Talk:Rube Goldberg machine
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Some Machines under 'In Media" are not Rube Goldberg machines
Under the Rube Goldberg Institute's definitions, machines like Pee Wee Herman's breakfast machine is not a Rube Goldberg machine. It is defined as a "Crazy Contraption," because the steps don't trigger the next in a chain reaction-like style. Dragonhawk12 (talk) 05:16, 25 January 2026 (UTC)
Heath Robinson
There have been a couple of entries in this page about unnecessarily complicated machine in the UK. One (about Wallace and Grommet) acknowledges indirectly that Rube Goldberg both post dated Heath Robinson and is largely unknown in the UK. The second reference about “Crazy Contraptions” is uncorrected.
The linked article supporting the “Crazy Contraptions” addition to this page (rather than the Heath Robinson page) makes no mention of Rube Goldberg. i suggest this is another phantom claim as the most likely seed of the ideas is Heath Robinson. Jetojedno (talk) 22:26, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
GA review
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Nominator: Dragonhawk12 (talk · contribs) 06:39, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
Reviewer: A.Cython (talk · contribs) 04:04, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
I am afraid I have to quickfail this one based on WP:GAFAIL#3:
It has, or needs, cleanup banners that are unquestionably still valid. These include {{cleanup}}, {{POV}}, {{unreferenced}} or large numbers of {{citation needed}}, {{clarify}}, or similar tags (See also {{QF}}) Specifically there are too many unsupported statements (I placed several citation needed tags). As a rule, every paragraph needs to end with a relevant citation and every entry in a table/list needs to be associated with a citation for verification purposes. Due to importance of verifibility WP:V, these citations need to be inserted before the review process starts. There are other issues, e.g., the structure is not well developed with several single sentence paragraphs and the lack of good summaries. Please familiarize with the guidelines in WP:MOS. Once these issues are addressed then please resubmit for GAN.