User:EdJogg/WikiProject Thomas

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Contents 1 Current Priority List 2 Also see... 3 Editing help 4 The Railway Series 4.1 Book Cover images to be used 4.2 References to add 4.3 Miscellaneous 4.4 The Railway Stories 4.5 Categories 4.6 Locations 4.7 Links gathering 4.8 Mid Sodor Railway 4.9 Skarloey Railway 5 Characters 5.1 Oliver the Western Engine 5.2 Thomas the Tank Engine 5.3 Minor Characters (The Railway Series) 5.3.1 Talyllyn & Dolgoch 5.3.2 Bear (D7101) 5.3.3 Mavis 5.4 'Other Railway' Engines 6 The TV Series 7 Thomas Template

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[edit] Current Priority List

1. Add book cover images to character pages
2. Culdee Fell Railway locations (see Locations below)
3. Oliver (see Characters below)
4. Check for presence of WP:THOMAS flags on impt. pages
5. Links gathering (ongoing) - see The Railway Series, below

Use <s>xxx</s> to indicate that sub-tasks are completed.

[edit] Also see...

• WikiProject Thomas
• Category:Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends characters

• TV Series - Railway Engines, Minor characters

[edit] Editing help

• To refer to WikiProject Thomas, use:
  [[WP:THOMAS|WikiProject Thomas]]
• To add the WikiProject Thomas template to a talk page, add:
  {{Thomas-project-page}}
• To add the Thomas the Tank Engine template, add:
  {{Thomas}} (NB - do not add to pages yet.)
• To add a long, thin contents box on the right, add:
  {{tocright}}

[edit] The Railway Series

[edit] Book Cover images to be used

Great potential for illustrating character pages using book cover images, in particular:

• Peter Sam - Four Little Engines
• Skarloey - Little Old Engine
• Rheneas - Gallant Old Engine
• Sir Handel - Great Little Engines
• Ivo Hugh - New Little Engine
• Annie & Clarabel - Tank Engine Thomas Again
• Henrietta - Toby the Tram Engine
• Bill & Ben - Thomas and the Twins
• Mavis - Tramway Engines
• Stepney - Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine
• D4711 - Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine
• Diesel - Duck and the Diesel Engine
• Works Diesel - James and the Diesel Engines
• NRM Engines (Rocket) - Thomas and the Great Railway Show
• Pip & Emma - Thomas and the Fat Controller's Engines
• Bertie (just) - More about Thomas the Tank Engine
• Harold - Percy the Small Engine (in background)
• Fat Controller - Henry and the Express (also, earlier character?, appears on Enterprising Engines

Note that several structures are also visible, eg Ffarquhar shed, Arlesdale chute, etc.

[edit] References to add

References are important. Add appropriate refs to non-Thomas-project pages:

• Pop Goes the Weasel

[edit] Miscellaneous

• A comment at the start of Rolling stock (Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends) refers to Rev Awdry and trucks. This links to the character page for Thomas the Tank Engine, but should probably link to one of the books. Need to check which book and correct link.

[edit] The Railway Stories

• Add section in Willie Rushton mentioning his childrens' book work, esp these LPs.
  • Can then add him to Category:The Railway Series!

[edit] Categories

• Category:Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is a right mess. Need to create a new subcat for merchandise, and also move any characters to the approp sub-cat.
• Category:The Railway Series is currently under-populated!

[edit] Locations

• Add Peel Godred to 'Fictional Locations' - referred to from several places DONE
• Culdee Fell Railway - refers to numerous places - all unlinked
• Mid Sodor Railway - mentions numerous places, unlinked, and not in group article

[edit] Links gathering

See User:EdJogg/List of The Railway Series articles

Required:

• Mid Sodor Railway table DONE
• Complete table of NWR characters - redirect search still required
• Check for other named redirects to:
  • Arlesdale Railway locos
  • Culdee Fell Railway locos
• Create table for book titles
• Continue populating the Fictional locations

(Do this in 'slow time' - can add piecemeal as other files are edited)

[edit] Mid Sodor Railway

• Falcon (engine) is not mentioned in the Falcon (disambiguation) page - see Stuart for details... DONE
• Create Links table DONE

[edit] Skarloey Railway

Await guidance from User:Gonzerelli before attempting anything significant. He is considering the best approach, and is (probably) planning a move of all characters to Skarloey Railway page.

The engines are still a bit 'all over the place'. Unlike the other railways, Skarloey Railway is prominent in the TV Series, and therefore needs to be handled in the same way as the NWR engines. Hence the Books/TV split is appropriate.

What is less clear is how to handle the Minor characters.

First task is to update the table of locos to show: No., Name (linked), Type (eg wheel arr, as per Talyllyn Railway), 'Real Loco' (2 columns: Name and Railway, since not all are from Talyllyn now), Manuf? (if space permits), and Appears in, which will show 'Books + TV', 'Books only', 'TV Series only', or 'Unfeatured'.

This will leave no room for notes. Instead, below the table will be a section for (all?) the engines, with a quick summary and a link to the 'Main Article'. In the case of any that feature twice, separate links will be provided for TV Series and Railway Series.

Suggest this is done as a user project and copied across, first to the Talk page, rather than attempted 'live'. After the initial table/descriptions are done, it may be possible to see whether any minor (Books-only) characters can be fully moved to the Skarloey Railway page.

Once complete, can consider what to do with the rolling stock entries...

