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The creation of this article stems from a discussion on the talk page of Evolution of roller coasters. I plan to cull some items from the "timeline," and I'd like to see it in a "graphical" format like I've seen on other Wikipedia articles. Next, I will link to this article from the history section of Roller coaster, and I'll cut the "firsts" info from Evolution of roller coasters and re-name that article "List of roller coaster records." -- Skylights76 ( talk) 01:53, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Here are the ones I removed, and my justifications:
Mainly, this article needs expanding in order to differentiate it from the history section of the roller coaster article. Also, if you can figure out how to turn the "timeline" into a real, graphical timeline, that would be great. -- Skylights76 ( talk) 13:21, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Please help expand the narrative History section. One easy way would be to incorporate important items from the timeline into the narrative text. But that's just one idea, please expand it how you see fit. -- Skylights76 ( talk) 09:54, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Yesterday I looked at this article and decided that the timeline section looked very dull. Also, its lack of images made it clash visually with the prose sections, which had images. Obvious solution to both problems: add images.
The next day, these images had been moved to a gallery, the reason being, "page became cluttered with images; placed in gallery to restore readability." I disagree with this edit on several points. First, it defeats the purpose of why I originally added the images. Second, the page was not cluttered with images, but rather the images were arranged in thumbnails in a right-aligned column, and it looked rather nice. Third, these images did not harm readability. The text flow of the timeline was exactly the same before the images were added as after. The only difference was that readers could now look to the right and see pictures associated with some of the more significant timeline entries. Fourth, the gallery reduces usefulness. Instead of images being located adjacent from their associated timeline entries, they are now grouped together where people probably won't even look at them.
Having explained my reasoning, I will revert the article to my original edit.
-- Skylights76 ( talk) 20:56, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
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The creation of this article stems from a discussion on the talk page of Evolution of roller coasters. I plan to cull some items from the "timeline," and I'd like to see it in a "graphical" format like I've seen on other Wikipedia articles. Next, I will link to this article from the history section of Roller coaster, and I'll cut the "firsts" info from Evolution of roller coasters and re-name that article "List of roller coaster records." -- Skylights76 ( talk) 01:53, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Here are the ones I removed, and my justifications:
Mainly, this article needs expanding in order to differentiate it from the history section of the roller coaster article. Also, if you can figure out how to turn the "timeline" into a real, graphical timeline, that would be great. -- Skylights76 ( talk) 13:21, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Please help expand the narrative History section. One easy way would be to incorporate important items from the timeline into the narrative text. But that's just one idea, please expand it how you see fit. -- Skylights76 ( talk) 09:54, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Yesterday I looked at this article and decided that the timeline section looked very dull. Also, its lack of images made it clash visually with the prose sections, which had images. Obvious solution to both problems: add images.
The next day, these images had been moved to a gallery, the reason being, "page became cluttered with images; placed in gallery to restore readability." I disagree with this edit on several points. First, it defeats the purpose of why I originally added the images. Second, the page was not cluttered with images, but rather the images were arranged in thumbnails in a right-aligned column, and it looked rather nice. Third, these images did not harm readability. The text flow of the timeline was exactly the same before the images were added as after. The only difference was that readers could now look to the right and see pictures associated with some of the more significant timeline entries. Fourth, the gallery reduces usefulness. Instead of images being located adjacent from their associated timeline entries, they are now grouped together where people probably won't even look at them.
Having explained my reasoning, I will revert the article to my original edit.
-- Skylights76 ( talk) 20:56, 18 April 2008 (UTC)