Talk:John Banks

Page protection

No idea why this page is suddenly 'protected' - especially as several of the listed credits are inaccurate. This page lists work that I have done and I do know which roles I've played. Basic research might be a good starting point for whoever has decided to re-edit what was already accurately posted here. ~ ~ ~ ~ – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.132.1.71 (talk).

If you are John Banks, I'm very impressed why your BF work. : )

But either way, this is what one of the admins said on the subject:

In a sense, it doesn't matter that the user adding the information to the page might be John Banks himself. T:NO SELF REF disallows the add if it is John Banks, so we'd have to remove it anyway. And if it's not him, we need to have objective, verifiable proof. So what we're essentially left with, unless you have every single one of these CD liner notes, is the Big Finish website's search engine, and specifically this search: http://www.bigfinish.com/search_results?txtSearch=%22John+Banks%22&x=0&y=0 So, if you can, could you check the results there against the list we have, allowing only those things on this list to be on our list? We're looking to exactly match the Big Finish-generated list — no more, no less.

Will this mean that we might lose some of the info that this IP user has added? Probably. But them's the breaks. Neutrally verifiable sources is what we have to base our work on, not the possibility that an actor might drop by and be perfectly accurate about his or her resumé. Remember, actors routinely include on their c.v. parts that didn't make it into the final cut of a production. That's a completely fair and legitimate thing to do, because, hey, they got paid for the job, so it is something that they did. But it doesn't suit our purposes, unless we clearly know, through other sources, that they were paid not to appear. We don't really know all that much about the behind-the-scenes machinations at Big Finish, so it's hard to know what's going on when we get a claim about a part that isn't credited. Tempting as it is to use information from someone who might have actually been in the recording booth, we need to stick with what we can verify.

If you can prove where the info comes from, we can add it. Cult Of Skaro Here.|Communicate here. 20:45, April 25, 2013 (UTC)