Talk:Dink, the Little Dinosaur

Sterling holloway

He didin't narrate on Dink, the little dinosaur, because there is no Sterling Holloway in this show. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.55.89.17 (talk) 18:42, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

One user believes Most of the episodes were narrated by Sterling Holloway. However all episodes of Dink, The Little Dinosaur were no narrated by Sterling Holloway.

Major Cleanup

Okay, this article is seriously messed up. Fortunately, I was able to get it back in order somewhat. I removed all the "fact" tags since that contradicted WP:AGF. Further, Hanna-Barbera had nothing to do with this show, number one. Number two, the only time H-B and R-S collaborated was on the third season of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo in 1982. As for the episode list, I'm going with the Boomerang listings since TV.com listings are unreliable. Brittany Ka (talk) 13:57, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

IP Address 65.78.194.118 has been saying that Nicktoons Network is airing reruns of the show, which is totally false. Only Boomerang is airing the reruns. Now, I'm going to say this once, and once only. Stop posting false information. Otherwise, I will have no choice but to ask that this page be protected. Brittany Ka (talk) 13:28, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Land Before Time

This show was rather similar to that movie, is there a particular reason for that? FunkMonk (talk) 05:44, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

They came out some ten years apart. Usually when you see copy-can series it tends to be right after whatever they copy. Could be inspired by. Could be just paralell development ideas. It also shares aspects of a few other series of the era. It shows some of the FCC mandates in it. But not as severely as series after it would. Its part of the resurgant dinosaur craze that seemed to be active around that time. Omega2064 (talk) 09:10, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

No, they didn't come out 10 years apart, The Original Land Before Time was in 1988, a year before this series.

Yeah, as stated above, it came out right after the film! FunkMonk (talk) 17:53, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Controversy

Was there any regarding this show's name? My parents and other weren't pleased with it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.189.38.183 (talk) 10:18, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Temporal Paradox

"* Hunters – Various carnivorous dinosaurs that range from Velociraptors, Deinonychus, Megalosaurus, Dromaeosaurus, Unquillosaurus, Allosaurus, Troodon, Snakes (known as Slidetooth), Albertosaurus, Baryonyx, Herrerasaurus, Dilophosaurus, Spinosaurus, Deinosuchus, Utahraptor, Giganotosaurus and Carnotaurus. Most of the Hunters reside in Hunter's Grove."

Carnotaurus? Giganotosaurus? Are you kidding me? You're seriously trying to tell the public that the writers and character designers of this phoned-in Land Before Time retread from the 80s somehow had knowledge of obscure dinosaur species that hadn't been formally described yet, the latter of which wasn't even discovered until several years after the show was cancelled? What is it that possesses the kids who write these paleo-pop culture articles to affix a name to every generic saurian that shows up in a cartoon? Isn't Original Research against the rules here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.93.70.239 (talk) 23:37, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

But the Giganotosaurus appears in the fifth movie of The Land Before Time in 1997. Not Dink, The Little Dinosaur. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.152.127.33 (talk) 00:10, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Whoever Heard of an article without Dinosaur Species on it?

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.101.61.39 (talk • contribs) 16:25, April 24, 2016‎

Notably, this conversation was started by this edit, where you disagreed with someone else's guess as to the species of one of the characters. Wikipedia is based on verifiable information not guesses or what you kinda-maybe figure out.

The cartoon does not specifically state what species each character is. Cartoons are not exactly known for their accuracy. (For example, the list presented has species living together that are believed to have lived in separate eras. I am also unaware of any research indicating that any species of dinosaur could speak.)

What happens in articles such as this is that someone somewhere refers to a character -- let's call him "Fred" -- as looking like a species -- we'll call it an "x-osaurus". Someone else repeats this as "Fred is an x-osaurus". Eventually, someone adds it here. Either that or some self-declared paleontologist thinks Fred kinda looks like the dinosaur on page 6 of his "Golden Book of Dinosaurs" and adds it.

However, in all likelihood, the original artist took numerous liberties with whatever source they were working from. Fred, it turns out, is one part y-osaurus, one part limitations of kids' show animation, three parts imagination.

Long story short: The policy that applies here is WP:V. Unless the show directly and unequivocally states what species each character is, we need an independent reliable source for it, as we do for "Dink". (Please note that blogs and various wikis are not reliable sources.) - SummerPhD^v2.0 22:37, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

SummerPhDv2.0, this has been going on for quite some time at this article, (since maybe August/September 2015) where at first there was some dispute about whether the main character is an apatosaurus or a brontosaurus. Nobody who kept adding these species was able or willing to drum up references, preferring instead their own personal interpretations. I think I was the one who eventually found the reference for brontosaurus. I say we omit the content until the children (or whomever is obsessive about this) are able to provide references from reliable mainstream sources. (You know, "the usual".) The recent IP appears to be editing from a Comcast ISP as was one of the other disruptive users. Though the geolocation is different, I'm guessing it's the same person and they are attempting to evade their block. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 23:20, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

If there has been consistent disruptive editing for over a year, should not the article be protected? Dimadick (talk) 07:56, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

While we are talking about one editor, it's also a problem with numerous others to a lesser degree making similar claims in a wide range of animals. Long term protection of dozens of articles would solve the problem in only those articles and only as long as the protection was in effect. We're basically stuck with WP:RBI for this one (and standard escalating warnings for the rest) or a change to the whole system of how we handle anonymous editing. - SummerPhD^v2.0 13:33, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Dimadick, the disruption tapered off around November 2015, so there was no reason to protect. However more recently, yes, which is why I'd protected the article on 25 April, prior to your comment above. Since he's still at it after the most recent expiration, I've protected the article again. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 03:49, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection

To be released from Warner Archive on the DVD collection Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 181.222.93.115 (talk) 19:05, 1 March 2017 (UTC)