Talk:List of Thomas & Friends voice actors

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Michael Brandon and The Maithwaite Stationmaster
Has Michael Brandon ever voiced The Maithwaite Stationmaster in a Series 13 episode before.--Liam0035 17:19, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Butch's Series 17 Voice Actor
I know Butch is no longer voiced by Glenn Wrage in the US dub, but I don't think Butch is voiced by Steve Kynman. I think he sounds like he is being voiced by Ben Small--Liam0035 08:54, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Relevance of this page
I don't understand why the pages on voice actors and narrators are separated from each other. The narrator nowadays technically is a voice actor and there's more than enough space to put all the voice talents together. 2405:7F00:AA00:ABB:890E:893:9B9D:4CEA (talk) 05:41, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I tend to agree that both articles (List of Thomas & Friends voice actors and List of Thomas & Friends narrators) could be merged, though we would need to properly name the resulting article, as neither "voice actors" nor "narrators" would appropriately describe the combination. For the sake of being parallel with other TV articles, a "List of characters" article might be the way to go. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 07:11, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I think "voice actors" would still be appropriate as it is what they all have done. There already are a few character list articles already for Thomas & Friends under different subjects and they often list the voice actors in each character section, unless you're thinking that there should just be one article for all characters. 1.178.235.195 (talk) 05:54, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

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Series 20
Series 20 is, at this point, unreleased. As a result, the show is not available as a source for voice cast. Any additions for series 20 must cite a reliable source, even if you say your edit is an "UPDATE". Additions for series 20 without a source will be reverted as many times as needed and, if required, the article will be protected. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 20:45, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Trivial roles
We are getting a lot of trivial roles here. As a rule of thumb: If you need to make up a name for the character ("The Man in the Blackish Gray Shirt and Blackish Gray Pants"), the role is trivial.

Obviously, there are a few editors out there who have a special interest in cataloging absolutely everything there is to know about this series. The Thomas wiki is a perfect place for that. Wikipedia, however, is a general purpose encyclopedia, meant to collect information from significant coverage in independent reliable sources. The shows themselves are not "independent" sources.

IMDb is a fairly comprehensive source, listing far more information about shows than we ever will. IMDb lists Teresa Gallagher as the voice of Emily. At the moment, we list 49 roles, including "some children", the lady in the white dress and gray vest, the lady in the white shirt, light brown skirt and hat, and the lady in the grayish white shirt, blackish gray skirt, and white pearl necklace.

These roles may or may not be "correct". They are not verifiable. The names (as evidenced by frequent American spellings) seem to have been invented for this page. Searching for several of them, I find this article and nothing more.

IMO, most of these unsourced, trivial roles with WP:OR-based names should be removed. I'll let this sit for a couple of weeks or so, then begin. I'm not sure whether the uncommunicative IP editor(s) on this article will respond. I'll play it by ear. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 15:21, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

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Voice Actors
Some Member on Wikipedia keeps changing the VA's for Thomas & Friends and providing incorrect information to Viewers. I.e stating Rackstraw voiced James in the U.K. from "TAB" onwards and Donald from "SLOTLT" onwards. I suggest that whoever is doing this, PLEASE STOP as Wikipedia is an information site. MichaelCorleone7 (talk) 19:04, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Serious issues with this article
This article has very serious verifiability issues. Almost none of the information has a source, and the few that do are mainly to unreliable sources. A lot of this is clearly pure original research with editors making up characters and assigning voice actors to them based on personal hunches. The article has been tagged for improvement for more than 5 years without any effort to improve the situation - indeed it continues to get worse. Unless the article is improved rapidly, I will reduce it to a stub one week from now. Laplorfill (talk) 19:50, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Narrators for specials and episodes
I'm wondering about two things for the tables about the different narrators. The first is whether the red sections indicating "dropped episodes / films" are worth keeping, and the second is whether Gwyneth Peltrow's "cancelled" narration for TGD is worth including in the "Movies" table, as this was only ever speculative and no recordings were made. I would be very pleased if I could receive confirmation on either or both of these subjects. Thanks! R23$94ACQ3R (talk) 03:41, 29 August 2022 (UTC)