Editorial policy

This page states how York Fourth is written and checked, so a reader can judge the magazine and an advertiser knows exactly what can and cannot be bought here.

Places, times and laws

Every place in this magazine is real and named because it exists: the squares, parks, trails and buildings of York and its county. Every schedule is framed as a typical pattern, never as a promise, and carries the reminder that the organizer's posting outranks the magazine. Legal pages, notably the fireworks pages, explain current Pennsylvania law and local practice in plain words, flag the parts that change, and never present a summary as legal advice.

What we refuse

No invented events, no invented quotes, no claims of attendance we did not make, and no schedule published as certain when it is reported as typical. The history pages lean on the published record and the physical markers a reader can stand in front of; where the record is thin, the page says so instead of decorating the gap.

Corrections

Corrections are published directly into the affected page, without silent edits of meaning, and each one starts with a reader writing to the contact page. The heritage questions the magazine covers, from the courthouse square to the trail stations, get their facts checked against the county's history institutions before publication.

Sponsorship

Sponsored placements, when they exist, are labelled on the page itself and governed by the rules on the sponsored content page. No sponsorship alters a time, a route, a rule or a safety verdict, which is the whole point of having a policy.