• Note that 'Fred' exists at Unfeatured characters in The Railway Series#Fred

[edit] Characters

[edit] Oliver the Western Engine

• Add book pic (when Felix uploads it!) - DONE
• Finish the story of Oliver's escape
• Add details to story in S.C. Ruffey
  • Ensure redirect works OK!
• Check and correct links via redirect
• Check and correct links from elsewhere

[edit] Thomas the Tank Engine

Last edit to Thomas the Tank Engine corrected the link to London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

• failed to spot that there is a page for the LB&SCR E2 Class which can be linked
  • Ensure E2 included in Category:Locomotives by wheel arrangement
• also link 0-6-0T - although note that 0-6-0 needs a subsection for 0-6-0T to which we can link directly
  • Note that the E2 page has a separate link to side tank shown as 0-6-0T - not sure this is the ideal way to do it, as the T doesn't show up individually as a link - better to have a direct link to side tank or tank engine?
  • tank engine page does not mention the suffixes for Whyte notation, although the latter DOES do this
• LB&SCR page needs subsection for locos added, to which can add E2 class (and others - eg Adam's Radial?? - is there a list somewhere?)
  • There is a list!: Category:London, Brighton and South Coast Railway locomotives but for some reason this isn't linked-to from the LB&SCR page!
  • We could be naughty and add TTE to this category too! (wonder how long it would last?)
• ALERT: E2 class page calls the original illlustrator 'inept' - suggest summarising the info from the TTE page here to explain the discrepancy - poss even add images to show the differences?

[edit] Minor Characters (The Railway Series)

• Where appropriate, add cross-links to Minor Characters (Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends)
• Page includes a link to 1-Co Co-1 which could be modified to refer to the UIC Classification entry, or a separate new-created page like Co-Co
  • Also see Category:1Co-Co1 locomotives!!

[edit] Talyllyn & Dolgoch

• Talyllyn does not mention the fantastic picture in The Little Old Engine.
• Also link to Skarloey and Rheneas
• Dolgoch (Rheneas' twin) is mentioned in intro to Gallant Old Engine, but without pic
• Both are mentioned in Very Old Engines, with Tallyllyn part-pictured, and both pictured at back
• Talyllyn is pictured again, this time at the back of Great Little Engines

[edit] Bear (D7101)

• 7/7/06: Bear has been edited by User:Thehalford
  • References to books have been removed, and need replacing in a different form.
  • Original text:
    • Although he is an engine of the North Western Railway, he has so far only appeared in the books Enterprising Engines and James and the Diesel Engines
  • Suggest replacing 'As described in the books' with 'As described in Enterprising Engines'
  • Suggest adding later paragraph along these sort of lines: 'When Bear arrived on the North Western Railway, he was painted in British Rail 'Corporate Blue' livery. In James and the Diesel Engines, Bear's new coat of paint is seen to be a close resemblance of the attractive two-tone green livery worn by the Hymeks in the 1960s.
    • (First half of that sentence is OK, but second half is a bit clumsy. Will need some more thought!)

[edit] Mavis

• Mavis first appeared in Tramway Engines, later appeared in Toby, Trucks and Trouble
• TV Series entry is comprehensive, but does not link to the Railway Series entry (see above!)
  • Nor does it give prototype information.
• British Rail Class 04 includes prototype information and faulty x-refs back to TV Series character, etc

[edit] 'Other Railway' Engines

• Under Minor Characters, is it worth creating a new section for the various odd diesels that appear
  • NO - see The Other Railway for a list of BR engines that have appeared in the books. THIS is the place to note appearances of the various diesels, including 31 120, not under Minor Characters (make sure it is X-ref'd)
  • in the same book is a suburban DMU with a Derby-style front
    • Has it's own page, which should be moved in due course! (D10751).
  • Note another (sand coloured) Cl 31 can be seen in Oliver/Stepney (can't remember which book) together with a (maroon) Western and a (green) Class 40
  • In James and the Diesel Engines, James is rescued by a Class 47 sent from The Works (this is mentioned in The Other Railway). Another Cl 47 is seen at Barrow station on the first page of Henry and the Express (its number is not discernible).
  • There is a Cl40 (numbered D4711, but looks like a Deltic! although Deltics were D90xx!!) in Stepney - also appears in TV Series (entry already present)

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[edit] The TV Series

• Minor characters needs {clear} added throughout, as for the main characters page. (Also add a note about this on main editing help section)

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[edit] Thomas Template

The world of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends view • talk • edit
Book series: The Railway Series TV Series: Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
Series particulars
List of Railway Series Books TV Series Seasons: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 Movie and spin-off releases: Thomas and the Magic Railroad • Calling All Engines • On Site with Thomas
Characters
Thomas • Edward • Henry • Gordon • James • Percy • Toby • Duck • Donald and Douglas • Emily The Fat Controller • Bertie • Terence • Trevor • Harold The Railway Series: Major characters • Minor characters • Unfeatured characters TV Series: Major characters • Minor Characters • Rolling Stock • Non-rail vehicles • People & animals Movies: Movie-only characters
Locations
Island of Sodor Railways: North Western • Skarloey • Arlesdale • Culdee Fell • Mid Sodor • Sodor & Mainland • "Other" Other locations - The Railway Series • TV Series
Significant people and organisations
Rev. W.V. Awdry (series creator) • Christopher Awdry Britt Allcroft • Gullane Entertainment • HIT Entertainment
Other relevant pages
WikiProject Thomas The Railway Stories (audiobooks) • Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends merchandise • Video releases Shining Time Station • TUGS