Talk:Amusement park accidents

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[edit] This article is a mess

This article is very incomplete and paints a jumbled picture. Why all the missing years? And within the years why only mentions of a few quarters and not all? By what criteria do the parks report incidents? Is Disney more dangerous (as the article implies) or do they report incidents the other parks don't? (e.g., dizziness and other minor incidents). What are the parks required to report? Even year to year the information is inconsistent, one year is a list of incidents per park, the next is a lump summation of incidents across the board. And some obvious and note-worthy incidents are not listed. Someone needs to revamp this article and make it comprehensive, I don't know where the data came from but there looks to be a lot more research that needs to be done. 65.120.75.6 (talk) 21:35, 14 December 2007 (UTC)Tim

It's not a complete mess. Well, perhaps a little bit as I see where you're coming from. The nut of it all is that (a) Disney is not more or less dangerous than the other parks, just that there happens to be more info about them; (b) years are missing because that data hasn't been located. Some years had more information available; others were merely what is listed all lumped together. This is a case of "don't shoot the messenger" editing-in-need. More than happy to help, as I'm the one who threw most of this together in the first place... :) SpikeJones (talk) 21:52, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Drive for stricter safety regulations

...is under way at the federal level, to close a loophole neglected since 1981. Connected with the Six Flags "Superman Tower of Power" ride accident in Kentucky that severed both of 13-year-old's feet. Needs further info/editing, please. -- Deborahjay (talk) 22:18, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

When the bill actually changes, please provide non-biased 3rd-party references for it, please. Thank you for your interest in continuing to follow that storyline. SpikeJones (talk) 23:15, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Please to note: I had not intended for the above Web reference to be included in the page (hence its posting here on the Talk page), nor had I evaluated it for possible POV, the well-taken point you raise. My posting was to note the incident and provide some content for fellow editors. It seems relevant for inclusion in the mainspace article in some fashion. -- Thanks, Deborahjay (talk) 17:45, 20 May 2008 (UTC)