Talk:Scranton, Pennsylvania

message: There are no "trolleys" in San Francisco, there are cable cars.  Blondlieut 01:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This depends on how technical you want to be as to what qualifies as "Scranton"  and what qualifies as "Scranton area". If we want to remove Baptist Bible College from this list we must also remove Keystone College (in La Plume) and Penn State Worthington (in Dunmore). Kail Ceannai 02:56, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible Factual Errors

message: That is not the city seal.  That is the sign on top of the Scranton Electric Building.  If you want to get nit picky, Baptist Bible College is in Clarks Green, not Clarks Summit.
*Agree with the seal idea, would be nice if some one could find a good image of the seal. I also am not sure if the image of the flag is the flag either. --Boothy443 |  trácht ar 04:28, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Photos Featured

message: I stumbled upon this reference in the history section, under the 1985-present segment: "Despite a culture of political corruption, the city maintains a small-town atmosphere in friendly neighborhoods." This statement is a loaded statement, and has no references. While I, a resident, do agree with the statement on personal grounds, I feel it needs to be reworded and backed up by direct citations. I have deleted it for the moment. Michael Lipik 14:09, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleaning up non-neutral POV

message: I have inserted the template for disputed article at the top of the article. I did this because the factual accuracy of the article is not determinable due to a lack of citations and references. There have been several non-NPOV (see WP:NPOV) statements made, as well (see "Cleaning up non-neutral POV"). Please do not remove this status from the article until it has attained sufficient accuracy, and citations have been provided for assertions made in the article. Michael Lipik 14:25, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Disputed Article Status

message: Did anyone notice how this article has a page in other languages? How big of a database do they have? M2K e 00:46, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Miscellaneous Discussion

message: What's with the vandalism and this "pot hole" obsession?  There's pot holes in the entire state of Pennslvania.  So what. Scranton has mine subsidence, so what; it doesn't make it famous.
This and the political barbs are a waste of time. Go away.
trezjr 01:59, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pot holes vandalism

message: A citation is required for this item...
*Thomas Tiedemann, Notable Award Winning Explorer, Researched and documented thoughts on the existence of a "Universal Galaxy" Former University of Scranton Student.
...or it will be removed within 48 hours.
No record of this name or the fact that it is "notable".
trezjr 02:10, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation required... 

message: Is there a Greenwood near Scranton? Respond at my page please. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 04:32, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Greenwood

message: I'm correcting a bunch of poor spelling and general errors in a recent contrinbution to the "Office" section.  Can anyone verify these?  I'm a native of Scranton but I never have watched the show. Mrendo 15:44, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Office" References 

message: I removed the "reqmapin|Pennsylvania" tag from this page because the map listed is adequate for a city of this size. Max Density (talk) 18:12, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Map Requested

message: I have removed the claim that according to the reported ancestry data in the 2000 Census that Scranton had the largest Irish population of a city its size.  It was not sourced by a link and I had reason to believe it was inaccurate.  Quincy, Massachusetts is a larger city and is 34.1% Irish according to the reported ancestry in the 2000 Census (table QT-P13), and indeed Norfolk County, Massachusetts has a greater % reported Irish ancestry(31.3%) and population (560K) than Scranton(30.3%).  Its possible there are additional examples but regardless the claim was incorrect. PantsB (talk)
::I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. Quincy has approximately 15,000 more residents than Scranton. Would they really be considered cities of the same size? Tomdobb (talk) 17:00, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, then the claim seems rather silly if we're going to get that fine.  The city with a population between 60K and 80K with the highest reported Irish ancestry doesn't seem very noteworthy PantsB (talk)  —Preceding undated comment was added at 19:06, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highest Irish population claim 

message: A lot of people have put the Saturday Night Live quote in only to have it removed by one editor
Regardless of whether or not you believe the quote is worth keeping or whether it was belongs in this article, here are the facts:
1. The quote happened.
2. The quote was related to Scranton (a send up of the city) and was seen by a large audience thus is
notable
3. Several independant editors have thought the fact relevant to the topic at hand and have added it 
back in to the article.
I have cited a reference and written the section in  a neutral tone. Noone is saying that the city is actually like that suggested in the send-up. What is being said is that it was satirised on National TV and how it was satirised.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.49.186.18 (talk) 07:42, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, you're right, you did represent it in a neutral tone: all you did was quote the skit. Its not relevant: it certainly doesn't need its own section. ccwaters (talk) 13:37, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

