Talk:List of characters in The Railway Series

message: I have moved this page from Railway Engines (The Railway Series) because it allows the other major, non rail characters to have a 'base link' - somewhere where they will most likely be found and can have a link to. It keeps them in one place.
Mdcollins1984 14:56, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page move 

message: :The pictures on this page shouldn't be from the TV Series...
::Yeah we know - it's work in progress! See Wikipedia:WikiProject Thomas Mdcollins1984 10:23, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: (This editor: 174.3.99.176 (talk) 06:32, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: RFC

message: Inspired by a recent comment by User:Devonian Wombat, one list of characters for this show should be enough. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:46, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: * Support per nom. YorkshireLad  ✿  (talk) 14:33, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: *The nom is good faith mistaken, these are not two shows, one is a book series and the other is a television series. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:11, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

text: * Support merging verifiable content.  Although I'm okay with trimming some of the least-important material and anything that would overlap. Hog Farm  Bacon 20:56, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

text: * Strong Oppose, these are two different topics (the characters of the TV series overlap somewhat but differ from the characters of the books in The Railway Series, which is directly covered and described in the lead of this article. Plus the two television series character pages are covered in the hatnote). Both articles contains pertinent information throughout and, besides being two different topics, they seems too large to merge anywhere without losing much of the data. Best to leave these two pages as they are for full topic coverage. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:55, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

text: *Oppose, as the merged article would be excessively long and the narrow gauge engines are something of a separate cast from the standard gauge ones. Robin S. Taylor (talk) 13:29, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

text: *Oppose for the reason given by Randy Kryn – such a merge would hopelessly muddle up the book and television universes. However a merge from the history of the inappropriately redirected Culdee Fell Railway would be helpful. Thincat (talk) 16:34, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

text: *Oppose The TV characters are different from the book characters. TV characters have actors and accents. The book characters have a more detailed history that differs from TV. Rusty (book), for example comes from Lincolnshire whereas Rusty (TV) has a West Country accent. OrewaTel (talk) 00:15, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[List of Thomas & Friends narrow-gauge engines|List of ''Thomas & Friends'' narrow-gauge engines]] 

message: A template at the start of the article declared it has multiple issues. Some, at least, have been fixed. I believe that all the issues have now been addressed and am removing this tag. If there are any issues then please, address them, report them here or put a specific tag on the article. (Such as "This article needs more xxx" etc. rather than "There is an issue but I'm not telling you what it is.")  OrewaTel (talk) 01:37, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Please do not remove the tag. There are two specific issues listed, neither of which have been addressed. The first tag says "This article needs additional citations for verification". The article is woefully under referenced and the vast majority of it is unverifiable. The entire first section has zero citations, for example. Only four statements are sourced at all. The second tag says "This article relies too much on references to primary sources". This tag could be removed. In its place it would be necessary to add tags for the Tone of the writing, which is highly inappropriate, the fact that it is overly detailed and that it is written from a fan point of view. This article is far, far below Wikipedia's core requirements for quality and sourcing, and I doubt very much it would survive an Articles for deletion discussion, cf Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Thomas & Friends narrow-gauge engines. Laplorfill (talk) 02:08, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed! I thought I had reverted my edit complaining about the Tags. They are appropriate. OrewaTel (talk) 12:16, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple Issues? 

message: This article has been subject to unhelpful edits by IP users. These edits present 'facts' without citations. Many of the facts are obviously incorrect and the others are not cited. Generally these are simply reverted. Because the IP users make a whole raft of small edits in one go, it is reasonable to revert the whole slew of them at once. However in a recent round of edits, Henry's lineage was changed from 'LNER A1' to 'GNR A1'. Although this change lacked a citation, it appears to be correct and so has not been reverted.OrewaTel (talk) 23:58, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edits by unnamed users 

message: Mavis is described as 6wDM. This implies that the 3 driving axles are connected internally with chains or shafts. The BR Class 04, on which Mavis is based, has siderods driven by a jack shaft. That is a 0-6-0DM wheel arrangement. Could someone check please.  OrewaTel (talk) 23:02, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mavis wheel arrangement 

message: The characters from the Railway Series and Thomas & Friends are very iconic and well known. But currently the only characters from them to have pages are Thomas, James, Toby and the Fat Controller. Could we create more? Thomasfan1000 (talk) 12:38, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Creating more individual character pages 

message: Numerous characters in the series from Series 5 onwards have pages  that redirect to the page "list of characters in the Railway Series". In every case, this is wrong, since these characters did not appear in the Railway Series ever. The obvious solution would be to re-insert blue links with the correct redirects (hypothetically redirecting to "List of characters (Thomas & Friends)".
I myself have only gone so far as to remove the blue link to the redirect for "Derek", on the page specifically about "Series 5". If this is wrong, or if there is some usefulness to this redirect that I'm not understanding, then please revert my edit while understanding that this was done in good faith. If it is right, please indicate this so that the blue links can be corrected for the rest of the characters.  R23$94ACQ3R (talk) 20:32, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems with redirects 

message: The article contains two sections for additional characters. These are Privately Owned and Other Railway Engines. There is a degree of overlap with Neil appearing in both lists. Stepney seems to be in the wrong list. Rather than Privately owned perhaps the heading should be renamed Other Sodor Railways and all visitors from the Mainland should be listed under Other Railway Engines. OrewaTel (talk) 11:57, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other, Privately Owned 

message: Recently a number of good faith but wrong links have been made. they broadly fall into two classes.
# A link to a similar word with a different meaning. For example linking a general goods engine to general good.
# A link to a common word that needs no explanation such as bull. See WP:OL
OrewaTel (talk) 22:39, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inappropriate Links