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Coasting into announcement season

With the Northern Hemisphere in full summer swing, parks have been announcing new rides left and right. Between ride announcements, rethemes, openings, and closures, all documented in the "Industry News" section, members have been working non-stop to create and update pages.

Recently, members including LuxembourgFan42, CharlieRidesRollerCoasters, Plighting Engineerd, Jpp858, and Blubewwy have been pitching in to create and expand the Werewolf Gorge and Eagle's Pursuit articles, and many more have helped with the various rides rethemed, opened, or announced to be closed in the last quarter.

As of the publication of this newsletter, pages for Rip Roarin' Falls at Carowinds and Supersonic 1887 at Nigloland are yet to be created, so help with them would be greatly appreciated.

Operation B&M: Rescuing other-language B&M articles

In early April, Nathanc2127 led an initiative to improve the quality of B&M-related articles for Operation B&M, focusing on their coasters outside of the United States.

Sources were found for Diving Machine G5 and Dive Coaster (Chimelong Paradise) in order to establish notability and expand the articles, focusing on sources of the countries' languages (which is more difficult than finding sources in English sources on the English-language section of the internet).

Further help would be greatly appreciated!

Screening articles for notability

As GoneIn60 has previously mentioned, our focus should be on screening articles for notability before devoting time to working on them.

This involves checking articles against Wikipedia's general notability guideline and searching for the existence of reliable sources significantly covering the topic of the article.

More resources to help with this are being created, but for now, reach out on the WikiProject Amusement Parks talk page!

Article News
Good articles, good article nominations, did you know hooks, and more

Current collaboration

The current collaboration is Operation B&M, working to improve the articles for roller coasters manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard!

Recently, Raging Bull (roller coaster) and Fury 325 were promoted to good article status, bringing the total good articles to just under 50% of all B&M coaster articles. With just one more good B&M article, half of B&M articles can be good articles!

Go to Operation B&M

Featured content

• In the last quarter, List of Six Flags Great America attractions was created and nominated for the "did you know" section by Feather Better, being displayed on the main page on May 29, the park's 50th anniversary!
• Additionally, 2023 Jetline roller coaster accident has been promoted to good article status due to the hard work of AllegedlyAPhotographer. Plus, they submitted a "did you know" hook for the article, shown on the main page on June 16! Great work!
• Excitingly, the Walt Disney World article has been nominated for good article status by RC1739!
• A hook for the Werewolf Gorge article has been nominated for the "did you know" section by Plighting Engineerd.

A full list of featured content can be found on the WikiProject's featured content page.

Goals and statistics

Below are a set of live statistics related to the goals of the WikiProject. More can be seen here.

Show full quality statistics

More information Amusement park articles by quality and importance, Quality ...

Amusement park articles by quality and importance
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	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Other	???	Total
FA	1	1	7	7				16
FL			4	1				5
GA	1	17	37	80				135
B	3	28	49	74		4		158
C	6	48	175	430		17	6	682
Start	8	100	344	1,396		91	4	1,943
Stub		27	88	660		41	1	817
List	7	9	22	67	12	1		118
Category					1,973			1,973
Disambig					25			25
File					621			621
Portal					4			4
Project					57			57
Redirect		11	26	141	326	5		509
Template					264			264
Other		1		1	25			27
Assessed	26	242	752	2,857	3,307	159	11	7,354
Unassessed							3	3
Total	26	242	752	2,857	3,307	159	14	7,357
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 18,089			Ω = 4.82

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Amusement Industry
The top stories of the quarter

Fun Spot Atlanta and ArieForce One are closing

On June 25th, Fun Spot America announced that their Atlanta location would be permanently closing on August 2nd. The park is home to highly-praised Rocky Mountain Construction roller coaster ArieForce One, which opened in 2023. It is currently unknown what will happen to the parks roller coasters and attractions.

Thanks to the editors who have updated the related articles!

Coaster rethemings and openings

In the last quarter, various roller coasters have opened or re-opened, and our editors have stayed on top of it all.

Various coaster rethemes have occurred our been announced, often coinciding with a refurbishment. Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith has been rethemed to Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring the Muppets, while Verbolten has been rethemed to Verbolten: Forbidden Turn. These rethemes have included new names, effects, music and set pieces. Furthermore, Flight Deck at Canada's Wonderland is being rethemed to DareDeviler, involving new paint and queue theming, though it has not yet reopened.

Additionally, Quantum Accelerator has opened at Six Flags New England and Drakon has opened at Paultons Park.

Thank you to the editors who have created and updated these articles in the past quarter!

New thrill rides announced

Exciting new thrill rides will be opening in 2027! Our editors have been busy creating and updating articles relating to these new additions. Two Vekoma family launch coasters will be opening next year – Werewolf Gorge at Six Flags Fiesta Texas and Eagle's Pursuit at Waldameer. Thanks to all the editors who have worked on those articles.

The Rip Roarin' Falls log flume was announced for Carowinds, and Supersonic 1887, a Mack Rides Stryker Coaster, was announced for Nigloland. These rides do not yet have articles – assistance in their creation would be greatly appreciated!

As has been recently announced, in 2028, Walibi Belgium will open their Rocky Mountain Construction conversion of the Loup Garou wooden roller coaster. Information is being slowly revealed, and once enough reliable sources cover the attraction, a page for it may be created.

Member Spotlight
What have we been up to?

New members

A warm welcome is extended to the members who have joined WikiProject Amusement Parks this quarter: Nicknme, C3PHAL0BR0P0D, and RC1739! Additionally, all members should feel free to extend invitations to users who may be interested in the WikiProject! Placing {{subst:WikiProject Amusement Parks invite}} on someone's user page will produce the following message:

Hello, <Recipient>! Thank you for your recent contribution to an article related to amusement parks. I'd like to invite you to join WikiProject Amusement Parks, a WikiProject collaboration which aims to improve the quality of articles across Wikipedia that cover amusement parks, rides, companies, and more! Feel free to stop by to learn more and join by signing up at the Participants page. Hope to see you over there! --~~~~

Additionally, longtime member Adog has recently logged back into his account. It is great to see him back with the project! Welcome back!

Outstanding contributions

Nominate a user who has made outstanding contributions to amusement park-related articles on the newsletter talk page.

This quarter, AllegedlyAPhotographer has displayed outstanding effort by greatly improving the 2023 Jetline roller coaster accident, an article which they created. They successfully nominated it for good article status, as well as for a did you know hook on Wikipedia's main page. Great work!

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

One of the easiest areas to assist in the WikiProject is to expand, improve, and fix errors in the WikiProject's 817 stub articles. Those who de-stub lots of articles can earn barnstars! Below is a handy button that will take you to a random stub, or a random roller coaster stub, if you'd prefer.

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You can also check out the current collaboration, Operation B&M, and help improve articles on B&M's coasters!

If there's something else you want to do, be bold and do it! Leave a message on the WikiProject Amusement Parks talk page if you want help, need something to do, or otherwise want to connect with other editors!