Talk:Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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—Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.216.166.126 (talk) 04:21, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: To Do list

message: It looks like someone visited the county and then decided to carbon copy a brochure on Wikipedia. Its no big secret that yes
indeed settlements in Lancaster or then Chester pre-date the 1710 mark of the venerable Mathias Krieder. Hans and Christian Herr for example were in the area ie the date stone of 1719 on the house does not indicate the time of settlement, only when the house was built. With a land parcel map being dated 1711 in which the land was subdivided and deeded to several first families of Lancaster County including Mylin, Kending, and Groff (Graff) in Martic and Providence Townships.
Family histories have also concluded the arrival of some Swiss German Anabaptists and French Protestants Like  Letort, Furie, and John Phillip and John Michael Ranc in the same first half of the 18th century.  My suggestion would be to codify the statistical and political data into one solid page just on the county in general and since Lancaster is repleate with historical significance from Hamilton and Stevens to the Paxton boy (Scotch-Irish) militia a seperate page be written on the history of Lancaster and Lancaster County.
Another thing to as far as dialect. When has ever a person from Lancaster County sounded like a philly bowery with a heavy Camden accent? For starters, there is no such animal as the Susquehanna dialect unless your counting native members of the Susquehannocks, second there are varying degrees of the dialect as both spoken in Lebanon, Lancaster and even York with hold over
vernacular not only from the Germanic but also from Quaker, Presbyterian, and Anglican influences as well.
Needs alot of polishing
Many of these historic incidents and dates are worthy of seperate pages in and of themselves, the Christiana Riots, Paxton Boys, Underground Railroad etc. While Lancaster played a significant part in all those, these are characterized by their national significance and are not just exclusive to the hisorty of Lancaster County, Pa. It would be like putting a whole article on Robert Fulton on the Lancaster County page just because he was from Lancaster, instead of havng a seperate article/page on him.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.216.166.126 (talk) 05:50, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: WHAT A MESS

message: This page is massivly overfootnoted, making it nearly unreadable. JBKramer 13:50, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not only that, some of the "facts" are wrong and when you look at the source, it does not even agree. For example, the article says in the first paragraph that the Amish and Mennonites immigrated to Pennsylvania in the 19th century. However, I know that the vast majority immigrated in the 18th century. When I checked the source, it said this "Some Amish migrated to the United States, starting in the early 18th century". By the way, the source was from the internet and was a site dedicated to religions in general and not specifically to the Amish (the type of source that typically could have false information itself. So the wrong fact which is footnoted does not even agree with its source, and the source is from the internet on a site not even dedicated to the subject matter at hand! Stettlerj 17:15, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have added cleanup tag. To my taste this article must be cut down or split, and the number of footnotes have to be at least halved. Unfortunately overly long and overly referenced articles seem to be a systemic problem in Wikipedia. (Igny 19:00, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think the complaint is about too many references in Wikipedia, which clearly isn't the problem, but their uneven distribution such that this article has so many that it gets in the way of readability.  I.e., "Wikipedia has too few" and "this article has too many" aren't logically inconsistent.  --ScottMainwaring 17:47, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Massively over footnoted

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for File:LancasterCountyHeart.jpg

message: The paragraph under "Government" listing the various governmental officials in the County dates at least to pre-Novemver 2007 and needs updating. Matt2h (talk) 14:23, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Outdated Information on Governmental Officials

message: For a time, when the British held Philadelphia, the Capital of the country was in Lancaster County. Not quite sure where that should go in the article- It's as interesting as the fact the only president from Pa lived here - But doesn't need as much space as that fact has been given. 
The pre-history section could be beefed-up by someone familiar with the facts. I believe there was settlement in Lancaster County for at least 10,000 years.  Nitpyck (talk) 07:02, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: some suggestions-  

message: "I brake for shoofly pie" is NOT...I repeat NOT...the state tourism slogan. It's great stuff, but it's not the slogan.... user:PurpleChez  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.118.65.34 (talk) 16:51, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  slogan 

message: Are all the row officers elected?--Dthomsen8 (talk) 02:40, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Row officers