Talk:Doodlebug (railcar)

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Cuyahoga Falls memorial

I can venture out to get a photo of the memorial in Cuyahoga Falls soon, if it can be of interest for the article. --IrrationalAtheist (talk) 01:39, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I might suggest breaking out the Cuyahoga Falls incident into its own article, then it can be listed in category 'Railway accidents in the United States'. n2xjk (talk) 03:29, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It would be a very short article. I thought it worked better as a subsection of doodlebug. --IrrationalAtheist (talk) 17:13, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I do not understand the removal of the very serious accident regarding the doodlebug. The article on Zeppelin includes the Hindenburg disaster, so there is precedent that major disasters of no-longer-used modes of transportation can be included on its article. --IrrationalAtheist (talk) 17:54, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Hindenburg disaster is relevant to the Zeppelin article, because the accident basically ended the use of Zeppelins (and most other rigid airships). The incident you added to this article has very little relevance to this subject. If Wikipedia included each and every fatal accident involving automobiles in the automobile article, the servers would be bursting at the seams. Your material would be much more relevant to the Hudson, Ohio article. WuhWuzDat 18:02, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Hindenburg disaster is relevant because it's about a major event in the history of the zeppelin. A Google search for doodlebug train reveals two articles on the first page about the crash in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, but no other accidents. It, too, is a major disaster in the history of the doodlebug, which isn't too well known in the first place. But whatever. It's gone. --IrrationalAtheist (talk) 18:46, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A photo of the memorial in Cuyahoga Falls would be appreciated. It would be a good idea to place such a photo in the Doodlebug Disaster article. (It might be placed into this one too if more text is added to this article). 67.86.74.107 (talk) 23:31, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox

The current infobox describes a specific doodlebug. Doodlebugs were manufactured by many companies with many sizes and configurations. I'm not sure an infobox works for this article, or if there is one it needs to be made much more generic to cover the wide variety. n2xjk (talk) 23:15, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

For what it's worth: I enjoyed making the infobox, but don't really care if it stays up. If you think it's inappropriate, fix it or throw it away. You're not likely to get a consensus, nobody but fixers come here often, but you're not likely to hear any objections, either. Enjoy.Sammy D III (talk) 14:09, 18 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I made changes to make the infobox more generic and rearranged stuff for better formatting. n2xjk (talk) 21:30, 18 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]