User talk:CollegeParkResident

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello CollegeParkResident, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to College Park, Maryland have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.


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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. GorillaWarfare (talk) 01:17, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

August 2018
Hello, I'm C.Fred. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to College Park, Maryland seemed less than neutral and has been removed. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 01:45, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Less than neutral?
I attempted to edit and include the city of college park is a few miles from Washington DC. Also, included information from the city’s website that references it’s proximity to the nations’a capital. Im not sure why this is considered “less than neutral”. The city is located in the DMV and is considered a suburb of DC. Many people commute from College Park to work in the District and consider this pertinent information. CollegeParkResident (talk) 01:53, 24 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Here's the offending passage, with the problematic bits bolded: "The city has many transit options with easy access to Washington DC, beautiful parks, and historic homes. As a home to the University of Maryland, College Park is certainly 'A Smart Place to Live'."
 * "Easy" and "beautiful" are both subjective terms. If the city's parks were rated in the top ten nationally by US News, that would be different, because there'd be some outside rating being done. The last bit feels like it's just regurgitation of the city's advertising slogan. —C.Fred (talk) 01:57, 24 August 2018 (UTC)