Talk:Six Flags Great America/Archive 1

Clean-up Needed
Much of this article is designed like a (poorly written) advertisement. Some of the information seems to be presented using corny jokes and such. The article seems to be written like a company-provided park history, not an unbiased encyclopedia article. Along with the need to clean out some of the advertisement-like bias and corniness in this article, there are dozens of grammatical errors, especially involving seemingly random capitalization that is used incorrectly. Please check through this article and re-write as necessary to clean up the bias and cheap jokes (e.g. "It is the perfect destination for Families with small children" in the description of Wiggles World (notice the incorrect capitalization as well) or the entire description of the upcoming ride "The Dark Knight") and at the same time also fixing the many grammatical errors.

...::: DietCoke119 :::... 23:57, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Photos
What the hell happened to all of the photos?--Jon Revelle 04:15, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks like somebody removed 'em without being noticed. .  I've merged them back in.  --Interiot 15:32, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism!
After details of 1997, the rest of the article has been cut off. 60.39.36.152's vandalism has been cleaned up.--User:jonrev 00:30, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

History
I added a complete history of the park. Plese correct any errors if found. I am also adding photos of some of the major rides.--Jon Revelle 08:19, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey, Jon. I am replacing your picture of the Columbia carousel with a much sharper, higher resolution one.  Columbia Carousel at Six Flags Great America, 2005.jpg

There's no discussion of the Edge rollercoaster; maybe someone with knowledge of it can write something? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zzzzz9 (talk • contribs) 00:08, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Major revision
The article had a good start but it really needed some more added to it because essentially it was a chronology of rides. I added a ton more on the front end highlighting some things that made Mariott's Great America different from the park that exists today. I'm going to work on this some more but so far culling the source material my memory has been pretty darn arccurate! I look forward to working with folks more on it. What we really need is some more and better photos. --Wgfinley 07:14, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Orleans Orbit/Orbit
Are you sure that Orbit in Hometown Square is a different ride? According to several websites it is the exact same ride with paint modifications.

Yeah, I think that needs to be fixed, originally I thought it was much smaller than the original Orleans Orbit but looking at the pics over at GA Parks that doesn't appear to be the case. --Wgfinley 01:43, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Orleans Orbit/Orbit was an Anton Schwarzkopf Enterprise ride and usually those kind of rides are built the same size. I dont know how you would've seen the ride as smaller.--Jon Revelle 03:32, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Rapids Crow reference
Anyone know what the heck this reference is about "final ride of The Crow", I have no idea what that is. Never heard it referred to and I worked the ride for 4 years and never heard that reference. --Wgfinley 01:47, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Rapids was the last ride added by Marriott. So RR is the final ride of (Marriott's) the crow.--Jon Revelle 02:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Crowds / how-to information
Detailed how-to information (what time to arrive at the park, what rides one should or should not visit first) are generally not considered encyclopedic, but are appropriate for Wikibooks. I believe the move to wikibooks for that section is entirely appropriate, though the section could simply be trimmed down (AFAIK, very small amounts of how-to info may pop up in encyclopedia articles sometimes). --Interiot 13:25, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Shows and entertainment
Removed this whole section. It looks like it was lifted directly from advertising material and poorly written overall. The information might be useful, but it needs to be drastically edited. If someone else wants to make the corrections, please go ahead. Zotdragon 17:01, 20 September 2006 (UTC){{subst:image source|Image:20-LgLogo200x200.gif)) Betacommand {{sup|(talk • contribs • Bot)}} 23:42, 24 May 2007 (UTC) {{missing rationale|Image:20-LgLogo200x200.gif

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Fright Fest
First, folks need to use the talk page more adding and removing material. Second, that entire section is not sourced. This article has enough verifiability problems as it is, the information needs to be sourced or it's going to be removed. For now I flagged it. --WGFinley (talk) 22:35, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

November 1, 2012 IP USER Added NEW section about Fright Fest using Six Flags corporate website as a source, as well as JPM Productions. It's important to include it in the article because it is one of the busiest and most popular times of year and therefore influences decisions about the future of the park.

Major Revert
I hated to do this because there were some decent edits later but an IP user made massive changes to the article. These changes were written in a PR tone and were promotional in nature in clear violation of WP:NPOV. I reverted the article back to the way it was before this user did all these edits a couple of days ago. I apologize if your edit was lost but given the shear scope of what was done with all this unsourced and promotional material that was added I had to revert it back to an earlier version.

This is still an article in need of much work. It has very little in the way of sources and much of it, admittedly some even added by myself, is from first-hand observation and not verified. I think the best way to overhaul this article is to start getting parts of it verified with sources where we can. --WGFinley (talk) 22:57, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Rides per areas
Sectioned off the rides to their themed areas of the park and moved defunct list to List of former Six Flags Great America attractions--Nickvet419 (talk) 06:34, 29 January 2012 (UTC)