Talk:Traveling carnival

Photos, References and Information
added photos, references, and information Shinerunner 14:31, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Article merge
In my opinion, Funfair and  Traveling carnival should be seperate articles. While they are similar in appearance, the origins and history are different enough to warrant seperate pages. Shinerunner (talk) 12:28, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Propose remerge Travelling funfair and Traveling carnival
while the tag at the top states "not to be confused with", there is no content in either article which distinguishes one from the other. I have suggested merging back here because the Travelling funfair is essentially unsourced. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  17:05, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

In my oppinion, i think the Travelling Carnival and the Funfair should be different articles as they have different features and different historys. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayjay125678 (talk • contribs) 20:57, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Please say more. What are the differences? Ibadibam (talk) 00:48, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
 * They seem similar to me, aside from one being in the US and one not. --AW (talk) 15:10, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
 * And to me as well. Given that there is no substantial opposition, I'd say it's time to merge this. Ibadibam (talk) 21:12, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree. Without more information about how they're different (the articles don't indicate much difference, and having been to ones in both the US and the UK, I would say the only differences are minor ones of general cultural/regional difference), I don't see any reason why they should be separate articles. Essentially, these are just the British and American terms for the same thing. Any differences could be referenced in the article. AE Logan (talk) 01:41, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * This reads as a consensus to merge; therefore, ✅ Klbrain (talk) 20:07, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

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Overly North American Bias
I feel this page is overly focused on North American carnivals and largely ignores British and European contributions to their development. It also says very little of modern British funfairs which I feel are certainly noteworthy. I would imagine this came about due to the merging of this page with the funfairs page which was overly British focused. I was wondering therefore if anyone has an opinion on this, or would be willing to help remedy it by adding information about funfairs elsewhere in the world. Levitating Scot (talk) 19:50, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

The food section especially couldn't be more American. Tons of North American stuff and no alcohol --2003:D5:3F33:D700:84BA:5CB0:4C47:4915 (talk) 17:29, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

Highly Suspect Etymology of "Mark"
"When dishonest carnival game operators found someone who they could entice to keep playing their "rigged" (slang term: "gaffed") game,[14] they would then "mark" the player by patting their back with a hand that had chalk on it. Other game operators would then look for these chalk marks and entice the individual to also play their rigged game.[13]"

This seems very suspect to me, and the citation isn't exactly to a good source. I think it should be deleted unless a better source can be found. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.240.85.232 (talk) 21:25, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

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 * Sideshow at the Erie County Fair.JPG