Talk:University of Maryland, College Park/Archive 2

Misspelled "School"
The "Robert H. Smith School of Business" redirects here. Unfortunately, "School" spelled "Scool"! Probably a Duke ?..lol.. and it would be really funny except Facebook picks up Wikipedia's university pages and so the misspelling is carried over there too. Several friends have commented that I went to a school that can't spell "school." Anyone here know how to fix it?

University of Maryland, College Park From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Robert H. Smith Scool of Business) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.191.197.234 (talk) 01:04, 12 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I had the scool article deleted. "Robert H. Smith School of Business" has its own article.. the scool redirect was created in 2005 for some unknown reason.  As you may able to guess, there's no way for Wikipedia to delete it from Facebook.  I tried "reporting" the page on facebook, though the options were about pornography and spam.  --CutOffTies (talk) 13:03, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Fear the Turtle
The article says this was coined in the early 2000's, but that's simply not true. I went to MD from 96-00 and I clearly remember the phrase on T-shirts and posters in 98 or 99.. Bethereds (talk) 00:54, 17 January 2011 (UTC)


 * The slogan "Fear the Turtle" was created and trademarked by Drew Elburn of Reistertown, MD in 1998.
 * Credit to: http://wnst.net/baltimore-sports/fear-the-turtle-nevermore-umd-drops-the-fear-the-turtle-slogan/
 * — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mellowman33 (talk • contribs) 11:06, July 21, 2015‎

Employees/criticism section removal
The section titled "Employees" and then titled "Criticism" was removed for "WP:RECENT. this is an article about a university that's been around since 1856 see WP:WEIGHT. also the sources are from the student paper written by same author, or some bloggish site seewp:RS."

The section listed relatively recent labor disputes with the contracted Wings construction company, contracted Daycon cleaning supplies company, and direct employees of the University who have been alleging abuse. Here is the last version before it was removed.

Included among the sources was a report by the National Labor Relations Board, an impartial adjuciations board, as well as a report by the Black Faculty and Staff Association at the University of Maryland. These two reports were both well-researched and put out by respected institutions.

I understand that a student newspaper is not a favored news source, though the Diamondback is ranked 8th best student newspaper by the Princeton Review (link to article). At any rate, there were actually two authors at the Diamdonback who were cited. The "bloggish" site also had two authors, at least one of whom was also incredibly well-researched and versed in the happenings.

Between these sources, I believe the section should be allowed to stand, particularly if it is given a disclaimer noting that these situations are relatively recent (though still valid to the understanding of the university and its functioning in a way that contributes to the historically long-standing study of labor relations which predates the founding of the University). Samtastic02 (talk) 20:27, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
 * The material that was removed seems to be much too long for this article. A few sentences may be appropriate but multiple paragraphs is out of proportion for this particular article. ElKevbo (talk) 22:12, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for bringing this to the talk page. I was the one who originally removed it, mostly per wp:undue: Discussion of isolated events, criticisms, or news reports about a subject may be verifiable and neutral, but still be disproportionate to their overall significance to the article topic.  I'm no expert on this, but I believe that these type of labor concerns are in no way unique in a University context or in general.  In the context of everything else you could include about this subject, it is insignificant.
 * One way to refute this is to provide citations in third party independent reliable sources. The school newspaper is obviously not independent.  The other sources is a blog which is not a reliable source, and The Black Faculty and Staff Association at the University of Maryland, and the National Labor Relations Board are not independent. --CutOffTies (talk) 00:50, 11 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Please explain how the school newspaper and NLRB are not independent. ElKevbo (talk) 01:13, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I mean independent of the subject matter. A school newspaper (particularly a daily one) is going to write about the school.  The Black Faculty and Staff Association at the University of Maryland is concerned about Black Faculty and Staff Association at the University of Maryland. The Labor Relations Board is concerned with Labor Relation issues. Compare that to publications like The Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Time Magazine - etc... Given that the editor is trying to establish significance to the content, I think it needs to be in one of these 'independent' publications to assert it --CutOffTies (talk) 01:36, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah, ok. I think you're placing the bar a bit too high but it's not entirely unreasonable.  For me, if the NLRB had to get involved then it seems somewhat significant since they literally "made a federal case out of it" so a brief mention seems warranted. ElKevbo (talk) 05:02, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Merge from Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology to University of Maryland, College Park
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology is not notable enough for an article of its own (and has been tagged as such for six years) but could be a useful section in this article. Boleyn (talk) 07:33, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose: Would look like an obscure detail in this article. Try to expand that article. The Dissident Aggressor 13:03, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose: CBCB is one of the larger research centers at UMD. It could probably be expanded rather easily if someone cared to. --Padenton (talk) 18:29, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20120505155422/http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/new-reusable-dining-container-use-grows-1.2792784 to http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/new-reusable-dining-container-use-grows-1.2792784#.T6bhmJhEa_Z

