Talk:SooperDooperLooper

Notability
, can you please provide the sources which you know to exist which indicate notability for this topic? Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 16:18, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
 * It was the first looping coaster on the U.S. East Coast and only the second ever in the US. Its construction and its opening were both reported by non-local papers. The Philadelphia Inquirer also reported on the coaster one year after it opened. These were literally just the first few results I found on newspapers.com. The Baltimore Sun later reported on how the coaster was used to teach local students. – Epicgenius (talk) 18:42, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I think the message was meant to convey that the article itself does not have enough information to make it notable. If you have sources, then they need to be incorporated into the wiki page. Also, despite what the park claimed and sources have subsequently repeated, the whole "first looping coaster on the east coast" claim is highly debatable. Riverside and Kings Dominion both opened looping coasters in 1977, and both are farther east than Hersheypark. Granted, they were shuttle loops, but looping coasters nonetheless. Furthermore, it was not the second looper to open in the U.S., that record goes to Cedar Point's Corkscrew which opened on May 15, 1976, just one week after Magic Mountain's Revolution and a full year before SDL. I also have a hard time thinking of Hersheypark as being associated with the east coast when it is more than 160 miles to the nearest coastline and you have to enter another state. No portion of Pennsylvania touches the Atlantic ocean.— JlACEer ( talk ) 20:20, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
 * That is a good point. I was planning to add these sources to the article later, but I was basically responding to Horse Eye's Back's message, which seems to have been prompted by this edit of mine. I see what you mean regarding the looping coaster record - I forgot that Corkscrew also had a loop and, in fact, I actually forgot about all the other looping coasters. If we're really being precise, the first looping coaster on the East Coast is Flip Flap Railway, which opened all the way back in 1895. Even if SDL was on the East Coast, it wasn't anywhere near the first. Honestly, I listed these sources primarily to prove that SDL was, in fact, mentioned in multiple secondary sources. – Epicgenius (talk) 22:12, 16 August 2022 (UTC)