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February 11, 2014	Good article nominee	Listed
February 15, 2014	Peer review	Reviewed
March 29, 2014	Featured article candidate	Promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 15, 2014. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the core concept behind Horrible Histories is "history with the nasty bits left in"?
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If your changes have been reverted with an edit summary referring you to the talkpage, please consider the following:
1. This is not a fan page. Everything in a Wikipedia article must meet the standard of notability, which basically means have proven real-world significance (mentions in reputable newspapers and similarly fact-checked sources, usually). These are not always, or even often, going to be the things a fandom considers important.
2. As per the table headers, only recurring roles—that is, roles that the same actor appears in over more than one episode—are listed for both starring and supporting cast. This was decided upon by consensus of the editors most familiar with the article, and reaffirmed by experienced editors on review. Essentially, it's the most objective way to determine which roles are important enough to be listed. As per above, "fan favourite" isn't an acceptable criteria (and "my favourite" is even less so). Otherwise... well, there were literally hundreds of roles over the course of five series, many of which were un-named. There's simply no way to note them all without the article being completely overwhelmed by irrelevant detail.
3. To avoid creating similar chaos, the cast lists are also organized according to a purely objective ranking of importance. Starring cast are defined as per the show's own credits and then listed alphabetically; supporting cast with speaking roles are ranked below them, first by number of recurring roles, then by length of service. If you are still passionately convinced that [insert your favourite supporting player here] is being unfairly kept down and/or deserves extra-special notice, please consider editing/creating their own article, which can then be linked from this one.
4. This is a Featured Article, meaning many experienced editors have reviewed it and determined that the version you're reading is among the very best of Wikipedia's several million articles. Therefore, any changes/additions are going to be reviewed that much more carefully—but that's not to say they can't be made. The talkpage below is a forum to which you are not only invited but encouraged, absolutely, to dispute edits, raise questions and just generally make the case for anything you like. All we ask is that you first take a look through the previous discussions to see if your question etc. has already been raised.
5. Yes, they've made a new series. No, it's not exactly series 6 of this one. In fact, the differences between this series and the new one are significant enough that the latter now has its own article, at Horrible Histories (2015 TV series). Interested editors are cheerfully invited to add any and all info there.

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