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@User:Culgamer1234 Hi there! I appreciate you asking what "independent sources" are. Let's start from the beginning.

Some topics are important enough to have a Wikipedia article. If a topic, like a waterpark, is important enough, we say that the topic is "notable". You can read exactly what that means here.

For most topics, including waterparks, we (Wikipedia editors) judge whether a topic is notable based on the General Notability Guideline (GNG). The GNG asks you to find several sources, which you have done. However, these sources also have to be reliable, as in trustworthy, and independent, which means that they are not connected with the subject and don't have a financial interest in promoting it. The sources also have to provide significant coverage, which means they have to be long enough, not just a few sentences. For example, finding three newspaper articles would probably be enough to show that this waterpark is notable (and should have a Wikipedia article).

Currently, you cited five sources in the article. Unfortunately, I do not think that any of them meet the requirements of the GNG. The first two are the official website of the waterpark and an Estonian tourism website – both of these have a financial incentive to promote the waterpark, so they are not independent. Sources 3 and 4 look like machine-generated summaries and very short, so they are probably not significant coverage and might not be reliable. The last source is probably the best one: It's a little on the short side, but it's probably an independent, reliable source. More sources like this would be great.

I'll give you some more time to look for sources. I tried to find more myself and came up empty. Sadly, we can't find any better sources about this waterpark, the article will probably be nominated for deletion. If that happens, I suggest you go check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Amusement Parks or improve some of the articles at , which might interest you! Best, Toadspike [Talk] 20:54, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]