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This article could use some spiffying up, but it is not really written like an advertisement. It documents the existence of said amusement park.Isaac Crumm 19:33, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, I don't see why it was tagged. It does not display a bias, IMO. V-train 21:12, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I removed tag, but did replace "offers" with "has" to make it sound less addy. Fcsuper 01:33, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Old Marine World Africa USA Logo

I found a logo of Marine World Africa USA. But how do I put it on the page without plagerizing the owner?

wouldn't this fall under the same fair-use as the current logo? Ogre lawless 23:42, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:SFDK Logo.jpg

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I've added fair use rationale to the image. Ogre lawless 18:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Former kids area

Before the Looney Tunes Seaport, and even before the Popeye's Seaport, I remember that the play area used to be for a local TV station's kids club. I can't remember if it was KTVU or KOFY, but it definitely featured the characters from Animaniacs, which happened to be played on both channels at different points in time. Hmmm, something about Lori and RJ. Funny, I still have my KOFY Kids Club membership card (it hasn't self-destructed yet). Anyways, can someone help me confirm? Oh yeah, and there was a big whale ballpen/slide too. --Geopgeop 08:46, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge

Oppose. The Marine World Africa use has a decades long history and contains many unique features of attractions, community relations, development history that would be cumbersome to evolve in a Vallejo site article. Cuvette 02:16, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Statement not accurate?

I believe the statement "In 2000, the park opened its fourth major roller coaster dubbed "Medusa". Medusa was built by Bolliger & Mabillard and was the first floorless roller coaster on the West Coast." is not accurate. It either needs to explain what "floorless" means (and list a link), or I'd have to say that Batman rollercoaster at Great American holds that title by at least 5 years sooner. With no citation, I propose the removal of that statemnt. Fcsuper 16:16, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The link to the floorless roller coasters Wiki page is already in that sentence. V-train 06:43, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Controversy" Section

The controversy section of this article is very biased. The entire section only has one source, an article about animal cruelty that doesn't mention discovery kingdom. It also seems to violate the no original research policy. Lmcleodson (talk) 01:40, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This seems to be a made up controversy added to this article to damage the company and since it offers no sources or proof, i chose to eliminate the section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bjamessuchy (talk • contribs) 01:15, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I made the mistake of reverting your action before I took a closer look at the content. It was very biased, so I removed the section again. There's lots of slow "bias wars" with this page, so I try to keep an eye on it from time to time. I don't know how that controversy section got by me... hmm... In any case, thanks for removing it in the first place. Killiondude (talk) 01:21, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Somewhere along the line someone added the following in the External links section, which may or may not have supported the oriinal controversy section: "Affidavits by former employees: Melissa Hindman, Aaron Wilson". These are not appropriate External link material to begin with, and do not support any material currently in the article, so I'm just "parking" them here. If they are used, they should be in a section in the Six flags "Controversy" article here anyway. Don Lammers (talk) 02:22, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

On glancing at this article, I invoked WP:BOLD and removed the "Concerns" section. Most of it was unsourced, and though there were a few external links that seemed intended to be sources they all linked to the same site and did not directly support the claims made. Most of the claims made in the section were not even about Six Flags Discovery Kingdom specifically, but rather the general subject of anti-animal captivity. Though there is certainly a place for information on criticisms and controversies surrounding a business, the content must be specifically relevant to the article's subject and carefully sourced. --IllaZilla (talk) 07:26, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well they're on the IDA list of worst zoos for elephants. Surely that's specific and carefully sourced enough? http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/wild-free2/elephant-protection/hall-of-shame/2014-ten-worst-zoos-elephants/ Tigerman2005 (talk) 07:03, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

There is repeat vandalism that is obviously purposeful. User changing park to prison and referencing "animal torture". It's been edited but it's occurring repetitively. Swerky18 (talk) 13:44, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Swerky18: Hi, thanks for reporting this. There were two anonymous users who made these disruptive edits. I have given both of the warnings and will keep an eye on this page. Please revert any further vandalism of this sort, thanks for your help. LoudLizard (📞 | contribs | ✉) 13:52, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of Kids Rides

The Kids Rides Section should be converted into a table to be in line with the rest of the article. Also there seems to be a lot of descriptions from the park map/accessibility guide. Eye4ThemeParks (talk) 21:29, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Put all the rides into tables

Some of the ride types are in tables while others are just bulleted lists. This should be fixed. FFrenchyyyy (talk) 03:04, 22 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]