Talk:Icon Park

Notice on current status of article
ICON Park, the subject of this article, is currently at the center of a high-profile incident, the death of 14-year-old Tyre Sampson (see Incidents section). As such, a lot of readers are currently visiting this article (which is currently a stub) to learn about the park, and edits- particularly to the Incidents section- may be added or changed frequently as new information about the incident and the park itself comes to light. Please avoid using sources which contain speculation, as a cause has not been officially determined. Opinions from experts on what may have happened may be acceptable, but please be sure these come reported from a reliable source and use wording in the article that reflects that it is not part of an official incident report. Also please refrain from linking to sources which show footage of the child's death at this time. I believe footage of a death is footage that would be considered offensive/obscene to most Wikipedia readers, and therefore falls under "offensive material". See WP:GRATUITOUS: "offensive material should be used only if its omission would cause the article to be less informative, relevant, or accurate, and no equally suitable alternative is available." I'm open to discussion on this point, but at this time I do not see a reason that this footage would need to be linked to.

I'm attempting to gather history on ICON Park outside of the incident to expand this article, but it may be a slow process. Please bear with me. Pastel143 (talk) 14:14, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 25 March 2024

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. – robertsky (talk) 01:20, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

ICON Park → Icon Park – WP:TITLETM / MOS:ALLCAPS / MOS:TM. As far as I can tell, "ICON" is just all-caps promotional styling for the word "icon". The two cited Attractions Magazine sources use "Icon" rather than "ICON". So do this Orlando Weekly article, this AOL UK article, this Florida Politics article, etc.. The "about us" information on the amusement park's website just says the amusement park is "iconic", giving no explanation of the term as an abbreviation. Even if some unabbreviated form exists somewhere, it is not frequently provided and not all-capped consistently in independent reliable sources. Some sources do use the all-caps, but it is a mixture, and Wikipedia style is to avoid all-caps in such situations. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 18:23, 25 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Lowercase per MOS:CAPS. Popcornfud (talk) 20:22, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Support Icon, not ICON. Dicklyon (talk) 08:40, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Lists of shops and restaurants
Having a list of main attractions for an amusement park seems natural, but listing the names of its restaurants and shops seems like a bit too much. Wikipedia isn't supposed to be a tour guide. This place seems structured a bit differently from a regular amusement park, and in some ways resembles a shopping mall, as it is operated by individual tenancies. However, I checked a few articles about shopping malls and none of those listed their minor restaurants and shops either. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 21:18, 25 March 2024 (UTC)


 * i agree with this, maybe limited to tenancies that are more significant? Sr1jj (talk) 17:38, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * None of the shops seem significant to me. Nearly all of them might be found in a typical shopping mall. The restaurants also mostly seem like typical chains that would be found elsewhere. The ones that have Wikipedia articles dedicated to them are all chains with hundreds of locations. The Gordon Ramsay fish & chips shop is not mentioned in the Gordon Ramsay article and is not mentioned in the List of restaurants owned or operated by Gordon Ramsay. Maybe the Ole Red is the most noteworthy among them. There seems to only be about four of those and it seems like a relatively large place that features live music, and the Blake Shelton article on Wikipedia contains a paragraph discussing them. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 01:41, 2 April 2024 (UTC)