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August 14, 2012 (blog post edition)

From the Admins Editorial Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Muppetfan Well, here it is. The revival of the Elwood City Times. Sorry for the delays everyone, it is quite hard work to put this all together. You will notice that this revival has basically the same format as previously, but with a new addition: the user spotlight. This new feature is an idea I thought up so that the wiki could learn more about our wonderful contributors here. If you have any articles for this newsletter, or would like to be spotlighted in a future spotlight, please contact me. Also, if you have any other suggestions or feedback for the newsletter, do not hesitate to message me. This newsletter belongs to the community, so it is extremely important that the community contributes. The main thought that continues to recur into my head is that we are gradually becoming a more mainstream wiki. We have over 2000 pages and are growing everyday. We are becoming a resource to many Arthur fans. And I feel that we need to be doing more to make wiki navigation easier and it easier for people to find the information that they need. So that is what I have been and will be continuing to focus my attention to. I have been creating new templates and adding them to pages, trying to make known our administration team to all users so that if anyone has problems, they will know exactly who to talk to. I have been reading pages and thinking up new ideas on how we can communicate the info in a funner, more creative way. For example, while looking at the Woogles page, I saw that we had a list of all known Woogles on it. The list was sort of bland and boring, so I thought instead it may be a good idea to get rid of the list and instead add a gallery, so users can actually see the Woogles and read their names, instead of just looking at a list. Things like that may be small, but they can make an important difference to our pages. This is what I will be focusing my time on in the upcoming weeks. Know something that needs attention? Please contact one of the administrators. Deputy editorials Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination DJ MC CJ Even though I have been gone for five weeks from the wiki due to me being on vacation I was able to edit throughout my time away. There wasn't may edits done, but I did keep vandalism off the wiki and wrote in more information to certain pages. For the last week after returning I made twelve pages. The twelve pages were characters. Some of the characters were from the Elwood City All-Stars team and the other was a couple who I have a feeling is a young couple and is also the parents of Lisa. Finally the last character I uploaded was another unnamed preschooler who was seen on the swings while D.W. was talking to Emily. This is all I have done so far. I plan on adding more parents to the wiki and other characters that I haven't noticed or others haven't noticed. Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Magnezonomon The editor was unable to contact Magnezonomon for his editorial. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Columns Arthur, the amazing show I grew up with is now a bomb. http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb1344754586/common/avatars/thumb/8/8e/4797643.png/50px-4797643.png YoshiWii1 Editor's note: YoshiWii1 agreed to give us a censored version of his TV.com review of the Arthur series. The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily express the opinions of this newsletter or Arthur Wiki as a whole. I love Arthur. I grew up with the show ever since I was little. This show as so fantastic, how could you not love it? But what I am here to talk about is how disgustingly awful the show has come. I am amazed that this show is not canceled despite the newer episodes being so crappy! To me, Arthur ended after Season 11. I think it SHOULD have ended after Season 11! Seasons 1-4 are the best! Seasons 6-8 are great too. Seasons 9 and 10 were okay. Season 5 and 11 was disappointing. But when I saw Season 12-15 I just gave up! These new seasons are a joke and insult to the show. I nearly cried I was so bad. Your probably thinking "What a salty fanboy!" I am not trying to sound like one but it is true. Now on to the review. Graphics: 0.5/10 On thing I loved about Arthur was it's artwork and how everything so detailed in the backgrounds. It was like a piece of art. But the graphics in Seasons 12-15 are god awful. Everything is so rushed. It's not even funny. Backgrounds look like one solid color. Characters are misproportioned in almost every scene *example* Arthur's head would look too big or he would have chicken legs or even Binky looking skinny in some shots! Shading is very lacking all over. Worst of all, there is so much slowdown whenever they move! The screen just jerks all over the place! It gives me a headache and makes me feel nauseous! Simpsons, Family Guy, Bleach, South Park, Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, Naruto, and several other cartoons/animes from the 90's or 2000's have gotten better animation. They started out as traditional hand-drawn to digital ink to computer generated animation in HD! So why the hell does Arthur look crapper now? It's no excuse why the animation got crapper. Especially since it's now 2012! Sound/Music: 1/10 Yuck! The music in the new episodes is completely unfitting in the situations. Like playing bluegrass music while showing someone your stuff? Or playing silly music in a serious scene? Not to mention it sounds like awful. The new voices for Arthur, DW, Brain, and several other characters whose voices have been changed are bad acting to the max! The voices do not go with their personality! Arthur sounds like a girl! Even through his previous voice actor was high pitched, at least it sounded like a boy! DW's voice is even more annoying! She screeches alot and sounds like she has a laryngitis. Brain sounds like a girl just like Arthur and he they made him brick stupid too. Tibble Twins voices are the most annoying! Completely awful. Their previous voice actors weren't this high pitched! Oh my god. I can't believe they would allow this bad voicing to be in any show. This makes 4Kids voice acting look like an Oscar award winning actors. Storyline: 1/10 Storylines are unoriginal and have been done before. In fact, they even altered previous events in Arthur! They made all the characters brick stupid and made them all forget everything that ever happen in Arthur! Have they even heard of canon? They sure used canon in all the other seasons of Arthur! Some of the new episode stories are so boring. That I feel like breaking the TV in disgust! All I can say is complete laziness for the story. Arthur was so much fun to watch and entertaining to watch. But these new episodes are so boring and painful to watch that I feel like it is a chore to watch the new episodes. If you see the new episodes from Season 12-15 just avoid it all costs! Bottom line is the show now sucks and it is an insult to my childhood.

User Spotlight Orion001 Orion001 is a resident of Canada and a wonderful contributor at Arthur Wiki, constantly editing and cleaning up vandalism. He is a huge fan of the Arthur series, his favorite character being Fern Walters, his favorite episode being "Just Desserts," and his favorite book being Arthur and the Boy Who Cried Comet. In addition to being a rollback for the wiki, he also served a temporary stint as an administrator. Orion001 originally got started on this wiki a year ago, when he was looking up information about the Arthur series. He stumbled into Arthur Wiki, where he read that Cookie Jar was going to be growing up the Arthur characters. He questioned that fact and did research on it, and it turned out to be false. After that, he just continued to clean up vandalism and false information, and edit many pages. His favorite thing about wikis is that they are such a great source of information on television shows. When asked what advice he would give other wiki users, he responded, "Never give up on your site. Because you never know what might happen." Some of his favorite activities outside of wiki editing include drawing, playing video games, walking, just being around people. He enjoys volunteering by donating his time to a local youth group and helping out at the Rogers Cup, an annual tennis tournament. He also is a blood donor. You can visit Orion001's profile page to find out even more about this user. You can contact him through his message wall or through Arthur Wiki Chat, which he is often on.

Newsletter Poll How do you feel about the newer seasons of Arthur? You voted for "It's gotten better" on 2 July 2022 at 00:10. You can change your vote by clicking a different answer below. It's quality has declined 0 It's exactly the same 1 It's gotten better 2 I haven't seen the newer seasons 0 I want to revoke my vote There were 3 votes since the poll was created on 21:53, 21 February 2020. poll-id AEA0D05915F00BC4FB6D412CA751D7BE

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