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Stealth (Flying Dutchman prototype coaster) at Paramount's Great America was actually the first Flying Dutchman coaster to use the GAU to raise and recline the seats on the train (having worked at the park that year and seeing the "GAU Up" and "GAU Down" lables on the control panel confirm this). N Yo FACE 06:28, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
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Just a note that the patent drawing has been nominated for deletion on Commons. It may have to be removed. jcgoble3 ( talk) 21:18, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Retrolord ( talk · contribs) 07:11, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
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"After Cedar Fair Entertainment Company purchased the park and renamed it in 2004, they began downsizing it." I dont understand this, could you please explain it "Firehawk has a total of five inversions. It features one vertical loop, two inline twists, two "Lie to Fly" and two "Fly to Lie" elements.[7] Each "Lie to Fly" and "Fly to Lie" element is counted as a half inversion.[13][14] A "Lie to Fly" element is when riders are on their backs, facing the sky and they are flipped and face the ground.[15] A "Fly to Lie" element is the opposite." Section seems overly technical and confusing, too much lie fly fly lie jargon, could we simplify it? "(similar to a railroad switch. Dual-station operation allows for two trains to be loaded simultaneously for more efficient operation. This configuration existed since the ride debuted at Geauga Lake" Missing a bracket + What is the purpose of the railroad switch explanation? Doesn't really seem neccessary, a simple link to that article would do think. "the opening set for Memorial Day weekend" Could we please be more specific? Could we change it to a specific date?
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"Firehawk officially opened as scheduled on May 26, 2007, in time for Memorial Day weekend. The second track however, did not open until the following weekend, on June 9, 2007." Citation needed After having a look at source 7, i don't see how it proves the statement "The third train has become a parts donor for the first two trains." The source states that it is "thought" this may have happened.
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Seems repetitive and unneccessarry detail? "The cause of the man's death was not immediately released." Is this neccessary? We find out the cause of death in the next sentence. Do you think we could remove this sentence?
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7. Overall assessment. | PASS! |
I have addressed all the comments except one. I don't know how I can change the "Fly to lie" and "Lie to fly" lines. They provide the information needed and it would be confusing without it.-- Astros4477 ( Talk) 16:39, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
Inserted the missing bracket. As for the explanation of the railroad-type switch, we should consider WP:LINKSTYLE which states: "Don't assume that readers will be able to access a link at all, as, for example, they might have printed an article and be reading the hard copy on paper". Not only is the explanation helpful in this respect, but it also helps meet good prose style for having at least 3 sentences in a paragraph. If it is still decided to remove the extra info, then we should probably remove the entire Station subsection. -- GoneIn60 ( talk) 16:29, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
I removed a part in the incidents section.-- Astros4477 ( Talk) 21:13, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Addressed comment regarding Incident section. As for "Memorial Day weekend", this covers a range of dates not a specific one as stated in the source. So, I'm not sure you can really change this. -- GoneIn60 ( talk) 20:13, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
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I'm satisfied with the article then, will pass soon assuming i don't see any problems. ★ ★ Retro Lord ★★ 05:31, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Dom497! Thanks for your comments, they are most welcome. After carefully reviewing the good article criteria, which all good article nominations are measured against, I can find no reason to not promote this article. Your points regarding the dead references have been addressed, and it remains unclear to me as to how the "majority" of the references are unreliable. Pursuant to the Good article criteria, this article is passed.
About a month and a half ago, I had stumbled upon an interview concerning Six Flags Worlds of Adventure's X-Flight roller coaster (which at the time was about to open soon). In one section of this interview, Vice President Jack Bateman indicated that park management was considering naming X-Flight after one of DC Comics' characters. However, after issues with the coaster's location, they had decided on a more generic theme. You can see the addition I had made here.
The problem was, the source I had used (a Six Flags Ohio "fan-site") did not meet Wikipedia's reliability requirements. Now, according to the fan-site, this interview was an exclusive story of theirs! So, unless somebody can find a more reliable source that has verified the DC Comics claim, I highly doubt that I could re-insert this information in a more proper manner. Perhaps somebody who knows more about the park could lend a hand? Megalomaniaman ( talk) 21:45, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
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