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June 14, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
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A article about the songs

The Animaniacs Song's are new to me, I only now know about Yakko's World 15% , So please if you have the information, please add a article about The Animaniacs Song's. 49.144.43.169 (talk) 02:17, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Crediting for Storyboard

Storyboard artist 1996 Llyn Hunter, Storyboard artist 1997 Llyn Hunter: worked on several cartoons including "Cutie and the Beast" 1996 and "Pinky and the Brain Christmas" both Emmy award winners. This information is coming directly from me Llyn Hunter. 2600:1702:4C58:B020:3143:4850:4A6D:86C7 (talk) 12:58, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Featured Article in need of review

This older Featured Article has not been reviewed since its promotion in 2007 and may not fulfill all current FA requirements.

The article is missing citations in several places, I have flagged some. There's a gigantic table of awards nominations without a single citation.
The article has accumulated cruft over the years, and names several non-notable individuals and awards. The "Writing" and "Humor" sections are full of fan-driven trivia.
The article needs better sourcing; it uses several non-notable blogs as sources and it frequently references the episodes themselves, their credits or the box set commentary.

RetiredDuke (talk) 13:54, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I think there should be a systematic review of the oldest articles on WP:FANMP, with the articles either run on the front page or sent to FAR. There's a lot of older articles that are quite stable and retain their high quality, but then there's ones like this one that need a lot of work. This one should probably be sent to FAR. Harizotoh9 (talk) 17:54, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@RetiredDuke and Harizotoh9: Have the concerns expressed above been resolved? If not, would one of you be interested in nominating it at WP:FAR? Z1720 (talk) 00:34, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

None of them have been addressed and I'm too lazy to start weeding through the article. This should probably be sent to FAR. Harizotoh9 (talk) 11:39, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal Yakko, Wakko, and Dot

Good idea: The article almost entirely recycles the production and plot sections of this article, and is mostly sourced to the show itself, clips from the show, or podcasts. This page doesn't really need to exist and should be merged here. Harizotoh9 (talk) 20:14, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose The characters are notable as a standalone article. The main character(s) can usually get a spinoff article if there is enough coverage separate of the TV series and/or the main TV article is too long; I think the latter applies here. There are issues with the article, but it's not an excuse to delete a valid encyclopedic topic (again). ApolloPhoebus (talk) 14:52, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If the characters are notable then prove it. Notability is not derived, and has to be proven separately. There needs to be actual articles specifically about the characters, rather than articles about the series. NYT or AP would have to cover Dot Warner specifically for instance. They'd have to have some kind of legacy outside of the show. Instead, all the coverage is on the show, now the characters. The threshold for fictional characters should be high, like Sherlock Holmes, or Goku. Not every single tv character ever. Harizotoh9 (talk) 15:08, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]