User talk:TheoClarke/List of characters from Thomas the Tank Engine

Duplication?
Surely these are all listed in the table at Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends? --KharBevNor 18:08, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I guess that they are, but I am considering a consolidation of all the individual short character articles with associated redirects. I want to see how big such an article would get before I let this loose on the wikiworld.Theo (Talk) 19:52, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm, good luck, though my guess is it would easily get over the optimal limit. My personal tendency is always to create sub-articles for such things, I find it makes navigation easier. Maybe a better idea would be to make a Thomas the Tank Engine character template for recurring characters like Thomas and Gordon, sorting them all by engine number, and then having two or three seperate article on minor characters, rolling stock, and maybe road vehicles? That might keep some sort of balance between excessively long pages and needless article proliferation. --KharBevNor 01:19, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My master plan is to use spanning to give reference points within the article. I will give it a go and see how it looks.Theo (Talk) 06:58, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Not aiming for a featured list, are you, Theo? ;) An alternaive would be to have separate articles on the main characters, and then a List of minor characters from Thomas the Tank Engine (IIRC, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy does it that way). -- ALoan (Talk) 14:38, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)