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Flight Deck (California's Great America) has been listed as one of the Sports and recreation good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: March 25, 2023. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Flight Deck (California's Great America) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a man dropped his hat while riding Flight Deck and went to retrieve it, but ended up dying after being struck by the foot of a rider?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Flight Deck (California's Great America).

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GA Review

Passed. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:31, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Flight Deck (California's Great America)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 03:30, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a. (prose, spelling, and grammar):

Almost!

b. (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a. (reference section):

b. (citations to reliable sources):

There is one SELFPUB tweet and the POV video, but they seem acceptable for the claims used.

c. (OR):

d. (copyvio and plagiarism):
It is broad in its coverage.
a. (major aspects):

b. (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a. (images are tagged and non-free content have non-free use rationales):

Two CC images and the NFUR-bearing logo.

b. (appropriate use with suitable captions):

There's even alt text.
Overall:
Pass/fail:

Not much to do. Fresh eyes could find more things to do. 7-day hold. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 03:30, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Criteria marked are unassessed)

Copy changes

The train departs making small right turn Missing an "a"
nearby steel roller coaster, Vortex no need for this comma. Because there's no article, you can't remove the appositive and have a flowing sentence.

Done Adog (Talk・Cont) 13:01, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Spot checks

2: NYT: Mentions Top Gun and The Addams Family. (NYT ref #1 mentions Star Trek)
9: Press Democrat: 100-foot lift hill, "impending military confrontation", aircraft carrier theming of the queue
11: POV video, which is kind of like citing the roller coaster, but fine.
23: Some of the injuries from the 2015 incident
24: Temporary closure of the ride after the incident

No issues in the sources checked.

Thank you again for the review @Sammi Brie:! I have fixed the above. Let me know if there is anything else on the horizon. Apologies for the delay. :) Adog (Talk・Cont) 13:01, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by BorgQueen (talk) 12:05, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article history

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... that a man dropped his hat while riding Flight Deck and went to retrieve it but ended up dying after being struck by the foot of a rider? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24428251/the-san-francisco-examiner/ , https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109183022/man-dies-after-being-kicked-in-the-head/ , https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109279406/fatal-accident-at-theme-park/
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Maria Advocata

Improved to Good Article status by Adog (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 15:05, 29 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Flight Deck (California's Great America); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

All components check out: interesting and accurate hook, inline citation in article, recent GA promotion, length is plenty sufficient, no copyright readily evident concerns (not that I can use Earwig today, anyway). It's a grim way to celebrate a GA promotion, but all the same: nice job to both improver and nominator. ~ Pbritti (talk) 18:46, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]