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No idea where im gay came from
In the trademark discussion of escalator, the word im gay appears out of nowhere at the end of its content. I tried searching around but I can't find out how the words got added. Maybe someone can look into it? Discmon (talk) 02:12, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Not seeing it... screenshot? --Golbez (talk) 04:44, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * It's there alright, at the end of the section "Loss of trademark rights". The offending text appears nowhere in the Wikisource for the article,  so it probably comes from vandalism to a template or Wikicode somewhere else.  I'm not sure how to trace it further, so I'm asking for help at the WP:HELPDESK.  Reify-tech (talk) 17:43, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed by purging. -- Glaisher  [talk]  17:48, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * It was vandalism introduced by an IP and removed in the same minute by the Cluebot, so your visibility to the phrase was a rare coincidence indeed! -- Escalator hater TRPoD aka The Escalator hater 18:12, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

list of deaths/injuries by escalator
usually there is a list-of-deaths somewhere to be found and there are a few mentioned in http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/M%C3%A9tro+escalator+accident+without+precedent/9451274/story.html something like this should be added to the article some more http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/escalator.asp
 * wikipedia is an encyclopedia. escalators are used by millions of people every day, to give coverage to individual accidents is grossly WP:UNDUE. an overview of general safety is appropriate, a listing of individual deaths is not. --  TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  13:30, 31 January 2014 (UTC)


 * At least it should be listed all types of accidents that can happen on a escalator: accidents with clothes, accidents with shoes, or the last where a woman died in China with a opened trap. --Pwnagic (talk) 13:53, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
 * What needs to be said that's not already in the Safety section? --Golbez (talk) 14:08, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Model sizes and other specifications
No references for this section at all. Does every escalator of the same width really have the same capacity power unit, for example? 'Obviously' there is a balance element for the weight: the net mass moving = the mass of the passengers, because the same mass of escalator elements is moving down as up. But a longer escalator can have many more passengers... so either short ones are really over specified or longer ones need more powerful motors? Lovingboth (talk) 00:56, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

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It looks like Time Cube... — Preceding unsigned comment added by PecosHeero (talk • contribs) 04:27, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Crisscross layout
Crisscross layout of escalator at Mahboonkrong Center, widely known as the MBK Center, in Bangkok. Such layouts are used to minimize structural space requirements by "stacking" escalators that go in one direction."

This is wrong. In most crisscross installations, sucessive escalators sloped in a particular direction,  run in opposite direction,  up or down. It depends on the preference of the building owner. If you want users to travel as quickly as possible,  they will go up the escalator sloping to the right,   and then turn and immediately get on the next escalator, sloping to the left. On the other hand, if you want users to walk through the merchandise on the floor,  then you would arrange successive up escalators to be sloping the same way,  so the customers have to walk right around to get to the next one.Lathamibird (talk) 04:42, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

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Etymology section and derivatives of escalator
The derivatives of escalator subsection goes into detail about the definition and derivation of the verb escalate; this sort of paragraph-long definition for a word seems like the exact reason we have Wiktionary, where the same information is presented neatly in a few lines without the broken citations to OED. Do folks agree that it would be appropriate to delete this subsection from the already exceedingly long and comprehensive article? Mehmuffin (talk) 17:37, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

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Kota Kasablanka Escalator
Has anyone actually made a cite-able article about the tiny escalators at one entrance of the Kota Kasablanka mall in Jakarta? They're so small, you can only see less than ten steps at a time, and I think they could actually beat the listed 'other small escalator' here. Uaiazr Jxhiosh (talk) 09:51, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Escalaphobia, Safety, & Litigation
Te article does not mention escalaphobia. Escalaphobia is natural because the stairs move, making it harrowing to safely get onto them.

The article does not mention that, among the 3 most common public convinces for traveling vertically, Elevators, stairs, and escalators, escalators are the most dangerous. From safest to most dangerous is elevators, stairs, escalators.

Businesses with escalators always try blame accidents on the victims. This is true about half the time because the world is full of drooling morons with death wishes, intent on taking as many innocent bystanders with them as possible, but the other half of the time, it is the fault of the escalator:

The steps of escalators move. These are moving targets. It is very easy to step between steps and tumble as the steps separate. The owners claim that this is user-error. This is clearly the fault of the escalator because it is hard to hit moving targets. Whenever people get hurt on escalators because of missing steps, it is the fault of the business for having an escalator.

History
This is a strange (and imo too long) section. It’s seems to focus exclusively on build, engineering and manufacturers. It’s leaves out : peoples reaction to early escalators, the popularity & roll out of escalators around geographic locations (or at least that info isn’t clear), and any consequences of escalators on city life, business life, … ie any indication of the impact of the invention. 88.104.107.74 (talk) 14:19, 20 November 2022 (UTC) ee

Longest individual escalators - Europe
The escalators at Angel on the London Underground are said to be 60m long and the imperial equivalent is given as 200ft; whereas the escalators at the Tyne Cyclist and Pedestrian Tunnel - also 60m long - has an imperial equivalent of 197ft. We should aim for consistency. Haynesta (talk) 13:21, 9 March 2023 (UTC)


 * @Haynesta: The figures for both are referenced in feet, and have been reverse-converted to metres to maintain consistency in the article. The LU figures had a unnecessary rounding applied, which I've removed. Bazza (talk) 13:24, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Bazza 7 Noted. Thanks. 46.68.9.190 (talk) 17:50, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Wooden escalator in Boston
Can anyone supply an image of the old wooden escalators once used by the Boston MTA?

In 1967, the Harvard Square station had such; they were quite different than those in the existing London image (more like ladder rungs). In the parlance of the time, they were very funky. BMJ-pdx (talk) 06:48, 15 March 2023 (UTC)