Talk:Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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This is the CITY, not COUNTY!

There is some confusion on this page, with much information relevant to Lancaster COUNTY, and not the CITY (eg Millersville U is clearly NOT in the City!

If this isn't cleaned up, I will attempt to when I've got more time.

Ah, lets get RID of the NON Lancaster City stuff!

I tried to quickly delete all the non-Lancaster City high schools, before I get to the more important changes, but apparently these were put back in.

So much for quick editing on Wiki...I guess I won't waste my time, effort and writing/editing talents here.

From the Wiki start page:

"How can I help?

Don't be afraid to edit—anyone can edit almost any page, and we encourage you to be bold (but please don't vandalize)! Find something that can be improved, either in content, grammar or formatting, and fix it."

It looked like few people were about to read the "Discussion", which is why I didn't wait- I decided to "be bold" and try to improve something needing improvement quickly.

It seemed pretty clear a City of 55,000 people doesn't support all those high schools.

There is an awful lot of CRAP on Wiki, and unfortuneatly, it is simpler and faster to "prune" the obvious crap than to wait for an endless back and forth discussion/battle.

63.173.203.140 20:38, 9 February 2006 (UTC)Paul

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Dear 63.173.203.140. (Can I call you 63 for short?)

"Lancaster County" is indeed "Lancaster County", no two ways about it. There are many Lancaster Pennsylvania, though. Dutch Wonderland lies in the Lancaster retail trade zone. Conestoga Valley High School lies in the Lancaster Post Office service area. If you sign up for dialup internet in Lancaster, you'll probably find that your best local node is a Millersburg exchange. Advertisers look at Lancaster as the area where the Intel and New Era are the dominant newspapers.

I wasn't the one that reverted your edits. I will suggest, though, that you might want to learn about the Wikipedia community the same way you learn about USENET - by taking a good look before you dive in head first.

Although I disagree with your edits, I will concede that you have a point, in that irrelevant content hurts Wikipedia. The question here is whether it's really irrelevant.

If and when you think about contributing to a Wiki again, I will make a few suggestions:

• Additions are much less controversial than deletions. If you delete something, you KNOW that someone else disagrees with you, because they went to the work of adding it in the first place. Additions don't automatically have anyone disagreeing with you.
• You really want to sign your work. I know you think 63 is a really catchy name, but all it says about you is that you're from Mansfield, Ohio. An hour from now, you might be 63.173.200.128 or 63.173.207.14. My grandmother used to sign her paint-by-numbers. If you aren't willing to sign your work, the quick assumption is that you're a vandal.
• You can build a reputation. Everybody that has an account builds a history. They can take a look at the other edits you've made, and look at whether your edits are quickly amended or if they stand up to scrutiny. If you change "The sun rises in the East" to "The sun rises in the general direction of east, moving slightly from day to day over the course of the year", and you don't post references, people are likely to think a newbie is perhaps pulling a joke. If the post is made by someone who has made 4000 edits in the last 90 days, and a random selection shows that the edits tend to survive, people are likely to think that perhaps you've stated something as fundamental as "water is wet" which everybody should know, and which doesn't require 35 pages agreeing with the claim as verification.

And if you are, indeed, gone for good, I wish you well. Collaborative writing isn't for everybody. May you find more satisfaction in your next endeavor. ClairSamoht 03:44, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

You cant just delete large sctions of text w/o usually putting in an edit summary. Also being that yor not reistered does not help either. Would recomend that you reg for an account. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 04:20, 8 February 2006 (UTC)