:Talk:Roller Soaker

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Notability

{{Ping|Epicgenius}}, can you please provide the sources which you know to exist which indicate notability for this topic? Note that a historical consensus to keep is not a consensus that it meets our notability guidelines, a page can be kept and that tag can still be valid. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 16:19, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

:While it may be true that some articles were kept at AFD despite possibly not meeting notability guidelines, that is not true of this topic. The coaster was described in a [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107716844/ feature-length] [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107716919/ article] in the Allentown Morning Call, in [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107716817/ a not-insubstantial article] for the Camden, NJ, Courier-Post, and in [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107717018/ an article] in the York Daily Record. The coaster's closure was [https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/2012/12/roller_soaker.html covered] in The Patriot-News, which, while a local newspaper, nonetheless has a weekly circulation of half a million. – Epicgenius (talk) 18:51, 16 August 2022 (UTC)