Talk:James the Red Engine

Narrator

The narrator provides all voices in Thomas and Friends. It is only in the film that characters are voiced by individual actors.—Theo (Talk) 06:16, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

James as a Model

This section badly needs to be rewritten to make sense! AndyB (talk) 21:12, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

 Done -- EdJogg (talk) 22:24, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

"Real Life" James

Someone please please please find a citation for the upset rail enthusiasts — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.212.223.158 (talk) 07:17, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

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James' Original Perspex Model

Last year, it looks like James' perspex model that was used on Thomas & Friends from seasons 1 through season 9 was bought for preservation and is now owned by Twitter user ThomasTankMerch. The model was also restored by the two people who run the account. Would this type of information be notable enough to add to the article?

Here's the Twitter post talking about it: https://twitter.com/thomastankmerch/status/1209549758504804352

Here's another post talking about the restoration of the model: https://twitter.com/thomastankmerch/status/1210659417110274049

--JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 20:10, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Redirect

This page should be redirected to

1. REDIRECT List of characters in The Railway Series#James (Number 5)

]] because the other articles on Edward, Henry, Gordon, and Percy are redirects. 2607:FB91:1425:CEEA:AC39:6AF1:9B6B:3C81 (talk) 14:13, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS / WP:OTHERSTUFFDOESNTEXIST is not a policy. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:10, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Notability

@2a02:c7c:2dce:1f00:7141:961b:60b2:d440: can we discuss the sources you have found that support this article's notability? If you cite them here, then we can incorporate them into the article, and I'd fully support changing the Multiple Issues template. Thanks, Opolito (talk) 23:07, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Just a note about the collection. Editors have been removing articles from this iconic topic for a few years now. Compare the navboxes, what it looked like in, picking a random date [picking a random date, July 2020. Too many red links, but look how many engines had articles. Several well-known engines among them. Then, one by one, gone (although listed on the character page) until only three remain on the present navbox: {{Thomas & Friends}}. The engine collection of Thomas & Friends has been pruned for years to the point of having to question "Why?". At least let's keep what we have now, and if new sources can help this page then maybe they can also help to return some of the deleted articles! Randy Kryn (talk) 01:03, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

The articles being removed might be due to the fact that there aren't many sources to use as citations. At least, not many secondary ones. I made a draft for a new version of Percy the Small Engine, not knowing it previously was an article, only to abandon it because I couldn't find enough sources. I'd be up for creating (or contributing to) new revisions of these past articles, but enough reliable sources to prove that they're noteworthy would be required first. SleepDeprivedGinger (talk) 14:22, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

SleepDeprivedGinger, thanks for working on the page. Here's a random old revision, does this have usuable sources you may have missed? Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:28, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome. To answer your question, it does include quite a few, although there are a few primary sources that overshadow the secondary ones slightly. Thank you for sharing this revision with me, I'll save it for later. SleepDeprivedGinger (talk) 15:34, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

SleepDeprivedGinger, there may be other revisions with other sources, that was just a random look. The complete record of the page is still intact in its history, so you may want to scrounge around in it (maybe early versions have other sources). Thanks for putting attention on it, Percy's legacy deserves the best. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:39, 5 November 2024 (UTC)