Template:Did you know nominations/Flip Flap Railway
- The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 11:34, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
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Lina Beecher, Flip Flap Railway, Loop the Loop (Coney Island), Loop the Loop (Young's Million Dollar Pier), Loop the Loop (Olentangy Park)
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- ... that Lina Beecher's Flip Flap Railway (pictured) was tested with monkeys and sandbags but still produced injuries because of its circular loop, an issue which was corrected with later looping coasters at Coney Island, Atlantic City, and Olentangy Park?
Created by IronGargoyle (talk). Self nominated at 14:08, 10 September 2013 (UTC).
- I shall start reviewing this shortly. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 20:15, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
- Five QPQs have been done as noted above. Each article in the hook is long enough, varying between 1632 and 3104 bytes of readable prose. All were moved from various sandboxes to mainspace on 10th September, the date of the nomination. All are marked as Start-class, which in my view is an accurate rating. Having read various bits at Wikipedia:WikiProject Amusement Parks/Standards, in particular this, I am satisfied that all four roller coasters in question easily pass notability standards, especially as there are multiple references in each article. A mixture of online and offline (book/newspaper) sources have been used; for those I can check, there is no close paraphrasing and no errors in interpretation. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 21:39, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
I have now finished reading through all 5 articles. The hook fact (which is interesting, and which is sourced to a book) is correctly mentioned in both articles where it is relevant. This is one of those "compound hooks" where some of the articles don't relate directly to the hook fact (the monkeys and sandbags bit) but instead relate to other articles mentioned in the hook, which in my view is fine. Sorry for waffling on! Verified AGF. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 21:50, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
