Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Animation/TUGS task force/Archive 1

Article list
As you can see from this project home page, I have created a page with a list of the articles that were (may still be) tagged under WP:THOMAS that are now in the hands of this project. –MDCollins (talk) 12:25, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you but this page is enough for a simple project. This project is not to be involved with the Thomas project. I do not want a page saying it was under WikiThomas. Plus unlike the Thomas project this is underpopulated. Driveus — Preceding unsigned comment added by Driveus (talk • contribs) 22:21, 15 March 2007


 * That's fine - I was merely clearing the information from WP:Thomas. What you choose to do with it is up to you. I felt it might be useful for you to be able to use Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject TUGS/Article list in order to see what changes have been made by your members or vandals to the pages under your control. The redirects are listed there in order that they show up on this list (if, for example, somebody changes a redirect and creates a duplicate page in the wrong place). If this tool is not 'Useful' to you, that's fine. Maybe other members of your project might use it. If not, that is nothing to do with me. Other projects like to see a list of which pages they are working with. If your small page is not one of these, then fine. And also, I was not saying "it was under WikiThomas", I meant these articles were (past tense) under the control of WP:Thomas, but are now under the care of WP:TUGS. Therefore, WP:Thomas will have no more to do with these, unless any members are involved in both projects.


 * I hope this clears it up, there is no need to speak to me on my talk page for trying to be helpful.
 * Good luck with the work, I see there is a lot that needs doing.
 * –MDCollins (talk) 23:53, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Best Wishes from WP:THOMAS
You will see that I have re-worded some of the sections on your project page. This was necessary as readers unfamiliar with the two projects might 'get the wrong idea'. I'm afraid our styles of English are very different, so you may want to adjust the wording to hide the joins!

I think you may have misunderstood the views of the currently-active members of WP:THOMAS. "TUGS" was included in 'our' project due to it sharing a production team. Any additional programmes, such as those listed here, were too far removed from Thomas the Tank Engine to be considered part of the project. There is also the small matter that the active WP:THOMAS members know little or nothing about TUGS. So you see, we are very glad to be able to pass on the pages to a group who will look after them properly.

All the best with getting TUGS to Featured status!

EdJogg 00:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you. We shall look after the articles properly. Good luck with WP:Thomas. Driveus 20:57, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm Back
Hey guys I'm back. Don't let the WIkibreak template on my page fool you. Driveus 19:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Children's TV in the UK Project
Zesty Prospect and I are trying to start a WikiProject incorperating all Children's TV that were first screened in the UK as some of the articles are in a pretty desperate state. We'd like to co-operate with the TUGS WikiProject. If you're interested in signing up go to the WikiProject Council/Proposals page and it says Children's television programme's in the united kingdom and northern ireland. 3 more signatures are needed. Thanks, Soopa hoops77 12:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I joined. But why Northern Ireland? Driveus

Should we?
Do you think we should make a former members section? Someport and 5cran9 quit and Bob 2.0 might be next due to his vandalism. I hope no one else goes. Driveus


 * It's official, now Bob 2.0 is out of the project.User:Driveus
 * Ditch the former members section, we don't want to associate with people who were just here to mess up the page. --SteelersFan UK06 01:28, 20 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Understood. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Driveus (talk • contribs) 11:36, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

WP:PROD nominations

 * 17 August Star Fleet (TUGS) --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 17:03, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep, that was me, in case anyone hasn't noticed, having a page on the Star Tugs fleet is irrelevant since all it does is list all the Tugs. You can get all of these details on the individual pages. This is what i think anyways. --SteelersFan UK06 01:28, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

air dates
I've been watching a number of the edits which are taking place recently to the TUGS pages, and one thing that i am sure is going to start an edit war is the original air date of the show. IP addresses have been changing the original air date to 1988 and others have been changing it to 1989 (see here followed by next edit here). what WAS the original air date of the program? See, as far as i can see, the only sound source we have is TV.com, and that says '89. Remember the first line of WP:V, "Wikipedia is about verifiability, not truth". Any comments (IP or otherwise) welcomed. --SteelersFan UK06 01:20, 21 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I guess theres no way to tell if the airdates are accurate enough whether on this site or otherwise. Driveus

Scope/Plans
I am concerned about the "plans" of this project to "Protect" articles, I think the project may have issues with WP:OWN. Also, what is meant by "help with the DVD campaign?" Please respond asap. IvoShandor 02:49, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that, the creator of this project, Driveus, sort of....quickly set everything up and it hasn't been done very well (no offence there). But the articles...basically a number of IP addresses seem to flock towards this project and add not only blatant vandalism to the articles (which i'm sure is bad enough), but stuff which they think is true about the program, such as "this character looks like" or "if there was a second season then...". I wouldn't say it was about ownership, we're more just trying to do what - well, everyone else is trying to do, stop vandals on Wikipedia. As for the DVD campaign, a nunber of users have been trying, for a very long time now, to persuade whoever owns the rights to this TV program (it is unknown right now) to produce it on DVD format, since all it was released on was VHS. The topic is located at the Thomas-specific forum, Sodor Island Forums under the heading "Bigg City Port". You must be a registered user to use the forum. (Tugs did used to have its own forum but it is currently "down for maintenance"). Recently, the forum has taken a slight breakthrough with a step further towards who owns the rights to the TV show. So apologies if people are getting a bit excited about things :) Thank you for taking an active interest in our project. Although I may not be the most active in the TUGS DVD campaign, I know a lot about the series and am trying to submit that information here. I have only recently (in the past day in fact) joined the above forum, so i am just getting to grips with it. Hopefully someone with more knowledge on the DVD campign will comment here also. --SteelersFan UK06 15:28, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

I noticed that on the main TUGS page, it says that there are currently no plans to release TUGS on DVD. This isn't true, is it?-- S.C.Ruffey fan  19:48, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Theodore Tugboat
Why would TT be part of the project? We could start a seperate project for it, couldn't we? -- S.C.Ruffey fan  11:55, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Article for deletion: Jinxed (TUGS episode)

 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 17:03, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Project
Are there jobs to be done at the current time in this project or not? Tomayres (talk) 15:12, 13 April 2008 (UTC)