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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20120505143648/http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/motion-sensors-installed-in-classrooms-to-save-energy-1.2764215 to http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/motion-sensors-installed-in-classrooms-to-save-energy-1.2764215#.T6biLJhEa_Z
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20120409081445/http://www.diamondbackonline.com:80/news/univ-funds-130-000-to-green-projects-1.2809091 to http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/univ-funds-130-000-to-green-projects-1.2809091#.T6birphEa_Z
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20120421002956/http://www.co.pg.md.us:80/Government/AgencyIndex/DPW&T/Transit/TheBus.asp to http://www.co.pg.md.us/government/agencyindex/dpw&t/transit/thebus.asp
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20060908084925/http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu:80/news/stories/2005/smithgift.html to http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/news/stories/2005/smithgift.html

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Universities central at Women in Red on IWD during March 2017
Info and invitation. Women in Red has a drive during March to create and improve articles on women alumni of universities. International Women's Day is on March 8th and we invite others to mirror the event in the UK in Cambridge. Please sign up or ask for help at Women in Red. Hope you can make it. We have tools that will allow you to find missing women alumni from any other university eg UMCP. We are interested in editors who want to work in any language. Victuallers (talk) 08:35, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Edit warring to remove AAU membership and Big Ten membership from lede
An unregistered editor is insisting that we remove the following material from the lede of this article:

It is a member of the Association of American Universities and competes in intercollegiate athletics as a member of the Big Ten Conference. The University of Maryland has been labeled as one of the "Public Ivies," a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League.

AAU membership is exclusive and indicative of the nature and extent of the research carried out by faculty at this university. The Big Ten athletic conference is also prestigious and even if it weren't then the university's athletic conference is still important information for a U.S. university. I would be fine with deleting the "Public Ivy" information but a few years many editors, including myself, reached a compromise and decided that it's okay to mention it in the lead of articles about institutions that were included in the original book (but remove it from institutions added later or added to different-but-related books). ElKevbo (talk) 20:23, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Academics and Rankings Section
I added both an academics section and a rankings section to the article. I realize that a lot of these rankings are criticized, but people use them as references and that makes them relevant.

The Academics Section, I believe, should be where we add the content regarding academics at the university. I realize I didn't start off with much, but I think that together, we can all do research and make that section better. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Krobilla (talk • contribs) 05:36, November 13, 2006 (UTC)

Related PROD
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21st century history
the 21st century section seems lacking, and many of the sources are primary (UMD itself or their student newspaper the Diamondback). it comes off a bit like an advertisement highlighting how much money UMD has. the discussion of donation money could be relevant to the article - but i think it needs more explanation for why and what they are doing with the money.

another consideration: there should be discussion of the accreditation debacle in 2018-2019. it was national news. not all the drama needs to be in the article, but certainly it should mention that UMD had their accreditation put on probation.

i'm not connected to UMD and i haven't lived in MD for a while now so i'm no longer plugged in to regional news. perhaps someone with more knowledge might be able to beef up this section? e.b. (talk) 19:23, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

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Greek life
This part of the article is largely unsourced; the references are only to other lists and don't convey information of encyclopedic value. There are Wikipedia pages which list Greek life at any given university or college; this is not the place for them. I propose deletion. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 06:03, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
 * since no one chimed in on this one, I will go ahead and streamline. --Melchior2006 (talk) 03:23, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Sustainability
This section reads like advertising; I cut some paragraphs, but I think more should go. There is a lot of self-promotion in this article. Melchior2006 (talk) 03:33, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Research in lede
The lead seems to place a little too much emphasis on the university's research. I don't think we need to list out all the individual government agencies the university has collaborated with, for instance. The UMB collaboration also seems a bit questionable DUE-wise. Cheers, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 16:00, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree. Most of the second paragraph in the lede can be deleted, and some parts of the third paragraph need work as well. The business about "strategic" collaboration etc. is advertisement. --Melchior2006 (talk) 18:12, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Alumni
Alumni Anies Rasid baswedan Presiden republik indonesia 2404:C0:5610:0:0:0:240B:2B6B (talk) 16:49, 25 September 2023 (UTC)