Talk:TomSka

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Biography: Arts and Entertainment

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the arts and entertainment work group.

Internet culture Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Internet culture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of internet culture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Internet cultureWikipedia:WikiProject Internet cultureTemplate:WikiProject Internet cultureInternet culture articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Internet culture To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : View all requested internet culture articles
Expand : Pick an article from here or here
Photo : Category:Internet culture articles needing images
Stubs : All stubs are located here
Other : Category:Internet self-classification codes (!?); Try to get YouTube to FA; Tag all articles you find with {{WikiProject Internet culture}}
- See also Category:Internet culture articles needing attention

YouTube Mid‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject YouTube, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of YouTube and related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.YouTubeWikipedia:WikiProject YouTubeTemplate:WikiProject YouTubeYouTube articles

Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject YouTube To-do:

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : see list.
Assess : Apply the assessment scale on Unknown-importance YouTube articles + Unassessed YouTube articles
Cleanup : See cleanup listing
Maintain : This WikiProject
Stubs : Category:Stub-Class YouTube articles
Other :
- Substitute {{WikiProject YouTube/Invite Members}} on user talk pages
- Check out edit requests on Talk:List of YouTubers

England Low‑importance

	England portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject England, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of England on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.EnglandWikipedia:WikiProject EnglandTemplate:WikiProject EnglandEngland-related articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Articles for creation

	This article was reviewed by member(s) of WikiProject Articles for creation. The project works to allow users to contribute quality articles and media files to the encyclopedia and track their progress as they are developed. To participate, please visit the project page for more information.Articles for creationWikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creationTemplate:WikiProject Articles for creationAfC articles
	This article was accepted on 11 November 2014 by reviewer The Herald (talk · contribs).

The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Requested move 1 January 2015[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page not moved. (non-admin closure) Rider ranger47 ^Talk 15:27, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It was proposed in this section that TomSka be renamed and moved to Thomas Ridgewell.

The discussion has been closed, and the result will be found in the closer's comment.

Links: current log • target log

Tomska → Thomas Ridgewell – It would be more appropriate for an encyclopedia to use his birth name instead of his YouTube username. TomSka can be redirected to Thomas Ridgewell. Also, it would suit the format of other YouTube video makers associated with him such as Charlie McDonnell (charlieissocoollike) and Liam Dryden (littleradge). Nexus000 (talk) 12:15, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The article says he is "Better known by his online alias TomSka". If that's true (and the nominator has not said it isn't true), then WP:COMMONNAME would seemingly lead us to conclude that the article should be at TomSka (plus or minus the CamelCase). —BarrelProof (talk) 00:51, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, COMMONNAME is apparently a policy, and I see no reason to pull IAR over BROKE; Redirects from personal names added on Thomas Ridgewell. –Be..anyone (talk) 07:05, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME but I think it wuold be appropriate to move it to TomSka as that's how the name is universally capitalised. — Amakuru (talk) 13:41, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Change of TurboPunch to CakeBomb[edit]

Is this change correct? —BarrelProof (talk) 20:27, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's accurate, TurboPunch came much later - Geesi (talk) 03:11, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Why isn't there anything about TurboPunch? OblivionWingTech (talk) 16:40, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Probably because no secondary sources reported on the matter. TurboPunch is a network by and for TomSka, as was CakeBomb. Lordtobi (✉) 16:41, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 28 January 2015[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved — Sebastian 02:10, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The request to rename this article to TomSka has been carried out.

