Talk:Zip line

message: I'd love it if someone with knowledge of major ziplines in the world could add information about them. There are videos on myspace and YouTube of a few claiming to be the "world's biggest", "world's longest", etc. but information on that is spotty. I'd love a list of major ones-- please remember to add sources for verifiability. Migp 18:12, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable zip-lines around the world? 

message: Happy Valley Adventures in Nelson, New Zealand has a ride that is half cable car and half flying fox. It's 1.6km long and I am trying to verify if this would make it the longest in the world. This article claims the longest in the world is in NZ - does anyone know which that is referring to?
There's one in SA thats 2000m long, 280m high, and claims to be the fastest; up to 140km/h.
http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/long366.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.222.6.200 (talk) 23:46, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest in the world? 

message: Twomothy 23:58, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  origin of term "zip line" 

message: I have added a link to a short documentary on zip lines in the External Links section. This video delves deeper into the experience, revealing more facts and details than the YouTube videos of a person with a camera going down the zip line. -- 69.253.80.30 (talk) 07:36, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Short Documentary on using a zip line 

message: A South African colloquialism for this is foefie-slide or foofie-slide.  I am unsure of the origin of the term, but it sounds onomatopoeic.Potion (talk) 17:55, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Names for zip-line 

message: I've cleaned it up a lot since its first iteration, but still think Canopy tour ought to be merged here, since at its heart it's a type of ziplining. — e. ripley\talk 13:50, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Canopy tours and zip-lines are often used synonymously .However Canopy tours are less adrenaline oriented and often include rope bridges or skybridges connecting some platforms as well rappelling down to platforms below. An example of a canopy tour with the above can be seen here http://www.ziplinenirvana.com/details/hocking-hills-canopy-tours.html and further evidence highlighting the differences is presented here http://www.adventurelogue.com/get-out-there/zip-lines-and-canopy-tours.html I can add content to both pages (Canopy tour and zipline) in order to disambiguate them. (Johncline (talk) 09:53, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your perspective John. I still hold my original opinion, so I suppose until someone else weighs in we'll remain at an impasse.  If we don't get some other attention to the question soon, I'll open up a request for a third opinion to expose the question to some more eyes.  Thanks again. — e. ripley\talk 21:06, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been a bit of time without any additional input, so I'm going to go ahead and list this on WP:3O. I'll post a link when it's done. — e. ripley\talk 18:58, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Here it is:  Wikipedia:Third opinion#Active_disagreements.  — e. ripley\talk 19:06, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge 

message: I am responding to a request for a third opinion.
Having read both articles, I think it's appropriate that they remain separate.  The  template on the canopy tour article may generate further discussion.  – Athaenara  ✉  00:48, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Third opinion on merge proposal 

message: As a professional in the industry it has been found a necessity that these designations remain separate. The primary overseeing body (Association of Challenge Course Technology) provides separate definitions in the written standards.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brupski (talk • contribs) 00:05, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Third opinion in merge proposal 

message: Many advertisements were contained in the 'professional zipline courses' section, which I removed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.70.2.21 (talk) 20:37, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flagrant advertising 

message: The former is either a synonym for the latter (as the Zip-Line page essentially says) or a subtype of the latter with few distinctive features (as the Tyrolean traverse page would have it); either way, the Tyrolean_traverse page seems redundant and should be merged in and edited down for redundant content.
Mikalra (talk) 12:18, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge "Tyrolean_traverse" Into Zip-Line 

message: Hasn't NASA used zip lines as a means for emergency evacuation from the top of launch pads? Seems like I read somewhere it was implemented after the Apollo 1 disaster so that in case of emergency astronauts could be evacuated to a safe distance away from the launch pad/spacecraft as quickly as possible. Eric Cable  |  Talk  20:19, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: NASA

message: And if it is, then a disambiguation page need be added as there is something legitimate and widespread referred by design as ‘zip wire’, namely a two or more conductor cable in which the two conductors are separated from one another by a very thin section of the insulation material.  They are made so that you may cut into the thin section at one end and then pull the two ends apart like a zipper.  Most inexpensive headphones use this type of wire and have a piece keeping the wire from unzipping past were the wires separate to go to each speaker.
Thistledowne (talk) 10:19, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is NOT a ‘zip wire’, it’s ‘zip line’. 

message: I am in the process of trying to improve this article and will be merging and deleting Flying fox (cablecar) into it afterwards, as previously discussed on that talk page. I will also consider some of the issues raised on this talk page and try to incorporate suggested improvements, and also improve citations. However I have found so far that there's very little on the history and non-adventure type of uses in reliable English language sources, so some sections may remain more extensive than others. Still a work-in progress!Attribution: I have, in my first draft re-write, included John Hill's photo of the zip-line/flying fox in Ladakh. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 01:51, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: PrimeHunter Sorry to undo your brief edit but I had just got to the end of reshaping a whole section and was about to save when it said there was an edit conflict. I'll be returning to this tomorrow and will review all of the s, which I have only used as an attempt to counteract an erratic bug I keep encountering when I try to preview my changes (varying results between paragraphs) - which I also posted on the Help page discussion. I have to stop now. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 11:05, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Drmies Sorry, unintentionally reverted your revert, but I'm doing a lot of work on this page atm and will come back to this. Can you please hold off until I've finished? Laterthanyouthink (talk) 01:34, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I have finished my changes for now. I've tried to improve the flow, layout and citations and merged info from Canopy Tours and Flying Fox (cablecar) before turning those into Redirects. I found it difficult to find sources of a very high standard for the topic, with most hits landing on commercial or travel-guide types of website, and some remain which may not be quite WP:RS, but I tried to provide extra citations where possible. I will leave further improvements to others. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 07:37, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Improvement and merge under way (finished Jan 2019)

message: I was going to revert all of your recent edits, , but as you appear to be a novice editor and there is some information of possible value in your recent large addition to this section, I have added a "too detailed" template instead. If you can compress and summarise what you have written, with citations, to a couple of sentences outline the development of the safety code (with a blue link to ANSI and anything else on Wikipedia), we may be able to salvage some of it. Personal experience and first-hand knowledge cannot be a source for what you write in Wikipedia; sources must be cited as per WP:RS. The paragraph beginning "Zip lines have been growing in popularity since 2002..." will have to go, for several reasons: no RS, the implication that EBL single-handedly fuelled the increase in popularity of zip-lining, too much detail, reads like an ad, etc. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 09:51, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Following your lack of response to my message, , I have no alternative but to revert your edit, say within 24 hours. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 01:28, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit to [[Zip-line#Safety]] 31 January 2019

message: When a zipwire crosses a deep and/ or Lon valley, retrieving the seat is a non trivial task. The operation of zipwires in this context must have addressed some awkward issues to ensure any additional rope or similar used to retrieve the seat or other cargo device does not get caught up in other things or otherwise cause complications. This is not needed on an application like a children’s playground. CuriousMarkE (talk) 13:41, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retrieving the zipwire seat from the other side of the valley