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This should be moved back to "Puerto Rican Day Parade" or "National Puerto Rican Day Parade". It should remain capitalized, as it is the official title of the event, according to the website. --DDG 21:59, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... I disagree. That's the name of the org that runs it: N.P.R.D.P. The "parade" is lowercase. - CrazyRussian[[User_talk:Crzrussian|talk event when talking about it independently of the organization in that case. News sources like CNN here say: "... last weekend after the National Puerto Rican Day Parade.". Do you see other sources that give the name of the parade in lowercase? --DDG 16:41, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I concede your point per all but one entries here: Category:Parades_in_New_York_City. I'll move it after the copyvio is cleared out. - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 17:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Central Park Attacks

The Central Park post parade attacks were major news in New York. Why no mention here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.255.164.244 (talk) 13:50, 5 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Apparently removed because of inadequate cites -- WP:CITE -- see this older version [1].
IMHO we should re-add content about this, correctly cited. -- 66.230.200.145 21:42, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. This parade is not the gentle parade this article makes it seem to be. 66.171.76.138 14:55, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I also agree. The information was relevant and notable, it should be put back into the article.Sullynyflhi 17:53, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The "incidents" additions are very one-sided and there are questionable motives as to why they were added. Much of the content that was added isn't supported by the references used, so that's being removed, and a great deal of it was taken out of context. While the Hispanic Society did refuse to march behind the Latin Kings, the content that follows is spun. 150 Latin Kings were arrested, but completely without incident and weapons, they were marching without a permit. A police officer cut his hand while making an arrest in a situation not involving a Latin King, yet somehow its worded as a Latin King "slashing" him but not fatally. People are making the incident to be more violent than it really is, crime occurs during New Year's Eve in Times Square, St. Patricks Day Parade, and Mardi Gras, but there's no point in listing every single criminal instance on those pages of wikipedia. If this article didn't involve Puerto Ricans, no one would be intent on adding content with such a spin on it. Central Park was deplorable and inexcusable, but it was a one-time occurance. 74.230.193.91 05:50, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

SO WHAT? it was still national-level news and is indicative of the fear non-puerto-ricans have re: this parade. let's face it, many people of non-puerto-rican descent literally HIDE during the parade, regardless of whether or not it's actually safe. the perception is there regardless of whether or not it's subtly racist. deal with it.--207.38.189.151 04:22, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Television Episodes

The comment about a Law and Order episode has a few spelling mistakes as well as capitalization errors, not to mention a lack of linkage to the Law and Order wiki article.Sciencegeekb6b3 20:35, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Commercial references

This article should always have a NPOV and there should be no references to any specific commercial television stations as this is an encyclopedia and not a billboard endorsement. Furthermore, the article should be written about the parade in general and not about any specific year. I have made changes to this article twice and an unregistered user and committed unconstructive edits that have just made me revert the previous edits. Please stop adding commercial references and contrtibute to the article in a neutral point.--XLR8TION (talk) 16:48, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Please discuss any request for changes here and refrain from using ignorant, baseless accusations of "white power" here. Such accusations and deletions for this reason can be labeled as an attack and vandalism and corrective action will be requested. Please discuss everything in a civil manner.--XLR8TION (talk) 01:03, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why does this section refer to the attackers as primarily African-American and Dominican without any citations or other evidence to back that up? The article cited doesn't refer to that at all or to the race of attackers or victims in any way... Is this a racial/ethnic red herring or are there facts from a reputable source to support this assertion? --Facio11 (talk) 02:39, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That is based on the prosecution of those involved. On that note, I can't see why an act that actually took place after the Parade by unrelated ethnic groups really deserves mention in the article. 166.147.120.174 (talk) 22:11, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Does it make sense to mention the Bronze Star here?

"After public and corporate backlash, Mayor De Blasio had announced that López Rivera would not be honored at the 2017 parade[30] but, in the end, the U.S. Bronze Star honoree was honored and kicked off the Parade celebration." For one thing, the word "honor" now appears twice in the same sentence. But more to the point, it seems kind of partisan. The fact that he served in Vietnam is probably a useful thing for a reader to know if they're trying to decide what side of the controversy they fall on, I admit. Nevertheless, it's a fact that feels outside of the scope of this article. At the very least, it's outside of the scope of the sentence that it's in. I checked the first source and it's only briefly mentioned, by the way. The other source is a video which I don't want to watch. I'm not going to fix it myself right now because it's touchy politics and I'm new here. It's possible that I've misunderstood something, although I don't see how. Anyways, if no one responds to this saying I shouldn't change it, then I'm gonna change it. Benevolent Prawn (talk) 06:58, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The "honor" word twice does make the sentence appear poorly redacted and something like "Bronze Star recipient" would had been a better choice. I don't see any partisanship but with "the Bronze Star" part but I have changed it to "the Puerto Rican activist" which is what his WP:LEAD says. Mercy11 (talk) 02:03, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]