Talk:Rolling stock (Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends)

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The article The Royal Train has misinformation about Queen elisabeth. i don't know the right info or I would fix it.Alexa411 16:38, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Troublesome Trucks' incidents

Recently, I have been constantly reverting unregistered users' edits, which have been simply filling up a list of incidents.

Firstly, it is generally accepted that "the" Troublesome Trucks are only on the Standard Gauge lines, not on narrow gauge.

In addition, this list is starkly out of the series' context - quite intentionally, since this is a character page, and not an episode page (that's what pages like Thomas and Friends - Season 1, etc are for). So you can't expect the readers to know the happenings of every single episode, and therefore be able to clearly understand what is written. Keep this in mind.

Finally, all these additions have made the list incredibly long. We do not want long lists in articles - text is always better than lists. See WP:THOMAS for further information on this.

It would be preferable to edit this list so that it becomes a block of text rather than a list, however until then please do not add any further "incidents". If, however, you feel an incident is significant enough to warrant inclusion, feel free to note it below.

Gonzerelli 04:58, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page re-vamped

I have given this article a complete overhaul. It needed it badly. Some of the things I've done include:

• Removal of non-notable rolling stock (eg. no need to dedicate sections to all the different kinds of coaches, when you can broadly discuss the unnamed coaches in one section)
• Updated format to facilitate use
• Ensured content was relevant, and could actually be understood by the casual browser rather than the avid fan

Please do not allow this article to slip below this standard. Re-adding items like "rock crusher", "the organ" or "gunpowder vans" will be considered vandalism by WP:THOMAS, as it will send the article into superfluous sections once more.

Here's hoping this article can only improve rather than deteriorate.

Gonzerelli 05:29, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Section titles

Please note that the section titles in this article should contain the character's name only. Changing section titles (eg. to "Elizabeth the Vintage Lorry" rather than "Elizabeth") messes with anchored links from other articles.

The small amounts of information added to section titles can be read within the first sentence of the section anyway, so it is superfluous and repetitive to have more than the character's name in the section title.

For WP:THOMAS,

Gonzerelli 23:56, 23 December 2006 (UTC)