Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of roller coaster rankings/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

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List of roller coaster rankings

 * Nominator(s): Astros4477  ( talk ) 21:22, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because it has received a peer review and I believe it meets all the criteria. Astros4477 ( talk ) 21:22, 27 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Support TBrandley 19:58, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Oppose —  Andrew s talk  08:13, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Image licensing all seems OK to me
 * Why are Parkz, Experience the Point, Ultimate Roller Coaster and Roller Coaster Database reliable?
 * Ultimate Roller Coaster and Rolller Coaster Database have always been considered reliable. I'm not as too familiar with the other two. I'm sure other sources could be found to replace those if needed.-- Astros4477 ( talk ) 15:11, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm happy with RCDB (note that it should be in CamelCase&mdash;DataBase, not Database), but why has Ultimate Roller Coaster "always been considered reliable"? If more reliable sources are available that can replace dubious ones, then definitely do so. —  Andrew s talk  22:54, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Im afraid Ultimate Roller Coaster and RCDB are the most reliable sources there are.-- Astros4477 ( talk ) 01:49, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I removed the Experience the Point ref, I'll look into the Parkz ref later.-- Astros4477 ( talk ) 00:06, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I have replaced the Parkz reference. Themeparkgc   Talk  00:56, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I removed the Ultimate Roller Coaster refs where I could.-- Astros4477 ( talk ) 23:55, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Neutral I still have reservations about the reliability of a few of the sources used (in addition to those listed above), but otherwise the list is in pretty good shape. I'll wait and see what other reviewers have to say about the sourcing issue. Adabow (talk) 02:48, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I removed the last two Ultimate Roller Coaster refs.-- Astros4477 ( talk ) 21:56, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I see at least one other occurence. Also, how are and  reliable? (The latter lacks publisher info, too). Adabow (talk) 01:34, 17 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment - why are there no refs on rows Griffon and Alpengeist of table Tallest roller coasters inversions? And while I'm fine with RCDB based on it being used as a source in multiple news articles, the reason it raises red flags is that there's nothing about it that contradicts the idea that I could go out and submit data for a missing coaster which would be taken at face value by the admins, without fact checking. -- Pres N  04:20, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I have added references. I'm not familiar with the person that runs the site but I'm sure he only takes information from trusted sources.-- Astros4477 ( talk ) 04:50, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The only user-contributable part of the website is that of photography. For inclusion, roller coasters have to have been publicly announced by an amusement park or track must be visible onsite for an unknown future roller coaster. See this page for more. The site also has a team of 13 researchers which ensure the information is accurate. Themeparkgc   Talk  01:03, 27 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Title is misleading I really thought that the article is about something else. Why isn't the article titled "List of roller coaster records"? Nergaal (talk) 21:12, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Because it's not just about records, its about rankings too. If it was titled records, you would just have, "First roller coaster with 5 inversions", "First roller coaster over 300 feet", "First roller coaster over 100 mph" etc. I think the title is suitable for what the article is about.-- Astros4477 ( talk ) 22:25, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
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