Talk:Animaniacs

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

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

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

So it's gone to review, and lost it's status. Good news: there's been heavy re-writes, and source replacement. I have personally removed all of the DVD and press release sources and this makes a better starting place for the article. The bad, is that the fansite that was removed was the basis for most of the production history, so this section is filled with "cn" tags. Harizotoh9 (talk) 02:37, 20 August 2025 (UTC) Reply

Good news! Your request for an edit of this article by one of the Guild of Copy Editors has been accepted. It is currently going through a major edit, which should be done soon. Once it is done, it should finally get the potential of becoming either a GA or a FA like several years ago. Just wanna let you know just in case you didn't know. I cannot wait to see what it looks like whenever it's done! Aubree Jo (talk) 17:57, 29 January 2026 (UTC) Reply

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

Support, sourcing on Yakko/Wakko/Dot is very thin and mostly about the show itself. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 02:49, 10 August 2025 (UTC) Reply

"The threshold for fictional characters should be high" Why? We seem to have articles on every bozo who ever served in the United States Congress, on athletes who experience 15 minutes of fame or even less, and on several crooked businesspeople who inherited ownership or leadership positions in companies from their relatives, and then run them to the ground. I genuinely think that there is more encyclopedic material about fictional characters than these wastes of space. Dimadick (talk) 23:50, 13 August 2025 (UTC) Reply

There are literally zero sources for those characters to denote notability. Like none, and I've spent a few weeks going through news coverage on this series. By that, I mean there is a lot of coverage of the original series, and the 2020 series, but no actual articles on the characters themselves. Ap, NBC, BBC, etc would have to have specific coverage of the characters to make them notable enough to have pages outside of the specific series. For example, the voice actor Rob Paulsen has received news coverage outside of the context of his shows, such as his health issues. That gives him notability outside of the shows and makes more of a case that he should have an article on his own rather than just be mentioned in articles relating to the shows he's in. No such sources exist for Dot, Yakko, Wakko. Harizotoh9 (talk) 20:24, 19 August 2025 (UTC) Reply

Support If the coverage isn't there from multiple editors' BEFOREs then I don't see any standalone notability separate from the series here. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 15:43, 23 September 2025 (UTC) Reply

Support This article can always be recreated if there is enough demonstrated notability in the future. For now, can't really find such, so it's worth merging into the main article(s). PrimalMustelid (talk) 16:07, 27 September 2025 (UTC) Reply