Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Animation/TUGS task force/Archive 2

TUGS project call-to-arms

Hi, I'm Chris, i go by the name of SteelersFan_UK06. I've only recently started editing again after a ten month break. I used to contribute to this project quite a lot, so i think now its time to get things a wee bit back on track.

First of all, I'd like to put a call out to all members who would consider themselves active in the project. Now and again, my watchlist changes showing that more users have added their name to the project page, but I have no idea who's just adding it for the sake of it, or who's actually actively making edits. If you would say you were active in this project, leave a note after this message saying that you're still here to help.

Secondly, and this is a more obvious one, but these articles require quite a clean up. While I was away, a number of articles under the TUGS hood have been either PROD'd or AfD'd, which I would have protested had i been around. Captain Zero (TUGS), Izzy Gomez (TUGS) and a few others have all disappeared. To save this continuing, we have to increase the information in the articles, and make sure its not utter rubbish at that. Here's what i think we need to do:

1. Trim and merge all episode pages. As you may have noticed on the "Jinxed" AfD, these pages are going to be deleted if we don't do something about them, but i agree that this should take place. I think this a good way to work against some of the non-notable information which is included in the articles, and any special information can be included in each individual character's page. It is standard for a television show, especially a children's television show with the "everything is all right in the end" ending, to have all episodes in one list, instead of each having its own individual page. Only a small section of what happens in the episode needs to be detailed on the page, ie notable events in that episode (The one with the bridge falling, the one where Zebedee helps everyone out, the one where the place gets really icy). I think that we could use the comment found on the VHS releases as the small blurb section, and maybe pad it with a few additional facts.
2. Keep a close watch on the episode listings. Last time I was about the listings constantly were changed around. The ONLY source of the episode listings we have is http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/18678, so we have to go by that. It got a bit changed around by people who don't think that this is the case, but we have to go by it because its our source. If anyone thinks that its any other way, bring it up in discussion and we'll see what we can do.
3. Consolidate pages on characters. I think we have too many separate pages on the characters of TUGS. I'm not sure if we need separate pages for the liners, the star tugs, the z-stacks, the other tugs, and everything else. I think maybe one page for the star tugs, one for Z-Stacks, and one for everyone else. This means that instead of having lots of small pages with not a lot of information, we can work on the fewer pages and make the information more notable.
4. Japanese TUGS? Recently I've saw that a lot of the pages have had the sentence "In the Japanese version...". What is the deal with that? I mean, I've seen the YouTube videos, does this just mean that the episodes were redubbed and released over there? If anyone has more information than just who voiced them, then please discuss it on here, so we can add it on to the pages in an orderly manner.
5. Improve information on Salty's Lighthouse and Theodore Tugboat. Initially i thought that we should distance ourselves from these articles, when really i've since realised that we should include these in our project. If we don't help out with these articles, not a lot of other users will, plus they are actually a lot to do with TUGS, especially Salty's Lighthouse.

There's a few other things I wanted to talk about, but I've forgotten them. If it comes back to me, I'll go back in and add more info, but as the title suggests, I think now its a call to arms. Remember, Wikipedia is the single biggest on-line source of information on TUGS, so we are the ones who must provide it.

Thank you for any help you are willing to give.

--^{SteelersFanUK06} ReplyOnMine! 22:09, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

merge or deletion of tug characters.

I am a big tugs fan, but there really is too much about TUGS here that does not meet WP:FICT guidelines. Wikipedia is transitioning to moving most fictional works to other wikis (such as the tugs wikia) in this case. You can't find tugs in the Britannica. for example. Formdog (talk) 00:48, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

I agree but i think you're fighting a losing battle by stating anything here. I posted the above comment here (as well as on the TUGS talk page) in an effort to get any users who are intersted to begin to try and clean up some of the articles. No-one replied. So i suggest that whatever work you feel these articles need, be bold, and do it yourself. --^{SteelersFanUK06} ReplyOnMine! 11:27, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

List of minor TUGS characters (in line with above debate)

In line with the above debate going on with the main characters of the story, i think that i am going to be bold over the next few days and merge Minor tugboat characters in TUGS, Other Vessels in TUGS, Cranes in TUGS, Barges in TUGS, Other Characters in TUGS and TUGS Liner Characters all into List of minor TUGS characters. This leaves us with only two articles to watch (the above and List of TUGS characters, once we get that sorted as well following the AfD) regarding characters as oppose to about 900. Obviusly I've not started yet as they're still reds (for now), but please feel free to leave some comments. --^{SteelersFanUK06} ReplyOnMine! 17:14, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

You know, it sounds good to me! ZEM (Hankengine) (talk) 20:09, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your support. Its great to hear people actually talking in the TUGS WikiProject for once! --^{SteelersFanUK06} ReplyOnMine! 23:44, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I know what you mean. TUGS should be more talked about on the web in general!!!

ZEM (Hankengine) (talk) 23:51, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

←"List of recurring TUGS characters" and "List of minor TUGS characters" has now been created by me and Bladez636, and edited into the main TUGS page. New goal: sort out the character pages with redirects. Commence... --^{SteelersFanUK06} ReplyOnMine! 12:19, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to say, once again, that the work you are doing is great! ZEM talk to me! 18:10, 14 November 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hankengine (talk • contribs)

Whoops! Sorry guys - I messed up my new sig! Haha - ZEM talk to me! 18:14, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Regarding Speedy Deletion of former TUGS articles

Please, STOP placing speedy tags on the articles which has recently been replaced with one of the "List of..." pages. This is not how it should go. These articles should be replaced with redirect pages to whatever is appropriate. That's the reason i went around quite a few pages and putting in redirects with the edit summary as "Bold redirect: [...]".

The reason for this is that there are still a number of links to these pages, which would then come up as red links and that's avoided when possible. As well as this, say for instance all red links were sent somewhere else, we still would have the problem of someone coming to that specific page looking for an article that was there before. They would then be sent to the new page; this is the whole point in redirect pages.

I've added back in the sd'd pages, as always i welcome any comments. --^{SteelersFanUK06} ReplyOnMine! 02:01, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Request for Comment required regarding List of recurring TUGS characters

see Talk:List of recurring TUGS characters#Breaking up the page?. --^{SteelersFanUK06} ReplyOnMine! 03:18, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

O.J.

I recently purchased all of the Buzz Books of the TUGS series, in which O.J. is referred to more than once as "O.J.", without spacing. This makes a total of ten published works with this name (The Board game, five videos, four buzz books), which i constitute as definitive evidence over the former name. I will change all references. --^{SteelersFanUK06} ReplyOnMine! 00:52, 25 November 2008 (UTC)