detroit which is a FA city. The Walmart section should be totally removed altogether. I will post this article to a few other editor that deal with Illinois.--Kranar drogin 01:10, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Personally, I have been very generous and grade all officially recognized municipal/geographic regions as a mid at least. Beacuse people use WP to get an idea where things are as sort of a mapquest with a story I think this not too out of line IMO. I expect all such regions to have a good template at the bottom and a locator map. The first thing this article could use is such a map. Then start referencing things. Many things look like WP:OR. The table is especially suspect. Many interesting trivia facts point toward solid potential. The article needs WP:RS.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 01:28, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
What is this place? How come I have never heard of it? Who goes to Saline County anyway? Let's delete all of it. Kidding.
trust me more than you know! haha
Sourcing is important, there are a lot of assertions of fact here with no references. Also it is important to remember not to give undue weight to any one topic. IvoShandor 15:39, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
This has been a local community project gone array pretty much. This article has alot of potential to be a "good representative" for small town articles on Wikipedia, it needs good sourcing and organization. Of course since this has been edited by so many people that live in and around the area I doubt your going to find sources to all this information unless you spend 2 or 3 months at the local court house/library. You are right about the walmart thing anyway. Thnx for helping make this page better. :) 70.105.76.229 04:27, 13 July 2007 (UTC)