Tomska → TomSka – Suggested in the recently closed RM without opposition. Seems to be more common than "Tomska". —BarrelProof (talk) 20:33, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support. The suggested formatting does appear to be more common (for this person) [1] & [2]. Zarcadia (talk) 19:15, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared[edit]

This article should probably bring up the fact that TomSka was an executive producer and voice actor for the YouTube series "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared." 108.88.114.250 (talk) 18:09, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

He explained in one of his videos that he is only credited as director because of his high funding through Kickstarter, not his actual influence on the show. Secondly he does not have a voice role. Lordtobi (✉) 18:12, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

yes he does

he voices the Magnet in DHMIS 6 LittleMAHER1 (talk) 03:03, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Animator[edit]

Ok, given this edit can we once and for all formally decide if TomSka is an animator? Has he received any animation credits? Best, Nicnote • ask me a question • contributions 22:50, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I certainly don't think that this applies: Out of his "Cartoons" playlist only 1 out of 22 videos were made by him, from his asdfmovie playlist, 0 out of 16 were made by him, so 1 from 38 videos in total would not mark him as an animator, especially since that one video he actually made himself is from 2008, so even if he was an animator, he is no longer active as such. That's like calling every independent video game developer that released their game themselves a publisher, just because they published their own game once. Lordtobi (✉) 16:25, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Nicnote and Lordtobi: This is a long-running in-joke among TomSka's fanbase. — foxj 01:54, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well then, this "factual" joke should definetly not be included. Lordtobi (✉) 06:17, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Projects worked on[edit]

Why is there no list of projects that he has worked on? He IS a filmmaker too, and just because it's uploaded to YouTube doesn't mean it's not a film. OblivionWingTech (talk) 16:42, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mostly because of WP:CATALOGUE, as most videos aren't covered in reliable, secondary sources, but you could create a list of notable works (with proper sources) though. Lordtobi (✉) 16:51, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DarkSquidge youtube channel[edit]

He's already gotten the silver play button for DarkSquidge, should this be added to the fact box too? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.15.57.199 (talk) 19:55, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm... I think a separate section + infobox would be more applicable for this case. Lordtobi (✉) 20:08, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

asdfmovie 11 released[edit]

As this page is protected, can someone add that the 11th installment of asdfmovie has been released on august 10th 2018? [3] Dh3201 (talk) 15:24, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Other than asdf1 and asdf10's inclusion in Just Dance, the series is not extensively covered on the article, so I currently don't think naming asdfmovie11 specifically is necessary. Lordtobi (✉) 17:17, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Splitting proposal[edit]

I propose that text about asdfmovie be split into a separate page called asdfmovie (there is a redirect). I think of recreating page about asdfmovie because, well, news sources (some are affiliated with TomSka, some are not. also, some of them are not in English): [4], [5], [6], [7], [8] and others in Google news search. GrischaDJ (talk) 17:44, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Citation 1[edit]

It is no longer cited within the article text. ??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.143.232.12 (talk) 16:22, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It cites information in the infobox which is hidden by default (about the play buttons). — 🦊 01:17, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

About the link to his channel.[edit]

Can someone add a link to his secondary channel as well? I don't know how to, so can someone else do it please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.14.42.1 (talk) 21:21, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The muffin song[edit]

Should the muffin song be added to the career section? --The Tips of Apmh (talk) 12:43, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'll just add it now --The Tips of Apmh (talk) 15:26, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

splitting asdfmovie from this article[edit]

asdfmovie redirects to this article; i think it should have its own article. Rguyr (talk) 04:21, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I also think maybe it should have it's own article. Idk, it seems to be very much notable enough for its own article. And it's massive enough of a topic to have probably quite sizable article.Artemis Andromeda (talk) Artemis Andromeda (talk) 04:31, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It depends on whether or not asdfmovie has a sufficient amount of credible sources to make up its own article. Going by the The Asdfmovie page's history, it appears that it was protected specifically for this reason. 155.135.54.250 (talk) 03:05, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Remove BFDIA from this article?[edit]

This article currently has a credit for BFDI, an web series that he recently had a voice role in. However, it should be noted that BFDI has been a massive target of disruption for years due to a lack of notability, as detailed here. Should we take it off for the time being? 118.149.75.119 (talk) 01:23, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think having it as a credit is comparable to an entire article, it's merely a bullet point in a larger list of accolades. Leaving it there should be fine. 155.135.54.250 (talk) 04:08, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It has been removed now. The entry should cite a reliable source that is independent (from BFDI and Tom) and verifies the material. ObserveOwl (chit-chat • my doings) 15:24, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]