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HIST406 Critique

cts. The article proceeds to differentiate between the various types of roller coasters by type and height categorization. The article excels here, providing plenty of links to more specified types of roller coasters, links to major roller coaster manufactures, as well as a full gallery of images of the different types of modern coasters. The biggest pitfall of this article is also perhaps the most important aspect of any article – its documentation. The sourcing is incomple’s entry’s lack of appropriate citations, however, make it less reliable than conventional encyclopedias. Overall, the subject is covered thoroughly enough for any typical Wikipedia user, but its lack of effective sourcing and the absence of a variety of illustrations leaves it a fairly weak article with much room for improvement. My most stressed suggestion would be to go through and cite all the technical and complicated information with a reliable source, removing what cannot be verified, and then to collect a many more credible, academic sources to apply to the entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HIST406-11kparsley (talk • contribs) 00:17, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Roller Coaster Wiki

Hi all! I would like to suggest that we add the following wiki as an external link:

Roller Coaster Wiki

As with many other topic-specific wikis, they are linked in the Wikipedia article of the same topic. (Examples: Star Wars, Mario, Minecraft)

Thanks for your consideration! KoopaTroop (talk) 04:20, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikia should not be used as an external link for Wikipedia. -- MST☆R ^{(Chat Me!)} 04:22, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not trying to be rude, but starwars.wikia.com is Wikia, and it is linked by Wikipedia. KoopaTroop (talk) 04:25, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not surprised :) any article with an immense amount of fans, it would be expected that there would be a link to the fansite-original research-filled Wikia. Not saying everything Wikia has is unreliable; Just that WP has a more reliable approach. I used to edit Wikia. -- MST☆R ^{(Chat Me!)} 04:30, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I utterly disagree. Roller Coasters are very popular, and Roller Coaster Wiki is not inaccurate. Ruler of Coasters Talk 17:41, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

After looking around on that Wikia, it looks like ~90% of the text is directly ripped from Wikipedia... so a link to it would be quite redundant. 22:36, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

You have to be kidding me... All the text is directly written from the users. We have had some people copy wikipedia text and use that, but we took it down and told them that there is no reason for readers to go to Coasterpedia, if its text from the big site. Now, on the other hand, if have gotten some information from Wikipedia, like the Roller Coaster page. We also have photo's from Wikipedia, but that doesn't mean 90% of the text is ripped. I would say about 5-10% is. Ruler of Coasters Talk 19:55, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm another editor on Roller Coaster Wiki - It would be great if Wikipedia could link to it, like "Read more at Coasterpedia" etc, but give us time and Roller Coaster Wiki will become better than Wikipedia anyway :PLachlan5963 (talk) 21:54, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I love Roller Coaster Wiki!Roller Coaster Wiki (talk) 18:08, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Models

I would like to put all the models of roller coasters into this article but I'm not sure how we could do that because there's already lists of roller coaster types. Like Inverted Impulse roller coaster wouldn't fall into train type, track layout or mechanics but I would like to get the models into the article. There's models of coasters in Category:Types of roller coasters, but some of them wouldn't fall into the three categories currently in the article. Any suggestions on how to do that would be great.--Astros4477 (talk) 22:58, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]