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Chum Bucket was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 16 October 2011 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Plankton and Karen. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Secret Formula

There is a chance Plankton never had a chance to memorize the formula and simply read it only while making patties; so if the formula was taken away from him he wouldn't know how to make them. If this is true, than chances are the new episodes still take place after the movie. --Wack'd About Wiki 05:11, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Upcoming episode

I have a storyboard of an upcoming episode that explains the relationship of plankton and Mr. Krabs, but it's a 2 part episode and I only have part one. Also, the episode is still in production. Should I put something about that in?

What episode is it? -AMK152 01:30, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"between friends" #NKAN051-501
- It's an upcoming episode? How did you get this information? -AMK152 02:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm the nephew of Tom Kenny, and he took me to a recording session when I visited him. Yes, it is an upcoming episode.

Sorry we can only carry information on things that are already released, thanks for the offer though. Arniep 12:14, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if your telling the truth, but if the episode comes out, then i will believe you. -AMK152 00:14, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question regarding article: When did Plankton disguise himself as Patrick?

I don't know...i am going to remove it until the author gives proof. -AMK152 01:52, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm I am guessing that you were referring to Friend or Foe? -AMK152^{(Talk • Contributions • Send message)} 19:16, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Plankton's Familly spelling...

I replaced both fanas with Fannas...as this seems more grammatically correct... -CaptainG

Plankton's portrait...

NOT a good picture. The colors have been modified, and it seems sort of distorted. I'll get a new pciture. Abby724 17:25, 11 July 2006 (UTC) yeah i agree.user:no more jbl[reply]

Birthday

Pardon my ignorance, but where exactly does the knowledge about Plankton's birthday derive from? thank you --62.117.30.244 18:52, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was vandalism. -AMK152^{(Talk • Contributions • Send message)} 00:31, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Plankton's relative "Rainchild" was actually named Rainchild Jicky. -Someone

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Formal tone

Added the formal tag, the article does not seem to use a tone appropriate for Wikipedia. Words like "wiz" should not be used, at least in my opinion. LordBoreal51 23:33, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed Cleanup

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This article looks kind of horrible...

Excuse me, but this article was sort of a trainwreck before I cleaed it up. I will list the was-issues:

It had no space between a statement about Plankton (which I have forgot) and the next sentence's first word, "He"

Twice it stayed that his full name was Dheldon Jim/J. Plankton Jr. where the initial "J" in "Jim” had a reliable source which was the episode stated, but no full "Jim" and "Jr." was never confirmed.

This, as the link states, counts as vandalism.

Sorry. --John Smith 21:59, 6 January 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ObiwanLostToBarney (talk • contribs)

Karen

She has been in tons of episodes and almost every episode Plankton has been in and she gets 1 sentence? --Mrmoustache14 (talk) 15:59, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In case anyone was wondering, the history shows that this article was super short back in 2012, but it's been worked on a lot since then. Karen now has half of the page. 134.174.45.71 (talk) 13:16, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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"Sheldon James Plankton" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Splitting in to two pages.

I think Sheldon Plankton and Karen Plankton should each have their own Wikipedia pages, since while they're often paired together, they're not always on the same page. Brian K. Tyler (talk) 03:45, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t think so, they're so interconnected as characters that it makes sense they're a duo page. Also, most of the information is shared between them both (like their first episode debut, their critical reception, and their production history). It would be repetitive to have 2 pages, because you’d need to explain a lot about Karen on Plankton’s page anyway, and vice versa SBSPfan (talk) 02:18, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And it should be noted that in the movies, Karen doesn't get nearly as much focus as Plankton does. Brian K. Tyler (talk) 03:16, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

But Mr. Krabs and his daughter Pearl each have their own pages. So how about we either split the page of Sheldon Plankton and Karen Plankton in two pages, or we put Eugene Krabs and Pearl Krabs into one page? Brian K. Tyler (talk) 03:45, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Besides, they weren't that interconnected in the first episode they appeared in, and they're still not that interconnected all the time. Brian K. Tyler (talk) 19:20, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I know this was a year ago, but I personally think that we should in fact split them into two pages. Thomasfan1000 (talk) 11:36, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]