A fact from Antares, Arizona appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 January 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Antares Point, the part of Route 66 that runs through Antares, Arizona, is the longest continuous curve on any U.S. highway?
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This article seems to rely heavily on sources like HometownLocator and USA.com that are third-party aggregates of Census data and should not be considered reliable sources. There are also promotional or fan websites all over, including VacationIdea, MohaveCountyHighways, and TheRoute-66 that need to be replaced with better sources. SounderBruce 23:32, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I can have another look at them all, but HometownLocator is linked with USGS (and is mainly used for the different maps, anyway); I equally don't see the problem with USA.com - it makes census data and extrapolated stats more easily accessible, how is that unreliable. In both cases "relying heavily" is inaccurate. Note that VacationIdea is used once, as a third source for a fact that was being put up for DYK (so wanting to show multiple sources for certainty) as there's others, this could have simply been removed if it's an issue. Kingsif (talk) 23:42, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
We should be linking directly to the original source (aka the Census or ACS), since some of these aggregators (e.g. Citydata, also used in the article) use user-generated/submitted data on the same pages without proper separation. SounderBruce 23:49, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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