Talk:Wooden roller coaster

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[edit] Examples of wooden coasters section

I vote for stopping the addition of further "examples of wooden roller coasters" unless an article already exists for the ride. A majority of the coasters in the list are uncreated articles and the list additions could keep going until all 706+ wooden coasters (according to rcdb.com) in the world are added.... Let's stop adding the wooden coasters unless there's a notable article for the ride already in existence. -- BrandonR July 4, 2005 22:44 (UTC)

What sections, if any, do you all think need to be added to round out this article more?

I added some more technical details about woodies, including some information on side friction and scenic railways. I also added a link to scenic railway pictures from Robb and Elissa Alvey's Europe tour, although the last picture of the page may be questionable. Another option is to create a separate article for scenic railways, or integrate it with the Side friction roller coaster article. If necessary, I could ask Robb if he would allow for his pictures to be posted directly on Wikipedia, provided he is credited. Also, maybe we could add some information about the Intamin pre-fab woodies (Colossos, Balder, El Toro) WillMcC 04:05, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

I removed Texas Cyclone as it was demolished. I added Colossus because there was an article for it and it is a racing coaster which is not represented here. iamscottevil 8:34, 15 June 2006

[edit] Article does not cite its references tag

I removed this tag for a few reasons. First of all, there's not much information in the article that probably needs citing as most of it is common sense or general knowledge and history. None of its controversial, and if specific statements DO need to be cited, put the tag on those offending lines...

Otherwise, I think this article is quite sufficient at being rather encyclopedic. --BrandonR 19:34, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposal to move 'examples of wooden coasters' section to new article

The 'examples of wooden roller coasters' section is growing long and out of control... I propose we move it to a new topic called "List of wooden roller coasters" and link to it from this article, and perhaps only list 5-10 truly world-famous wooden roller coasters on this page. That'd clean up the article quite a bit. Any comments? -- BrandonR 16:33, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree with removing all but a few notable ones on there. However, I think that a list of wooden roller coasters would never be complete and would open up the way for lots of pointless roller coaster lists. I'll flag this up on the roller coaster WikiProject, so hopefully you'll get a few more comments. :) Seaserpent⁸⁵_Talk 10:32, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. Just keep a few, like The Beast and other notable ones. 76.240.206.29 20:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I went ahead and trimmed the list down. We already have Category:Wooden roller coasters and if anyone still needs the list, it is still in the article history --WillMcC 18:21, 12 September 2007 (UTC)