Talk:Flamingo Land Resort

Best Wiki entrys for Theme Parks

I think Flamingo Land has now got one of the best Wikipidea entrys around. Dee4Leeds 10:54 (GMT)

Amazing, A high standard well explained page - Luke Terheyden Keighley

I wonder if it was made by someone connected with the park...Is a good wikipedia page becoming good advertising? :p Its a bit badly written in places but quite complete --Josquius 20:49, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

No it was written/edited by the members of Talk Flamingo. --Dee4leeds 21:02, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

• I have added some templates to show that this page needs clean-up
• I have adjusted a quotation from Flamingoland Force so that it is obviously a quotation. The previous edit was not obvious and seemed to have been an attempt at covert advertising.--Shakujo 02:36, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

POV

• The owner might well be a pleasant man and I won't dispute that he is, but if you want to state such a POV then some citation is needed. At the moment it just sounds like some kind of personal publicity, which in actual fact has a negative impact upon the article as a whole and is unencyclopedic.--Shakujo 08:17, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
• This article contains two opposing POVs. The first makes it sound like an advert, the second is currently unsubstantiated rumour, i.e. "Accidents" without any citation of sources.
• If citations are not given within the next week or so, I am going to clean the whole thing up for a more NPOV.--Shakujo 08:39, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Off-topic Information

Wouldn't information about individual management, which has no apparent link to the topic at hand (the theme park), be more suited to an article about said management? I mean, Mr Gibb getting a nomination and knowing that he likes to walk dogs isn't really related to the topic, so I think it's best to remove it --BrokenLink 08:39, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Flamingo land logo new.jpg

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Rides

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- Coasters: Kumali, Velocity, Corkscrew, Mine Train,ttle, Splish Splash. 
- Flat Rides: Cliff Hanger, Navigator, Circulator, Sky Flyer, Waggon Wheel, Voodoo, Tidal Wave. 
- Childrens Rides = Rocking Tug, Honey Bears, Spotted Cow Ride, Little Monsters Wakey Races, Little Monsters Den of Mischief, Little Monsters Exploratorium, Red Barron, Summer Holiday Ride, Frog Hopper, Carousel, Muddy Duck Farm including Giant Tractor Ride. 
- Transport: Daktari Express (Safari Tour / Transport), Monorail, Cable Car.

| owner = Gibb Family (CEO - Gordon Gibb) | slogan = "Wild Animals, Wilder Rides"

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ABOVE REMOVED - The rides in the infobox indicate number of rides, not a list. The above list is also incomplete and broken Bilky asko 15:48, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Been absolutely destroyed

This article needs to be reverted to its former glory. I hope the person who did this is banned from Wikipedia. --Dee4leeds 13:45, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Restore this article!

Half of the content in the article does not display such as the history section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.60.199.36 (talk • contribs)

Fixed, all it was was an unneeded "!". --AxG ^{@ ►talk} 13:35, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 03:16, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Article requires renaming

The parks official name is now no longer 'Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo' it is 'Flamingo Land Resort'. The article requires renaming to refelct this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.26.130.51 (talk) 15:55, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Done. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Velocity2222 (talk • contribs) 16:23, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Owner

I have removed Owner from the infobox for the moment as there appears to be some dispute over it. I have looked on the park web-site but cannot locate any info on this. Can anyone provide sourced information as to owner? Keith D (talk) 22:50, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Rating

The only thing holding this article back from a C-class rating (and maybe even B) is citations. The article needs to be cited so that statements made can be substantiated. Donlammers (talk) 23:27, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

If you do not know how to cite, but know of a source for some particular text, please just put the URL for the source in square brackets after the text that it supports. I am watching this article, and will come back and turn it into a proper citation. Please do NOT put such links under External links. External links should be used mainly for the web site of the facility (see WP:EX) Donlammers (talk) 15:34, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Please have mercy

On those of us who are not amusement park afficionados (like, most of the people who would be reading this article). The abbreviation "IP" needs to be expanded. To me, in the computer chip industry, this means "Intellectual Property", but I suspect that is not the meaning here. Abbreviations MUST be defined for those of us who do not know them in this context. "ATM", of course menas ..... "Asynchronous Transfer Mode" right? Don Lammers (talk) 23:13, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

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21 November 2024 Guild of Copy Editors

This page was tagged for copy-edit clean-up.

Action undertaken: Aggressive Edit to bring in line with Wikipedia standards:

Main changes follow:

1. Removal of technical financial information of no concern to an encyclopedia
2. Rewriting of a few sections so that they didn't sound like someone rambling or an advert - more to do
3. Removal of some unverified information that has been unverified too long.

If anyone would like to make a case for inclusion of anything I've removed we can discuss it here.

Pingu7931 (talk) 23:27, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Flamingo Land Resort/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

. Requires lead section creating Requires inline references adding using one of the {{Cite}} templates Requires more photographs Requires copy-edit for WP:MOS Keith D 20:45, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Last edited at 22:01, 7 May 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 15:15, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

There is no legend describing what the red/yellow/blue colours are in the rides section

An example of this kind of legend is available on the following page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightwater_Valley#Attractions_Key — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.0.241.31 (talk) 11:13, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Commons files used on this page have been nominated for speedy deletion

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• Fl photo.jpg
• Fl race cars.jpg
• Photo of hero.jpg
• Photo of sb.jpg

You can see the reasons for deletion at the file description pages linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 12:52, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

The new ride probably isn’t “Inversion”

There’s been no official confirmation from the park about the ride’s name, so we should probably leave it as “unknown” for the time being. PlaneCal (talk) 14:18, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion

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• FLAMINGOLAND 1969.jpg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 05:08, 26 January 2023 (UTC)