Image check: the infobox image is fine, so is the smaller image in the first section. The Thompson image is from flickr and is correctly licensed and the stratosphere image is also fine.
Quick fail issues: no obvious tags or cleanup banners, images are fine, references evident, no evidence of edit-warring...
I'll leave comments as I read through:
Small grammar nitpick: 'Inverted' is capitalised in the lede for some reason.
Fixed
"Instead of featuring a short layout designed to fit in a compact space like Batman: The Ride, Raptor was designed with a unique 3,790-foot (1,160 m) layout ": this sentence is a word-for-word copy of the text in source one and should be rewritten to avoid any possible
WP:Copyvio issues.
Done
Rest of the lede seems fine. Ditto the infobox.
Might be worth adding the name of the source to give the quote announcing the building of Raptor? "Park management said during a press conference..." or similar, just to prevent any potential
WP:NPOV issues.
I'm afraid not. Citing directly from the
Manual of Style: Do not enclose block quotations in quotation marks (and especially avoid decorative quotation marks in normal use, such as those provided by the {{cquote}} template, which are reserved for pull quotes). This seems pretty clear, so they will have to come out. I would just use the standard blockquote formatting style...
Meetthefeebles (
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22:44, 27 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Fixed
Carrousel, in English, should have one 'r' I think (I seem to recall that it has two 'r's in French). Might also be worth blue linking this.
Done
Is 'Midway'
this? If so, suggest blue linking as I don't know what a midway is?
Done
Suggest Adding 'A' before 'Media Day'– I can see that 'Media Day' is a term from the source but I'm not sure it really means a lot. I would also suggest changing the 'then' in the sentence to 'before' as it would read a touch better.
Fair enough. 'Media day' isn't a term I've heard in the UK and it just seems a bit promotional to me, but I suppose it might be a cultural thing. We can leave this in.
Meetthefeebles (
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22:44, 27 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Take the word 'Jamming' out of 'Jamming DJ's': this is a marketing term and is not encyclopedic. In fact, I'd just stop that sentence at "used on the weekends."
Done
"In 2007, the park added On-ride video cameras where riders could purchase a DVD of their ride at the photo booth. However, this has since been removed." Do we have a reference for this sentence? I also think that 'on-ride' shouldn't be capitalised.
As I said, all I could find is a thread on PointBuzz. I know this can't be used in the article. However, Walt, the person that posted
this on PointBuzz is a very reliable source. I contribute to the forum regularly and him and another guy are the ones in charge.--
Astros4477 (
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21:37, 25 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Suggest changing 'negatively affected' to 'adversely affected'?
Done
Suggest adding the convert template to the minimum height requirement (54 inches (1.4 m))?
Done
Is there a reason why the word Raptor in the operation section is italicized? It isn't elsewhere in the article. Suggest removal of italics to maintain consistency.
Done
I'd suggest adding a comma between 'day' and 'reopening' in the incidents section.
Done
Reference check: I've checked about three quarters of the references and they all seem fine.
Sorry for the slight delay in getting back to this– work took an unexpectedly busy turn over the last couple of days and time has been short. This one is almost there; just a couple of remaining issues to consider and we're done.
Meetthefeebles (
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22:44, 27 November 2012 (UTC)reply Just re-reading prior to a final review and I have one last quibble. In the lede, we have "Raptor was designed with a larger, 3,790-foot (1,160 m) layout making it the tallest, fastest and longest inverted roller coaster." Should this sentence end 'in the world', perhaps? At present it lacks context.
Meetthefeebles (
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23:15, 27 November 2012 (UTC)reply
A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have
fair use rationales:
B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with
suitable captions:
Overall:
Pass or Fail:
My only concern, as indeed I have with all of the roller-coaster articles I've come across, is that they seem rather short on content, but I am not entirely sure what more can be realistically added. With that in mind, I've assessed this article against the requirements of
WP:WIAGA and, in the light of improvements carried out, I'm awarding GA-status. Well done! Please consider reviewing an article against the GA criteria.
Meetthefeebles (
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19:44, 28 November 2012 (UTC)reply