Talk:List of drive-in theaters

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 * Thanks for adding this, Evrik. Definitely some room for growth. Note Silver Drive-In is currently a redirect, with room for an ,if anyone is inclined to work on it. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 04:13, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
 * did a lot of the work. There's a lot more information on wikidata. --evrik (talk) 21:30, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but actually the good people of CinemaTreasures did the work, I just managed to import most of their data to Wikidata (and match it with some more sources in some cases). --Anvilaquarius (talk) 18:19, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Is there any way to easily access that data to get a listing? --evrik (talk) 20:07, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Disambiguation
Is there a consensus on what to do with some of the names, {i.e. Silver Drive-In, Starlite Drive-In, Trail Drive-In, or Midway Drive-In) which were used many times? --evrik (talk) 20:11, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant
I had previously griped about this one some time ago. It was long enough ago that it's certainly fair to consider it an open question.

Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant is not a drive-in theater, it's a restaurant made to resemble a drive-in, with tables made to look like cars (i.e., there's no "driving in"). As such, I don't think it belongs here. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 04:13, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Agreed, it is an Category:Outdoor theatres. --evrik (talk) 18:48, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Redirects
The current inclusion criteria call for non-redirect articles for all listed drive-ins. drive- Yes, re-directs "point to content", but the drive-in still fails the inclusion criteria. I can sit here all day creating re-directs for various drive-ins with no indication that they are/were in any way noteworthy. Heck, given the prevailing attitude that "redirects are cheap", I could easily create redirects for the drive-in in Grease (musical), Grease (film), the video for that one Hooters song, the one near my grandmother's house that's now part of the Air Force base, etc. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 00:54, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I feel like your comments above may not have been complete. The article right now is very USA focused. I advocate leaving Australia and Canada (with the blue-linked redirects) simply to maintain the balance. --evrik (talk) 19:55, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Your plan, then, is to limit the list of theaters in the U.S. to blue link, non-redirect notable theaters. Outside of the U.S., for "balance", we will have a far looser standard.
 * This would give us a list of notable theaters in the U.S. that have been the subject of non-trivial coverage in independent reliable sources and theaters everywhere else in the world that someone decided to create a redirect for.
 * That's a false balance. Extending that line of reasoning, we would need even looser criteria for countries outside of the Anglosphere. How about former Blockbuster locations in the Maldives that had off-street parking? - Sum mer PhD v2.0 20:28, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think for balance, we limit the list of theaters in the U.S. to blue link, non-redirect notable theaters. We can parse the language for Australia, where they have content. We can change Canada, to other countries. I don't think anyone cares besides you and me. --evrik (talk) 21:17, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Different standards based on location is not "balance". Should we adjust List of highest-grossing films so that Bollywood films can get into the top 50? We don't have a List of people from Vatican City. Would we "balance" it against List of people from New York City by listing everyone we can verify was ever a citizen?
 * From the list without your false "balance", it seems to me that drive-in theaters were much more of a thing in the U.S. than they were in Australia, Canada, Maldives or the Vatican City. No, I am not in favor of creating artificial weightings based on location to distort that reality. If Maldives Blockbuster locations with off-street parking is a viable category, it should stand on its own, without being propped up by special pleading. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 23:41, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * There is no "false balance." There is no special pleading. This may have been more prevalent in the English-speaking world. It's a very small community here that maintains the quality of this page. So far, I think it looks good. Keeping Australia and Canada does no harm, especially since the redirects do lead to content. --evrik (talk) 19:26, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This article has inclusion criteria. Redirects do not meet those criteria. If you wish to change the selection criteria, you'll need to demonstrate that your Frankensteined version is somehow something other than your personal preference.
 * Artificially increasing the number of entries from outside the U.S. creates an artificial balance, based on your personal preference.
 * You have created this artificial set of selection criteria out of nothing without any meaningful justification.
 * The number of people editing this page is completely irrelevant to whether or not it should conform to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
 * Yes, WP:NOHARM. Really. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 12:57, 12 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Please keep your tone civil. I really don't feel like arguing any further. I will take it back to your version. --evrik (talk) 01:19, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Lighthouse 5
"Lighthouse 5 is the biggest in the world" but not listed. Jidanni (talk) 02:37, 2 April 2020 (UTC)


 * The current inclusion criteria here call for blue link notability. If you have sufficient coverage in reliable source, create an article for it, then add it to the list. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 03:07, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Add "size" or "capacity" column
Add "size" or "capacity" column. Jidanni (talk) 02:39, 2 April 2020 (UTC)


 * To add the column, we would need the information to be in reliable sources and/or the individual articles. I don't see that at the moment. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 03:08, 2 April 2020 (UTC)