text: I don't see what at all makes it notable. Just because something mentions Scranton doesn't mean it merits an inclusion in this article. This isn't even the first time Scranton has been mentioned on SNL and as it's written now it receives undue weight. It's given its own section and there is more written about it than "The Office" a show that is set in Scranton, frequently mentions Scranton, has filmed in Scranton, has had a convention in Scranton etc. Until there's a consensus to include this information, it just doesn't belong in the article. Tomdobb (talk) 15:39, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As someone who has reverted this, I will point out that "Joe Biden" gets his name mentioned in the article and that's it. Biden has spoken in several speeches and in the VP debate on his youth in and ties to Scranton. As long as that is not in the article (and I am not sure it should be), then I fail to see how a parody of that should be in. If anything I can see a sentence that was something like "In the 2008 Presidential election campaign, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden made numerous references to his ties to Scranton (perhaps adding the fact that his family moved to Delaware for economic reasons when he was 10 or so). This was parodied on SNL on ...(date) - perhaps include a brief quote and certainly both parts would need refs."  Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 16:34, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Bam! Major reference of SNL skit in article about Scranton in political journal The New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=c6002a89-67ff-4faf-bb5b-4809c85f13ab. Senorbad (talk) 19:16, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but it is one or two sentences in a much bigger essay. I do not dispute the SNL skit took place. I saw it and thought it was funny, but I think if it is to be mentioned here at all, for NPOV reasons it needs to be placed in context (Joe Biden and his connection there). Another yardstick to compare this to is the Knox Mine Disaster, which essentially ended coal mining in the whole valley in 1959. It gets two sentences in this article. Why should this get that many? Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 20:58, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I only wrote one sentence explaining the SNL reference before getting reverted, and secondly, perhaps the answer is to beef up the Knox Mine section, not delete the SNL reference. If you want to do a quick search, a lot of PA-area newspapers covered the Scranton references in that one SNL skit as its own separate story. Senator Bob Casey even publicly took offense to it. Senorbad (talk) 23:25, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  SNL reference 

message: As it passes through Scranton, Interstate 81 goes over the grounds once occupied by Luna Park - in fact, the old subway station entrance and portions of the Shoot-the-Chutes ride remain today - is there a plausible way of incorporating the information into this article? B.Wind (talk) 19:11, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania|Interstate 81]] and [[Luna Park, Scranton]] 

message: I just removed a section on Organized crime which was full of Biography of Living Persons violations and was mostly unreferenced. It is unacceptable to link politicians to crime figures without references to reliable sources. Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 03:40, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organized crime section 

message: This article is fundamentally flawed. It should be predominantly focused on the television show "The Office". Please rewrite the article accordingly. 74.192.194.74 (talk) 07:31, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No, this article is about the city. "The Office" has its own article.— Michael J 23:12, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Office 

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message: Disputed entry:
* Robert J. Hanlon, the namesake of Hanlon's razor
IMO Scranton must be proud that one of its ordinary citizens was immortalized on par with Occam's razor. His name reaches way beyond Scranton; in fact known globally in many books,  hence he must be listed among notable citizens. Staszek Lem (talk) 21:58, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disputed entry: Robert J. Hanlon 

message: I'm confused how 6,760,089 was chosen as the population count for the city and county seat section. That accounts for about half of Pennsylvania's population, but only 200,000 people actually live in Lackawanna County. What's going on? LittleCuteSuit (talk) 02:51, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population 

message: It was being discussed on Twitter that there is no mention of the Welsh heritage of Scranton on the Wikipedia page (unlike the Irish). Despite a fairly significant contribution. So I thought I'd add a couple of lines. They were promptly deleted. Any reason why? It was only factual information added. Thanks Dunadan9 (talk) 22:27, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed most of your edit again.  Personal genealogy websites are not reliable sources.  You also added content which was not supported by the source cited. Magnolia677 (talk) 08:29, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scrantons Welsh heritage 

message: Can someone please add a section on the businesses HQ’d in or shipping from Scranton. Annyaka (talk) 03:55, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Businesses Located in Scranton